April 2026
Palantir showed how the military can use AI chatbots to plan operations
Demonstration videos from Palantir and internal Pentagon documents show how chatbots based on Anthropic's Claude can analyze intelligence da
How the AI boom is devastating the gaming industry: memory shortages, rising prices, and layoffs
AI is becoming the main challenge for gamers and developers — RAM shortages are driving up console prices, while studios are laying off staf
China’s OpenClaw frenzy turns into a gold rush for AI companies
The open-source AI agent OpenClaw has sparked mass demand in China: users are renting servers and buying subscriptions just to test it, brin
Google's AI search increasingly directs users to YouTube and its own services instead of third-party sites
Google's generative AI search systematically favors the company's own platforms — YouTube and Google Search — at the expense of independent
Peacock bets on AI video, mobile sports and games to grow streaming
NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock is expanding into AI video, vertical clips and mobile games in an attempt to find growth without jo
Google bought Wiz for $32 billion — the largest venture-backed acquisition in history
Google has closed its purchase of cybersecurity startup Wiz for a record $32 billion — after a rejection a year ago, antitrust reviews, and
xAI starts from scratch again: Musk builds an AI coding tool with a team from Cursor
The xAI lab admitted that its first approach to building an AI coding tool failed and is starting over — with two senior executives poached
Microsoft to launch Gaming Copilot on Xbox Series X and S consoles in 2025
Microsoft will bring the AI assistant Gaming Copilot to Xbox Series X and Series S consoles by the end of 2025, the company announced at GDC
TechCrunch: the biggest AI events of 2026 — deals, protests, and high-stakes negotiations
TechCrunch took stock of the first months of 2026: major acquisitions, successes by independent developers, public protest, and negotiations
Nyne raises $5.3 million to give AI agents personal user context
Father-and-son startup Nyne has closed a $5.3 million seed round from Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons to build personal context inf
Meta considers laying off 20% of staff to fund AI infrastructure
Mark Zuckerberg's company could lay off one in five employees, with the savings directed toward aggressive investment in AI infrastructure a
Handshake hires improv actors to teach OpenAI human emotions
OpenAI contractor Handshake AI is seeking improv actors to create training data — AI models are being taught to convey real human emotions.
Lawyer in AI psychosis cases: chatbots are now linked to mass-casualty risk
A lawyer handling AI psychosis lawsuits warns that chatbots are already appearing in cases involving mass-casualty threats, while the techno
Google and Accel selected 5 Indian startups from 4,000 applications — and none was an AI wrapper
Google and Accel reviewed more than 4,000 applications for the Atoms accelerator and found that 70% of applicants were building wrapper prod
Models Search for 'AI Face Model' Jobs — and Become Tools for Scammers
WIRED studied dozens of Telegram channels with 'AI face model' vacancies — hired women unwittingly become the face of fraudulent schemes, wi
Eon Systems announced a digital emulation of a fly brain — but it’s not what it seems
The San Francisco startup claimed the “world’s first instantiation of whole-brain emulation,” but journalists and scientists urge readers no
OpenAI to launch an adult mode for ChatGPT: text only, no porn
OpenAI is preparing an “adult mode” for ChatGPT — it will allow users to generate erotic text, but not images, voice, or video.
Jensen Huang at GTC 2026: Nvidia sets the course for the future of AI and computing
Nvidia is holding its flagship GTC 2026 conference — Jensen Huang's keynote will define the company's AI and computing strategy for the comi
Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica Sue OpenAI Over 100,000 Articles
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster accuse OpenAI of unlawfully using nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train language models —
Fuse raised $25 million to displace legacy systems in U.S. credit unions
Startup Fuse built an AI-native platform for U.S. credit unions and announced a $5 million rescue fund that covers penalties for early termi
Nvidia DLSS 5 uses generative AI for photorealism in games and beyond
Nvidia’s fifth-generation DLSS creates pixels from scratch using generative AI and structured scene data — Jensen Huang already sees applica
Lawsuit against xAI: Grok allegedly turned real photos of children into sexual content
Three minors filed a class-action lawsuit against xAI, alleging that the Grok chatbot created sexualized images based on their real photos.
Memories.ai is developing a visual memory layer for wearables and robots
Startup Memories.ai is building a large visual memory model that will allow wearables and robots to index and retrieve video recordings of r
Nvidia unveils NemoClaw — an enterprise platform for AI agents with a focus on security
Nvidia has announced NemoClaw — an open enterprise platform for AI agents based on the viral OpenClaw, aimed at solving the main problem of
Teens sue xAI: Grok generated CSAM depicting minors
Three teenagers from Tennessee filed a class-action lawsuit against xAI, accusing the company of allowing the Grok chatbot to create CSAM fe
Nvidia introduced DLSS 5 with generative AI — and already divided the gaming community
Nvidia announced DLSS 5 — the first version of the technology with full-fledged generative AI for real-time rendering, sparking disputes abo
Picsart Opens AI-Agent Marketplace: Content Creators Can Hire AI Assistants
Picsart has launched a marketplace where content creators can "hire" specialized AI agents for creative tasks — with four assistants at laun
Sears exposed customer conversations with AI chatbot to all internet users
Retailer Sears accidentally exposed customer conversations with its AI chatbot across the internet — including contacts, personal data, and
Gamma launches Gamma Imagine — AI image generation to rival Canva and Adobe
Gamma's AI presentation platform introduces Gamma Imagine — a tool for creating branded visuals from text prompts directly within the worksp
Startup Niv-AI Emerges from Stealth with $12M to Combat GPU Power Spikes
Niv-AI raised $12M in seed funding to measure and manage GPU consumption spikes — a problem costing data centers billions in underutilized c
Rana el-Kaliouby: "boys' club" in AI threatens to entrench the gender income gap
Investor Rana el-Kaliouby warns: women receive only about 2% of venture AI funding, and if nothing changes, the gender income gap will becom
Google Expands Personal Intelligence to All US Users
Google launches Personal Intelligence to all Americans — the AI assistant gains access to Gmail and Google Photos to provide personalized re
Claude Code is changing the developer profession: code is now written by agents, not people
Experienced engineers are writing code themselves less and less — they now manage AI agents. The Vergecast discusses what this means for the
Google makes personal Gemini with Gmail and YouTube access available to everyone in the US
Google has expanded the Personal Intelligence feature to free users in the US — Gemini can now consider data from Gmail, YouTube, and Google
BuzzFeed showcased AI apps at SXSW, but the audience was unimpressed
At the SXSW conference, media company BuzzFeed unveiled new AI apps for social media in search of new revenue streams, but the demos failed
Nvidia released DLSS 5, but the new technology distorts characters' faces in games
Nvidia called DLSS 5 the biggest breakthrough in graphics since 2018, but early demos showed the technology turns characters' faces into AI
Gary Tan’s Claude Code setup: thousands tried it, opinions split
The CEO of Y Combinator posted his Claude Code configuration on GitHub — and it triggered a wave of debate among developers and even the AI
Mistral Forge: training enterprise AI from scratch on proprietary data
Mistral has launched Forge, a tool for training enterprise AI models from scratch on customer data, challenging the approaches of OpenAI and
U.S. Justice Department: Anthropic illegally restricted Claude's military use
The U.S. Department of Justice said in response to Anthropic's lawsuit that it lawfully penalized the company for trying to restrict the use
Pentagon calls Anthropic a national security threat due to ethical restrictions on AI
The U.S. Department of Defense has designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk because the company reserves the right to disable AI during m
Berkeley PhD students became the AI industry's chief judges: how Arena decides which model is best
The Arena startup has become the main public ranking of language models, influencing funding rounds and product launches throughout the indu
Microsoft hired Cove startup team with Sequoia backing — service shutting down April 1
Microsoft recruited the entire team of Cove, an AI collaboration platform backed by Sequoia Capital. The service is shutting down April 1, w
Sequen raises $16M for TikTok-style personalization technology for consumer companies
Startup Sequen closed a Series A round at $16 million to scale its AI content ranking engine—an analog of TikTok's algorithm—now accessible
Arena: AI model ranking that can't be gamed — and funded by those it judges
Arena (formerly LM Arena) became the leading public ranking of frontier LLMs, influencing investments and launches — while being financed by
Rebel Audio: AI Platform for Podcast Beginners Without Tool Switching
Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one AI service for recording, editing, clipping, and publishing podcasts in a single interface, designed specifi
Patreon chief called AI companies' fair use argument untenable
Jack Conte said platforms must pay creators for training data — and licensing deals with publishers prove it.
ChatGPT did not cure a dog's cancer: how a viral story turned out to be exaggerated
An Australian entrepreneur claimed that ChatGPT saved his dog from cancer — the story spread around the world, but the reality turned out to
Walmart shifts strategy: Sparky replaces OpenAI auto-checkout
Walmart has dropped "Instant Checkout" with OpenAI and is now embedding its own chatbot, Sparky, directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei: smartphone apps will disappear — AI agents will replace them
Carl Pei is convinced that familiar apps will become a thing of the past, replaced by AI agents that understand user intent and act on their
Meta can't cope with out-of-control AI agents that reveal corporate data
A Meta AI agent accidentally disclosed internal corporate data and information about users to engineers who lacked access rights. The compan
Multiverse Computing launched a public API with compressed OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek models
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing launched a public API with compressed versions of models from OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI for
Lawyer vs. OpenAI: who will answer for children's deaths caused by AI chatbots
A series of teen suicides linked to AI chatbots is turning into a legal battle: a US lawyer is filing lawsuits against OpenAI and Character.
Google Teaches Fitbit AI Trainer to Read Users' Medical Records
As early as next month, American Fitbit users will be able to connect their medical records to the app — test results, medications, and doct
Adobe Firefly Custom Models: Train Image Generator to Your Style
Adobe launched a public beta of custom Firefly models — brands and creators can train the generator on their own works and receive images in
Moxie Marlinspike from Signal to Protect Conversations of Billions of Meta AI Users
The encrypted AI chatbot technology Confer, created by Signal's founder, will be integrated into Meta AI to protect conversations of billion
Meta's AI agent went out of control and caused a data access leak for two hours
Meta's internal AI agent independently responded to the company's private forum and for nearly two hours provided employees with unauthorize
Meta Shifts to In-House AI for Content Moderation, Ditches Third-Party Vendors
Meta launches new AI systems to detect violations on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, abandoning third-party contractor services in favor of
Google Reorganizes Project Mariner Team Amid AI Code Agents Boom
Google is restructuring the team behind Project Mariner — a web-browsing AI agent — as Silicon Valley shifts focus to AI agents for code wri
Cloudflare CEO warns: AI bots will overtake humans in internet traffic by 2027
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, stated that by 2027, traffic from AI agents and automated bots will exceed the volume of traffic generate
Bezos Aims to Raise $100 Billion to Acquire and AI-Transform Industrial Companies
Amazon's founder is working on a new large-scale project: to acquire aging industrial enterprises and restructure them using artificial inte