2026

Creative

Habr AI pits Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT against each other on writing, math, analysis and creativity

Creative

xAI Has No Co-Founders Left Besides Musk: Ross Nordin Departs

Robotics

Google explains the difference between Google-Agent and Googlebot for AI access and indexing

Qdrant and DRAG with KNEE: Making RAG Adaptive Without Wasting Tokens

DRAG with KNEE is an adaptive RAG approach built on Qdrant and Python. It builds a document hierarchy and trims excess context without a fixed top_k.

Ethics·Habr AI

Why the Pentagon–Anthropic Standoff Is a Warning Sign for Businesses Using AI

The dispute between the US Department of Defense and Anthropic over usage restrictions exposed a new corporate risk: an AI strategy that depends on one vendor's…

Creative·Habr AI

How to Write Prompts for Midjourney, DALL-E and Kandinsky to Get Accurate Images

Why vague requests break image generation, and how prompt structure, word weights, negative instructions and settings make results more predictable.

Startups·Habr AI

OpenAI and Sam Altman: How a Board Crisis Turned Into a Power Struggle

A column on the OpenAI crisis ties Sam Altman's firing and return, questions about the Startup Fund and a disputed Pentagon contract into one story about power and…

01Amazon-linked researchers unveil A-Evolve to automatically evolve AI agentsApr 30, 2026·2 min 02Habr AI: LLMs Can Take Over Routine Business Research, but Not StrategyApr 30, 2026·3 min 03DeepMind and Yann LeCun Push AGI Toward World Models — and That Worries More Than LLMs DoApr 30, 2026·3 min 04Zack Kass, ex-OpenAI executive: AI will create many winnersApr 30, 2026·3 min 05Agent-Infra unveils AIO Sandbox, a single environment for AI agents with a browser and shellApr 30, 2026·2 min

Top themes

Creative·3DNews AI

Anthropic wins in court against the Pentagon, but the dispute is not fully settled

Autonomous·Habr AI

OpenClaw runs on a Wiren Board controller: an AI agent that manages hardware and writes scripts

Autonomous·MarkTechPost

Cursor launches TypeScript SDK for coding agents with cloud sandboxes and token-based billing

Who Is Behind Claude: How Former OpenAI Staff Built the Anthropic Team

ChatGPT helps design a controller for a 32-juice vending machine

A Habr author shared a ChatGPT conversation in which the model clarifies requirements and sketches a controller architecture for a juice vending machine, from NFC…

Autonomous·Habr AI

Pervaya Forma adds MCP so an AI agent can configure BPM processes

Russian BPM platform Pervaya Forma has implemented Model Context Protocol support: categories, forms and business processes can now be configured through a dialogue…

LLM·TNW

Anthropic's largest AI survey shows what people actually want from the technology

Anthropic ran 80,508 interviews in 159 countries and found that people want more than productivity from AI: above all, time, access to knowledge and a lighter load in daily life.

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic speed up the AI model race, but the market is already tired of the noise

LLM·Bloomberg Tech

OpenAI hasn't turned ChatGPT into a new App Store yet, and developers are complaining

Six months after ChatGPT's mini-apps launched, OpenAI has hundreds of integrations, but developers cite weak functionality, poor visibility and clunky tools.

Ethics·AI News

Glia wins AI Excellence Awards for safer AI in banking customer service

Glia won the 2026 AI Excellence Awards in the banking category. Judges praised its practical, safer use of AI in customer communications.

Hardware·Bloomberg Tech

Biren Technology more than triples revenue as China's demand for AI chips surges

Biren Technology more than tripled its annual revenue as demand for AI chips in China jumps and companies build out local computing infrastructure.

Hardware·MIT News

MIT teaches AI to find atomic defects in materials without destroying samples

MIT researchers built an AI model that uses neutron scattering data to find up to six atomic defects at once and measure their concentration without damaging the…

01Mistral raises $830 million for a Nvidia-powered data center, stepping up Europe's AI raceApr 30, 2026·2 min 02Bank of Russia looks for a Run:ai alternative as it readies neural networks for industrial scaleApr 30, 2026·3 min 03AWS shows how to detect solar flares in SageMaker AI using data from ESA's STIX instrumentApr 30, 2026·3 min 04Rebellions raises $400M ahead of IPO at a $2.34B valuation, sets its sights on the USApr 30, 2026·3 min 05Resilience: AI has sped up cyberattacks, shrinking defenders' window to respond to minutesApr 30, 2026·2 min

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Business·Habr AI

Why Neural Networks Don't Predict the Moscow Exchange, and Where ML Actually Helps Traders

Habr AI: Self-organizing LLM agents outperformed hierarchical systems by 14%

Hardware·Habr AI

Habr AI author proposes building deterministic AI on a MacBook Air instead of joining the GPU race

Autonomous·Habr AI

AI Agents Are Reshaping the Development Cycle: Where Scrum Shrinks and Where Humans Still Matter

Creative·MarkTechPost

Alibaba releases Qwen3.5-Omni, a native multimodal model for text, audio and video

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5-Omni, a native omnimodal model that understands text, images, audio and video in a single architecture and can reply by voice in real…

Hardware·TNW

Microsoft to invest more than $1 billion in Thailand's cloud, data centers and AI infrastructure

Microsoft has announced more than $1 billion in Thai investment for 2026–2028, covering data centers, cybersecurity, sovereign technology and AI skills training.

FSBio Outlines Metabolic AI Runtime, an AI Architecture Built on 'Homeostasis' Instead of Empathetic Prompts

FSBio argues standard Transformer models can't achieve true machine empathy and proposes Metabolic AI Runtime, with internal state, memory, and 'will.'

Hardware·Bloomberg Tech

Equinix to invest 7.5 billion rand in new South African data centers as AI demand grows

Hardware·Guardian

OpenAI nears a possible IPO: an $850 billion valuation now demands profit, not just growth

Medicine·Habr AI

Lansoft names the AI technologies that will reach production in 2026

Business·Habr AI

AiConf 2026 changes its format: interaction, networking and hands-on work instead of lectures

LLM·3DNews AI

Microsoft teaches Copilot Researcher to cross-check GPT and Claude answers in a single workflow

Creative

How ecom.tech sees the alliance of AI, analysts and 1C: what already works and where the risks lie

Medicine

MIT Technology Review: Why Standard AI Benchmarks No Longer Show Real-World Value

Startups

Zhipu's losses widen 60% as competition in China's AI market heats up

Raft breaks down where MCP and Thin MCP add extra latency for AI agents

Raft compared five architectures for AI agents and found that the main source of delay is often not Python or HTTP, but the number of hops between services and the…

Anthropic accidentally leaks Claude Code source through npm source maps

.map files in an npm package exposed Claude Code's internal code, revealing a multi-agent mode, memory "dreams," hidden features and an undercover mode for…

DeepSeek V4 launches with focus on price and everyday tasks: review and first tests

DeepSeek V4 is pitched as an affordable alternative to top chatbots. Early reviews praise its price, solid performance in everyday scenarios and clear progress over…

Creative·3DNews AI

Google and Meta Are Losing Top AI Researchers as New Startups Rapidly Raise Billions

Former Google DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers are launching AI startups and raising hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars almost immediately.