2026

AI companion in a plush deer wrote an unprompted theory about Mitski’s father’s CIA ties

The AI coding race: how OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are competing for the developer market

TechCrunch Released a Guide to AI Jargon: What Are LLMs, Hallucinations, and RAG

Claude from Anthropic Became the Main Topic of the HumanX Conference in San Francisco

Trump Administration Advises Banks to Test Anthropic's Mythos Model

Pixel Societies Uses AI Agents to Match Colleagues, Friends, and Partners Before Meeting

Zuckerberg Creates His Own AI Clone for Employee Meetings

Meta trains a digital clone of Zuckerberg using his voice, appearance, and manner of speech to replace the CEO at team meetings.

01Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch announces IPO readiness amid AI agent-driven growthApr 22, 2026·2 min 02Microsoft Explores Integration of OpenClaw-Agents into 365 Copilot for Enterprise MarketsApr 22, 2026·2 min 0370 organizations warn Meta: facial recognition glasses threaten violence victimsApr 22, 2026·2 min 04Stanford AI Index: the gap between AI experts and society continues to widenApr 22, 2026·3 min 05OpenAI acquired startup Hiro to integrate financial planning into ChatGPTApr 22, 2026·2 min

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Unitree launches humanoid robot R1 internationally via AliExpress for $4,370

Chinese company Unitree is launching sales of the R1 humanoid robot via AliExpress at $4,370 — the lowest price to date for a consumer-class

01Silicon Valley funds Alex Bores's opponents after he passed a tough AI lawApr 22, 2026·2 min 02Anthropic opposed the AI liability bill backed by OpenAIApr 22, 2026·2 min 03Google adds AI Skills to Chrome — save prompts for any siteApr 22, 2026·2 min

Google Chrome launched “Skills” — saved AI commands for Gemini

Chrome now allows any prompt for Gemini to be saved as a “Skill” and launched on any page with one click.

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Google Chrome gets Gemini AI Skills: protein in recipes and YouTube summaries

Chrome now includes a Gemini panel with prebuilt AI Skills — from nutrition analysis to video summarization directly on the page.

Apple secretly threatened to remove Grok from the App Store over deepfakes on X

In January, Apple demanded in a private letter that the X and Grok teams develop a content moderation plan after a wave of sexual deepfakes.

Adobe announces Firefly AI Assistant — editing through description instead of manual tools

Indian startup Emergent launches Wingman — an AI agent for WhatsApp and Telegram

Google released native Gemini app for Mac with screen sharing support

Peter Thiel's Startup Offers to Pay AI to Challenge Journalism

AI learning service Gizmo closes $22M Series A with 13 million users

Hightouch reached $100 million ARR thanks to AI agents for marketers

Startup Hightouch added $70 million in annual revenue in just 20 months after launching an AI agent platform for marketers and reached $100

01Google releases Gemini app for Mac with quick access via Option + SpaceApr 22, 2026·2 min 02AI opens access to chip development — major players' monopolies under threatApr 22, 2026·2 min 03OpenAI updated Agents SDK: enterprise security and multi-agent scenariosApr 22, 2026·2 min 04Antioch raises $8.5M: startup wants to become Cursor for robot developersApr 22, 2026·2 min 05Startup Sabi is developing a hat that reads thoughts and turns them into textApr 22, 2026·2 min

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Canva updated its AI assistant: it now creates editable designs from text prompts

Canva updated its AI assistant: it can now invoke the platform's tools on its own and generate fully editable designs from a user's text pro

01Runway CEO: AI will let Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100 million blockbusterApr 22, 2026·3 min 02Canva AI 2.0: all design through a single text promptApr 22, 2026·2 min 03Character.AI Launches Books Mode: Roleplaying Games Based on Classic LiteratureApr 22, 2026·1 min

Roblox updates AI assistant: new agentic tools for game creation and testing

Roblox added agentic tools to its AI assistant that help developers plan, build, and test games at each stage of development.

Adobe: AI traffic to American retail grew 393% in Q1 2026

Adobe Analytics recorded a 393% increase in AI traffic to American retail in the first quarter — and found that such visitors convert better

InsightFinder raised $15M for diagnosing failures in AI-agent systems

Startup InsightFinder received $15M for developing diagnostic tools not only for AI models, but for the entire technical stack in which agents are integrated.

Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 — New Flagship for Complex Coding

Google updated AI Mode in Chrome — now it doesn't disappear when switching tabs

UK Launches $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund to Support Domestic Startups

Musk v. Altman Court Case: Jury to Assess OpenAI's Fidelity to Its Mission

OpenAI Updated Codex: Agent Now Takes Control of Desktop

Physical Intelligence Introduces π0.7 — a Robot Brain Capable of Mastering Unfamiliar Tasks

Upscale AI in talks for third round at $2 billion valuation seven months after launch

Factory raises $150M from Khosla Ventures, reaches $1.5B valuation

Three-year-old startup Factory has closed a $150M round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at $1.5B — it builds AI agents for enterprise software development.

The “AI Is Inevitable” Trap: Have We Reached Peak Hype Around Artificial Intelligence