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mediaThe Verge AI / Apr 13, 2026
Sam Altman reportedly targeted in second attack
Sam Altman was seemingly targeted by a second attack on Sunday morning, with two suspects arrested following a shooting at his Russian Hill residence, The San Francisco Standard reports. The suspects were arrested and charged with negligent...
Model companies
Product, model, and release-side updates.
OpenAI / Apr 10, 2026
this weekResearch with ChatGPT
Learn how to research with ChatGPT using search and deep research to find up-to-date information, analyze sources, and generate structured insights.
OpenAI / Apr 10, 2026
this weekChatGPT for finance teams
Learn how finance teams use ChatGPT to streamline reporting, analyze data, improve forecasts, and communicate insights more clearly.
OpenAI / Apr 10, 2026
this weekChatGPT for research
Learn how to use ChatGPT for research to gather sources, analyze information, and create structured, citation-backed insights.
OpenAI / Apr 10, 2026
this weekFinancial services
Explore AI resources for financial services, including prompt packs, GPTs, guides, and tools to help institutions deploy and scale AI securely.
OpenAI / Apr 10, 2026
this weekResponsible and safe use of AI
Learn how to use AI responsibly with best practices for safety, accuracy, and transparency when using tools like ChatGPT.
OpenAI / Apr 10, 2026
this weekPrompting fundamentals
Learn prompting fundamentals and how to write clear, effective prompts to get better, more useful responses from ChatGPT.
Labs and tooling
Research, platform, and ecosystem updates.
Hugging Face / Apr 9, 2026
this weekWaypoint-1.5: Higher-Fidelity Interactive Worlds for Everyday GPUs
Open Hugging Face for the full post.
Hugging Face / Apr 9, 2026
this weekMultimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers
Open Hugging Face for the full post.
Hugging Face / Apr 8, 2026
this weekALTK‑Evolve: On‑the‑Job Learning for AI Agents
Open Hugging Face for the full post.
Hugging Face / Apr 8, 2026
this weekSafetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation
Open Hugging Face for the full post.
Google DeepMind / Apr 2, 2026
recentGemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Gemma 4: Our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.
Google AI Blog / Apr 2, 2026
recentNew ways to balance cost and reliability in the Gemini API
Google is introducing two new inference tiers to the Gemini API, Flex and Priority, to balance cost and latency.
Media coverage
Reporting, analysis, and the wider picture.
The Verge AI / Apr 11, 2026
freshYour article about AI doesn’t need AI art
The illustration for The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of...
The Verge AI / Apr 11, 2026
this weekHow Iran out-shitposted the White House
In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime's state media was flooding t...
The Verge AI / Apr 10, 2026
this weekThe Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’
Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Iranian borders as a resounding success. But the story is very different in one of...
The Verge AI / Apr 10, 2026
this week20-year-old man arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s house
San Francisco police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Russian Hill house early Friday morning, The San Francisco...
The Verge AI / Apr 10, 2026
this weekMy baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative
Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message. "Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operative?" Norma...
The Verge AI / Apr 10, 2026
this weekThe AI code wars are heating up
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the AI coding and vibe-coding booms, follow David Pierce. The Stepback...
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OpenAI
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onlineOpen source
this week
Apr 10, 2026
Research with ChatGPT
Learn how to research with ChatGPT using search and deep research to find up-to-date information, analyze sources, and generate structured insights.
this week
Apr 10, 2026
ChatGPT for finance teams
Learn how finance teams use ChatGPT to streamline reporting, analyze data, improve forecasts, and communicate insights more clearly.
this week
Apr 10, 2026
ChatGPT for research
Learn how to use ChatGPT for research to gather sources, analyze information, and create structured, citation-backed insights.
this week
Apr 10, 2026
Financial services
Explore AI resources for financial services, including prompt packs, GPTs, guides, and tools to help institutions deploy and scale AI securely.
this week
Apr 10, 2026
Responsible and safe use of AI
Learn how to use AI responsibly with best practices for safety, accuracy, and transparency when using tools like ChatGPT.
this week
Apr 10, 2026
Prompting fundamentals
Learn prompting fundamentals and how to write clear, effective prompts to get better, more useful responses from ChatGPT.
Google AI Blog
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onlineOpen source
recent
Apr 2, 2026
New ways to balance cost and reliability in the Gemini API
Google is introducing two new inference tiers to the Gemini API, Flex and Priority, to balance cost and latency.
recent
Apr 2, 2026
Create, edit and share videos at no cost in Google Vids
New AI capabilities are coming to Google Vids, powered by Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1, like high-quality video generation at no cost and more.
recent
Apr 1, 2026
We’re creating a new satellite imagery map to help protect Brazil’s forests.
Google partnered with the Brazilian government on a satellite imagery map to help protect the country’s forests.
recent
Apr 1, 2026
The latest AI news we announced in March 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from March 2026
recent
Mar 31, 2026
Build with Veo 3.1 Lite, our most cost-effective video generation model
Veo 3.1 Lite is now available in paid preview through the Gemini API and for testing in Google AI Studio.
recent
Mar 26, 2026
Watch James Manyika talk AI and creativity with LL COOL J.
In the latest episode of our Dialogues on Technology and Society series, LL COOL J sits down with James Manyika.
Google DeepMind
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recent
Apr 2, 2026
Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Gemma 4: Our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.
recent
Mar 26, 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable
Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.
recent
Mar 25, 2026
Protecting people from harmful manipulation
Google DeepMind researches AI's harmful manipulation risks across areas like finance and health, leading to new safety measures.
recent
Mar 25, 2026
Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more
Introducing Lyria 3 Pro, which unlocks longer tracks with structural awareness. We’re also bringing Lyria to more Google products and surfaces.
older
Mar 17, 2026
Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
We’re introducing a framework to measure progress toward AGI, and launching a Kaggle hackathon to build the relevant evaluations.
older
Mar 9, 2026
From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact
Ten years since AlphaGo, we explore how it is catalyzing scientific discovery and paving a path to AGI.
Hugging Face
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onlineOpen source
this week
Apr 9, 2026
Waypoint-1.5: Higher-Fidelity Interactive Worlds for Everyday GPUs
Open Hugging Face for the full item.
this week
Apr 9, 2026
Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers
Open Hugging Face for the full item.
this week
Apr 8, 2026
ALTK‑Evolve: On‑the‑Job Learning for AI Agents
Open Hugging Face for the full item.
this week
Apr 8, 2026
Safetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation
Open Hugging Face for the full item.
recent
Apr 2, 2026
Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device
Open Hugging Face for the full item.
recent
Apr 1, 2026
Holo3: Breaking the Computer Use Frontier
Open Hugging Face for the full item.
VentureBeat AI
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older
Jan 22, 2026
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $...
older
Jan 19, 2026
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code...
older
Jan 16, 2026
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers see...
older
Jan 13, 2026
Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what exec...
older
Jan 12, 2026
Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to...
older
Jan 7, 2026
Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment
Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it sa...
The Verge AI
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fresh
Apr 13, 2026
Sam Altman reportedly targeted in second attack
Sam Altman was seemingly targeted by a second attack on Sunday morning, with two suspects arrested following a shooting at his Russian Hill residence, The San Francisco S...
fresh
Apr 11, 2026
Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art
The illustration for The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a...
this week
Apr 11, 2026
How Iran out-shitposted the White House
In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime's state media was...
this week
Apr 10, 2026
The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’
Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Iranian borders as a resounding success. But the story is very different...
this week
Apr 10, 2026
20-year-old man arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s house
San Francisco police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Russian Hill house early Friday morning, The San...
this week
Apr 10, 2026
My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative
Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message. "Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operati...
AI News
mediamedia / 8 loaded
onlineOpen source
this week
Apr 10, 2026
IBM: How robust AI governance protects enterprise margins
To protect enterprise margins, business leaders must invest in robust AI governance to securely manage AI infrastructure. When evaluating enterprise software adoption, a...
this week
Apr 10, 2026
Why companies like Apple are building AI agents with limits
Next-generation AI assistants being developed in the Apple ecosystem and by chipmakers like Qualcomm, but early reports suggest they are being designed with limits in pla...
this week
Apr 10, 2026
Meta has a competitive AI model but loses its open-source identity
The open-source AI movement has never lacked for options. Mistral, Falcon, and a growing field of open-weight models have been available to developers for years. But when...
this week
Apr 9, 2026
Agentic AI’s governance challenges under the EU AI Act in 2026
AI agents hold the promise of automatically moving data between systems and triggering decisions, but in some cases, they can act without a clear record of what, when, an...
this week
Apr 9, 2026
Anthropic keeps new AI model private after it finds thousands of external vulnerabilities
Anthropic’s most capable AI model has already found thousands of AI cybersecurity vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. The company’s respo...
this week
Apr 8, 2026
AI’s software development success and central management needs
A survey carried out by OutSystems, The State of AI Development 2026 [email wall], argues that AI has moved into early production phase for many enterprises, primarily in...
MIT Technology Review AI
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this week
Apr 8, 2026
Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why
We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well...
this week
Apr 7, 2026
Enabling agent-first process redesign
Unlike static, rules-based systems, AI agents can learn, adapt, and optimize processes dynamically. As they interact with data, systems, people, and other agents in real...
this week
Apr 6, 2026
The one piece of data that could actually shed light on your job and AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Within Silicon Valley’s orbit, a...
this week
Apr 6, 2026
AI is changing how small online sellers decide what to make
For years Mike McClary sold the Guardian LTE Flashlight, a heavy-duty black model, online through his small outdoor brand. The product, designed for brightness and durabi...
recent
Apr 1, 2026
The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home
When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a long day at the hospital, he turns on his ring light, str...
recent
Mar 31, 2026
Shifting to AI model customization is an architectural imperative
In the early days of large language models (LLMs), we grew accustomed to massive 10x jumps in reasoning and coding capability with every new model iteration. Today, those...
TechCrunch AI
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Jan 13, 2026
Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz
AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz...
older
Oct 31, 2025
Meta bought 1 GW of solar this week
The social media company inked three deals in the U.S. to power its data centers and offset its carbon footprint.
older
Aug 26, 2025
How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change
Mitti Labs is working with The Nature Conservancy to expand the use of climate-friendly rice farming practices in India. The startup uses its AI to verify reductions in m...
older
Aug 20, 2025
Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation
After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart gl...
older
Aug 20, 2025
Meta to add 100MW of solar power from US gear
The social media company is adding another tranche of solar to power a new AI data center in South Carolina.
older
Aug 4, 2025
Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape the...