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Google Cloud is honored to present the 2026 Partner of the Year winners! These awards recognize partners who have displayed a commitment to excellence by leveraging Google Cloud technology to deliver

Juro Osawa / The Information: Anthropic started requiring government-issued photo IDs and selfies from some users to prevent access from US adversaries like China, Russia, and North Korea — Anthropic

Anthropic's Mythos has been accessed by a small group of unauthorized users, raising questions about control of the AI model https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/anthropic-s-mythos-model

CATL's third-generation Shenxing battery can charge from 10% to 98% in 6 minutes and 27 seconds , achieving what sets a new global record for fast charging . The new LFP battery can retain over 90% of

YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake monitoring feature to Hollywood - meaning some celebrity AI videos could soon disappear. The platform's likeness detection feature searches YouTube for AI deepfake

Emad Mostaque, CEO of Stability AI, posted a request to Square Enix asking for a Chrono Trigger remake or reboot. The post represents fan sentiment and industry interest in reviving the classic 1995 J

OpenAI's Codex reached 4 million active users in less than two weeks after hitting 3 million, demonstrating rapid adoption of the code generation tool. Due to this explosive growth, OpenAI announced t

AES-128 remains secure against quantum computers and does not require key size changes as part of the post-quantum transition. NIST considers AES-128 safe and has made it the security benchmark for po

Cybersecurity insurance provider Cowbell Cyber Inc. today announced the U.S. launch of Cowbell Prime One, a new non-admitted cyber insurance product that is designed for organizations with advanced di

RC Lens fans invaded the pitch after their team qualified for the Coupe de France final, marking the club's first appearance in the competition's final in 28 years. The celebration reflected the signi

Democrats in Virginia today are voting to strip democracy from the process, eliminating Republican voices from congress They are fascists and unrepentant The actions of Texas or any other state are im

DOJ just unsealed an 11-count indictment against the SPLC for allegedly funneling MILLIONS to individuals linked to the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups. The same SPLC that AFL exposed worked w

Ashley Gold / Axios: Filing: Anthropic spent 1.6M and OpenAI 1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. 360K and 560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with 7.1M — Both Anthropic and Ope

Echo Wang / Reuters: Filing: SpaceX tells investors that orbital AI data centers use “unproven technologies” and may not achieve “commercial viability” due to space-related risks — SpaceX warned inves

Bloomberg: Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's 166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs — Political groups tied to the cryp

Alex Ebert / Bloomberg Law: Florida AG James Uthmeier issues criminal subpoenas to OpenAI to investigate if ChatGPT's role in planning a mass shooting constitutes criminal liability — Florida is sendi

Florida is opening a criminal investigation into ChatGPT following new details in the mass shooting at Florida State University last year. Investigators say the shooter used ChatGPT to plan the attack

Following the announcement of Mythos and a bit of confusion that's arisen, we at @huggingface decided to share some of what we've been discussing about defensive cybersecurity, openness, and AI agents

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is a complete redesign featuring a new full-CNC aluminum chassis, a much larger 74Wh battery, LPCAMM2 memory support, a power-optimized display with touch support, and a ha

Framework announced a new Laptop 13 Pro with pre-installed Ubuntu Linux as its first certified Linux option, while navigating ongoing RAM and storage supply chain shortages. The laptop features Intel

Sam Altman posted a positive endorsement of someone named Gabe on X, praising their talent and leadership abilities while expressing confidence in their capabilities. The post suggests Altman views Ga

Given the significant progress over the past year, this year’s festival will likely mark a tipping point. Submissions are still open! The Runway AI Festival returns this June to NY and LA to celebrate

Solar added approximately 600 terawatt-hours of generation globally in 2025—the largest increase ever recorded in a single year for any power technology. Solar was the single biggest contributor to gl

gpt image 2 can do some reallly hard prompts well I present - the periodic table of Pokémon ok so... gpt image 2 did this pretty well not everything here is perfect and a lot of the images are off but

Grok is an AI chatbot developed by xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, designed to be witty and have a rebellious streak compared to other AI assistants. The system is integrated with th

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ('SPLC'). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white su

Sam Altman shared a manga-style image created by ChatGPT's image generation model, featuring himself and another person (@gabeeegoooh) humorously searching for GPUs, highlighting the significant compu

Here's how anyone can find models that work for your hardware easily. 1. Go to http://huggingface.co and make an account 2. Models tab to find weights and all compressions 3. Click on your profile on

NPR: How opposition to data centers, over concerns like power demands, pollution, and water needs, has become a voting issue for many people in the 2026 US midterms — Fifteen minutes after Susan Bourg

I had a great exchange with @ElonMusk discussing​ the next frontier of @SpaceX and space exploration to the transformative progress of @Tesla with Optimus and @boringcompany’s urban innovation. I reaf

This post discusses visual artifacts in Final Fantasy VI, speculating that they resulted from the original game's pixelated graphics being interpolated during upscaling or enhancement processes. The s

I was kicked off the AI Ascent swag committee bc of last year’s “ai a scent” candle nonsense 😂 This year @Alfred_Lin leveled us up. Can’t wait for the aliens to find our AI Ascent 2026 swag one day. “

California Attorney General Rob Bonta publicly released unredacted evidence from the state's lawsuit against Amazon for illegal price fixing, detailing how Amazon allegedly coerced vendors to raise pr

This Reddit discussion captures user feedback about ChatGPT's frequent use of the word 'grounded' in its responses, likely reflecting a common observation about the model's vocabulary patterns and com

Elon Musk comments on initial progress toward extending human consciousness or presence to space, emphasizing that current achievements represent only a beginning and that substantially greater effort

it's entirely fine and great for proprietary models to exist the issue is they try to kill open source behind scenes while pretending they support it so far they've been pretty incompetent but they'll

It’s time to go beyond language models. Introducing Odyssey-2 Max, our most powerful world model yet. It materially advances the SOTA in physical accuracy. This is a big step toward models that simula

Less than a year ago, Apple made headlines for a lack of AI announcements at its annual WWDC event. Ten months later, the company has announced that hardware executive John Ternus will succeed longtim

This post celebrates RC Lens fans experiencing an euphoric moment, likely following a significant sporting victory or achievement at their Bollaert stadium. The enthusiastic French-language post with

A major European study tracking over 10,000 people aged 65-94 for seven years found that lonely older adults performed worse on initial memory tests, though their memory declined at the same rate as t

OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 represents an updated version of the image generation capabilities within ChatGPT, likely featuring improved quality, faster generation times, or enhanced creative control

This DigitalOcean guide covers strategies and best practices for deploying and optimizing very large language models (600 billion+ parameters) on cloud infrastructure, focusing on inference performanc

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft cuts Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price from 29.99 to 22.99/month and PC Game Pass from 16.49 to 13.99, but both tiers won't get new Call of Duty games — After Xbox CEO As

Microsoft reduced Game Pass Ultimate pricing from 29.99 to 22.99 per month and PC Game Pass from 16.49 to 13.99 per month, effective April 21, 2026. Call of Duty games will no longer be available on G

As AI assistants and privacy proxies challenge the capabilities of traditional bot detection, the Web needs new models for accountability. We believe that control should remain with the client, and th

Mozilla used Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview AI to discover 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 , which the company has patched in the browser . The AI was able to reason through code and surface iss