The latest AI news we announced in April 2026
Google announced major AI infrastructure and platform advances at Google Cloud Next '26 in April 2026, including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with new Agent Designer capabilities, and 8th Gene
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Google announced major AI infrastructure and platform advances at Google Cloud Next '26 in April 2026, including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with new Agent Designer capabilities, and 8th Gene
arXiv:2605.00754v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reward models (RMs) have become an indispensable fixture of the language model (LM) post-training playbook, enabling policy alignment and test-time sc
This is a very niche post, but they are good poems. I hadn't read Autopsychography until it came up from both Claude and Gemini. And if you haven't read Rilke, that poem, with its incredible end, is a
This would be a very good idea, especially if implemented well. Best thing the Trump administration has considered doing around AI. Breaking News: The Trump administration is discussing vetting new A.
arXiv:2605.00300v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Public inference benchmarks compare AI systems at the model and provider level, but the unit at which deployment decisions are actually made is the en
arXiv:2605.00390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present extit{CluProp}, a novel framework that reimagines varied-density clustering in high-dimensional spaces as a label propagation process over ne
Research: TRE Python binding — ReDoS robustness demo If it's good enough for antirez to add to Redis I figured Ville Laurikari's TRE regular expression engine was worth exploring in a little more deta
Try Grok Grok 4.3 just became the smartest AI in the world at law and money It took #1 on TWO brutal private tests no other model could win on “Vals AI” benchmarks #1 CaseLaw (v2) - 79.31% accuracy Pr
arXiv:2510.21141v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Internet speed tests are indispensable for users, ISPs, and policymakers, but their static flooding-based design imposes growing costs: a sing
arXiv:2312.12339v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding visual inputs for a given task amidst varied changes is a key challenge posed by visual reinforcement learning agents. We propose exti
arXiv:2605.00538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Blood vessel segmentation and -tracing are essential tasks in many medical imaging applications. Although numerous methods exist, the prevailing segment
arXiv:2605.00116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this article, we introduce ViLegalNLI, the first large-scale Vietnamese Natural Language Inference (NLI) dataset specifically constructed for the leg
arXiv:2505.03500v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) often achieve high performance on demonstrated tasks but struggle significantly when required to extrapolate, c
Sam Altman announced on X that OpenAI would provide something special for applicants who couldn't attend the GPT-5.5 party due to space limitations. The post suggests OpenAI is offering a consolation
we're on an Open Model mission to help builders create world class agents >20x cheaper than what they have today a couple things have become evident recently: 1. The age of the token subsidy is being
arXiv:2605.00817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often achieve strong performance on reasoning benchmarks, but final-answer accuracy alone does not show whether they faithf
arXiv:2605.00796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Patient-facing medical chatbots based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are increasingly promoted to deliver accessible, grounded he
arXiv:2605.00226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly tasked with strategic decision-making under incomplete information, such as in negotiation and policymakin
This is a Wordle game result posted by Anthropic on X (formerly Twitter), showing that the puzzle was solved on the sixth and final attempt. The sequence of colored tiles indicates the letter feedback
This entry documents a Wordle game result where Anthropic solved puzzle #1,780 in three attempts, using emoji indicators to show letter positions (yellow for correct letters in wrong positions, green
NIST: An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date — In April 2026, the Center for AI Stan
Demis Hassabis says he plays chess with Gemini to trace the model's chain-of-thought. As a former chess prodigy, he can tell when the model starts reasoning itself into trouble. Sometimes it sees a bl
efficiency is back on the menu again boys https://x.com/jbhuang0604/status/2050686882653065496?s=46 Keep getting rate-limited by Claude, so I tried out DeepSeek V4 for the first time. After 10M+ token
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the CAS500-2 mission from a California spaceport, deploying 45 payloads into orbit. This mission demonstrates SpaceX's capability to conduct rideshare la
It's not hyperbole to call DualShot Recorder an overnight sensation. It took only 12 hours from the time it was released to hit number one on the App Store's list of top paid apps. It was a surprise s
I am not sure I would agree with all of this, but the relationship between Anthropic and Claude is quite different than the relationship between other labs and their models. And that shows up in lots
I have an utter respect for Richard Dawkins, for his brilliance, sheer intelligence, and his works. But @GaryMarcus has a valid critique [1]. [1] https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/richard-dawkins-and-
if even coding doesn’t make serious RoI for users, the jig is probably up. Economics of AI coding tools are crumbling. Cost per developer has doubled because cost of Claude code and microsoft copilot
I'm obsessed with running local LLMs. Been working with an engineer to build product(s) that are 100% local. A new model that came out recently instantly improved the quality of our product. We live i
it's always funny to me when these bot posts say we *just* launched deepagents... like nah man we've been carving this stone for close to a year now! Long-running agents almost always fail because the
Its getting hard to benchmark frontier agent performance on longer tasks. Repeated measurement is very expensive and there are differences between using models in harnesses versus via APIs. I suspect
Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a
Meta bootstrapped China, reaped the positive PR for being “open”, and then went back to being closed. Meta abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark https://thenewstack.io/meta-abandons-ll
David Keohane / Financial Times: Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2 — Higher memory c
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This work presents an explainability library for transformer models that provides tools for understanding transformer behavior through attributions and concept-based explanations . The resource likely
We used an automatic classifier which judged sycophancy by looking at whether Claude showed a willingness to push back, maintain positions when challenged, give praise proportional to the merit of ide
This post benchmarks three Qwen3.6 model variants against gpt-oss:120b when running on Apple Silicon hardware, evaluating their performance characteristics and practical usability. It documents both t
Shame on the @AFpost for glorifying Dawkins’ foolish post without asking a single expert whether it made any sense whatsoever. Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins says that af
Sometimes when I demo AI, I show it turning cover letters into goofy formats (poetry, etc) as an introduction to the idea of AI as translator between forms. For the first time, GPT-5.5 has been trying
Stable Diffusion 2.0 is an open-source text-to-image model that includes improved text-to-image capabilities using the OpenCLIP encoder, generating higher quality images at resolutions of 512x512 and
the same model in a different harness can yield much different performance! we've seen this on a few different occasions now - we took gpt-5.2-codex from 52.8% to 66.5% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Top 30 t
We have released a little skill to help you build LLM Wikis with your agents. Releasing a little skill to help build LLM Wikis. More people should be building LLM wikis. I hope the skill is useful for
This post shows a Wordle game result where the player solved puzzle #1,778 in 3 attempts, with the final answer being a five-letter word displayed in all green squares. The emoji grid represents the c
a bit more about why i think what Dawkins wrote is misguided: “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I
A lot of work around AI in 2023 was spent on building picks and shovels. I would know this because that was basically the core goal of the original @llama_index framework. Today, a lot of that is no l
🚀 פרק חדש עם יובל פלג לוי מ @AI21Labs • למה חילוץ נתונים מ-PDF בעברית שובר גם מודלים מתקדמים? • הפתרון: החלפת מילים בעברית לאנגלית עם מידות פיזיות (Bounding Box) זהות, לשמירה על המבנה הוויזואלי מבלי ל
and see “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training data to wax p
and see also “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training data to
A Reddit post from r/ChatGPT where a user expresses frustration with ChatGPT's argumentative behavior and perceived inaccuracies, contrasting their experience with Claude which they found superior aft
Claude Opus 4.7 just implemented an AlphaZero-style self-play pipeline from scratch. It did this on consumer hardware in three hours, then beat the Pascal Pons solver 7 of 8 as first-mover on Connect
“Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training data to wax poetic ab
Grok 4.3 - excellent intelligence per unit cost xAI has launched Grok 4.3, achieving 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with improved agentic performance, ~40% lower input price, and ~60
Grok Voice is used by Starlink right now Grok Voice brutally dominates the top of the τ-voice Bench Grok scores 67.3%, while Gemini sits at 43.8% and GPT Realtime at 35.3% This is a massive lead over
here’s the essay: “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training dat
I added a new feature to my blog (built entirely on my phone with Claude code for web) that imports my iNaturalist photos and adds them to my site's overall timeline https://simonwillison.net/2026/May
Neural networks were declared scientifically dead in 1987. A French PhD student bet his entire career on them anyway ~ and won. 🤯 >Meet Yann LeCun 🇫🇷 >Paris-born. PhD from Sorbonne in 1987. >Joined Be
This article by cognitive scientist Gary Marcus likely critiques Richard Dawkins' views or statements regarding Claude (an AI system), examining whether Dawkins may be mistaken or overly optimistic ab
see also this essay: “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training
OpenAI announced a community contest inviting users to create custom Codex pets using a /hatch command, with 10 winning entries receiving 30 days of ChatGPT Pro as prizes. The promotion encouraged use