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Prime Video released the official trailer for *Good Omens* Season 3 — a 90-minute series finale special rather than a full season — in which Michael Sheen and David Tennant's angel-demon duo Aziraphal

Google LLC is enhancing the version of its Gemini assistant that is embedded in Chrome with a new time-saving tool called Skills. The capability started rolling out today. It’s accessible on Mac, Wind

Google DeepMind: Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 — For robots to be truly h

Google is launching a new Gemini app on Mac that allows you to interact with the AI assistant without switching windows on your desktop. With the app, you can use the Option + Space shortcut to pull u

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more — Gemini now has a native Mac app

Google launched its 'Google app for desktop' for Windows 10 and 11 users globally on April 14, 2026, bringing Google Search, Drive, files, and apps directly to the desktop via a keyboard shortcut (Alt

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a text-to-speech model with support for over 70 languages and audio tags that give developers granular speech control — The compa

Apple quietly threatened to kick Elon Musk's AI app, Grok, from its App Store in January over its failure to curb the surge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding X, according to NBC News. It was

Customer data platform maker GrowthLoop Inc. today introduced a composable artificial intelligence analytics platform designed to help better understand the causal drivers of customer behavior. The Ne

Today, Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, our latest text-to-speech model, is available on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. It delivers precise controllability and expressivity, empowering developers and enterprise

Madison Mills / Axios: Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a 28M Series A led by a16z — Hilbert, an AI startup rethinkin

Cursor, the AI-powered code editor, implemented Vercel's Microfrontends and Feature Flags infrastructure to build a rapid growth iteration loop that enables independent team deployments and controlled

Quantum computing is moving from theoretical promise to practical infrastructure, increasingly woven into high-performance computing environments through hybrid quantum-HPC computing approaches. For o

The European Union is taking ambitious steps to coordinate efforts by its member countries to achieve global leadership in quantum computing. The EU Quantum Computing Act, which is scheduled to take e

Vultr informs customers about a security incident involving unauthorized access to a third-party vendor's marketing data affecting limited customer information. No Vultr systems, customer subscription

VAKRA (Versatile Agent and Knowledge Reasoning Assessment) is a benchmark developed by IBM Research to evaluate AI agents on complex reasoning, tool use, and multi-step task execution across diverse d

Databricks has released a connector that enables Google Sheets users to access real-time data directly from Databricks lakehouses with built-in governance controls. The connector allows seamless integ

ISSCC 2026 previews cutting-edge semiconductor research and industry presentations covering co-packaged optics (CPO) developments from NVIDIA and Broadcom, next-generation memory standards including H

As of Tax Day 2026, the IRS has issued no formal guidance on how to classify and report prediction market winnings, leaving traders and tax professionals in a grey area where gains could plausibly be

A Manhattan federal jury found on April 15, 2026, that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market , following a lawsuit brought by over 30

Danish agentic artificial intelligence startup Leapwork ApS has announced the launch of its fully automated Continuous Validation Platform, aiming to help enterprises keep up with the velocity of gene

Vultr provides guidance on managing and limiting bandwidth overage charges on their cloud infrastructure platform. The article likely covers strategies such as monitoring bandwidth usage through the V

Load balancing and scaling LLM serving involves distributing inference requests across multiple model instances or GPUs to prevent bottlenecks and ensure consistent response times under varying traffi

Vercel has introduced logs filtering functionality for Vercel Workflows, allowing users to more efficiently search and narrow down log output within their workflow executions. This feature enables dev

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a 22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users — Gizmo, an A

HoloTab is an AI-powered browser companion developed by HCompany that integrates directly into web browsing to assist users with tasks, information retrieval, and productivity. It leverages AI models

Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability — Snap

Meta Platforms Inc. has announced a new deal with Broadcom Inc., extending a partnership that already sees the two companies work together on the design of the social media giant’s in-house artificial

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a new deal with Broadcom Inc., extending a partnership that already sees the two companies work together on the design of the social media giant’s in-house artifici

Microsoft Corp.’s push for artificial intelligence independence is gaining traction with today’s release of MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lean and mean version of its flagship image generation model that d

IBM Research has demonstrated that mid-training — a dedicated training phase between initial pre-training and fine-tuning — is essential for improving reasoning capabilities in large language models (

Today, we’re announcing U.S. and EU multi-region endpoints for Claude on Vertex AI are available in public preview. By pooling capacity across multiple regions, these endpoints dynamically route reque

A mid-2026 outlook piece from the Interconnects AI newsletter in which the author makes specific predictions about the trajectory of open-weight language models, likely covering expected capability mi

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year survey, producing the largest-ever 3D map of the universe using data from tens of millions of galaxies and quasars to study

The NAB Show 2026 trade show, running April 18-22 in Las Vegas, is set to showcase a wave of new features and optimizations for top video editing applications. Bringing together over 60,000 content pr

The Ars Technica article covers the first teaser trailer for *Godzilla Minus Zero*, the sequel to the Oscar-winning *Godzilla Minus One*, which was debuted by writer/director Takashi Yamazaki at Cinem

For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-­edge, irresistibly exciting ideas

Simon Last and Sarah Sachs from Notion discuss their extensive experimentation with AI-native product development, including rebuilding core Notion features five times as capabilities evolved and inte

Chris Metinko / Axios: NY-based Auctor, which uses AI to curate resource plans and process flows to help companies adopt new software, raised 20M in a combined seed and Series A — Auctor, a startup he

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 — After he

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks — Agentic AI is the tech industry's new

Enterprise AI deployments are stalling not because agents are hard to build, but because organizations lack the data infrastructure to run them reliably at scale. The shift from chatbots to autonomous

Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Parasail Inc. today announced that it has raised 32 million in early-stage funding. Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures jointly led the Series A round.

Parcae is a stable looped language model that matches the quality of a Transformer twice its size — a 770M model reaching 1.3B-level performance. We introduce the first scaling laws for looping and sh

Sequoia Capital's 'Partnering with Auctor' article announces the firm's lead investment in Auctor, a New York-based AI-native startup that emerged from stealth on April 15, 2026. Auctor raised a total

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised 23.6B YTD, up from 7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom — U.