Artificial intelligence news, model releases, and lab announcements.
OpenAI released Privacy Filter on April 22 as an open-weight on-device model for masking eight types of PII. F1 of 96%. Runs in a browser. Here's the catch.
Verkor's Design Conductor agent went from a 219-word spec to a tape-out-ready RISC-V core called VerCore in 12 hours. The catch: it's still a Celeron.
Bloomberg reports a small group accessed Anthropic's locked-down Mythos model the same day it launched, using credentials from a third-party contractor and educated URL guessing.
DeepSeek shipped V4-Pro and V4-Flash under MIT on April 24. V4-Pro hits 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified. V4-Flash is $0.14 in / $0.28 out.
Google committed $10B upfront and up to $40B total at a $350B valuation, plus five gigawatts of Google Cloud capacity. It's Anthropic's second nine-figure deal in a week.
Anthropic's April 23 postmortem names three bugs that degraded Claude Code between March 4 and April 20. Usage limits are being reset for every subscriber.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 (codename Spud) on April 23. The API runs at $5/$30 per million tokens, double GPT-5.4, with Pro at $30/$180.
Workspace Agents for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, plus Teachers launched April 22. Team-shared, cloud-run, Codex-powered. Free until May 6, then credit-based.
Sam Altman's World pitched its 'Concert Kit' ticketing feature with a Bruno Mars partnership at its April 17 event. Live Nation told reporters no such deal exists.
GitHub froze Copilot Pro/Pro+/Student signups on April 20 and moved Claude Opus 4.7 behind the $39 Pro+ tier. Agent workflows broke the old math.
Amazon added $5B (up to $20B) to its Anthropic stake. Anthropic committed $100B+ to AWS over 10 years and 5 GW of Trainium capacity.
Axios reports the NSA is using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model even though the Defense Department has blacklisted Anthropic. One government, two positions.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 jumps instrument reading from 23% to 93% and slots in above a separate VLA model. Boston Dynamics' Spot is already running it.
Anthropic launched Claude Design on April 17, a prompt-to-prototype tool that exports to Canva, not Figma. Figma's stock closed down 7% on the same day.
World ID is rolling out to Tinder US, Zoom, Shopify, DocuSign, and Okta. Tools for Humanity is betting iris scans solve the bot problem.
Cursor is in talks to raise $2B at a $50B valuation, nearly double its September mark. Revenue is up, but it's still losing money per indie seat.
OpenAI shipped a Codex update that can pilot desktop apps with a cursor, generate images in-line, and run parallel agents. It's the opening move in a real Claude Code fight.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B is a 35B-param mixture-of-experts with only 3B active. Apache 2.0, runs on consumer GPUs, and it's already winning real tasks.