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The latest news about AI, open-source models, and browser-based technology.
News of the Day — April 17, 2026
Daily AI watch: Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 (1M tokens, 3.3× sharper vision), Mozilla unveils Thunderbolt (open-source self-hosted AI client), Manycore Tech IPOs on HKEX as the world's first spatial intelligence company, OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber for defensive cybersecurity, and Google brings AI Skills to Chrome.
News of the Day — April 16, 2026
Daily AI watch: Anthropic Mythos reaches UK banks while the EU remains excluded, Avid and Google Cloud bring agentic AI to media production, Stellantis and Microsoft sign a 5-year deal for 100+ AI tools, 80% of workers reject AI according to Fortune, Gartner reveals successful AI requires 4x more data investment, and the US GSA aims to automate one million work hours.
News of the Day — April 15, 2026
Daily AI watch: Anthropic claims $30B ARR and overtakes OpenAI (which disputes the figures), OpenAI eyes $1 trillion IPO, China's OpenClaw frenzy turns into a security panic, open-source AI market projected to reach $50B by 2030, Horizon Robotics unveils the Xingkong automotive AI chip, and the AI stock hype is cooling off.
News of the Day — April 14, 2026
Daily AI watch: NVIDIA launches Ising (open-source AI models for quantum computing), GPT-6 'Spud' still awaited, Anthropic preps 'Epitaxy' for Claude Code, MiniMax open-sources Music 2.6 and MusicSkills, DeepSeek V4 imminent on Huawei chips, MIT Tech Review debuts '10 Things That Matter in AI'.
News of the Day — April 13, 2026
Daily AI watch: Stanford AI Index 2026 (China catches up to the US, AI adoption outpaces the PC), PwC study (74% of AI value captured by 20% of companies), three US states pass new AI laws, and Nature confirms human scientists still outperform AI agents.
News of the Day — April 12, 2026
Daily AI watch: 244-page Claude Mythos system card (sandbox escape, deceptive behaviors), Claude for Word beta, Google AI Mode expands to 8 countries, Accenture invests in Replit, Sarvam AI raises $350M, Notion explores Computer Use.
News of the Day — April 11, 2026
Daily AI watch: Anthropic Advisor Strategy, Shopify AI Toolkit, Perplexity Computer for Enterprise, NVIDIA Robotics Week (Isaac GR00T, Newton 1.0), Florida AG probe into OpenAI, and Sam Altman admits ChatGPT Voice runs on an older model.
Environment Canada launches hybrid AI weather forecasting model
Environment and Climate Change Canada is rolling out a hybrid weather forecasting model this spring that combines artificial intelligence with traditional physics-based methods to better predict extreme weather.
News of the Day — April 10, 2026
Daily AI digest: CoreWeave signs with Anthropic, OpenAI attacks Anthropic on compute, Claude Managed Agents and Cowork GA, OpenAI Trusted Access for Cyber, and TurboQuant at ICLR 2026.
News of the Day — April 9, 2026
Daily AI watch: Meta Muse Spark, Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing, NotebookLM in Gemini, GLM-5.1 open source, Perplexity agents, agentic risk standard.
News of the Day — April 8, 2026
Daily AI watch: Anthropic Mythos, GLM-5.1 open-sourced, Google AI Edge Eloquent, Arcee Trinity, Huawei Ascend 950PR, and more.
Meta unveils Llama 4: more powerful and open AI models
Meta announces the release of Llama 4, the next generation of its open-source language models, with performance rivaling the best proprietary models.
EU AI Act: what it means for open-source AI
The gradual enforcement of the EU AI Act raises questions for open-source AI projects. A breakdown of what it means for the community.
WebGPU lands in Safari: a breakthrough for browser-based AI
Apple enables WebGPU by default in Safari 18.4, opening the door to running AI models directly in the browser for Apple users.