Guide dogs are powerful allies, leading the visually impaired safely to their destinations, but they can't talk with their owners—until now. Using large language models, a team of researchers at Bingh
Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting In res
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8%+ Meta is debut
Deep Web Data Is the Gold We Can't Touch, Yet The post Why AI Is Training on Its Own Garbage (and How to Fix It) appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Where do ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini get their information? An analysis of 15 million AI citations shows that one in four source references traces back to journalism. Trade publications and specialist
Astropad’s Workbench lets users remotely monitor and control AI agents on Mac Minis from iPhone or iPad, with low-latency streaming and mobile access.
Astropad’s Workbench lets users remotely monitor and control AI agents on Mac Minis from iPhone or iPad, with low-latency streaming and mobile access.
An analysis of 2.8 million Telegram messages in Italy and Spain documents how AI tools are fueling a monetized ecosystem built around non-consensual intimate imagery. The article Nudifying bots, deepf
Todd Spangler / Variety: Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships and revenue generated by podcasters on the platform hit $629M in 2025, up 33% YoY On Patreon, podcasts have become the
Melia Russell / Business Insider: New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire Foll
OpenAI's new Child Safety Blueprint aims to tackle the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation linked to advancements in AI.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing Alibaba and China
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Lookonchain: three anonymous Polymarket wallets made well-timed Iran ceasefire wagers, netting $480K+ in profits; a $60M April 7 contract remains under dispute Bets on a c
Financial Times: An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto of $1/barrel of oil for tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz Country's oil export
Financial Times: An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz Country's oil exporters' union says
Anthropic has hired Eric Boyd, a senior Microsoft executive, as its new head of infrastructure, Bloomberg reports. The article Anthropic hires Microsoft's Azure AI chief to fix its infrastructure prob
Turn an aging laptop into a private AI workspace with Ollama and OpenCode for local coding, testing, and experimentation.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: AWS debuts Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System that lets applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems Amazon Web Ser
Juro Osawa / The Information: Memo: Alibaba Cloud CTO Jingren Zhou will step down as CTO to focus on leading AI models in the new role of chief AI architect; executive Feifei Li becomes CTO Alibaba
Learn how to effectively present product ideas by building MVPs with coding agents The post How to Use Claude Code to Build a Minimum Viable Product appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring Social media p
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X is rolling out worldwide automatic post translation powered by xAI's Grok models, and updates its iOS image editor to add tools like drawing and blurring Social media plat
Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.
Carter Johnson / Bloomberg: UK-based currency hedging platform MillTech raised $60M from Apax Digital Funds at a $325M valuation, and plans to expand in North America and build AI tools Currency hed
A clear mental model and a practical foundation you can build on The post Grounding Your LLM: A Practical Guide to RAG for Enterprise Knowledge Bases appeared first on Towards Data Science .
The model represents an impressive open source release.
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: A profile of South Korea's Galaxy, which is trying to disrupt K-pop's traditional idol system by blending AI characters and life-size robots, as it plans an IPO Humanoid robot
Matt Burgess / Wired: AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing In Telegram groups
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Last Updated on April 8, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Aditya Jha Originally published on Towards AI. Deploying software isn’t just about pushing new code; it’s about how safely and deliberately y
Z.AI, the AI platform developed by the team behind the GLM model family, has released GLM-5.1 its next-generation flagship model developed specifically for agentic engineering. Unlike models optimiz
Nikkei Asia: RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation PALO ALTO, California Th
Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Z.ai raises prices for its most advanced AI model, GLM-5.1, by at least 8% compared to GLM-5 Turbo, joining Alibaba and Tencent as demand for agentic AI surges Zhipu raised the
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: FBI: US victims lost ~$21B to cybercrime in 2025, up 26% YoY, driven by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches U.S. victim
Marilen Martin / Bloomberg: Kuka, one of the largest industrial robotics suppliers, says it is prioritizing US and Asia investments, as Europe's industrial companies are slow to adopt AI Many of Eur
Harsh Upadhyay / Entrackr: Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation Digital lending plat
Ryan Lawler / Axios: Modus, which builds AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, raised a $5M seed and an $80M Series A led by Lightspeed Modus, which buys majorit
Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg: Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed, which is under US investigation over if it helped Chinese companies evade Nvidia AI chip export curbs Bain C
In this tutorial, we build a complete Open WebUI setup in Colab, in a practical, hands-on way, using Python. We begin by installing the required dependencies, then securely provide our OpenAI API key
Anthropic steps up the offensive vs OpenAI's upcoming IPO woes
Bloomberg: A pro-Iranian cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that knocked the websites of both companies offline this month A pro-Iranian cybercrime group
Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and posted details about its exploit without being prompted —
With Amazon Bedrock Projects, you can attribute inference costs to specific workloads and analyze them in AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Data Exports. In this post, you will learn how to set up Projects en
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years Anthropic PBC has hired a
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license Is China picking back
Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.
Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls Google annou
Anthropic didn't release their latest model, Claude Mythos (system card PDF), today. They have instead made it available to a very restricted set of preview partners under their newly announced Projec
Last Updated on April 8, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Google DeepMind released Gemm
Chris Metinko / Axios: Waterloo-based Mappedin, which uses AI and LiDAR to create and maintain 3D digital maps of indoor spaces, raised $24.5M, bringing its total funding to $35M Mappedin, a Canadia
The AI lab's Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations. They'll use the new Claude Mythos Preview model to test advancing AI cybersecurity capabilities.
Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.
Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.
David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic's Project Glasswing includes AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks, and others ZDNET's key takeaways AI found tho
David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic's Project Glasswing launch partners include AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks ZDNET's key takeaways AI fo
Anthropic: Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser Today we're announcing Proj
Anthropic: Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that will use its Claude Mythos Preview model to help find and fix software vulnerabilities Today we're announcing Projec
Greg Otto / CyberScoop: Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations The program comes as the tech i
Anthropic on Tuesday said its yet-to-be-released artificial intelligence model called Claude Mythos has proven keenly adept at exposing software weaknesses.
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Anthropic says it will make a preview of its Mythos model available to more than 40 organizations, as part of a new Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative Anthropic on
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Anthropic says it will make Claude Mythos Preview available to 40+ organizations that maintain critical software and doesn't plan to make it generally available Anthropic o
The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.
Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.
Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.
A practical system design combining open-source Bayesian MMM and GenAI for transparent, vendor independent marketing analytics insights. The post Democratizing Marketing Mix Models (MMM) with Open Sou
Anthropic bulked up its compute deal with Google and Broadcom as the company has seen its run-rate revenue surge to $30 billion.
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter aircraft, raised $200M led by Khosla Ventures and $150M in debt at a $1B valuation Defense startu
Google doesn’t train Gemini using personal emails. Here’s how Google keeps private data secure in Gmail amid new AI model upgrades.
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: Asus Zenbook A16 review: the $1,599 laptop uses the fast and power hungry Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme with 18 cores, but a plain design and includes bloatware It
Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video.
When movie and TV directors want to tinker with their footage in post-production, they have an array of tools at their disposal to perfect a scene if it wasn't shot exactly how they liked. That includ
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: True Footage, which uses AI trained on years of appraisal data to generate property valuations, raised a $40M Series C led by Cox Enterprises' Socium Ventures True Footage
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries Spotify said
Deborah Sophia / Reuters: Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help produce processors for robotics and data centers Intel (INTC.O
Google on Tuesday announced updates to the mental health safeguards on its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot, as the company faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging the chatbot aided a user in hi
Juby Babu / Reuters: Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first AI-native network to work with any AI chip, raised a $125M Series A from Sutter Hill and others Aria Networks said on
Alistair Barr / Business Insider: GoDaddy integrates Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into its hosting platform, enabling site owners to block, permit, or possibly monetize automated crawler access Fol
Chris Metinko / Axios: Natter, an AI platform for large-scale video conversation insights, raised a $23M Series A led by Renegade Partners and says it grew revenue 5x in 2025 Natter, which uses AI t
How to optimize context, a precious finite resource for AI agents The post Context Engineering for AI Agents: A Deep Dive appeared first on Towards Data Science .
in 3 months, Anthropic added $6B ARR
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI study tool to help students generate flashcards, quizzes, and Express presentations without logging in Adobe Acrobat has largely cat
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI-based study tool to help students generate flashcards, mind maps, quizzes, and Express presentations without logging in Adobe Acroba
On a recent episode of Equity, we talked to Arena Private Wealth to explore a growing trend: family offices bypassing VCs to gain direct exposure to AI startups, turning them from passive investors in
Annie Bang / Bloomberg: Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated The co-founder of
Annie Bang / Bloomberg: Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, cannot be trusted because it has no SEC definition and can be massaged The co-founde
The 10 concepts every LLM engineer swears by to build reliable AI systems.
China is actively trying to poach Taiwan's semiconductor expertise and talent to circumvent international technology restrictions, according to a report from Taiwan's National Security Bureau cited by
Jeff Bezos' startup Project Prometheus has hired Kyle Kosic, a co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI who most recently worked at OpenAI, the Financial Times reports. The article Bezos' Project Prometheus hire
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have started working together to combat the unauthorized copying of their AI models by Chinese competitors, according to Bloomberg. The article OpenAI, Anthropic, and Goo
Meta is planning to release versions of its new AI models as open source, according to Axios. The article Meta plans to open-source parts of its new AI models appeared first on The Decoder.
Kate Knibbs / Wired: The US IRS is yet to issue guidelines on whether prediction market gains should be taxed as derivatives, gambling winnings, or income, worrying accountants Americans flocked to
New York Times: Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T+ searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour The company's A.I.-gen
New York Times: Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour The company's A.I.-gene
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Financial Times: South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people South Korea's strained soc
Anthropic has signed a deal with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of TPU computing capacity, set to come online starting in 2027. The article Anthropic signs multi-gigawatt TPU deal with Goo
OpenAI: OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems A pilot program to support indepe
