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Apr 27 – May 3, 20266 stories
01 Business · NVIDIA Blog

NVIDIA Rolls out Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Unifying Vision, Audio and Language for up to 9x More Efficient AI Agents

AI agent systems today juggle separate models for vision, speech and language — losing time and context as they pass data from one model to the other.

Apr 29
02 Openai · Wired

As the first week of trial in Musk v. Altman comes to a close

A longtime employee of Musk and the mother to four of his children, Zilis joined OpenAI as an adviser in 2016. When asked about the nature of his relationship with Zilis in court, Musk offered several answers.

May 1
03 Microsoft · Fortune Technology

Alphabet raised its full year 2026 capex spending guidance to $180 billion to $190 billion

Alphabet’s Google Cloud revenue grew 63% year-over-year to $20 billion, more than doubling its growth rate. Ashkenazi pointed to AI solutions paired with strong demand for Alphabet’s Gemini 3 model as being among the largest contributors to cloud’s growth.

Apr 30
04 Business · Ars Technica

If Musk wins, OpenAI’s hopes of growing a for-profit arm that can fund the nonprofit could be dashed

If Altman wins, OpenAI’s mission could be lost—with the AI startup perhaps following in the footsteps of Google, which famously vowed that “Don’t be evil” drove its business decisions, but no longer seems bound by that unofficial motto.

Apr 28
05 Nvidia · NVIDIA Blog

Nemotron Labs: What OpenClaw Agents Mean for Every Organization

Editor’s note: This post is part of the Nemotron Labs blog series, which explores how the latest open models, datasets and training techniques help businesses build specialized AI systems and applications on NVIDIA platforms.

May 1
06 Business · Wired

They soon launched OpenAI together as a nonprofit

Google’s unchecked progress on AI development had sparked concerns for both OpenAI cofounders, and they wanted to create a competing lab with a greater focus on safety. “My perspective is [OpenAI] exists because Larry Page called me a speciesist for being pro-humanity,” Musk said, referring to the Google cofounder.

Apr 29
Apr 20 – Apr 26, 20266 stories
01 Anthropic · Ars Technica

Google will invest as much as $40B in Anthropic

Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.

Apr 25
02 Apple · Wired

During Cook’s tenure Apple published both the Apple Watch and AirPods, important anchors for the company’s accessories unit

But some of the projects developed under Cook, such as Apple’s self-driving car, were less successful. Apple Vision Pro, the company’s delayed foray into virtual reality headsets, was widely considered to be too expensive and failed to gain traction.

Apr 21
03 Apple · Ars Technica

Ternus will also join the company’s board of directors

Cook took the CEO role in 2011, succeeding Steve Jobs. While Apple introduced some notable new products during Cook’s tenure as CEO (such as AirPods), his era was not as known for impactful new product category launches.

Apr 21
04 Agentic · NVIDIA Blog

At Google Cloud Next, Google debuted A5X powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems

A5X will use NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, combined with next-generation Google Virgo networking, scaling to up to 80,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs within a single site cluster and up to 960,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs in a multisite cluster, enabling customers to run their largest AI workloads on NVIDIA‑optimized infrastructure.

Apr 23
05 Apple · The Information

Three Big Questions for Apple’s Next CEO, John Ternus

The most anticipated CEO transition in Silicon Valley is finally official. Apple on Monday announced that Tim Cook will pass the CEO baton to John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering.

Apr 21
06 Meta · Ars Technica

Meta will tune AI agents by logging employees' mouse, keyboard deploy

Meta will begin tracking the mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes of its US employees to generate high-quality training data for future AI agents, Reuters reports.

Apr 22
Apr 13 – Apr 19, 20266 stories
01 Trump · Sherwood News

Replimune Group tanked after the FDA rejected its melanoma treatment for a second time

Goldman Sachs dipped despite delivering an earnings beat. Stocks rose on news that President Trump will send Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Pakistan to negotiate peace talks with Iran.

Apr 13
02 Business · GitHub Blog

User secrets generate secret scanning alerts when found in public or private repositories

In EMU enterprises, developers often fork organization repositories into their personal namespaces. Push protection now walks the ancestor chain.

Apr 14
03 Amazon · Sherwood News

Amazon strikes agreement to buy Globalstar as it looks to take on SpaceX’s Starlink

Globalstar is up 11% in premarket trading on Tuesday after Amazon announced it has agreed to acquire the satellite company for about $11.6 billion, as it moves to keep up with Elon Musk’s Starlink.

Apr 14
04 Nist · NIST AI

Secure.gov websites use HTTPS A lock or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the.gov website

Working collaboratively to maximize efficiency, performance, and impact of data resources and infrastructure. The Data Services and Infrastructure Group is part of the Material Data Division at NIST.

Apr 14
05 Trump · Sherwood News

Brent crude climbs past $100 again and stocks tick lower after Trump orders Hormuz blockade

Oil prices topped $100 a barrel once again and stocks fell in early trading after President Trump announced the US will blockade the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday.

Apr 13
06 Business · Fortune Technology

Mercogliano noted there were earlier signs the Navy resupplied its ships via the island of Diego Garcia

While it’s not clear whether the destroyers entered the strait alongside those ships or without them, it still marked an important milestone for the oil trade. “One of the things that commercial ships were waiting to see was whether or not this strait was clear, and sailing two destroyers in is a big one,” he added.

Apr 13
Apr 6 – Apr 12, 20266 stories
01 Microsoft · OpenAI

The agreement preserves key elements that have fueled this successful partnership—meaning OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier model partner

It also refines and adds new provisions that enable each company to independently continue advancing innovation and growth. As we step into this next chapter of our partnership, both companies are better positioned than ever to continue building great products that meet real-world needs, and create new opportunity for…

Apr 6
02 Research · NIST AI

IRMOF-8: Effect of Partial Charge Method on Adsorption Thermodynamics

Official websites use.gov A.gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Apr 9
03 Microsoft · OpenAI

OpenAI’s planned evolution will see the existing OpenAI nonprofit both control a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and share directly

As previously announced and as outlined in our non-binding MOU with Microsoft, the OpenAI nonprofit’s ongoing control would now be paired with an equity stake in the PBC. Today, we are sharing that this new equity stake would exceed $100 billion—making it one of the most well-resourced philanthropic organizations in…

Apr 6
04 Microsoft · OpenAI

OpenAI released its first commercial product back in June: an API ⁠ for developers to access furthered technologies for building

In addition to offering GPT‑3 and future models via the OpenAI API, and as part of a multiyear partnership ⁠ announced last year, OpenAI has agreed to license GPT‑3 to Microsoft for their own products and services.

Apr 6
05 Sam · Fortune Technology

While Congress passed, and Trump signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a law regulating deepfakes, other efforts discourage strong regulation

But it’s not the first time, OpenAI argues, that technology has threatened to leave workers behind, requiring strong regulation. “Society has navigated major technological transitions before, but not without real disruption and dislocation along the way,” the paper reads.

Apr 6
06 Research · NIST AI

Secure.gov websites use HTTPS A lock or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the.gov website

The purpose of these pages is to provide some explicit results from Monte Carlo simulations for TraPPE Carbon Dioxide. Reproducing these results is a test of the correctness of codes, either written by the user or obtained elsewhere.

Apr 9
Mar 30 – Apr 5, 20266 stories
01 White · Associated Press Technology

“I’m happy that she is not in charge of this investigation anymore because she obviously failed

Do I think that the next person put in charge, Todd Blanche, is going to do any better? When Bondi became attorney general and pledged transparency, Michaels thought, “Well, maybe a woman stepping into this role will finally finally get the truth,” she recalled.

Apr 2
02 Agent · GitHub Blog

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — March update - GitHub Changelog

March 2026 brought a major step forward for GitHub Copilot extensibility in Visual Studio, with custom agents, agent skills, and new tools that make the agent smarter and more capable.

Apr 2
03 Business · GitHub Blog

First announced in public preview in January and broadened to the Issues dashboard in February

Since public preview, the results have spoken for themselves. Not only have users had greater success in finding what they need, but when they are able to search successfully, that desired result is in the top three issues shown 75% of the time, compared to 66% with traditional search.

Apr 2
04 News · GitHub Blog

Organization custom instructions for GitHub Copilot, first published in April 2025, are now generally available

With organization custom instructions, Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise organization administrators can set default instructions that guide Copilot’s behavior across all repositories in their organization.

Apr 2
05 Trump · Associated Press Technology

Artemis II successfully releases for historic Moon mission

President Trump promised to cut electricity bills, but prices have risen instead. And the state’s reliance on coal-fired plants contributes to the problem. (AP Video: Jessie Wardarski, Carolyn Kaster)

Apr 2
06 Business · Associated Press Technology

Both Israel and the United States have warned in recent years Iran was experimenting with fentanyl in munitions

Israel alleged Tofigh Daru supplied fentanyl to an advanced research institute in Tehran, known by its acronym SPND. The United Arab Emirates has barred Iranians from entering or transiting the country as the war rages, three major airlines said Wednesday.

Apr 1
May 20265 stories
01 Openai · Wired

As the first week of trial in Musk v. Altman comes to a close

A longtime employee of Musk and the mother to four of his children, Zilis joined OpenAI as an adviser in 2016. When asked about the nature of his relationship with Zilis in court, Musk offered several answers.

May 1
02 Nvidia · NVIDIA Blog

Nemotron Labs: What OpenClaw Agents Mean for Every Organization

Editor’s note: This post is part of the Nemotron Labs blog series, which explores how the latest open models, datasets and training techniques help businesses build specialized AI systems and applications on NVIDIA platforms.

May 1
03 Github · GitHub Blog

When you launch Copilot CLI with Copilot, you’re already in interactive mode—that’s the default

In interactive mode, you can ask GitHub Copilot a question, review its response, and then either follow up with questions or another prompt—all within the same session. Here’s how to enter interactive mode:.

May 1
04 Interpretability · MIT Technology Review

This outfit’s new mechanistic interpretability system lets you debug LLMs

The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior —during training.

May 1
05 Meta · Wired

They also look into what recent layoffs announced at Meta and the industry at large say about the ways

Articles mentioned in this episode:. You can follow Brian Barrett on Bluesky at, Zoë Schiffer on Bluesky at, and Leah Feiger on Bluesky at.

May 1
April 20266 stories
01 Anthropic · Ars Technica

Google will invest as much as $40B in Anthropic

Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.

Apr 25
02 Apple · Wired

During Cook’s tenure Apple published both the Apple Watch and AirPods, important anchors for the company’s accessories unit

But some of the projects developed under Cook, such as Apple’s self-driving car, were less successful. Apple Vision Pro, the company’s delayed foray into virtual reality headsets, was widely considered to be too expensive and failed to gain traction.

Apr 21
03 Business · NVIDIA Blog

NVIDIA Rolls out Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Unifying Vision, Audio and Language for up to 9x More Efficient AI Agents

AI agent systems today juggle separate models for vision, speech and language — losing time and context as they pass data from one model to the other.

Apr 29
04 Microsoft · OpenAI

The agreement preserves key elements that have fueled this successful partnership—meaning OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier model partner

It also refines and adds new provisions that enable each company to independently continue advancing innovation and growth. As we step into this next chapter of our partnership, both companies are better positioned than ever to continue building great products that meet real-world needs, and create new opportunity for…

Apr 6
05 Research · NIST AI

IRMOF-8: Effect of Partial Charge Method on Adsorption Thermodynamics

Official websites use.gov A.gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Apr 9
06 Apple · Ars Technica

Ternus will also join the company’s board of directors

Cook took the CEO role in 2011, succeeding Steve Jobs. While Apple introduced some notable new products during Cook’s tenure as CEO (such as AirPods), his era was not as known for impactful new product category launches.

Apr 21
20266 stories
01 Anthropic · Ars Technica

Google will invest as much as $40B in Anthropic

Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.

Apr 25
02 Apple · Wired

During Cook’s tenure Apple published both the Apple Watch and AirPods, important anchors for the company’s accessories unit

But some of the projects developed under Cook, such as Apple’s self-driving car, were less successful. Apple Vision Pro, the company’s delayed foray into virtual reality headsets, was widely considered to be too expensive and failed to gain traction.

Apr 21
03 Business · NVIDIA Blog

NVIDIA Rolls out Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Unifying Vision, Audio and Language for up to 9x More Efficient AI Agents

AI agent systems today juggle separate models for vision, speech and language — losing time and context as they pass data from one model to the other.

Apr 29
04 Microsoft · OpenAI

The agreement preserves key elements that have fueled this successful partnership—meaning OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier model partner

It also refines and adds new provisions that enable each company to independently continue advancing innovation and growth. As we step into this next chapter of our partnership, both companies are better positioned than ever to continue building great products that meet real-world needs, and create new opportunity for…

Apr 6
05 Research · NIST AI

IRMOF-8: Effect of Partial Charge Method on Adsorption Thermodynamics

Official websites use.gov A.gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Apr 9
06 Apple · Ars Technica

Ternus will also join the company’s board of directors

Cook took the CEO role in 2011, succeeding Steve Jobs. While Apple introduced some notable new products during Cook’s tenure as CEO (such as AirPods), his era was not as known for impactful new product category launches.

Apr 21