The latest AI news we rolled out in April 2026
Here’s a recap of our biggest AI updates from April, including Gemma 4, Deep Research Max and all the big announcements from Cloud Next ‘26.
Top stories of the week, month, and year — ranked by importance, not recency. A permanent record of significant AI news, grouped by time.
Here’s a recap of our biggest AI updates from April, including Gemma 4, Deep Research Max and all the big announcements from Cloud Next ‘26.
WATCH: Musk fires back at OpenAI attorney.
On Monday, Anthropic announced a joint venture focusing on deploying enterprise AI services.
A few years earlier, Sacks had described the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol as an “insurrection” and pronounced Trump “disqualified” from ever again holding national office. “What Trump did was absolutely outrageous, and I think it brought him to an ignominious end in American politics,” he said on the…
The Trump administration is said to be discussing an executive order that would establish a government review process for new AI models before they’re released to the public, The New York Times has reported, citing unnamed U.S. officials.
Two days before the Musk v. Altman trial began, Elon Musk asked OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman about reaching a settlement. When Brockman suggested both sides drop their claims, Musk responded, “By the end of this week, you and Sam [Altman] will be the most hated men in America.
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.
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.
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.
Savitt highlighted Musk's decision to launch xAI, the maker of the chatbot Grok, as a for-profit company. The case, which could have far-reaching implications for the industry, is expected to last several weeks.
That demand is growing quickly. Our strategy has not changed because the reality has not changed: bringing the benefits of AI to more people requires more compute.
“These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare,” the statement reads.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Brian Yu and Ashwin Nathan, Members of the Technical Staff.
Have you ever looked back at your camera roll and wished you had captured a scene slightly differently? Maybe you wish you had caught a bit more of one side of a face, or positioned the camera slightly lower to get the perfect shot.
Amazon is aiming to increase the number of satellites it has in Earth’s low orbit to 3,200 by 2029. Reporting, the company currently operates a network of “ more than 200 ” satellites.
In EMU enterprises, developers often fork organization repositories into their personal namespaces. Push protection now walks the ancestor chain.
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.
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.
We are excited to announce the launch of Personal Intelligence in the Arab world. Personal Intelligence securely connects information from apps like Gmail and Google Photos to make Gemini uniquely helpful.
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…
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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…
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.
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.
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.
Today’s live updates have ended. President Donald Trump said Thursday Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general.
Where you’ll find roadmap updates and opportunities to share feedback.
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.
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)
Following our enterprise-level, user-level, and organization-level CLI metrics releases, we’re completing coverage with per-user CLI breakdowns in organization reports.
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.
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.
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.
“These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare,” the statement reads.
Here’s a recap of our biggest AI updates from April, including Gemma 4, Deep Research Max and all the big announcements from Cloud Next ‘26.
WATCH: Musk fires back at OpenAI attorney.
The Google Research Science team.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Official websites use.gov A.gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Official websites use.gov A.gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
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.