Archive: April 2026

The expansion of Amazon Bedrock’s ecosystem reflects its growing popularity, with the service recording a 4.7x increase in its customer base over the last year. Industry leaders like Adobe, BMW, Zendesk, and Tenovos have all embraced AWS’s latest innovations to improve their generative AI capabilities. Most of the newly announced tools – such as inference management, Knowledge Bases with structured data retrieval, and GraphRAG – are currently in preview, w

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Donald Trump was supposed to sign an executive order on Thursday that would have created a voluntary framework for frontier AI companies to have their models reviewed by the federal government for security risks before being made available publicly, according to Alex Heath. It was reportedly canceled because tech execs couldn’t get to D.C. fast enough for the photo op—though Trump claimed that it was because he “didn’t like certain aspects of it” and doesn

Create a watch on this topic Receive upcoming developments, with an AI watch set up from this article. Create my free watch Summed up by Washington to restrict access to its most advanced models for foreign nationals, Anthropic has disabled them for all its customers. The first known application of export control to a large language model, the incident turned into a public showdown and reignited, in Europe, the debate on technological dependency. It is an

Chinese spies impersonate White House, Anthropic figures to phish AI policy experts A China-aligned espionage group has been posing as a former White House official and a prominent economist to get into the cloud accounts of AI policy experts in the US, Proofpoint have found. The group, which the researchers track as TA419, ran several credential phishing campaigns in July 2026. “In July 2026, TA419 impersonated multiple individuals, including a former mem

Credit: Markus Spiske from Pexels There is a growing and urgent need to address global food insecurity. This urgency is underscored by reports from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which states that nearly 828 million people suffer from hunger worldwide. Climate change is further escalating these issues, disrupting traditional farming systems and emphasizing the need for smarter, resource-efficient solutions. But imagine a futur

OpenAI OpenAI has officially unveiled its latest text-to-video and audio AI generator, Sora 2. So far, we’re not quite convinced by the company’s marketing efforts. In an unsettling promotional clip, an algorithmically synthesized version of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, announces the company’s answer to Meta’s Vibes app — a TikTok-like experience designed to expose users to an endless deluge of AI slop. The issue? The AI-generated Altman suffers from chronic

Credit: Journal of Hazardous Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.138735 Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine poses serious environmental and health risks due to its long half-life (15.7 million years in the case of I-129), high mobility, and toxicity to living organisms. A Korean research team has successfully used artificial intelligence to discover a new materia

In case you missed it, OpenAI’s latest video generating tool Sora 2 launched earlier this week, and instantly did gangbusters at the slop office. Users gleefully rushed to generate loads of feverish clips that place OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in all sorts of absurd scenarios — which we covered extensively in another blog — and with such ferocity that they’ve basically taken over AI corners of social media. And so rather than demonstrating a tool that will revol

TikTok / Futurism OpenAI’s recent launch of its text-to-video AI generator app, Sora 2, has already led to an enormous tidal wave of AI slop hitting internet feeds. The company made the eyebrow-raising decision of putting deepfakes front and center of the app’s TikTok-like experience, inviting users to offer themselves up for “cameos” created by other users. “With cameos, you can drop yourself straight into any Sora scene with remarkable fidelity after a s

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and cognition no other animal has displayed. AI chatbots can analyze sentences like a trained linguist, new UC Berkeley research shows, providing a glimpse into how AI models are improving while also challenging the idea that humans are unique in our ability to think about language. AI platforms like ChatGP

Joe Maher/Getty Images For Fane Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is publicly calling on the government to break up ChatGPT maker OpenAI. When Axios asked him whether the Sam Altman-led company should be broken up, he responded with “I do.” “We need to take a deep breath and understand it’s like a meteor coming,” he told the publication in an interview last week. “We’ve got to be prepared to deal with all of its complexity.” To be clear, the idea is a serious

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins. Source: Getty Images Last week, the embattled chatbot platform Character.AI said that it would move to ban minors from conversing with its many thousands of AI companion and roleplay bots. Site users, including self-avowed minors and adults alike, have a lot of thoughts. The policy change, announced last week, comes as the controversial AI company continues to battle multiple lawsuits alleging that interactions with its

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Since the dawn of the new millennium, there have been at most several thousand startup tech companies across the U.S. that have achieved unicorn status—crossing the $1 billion valuation. Eric Lefkofsky, 55, the Chicago-based serial entrepreneur best known for co-founding online daily deals site Groupon, has given rise to six of them, evolving from discount coupons for pedicures to potentially lifesaving cancer treatments

Credit: Tim Gouw from Pexels Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how companies set prices—but experts warn algorithm-driven personalized pricing risks alienating consumers and inviting regulatory backlash. Picture this: you're searching Google Flights for a round trip from Sydney to New York. You spot a decent price on one website, and then, just out of curiosity, you click on a business class fare to compare the prices. When you return later with