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2026-04-22Model Launch

OpenAI releases next-generation GPT

Native 1M-token context and a 40% drop in inference cost; enterprise API preview opens today.

2026-04-20Funding

Anthropic closes $20B round

Valuation hits $300B, led by sovereign wealth funds; proceeds will fund compute and alignment research.

2026-04-18Open Source

DeepSeek R2 weights released

Matches closed frontier models on GSM8K and HumanEval; over a million downloads on Hugging Face within 24 hours.

2026-04-15Product

Cursor 3.0 ships deep Agent Mode

End-to-end task automation; SWE-Bench pass rate climbs to 78%.

2026-04-12M&A

NVIDIA acquires robotics-learning startup

Reported $4.5B deal strengthens NVIDIA's embodied-intelligence portfolio.

2026-04-10Academia

Turing Award goes to RL pioneers

ACM announces Richard Sutton, Andrew Barto, and a third recipient as the 2026 Turing Award laureates.

2026-04-05People

Top researchers join SSI

Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence expands its bench to focus on superintelligence alignment.