Saturday, 4 April 2026
Welcome to today's roundup of the most interesting developments in AI and technology.
Top Stories
Introducing Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.
Read moreClaude Opus 4.6
We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often by wide margin.
Read moreAustralian government and Anthropic sign MOU for AI safety and research
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Read moreAnthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.
Read moreAnthropic ramps up its political activities with a new PAC
With the midterms right around the corner, the new group is positioned to back candidates who support the AI company's policy agenda.
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Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license
Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google's open models in a year.
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Mapping the World's Forests with Greater Precision: Introducing Canopy Height Maps v2
Today, in partnership with the World Resources Institute, we’re announcing Canopy Height Maps v2 (CHMv2): an open source model and world-scale maps...
Read moreIntroducing TRIBE v2: A Predictive Foundation Model Trained to Understand How the Human Brain Processes Complex Stimuli
TRIBE v2 reliably predicts high-resolution fMRI brain activity — enabling zero-shot predictions for new subjects, languages, and tasks — and consistently...
Read moreSAM 3.1: Faster and More Accessible Real-Time Video Detection and Tracking With Multiplexing and Global Reasoning
Update March 27, 2026:
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