Sunday, 5 April 2026
Welcome to today's roundup of the most interesting developments in AI and technology.
Top Stories
Can orbital data centers help justify a massive valuation for SpaceX?
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk's vision for data centers in space.
Read moreIntroducing 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.
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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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