Monday, 27 April 2026
Welcome to today's roundup of the most interesting developments in AI and technology.
Top Stories
Investors back Skye’s AI home screen app for iPhone ahead of launch
Skye's new AI app attracted investors before it even launched — a sign of interest in a more AI-aware iPhone.
Read moreOpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal
OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, while Microsoft get more cash in a revenue-share agreement.
Read moreDeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data
Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion.
Read moreChina blocks Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months-long probe
China has ordered Meta to unwind its multibillion-dollar Manus acquisition, dealing a potential setback to Zuckerberg’s push into AI agents.
Read moreOpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps
The phone could go into mass production in 2028, an analyst says.
Read moreIntroducing Claude Opus 4.7
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.
Read moreIntroducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.
Read moreClaude is a space to think | Anthropic
We’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a genuinely helpful AI assistant, and how we plan to expand access without compromising user trust.
Read moreAn update on our election safeguards
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Read moreAnthropic and NEC partner to build AI-native engineering at scale in Japan
NEC will deploy Claude to 30,000 employees and become Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner, co-developing AI products for finance, manufacturing, and government
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That's my designer - Claude
and it comes with a new model, Opus 4.7
Read moreChatGPT's Nano Banana
testing popular design tools
Read moreThree reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters
On April 24, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. The model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently. Like DeepSeek’s previous models, V4 is open...
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Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
Today, we’re excited to introduce Muse Spark, the first in the Muse family of models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model with support for tool-use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration.
Read moreRethinking Publication: A Certification Framework for AI-Enabled Research
arXiv:2604.22026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI research pipelines now produce a growing share of publishable academic output, including work that meets existing peer-review standards for quality and novelty. Yet the publication system was built on the assumption of universal human authorship...
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