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20th April 2026 TIL SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette — I've been experimenting with ways to fetch data from Datasette and display it in Google Sheets. I put together some no...
In this tutorial, we build a pipeline on Phi-4-mini to explore how a compact yet highly capable language model can handle a full range of modern LLM workflows within a single notebook. We begin by set...
Merging Language Models with Unsloth Studio Merge LLMs easily with Unsloth Studio's no-code GUI and combine models without retraining. Image by Author # Introduction Merging language models is one of ...
5 Free Ways to Host a Python Application Explore five beginner-friendly platforms that let you host Python apps for free, compare their limits, and pick the right one. Image by Author # Introduction S...
The Download: murderous ‘mirror’ bacteria, and Chinese workers fighting AI doubles Plus: the White House and Anthropic are working toward a compromise. This is today's edition of The Download, our wee...
Anthropic announced on Monday that Amazon has agreed to invest a fresh $5 billion, bringing Amazon’s total investment in the company to $13 billion. Anthropic, for its part, has agreed to spend over $...
Prego, the pasta sauce company, is getting into hardware with a device that sits on your table and records dinner conversations. No, this isn’t April Fools’. The Connection Keeper is a round puck that...
Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back A viral GitHub project that claims to clone coworkers into a reusable AI skill is forcing Chinese tech workers to confront ...
Sometimes, things are not just one thing — they’re also another thing. This sentence construction (“It’s not just this — it’s that”) has become so common in AI-generated writing that now, it’s no long...
Cybersecurity has always had a dual-use problem: the same technical knowledge that helps defenders find vulnerabilities can also help attackers exploit them. For AI systems, that tension is sharper th...
Colossal Biosciences said it cloned red wolves. Is it for real? The red wolf has long been a contentious species. The debate over its preservation got even messier last year, when Colossal said it had...
AI platform, Bobyard, has unveiled Bobyard 2.0, its latest platform update delivering accelerated takeoff workflows and a unified AI workbench, designed to keep pace with the estimators (those respons...
Google builds elite team to close the coding gap with Anthropic Key Points - Google Deepmind has formed a dedicated team to strengthen the coding capabilities of its Gemini models, particularly for co...
Open-weight Kimi K2.6 takes on GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 with agent swarms Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.6 as an open-weight model. It's built to match GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on coding bench...
Salesforce bets on "Agent Albert" to prove AI won't kill enterprise software Key Points - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff pushes back on fears that AI agents will make traditional enterprise software obso...
Google announced Monday that it’s making its Gemini in Chrome feature available in seven new markets, including Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The c...
Adobe fights AI disruption of its own business model with new enterprise agent platform Key Points - Adobe unveiled its "CX Enterprise" platform, which uses AI agents to automate marketing, customer e...
Always-on Ray-Ban Meta glasses powered by OpenClaw speed up everyday tasks in new study A research team developed an OpenClaw agent for smart glasses to find out how continuously perceiving AI changes...
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19th April 2026 - Link Blog Headless everything for personal AI. Matt Webb thinks headless services are about to become much more common: Why? Because using personal AIs is a better experience for use...
Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it called a “brief” 22-point summary of CEO Alex Karp’s book “The Technological Republic.” Written by Karp and Palantir’s head of corpo...
First token counts reveal Opus 4.7 costs significantly more than 4.6 despite Anthropic's flat pricing Anthropic's Opus 4.7 carries the same sticker price as 4.6, but it burns through noticeably more t...
Anthropic's revenue surge reportedly fuels talk of trillion-dollar valuation Anthropic has dramatically accelerated its revenue growth. According to The Information, the company's annualized revenue t...
Even the best AI models lose about half their performance when charts get complicated, new benchmark finds The RealChart2Code benchmark puts 14 leading AI models to the test on complex visualizations ...
Quantum computing has spent years living in the future tense. Hardware has improved, research has compounded, and venture dollars have followed — but the gap between a quantum processor running in a l...
Tabular data—structured information stored in rows and columns—is at the heart of most real-world machine learning problems, from healthcare records to financial transactions. Over the years, models b...
In this tutorial, we build a workflow that combines Magika’s deep-learning-based file type detection with OpenAI’s language intelligence to create a practical and insightful analysis pipeline. We begi...
Google launches generative UI standard for AI agents Google has released A2UI version 0.9, a framework-agnostic standard for generative user interfaces. The protocol lets AI agents build UI elements o...
In a recent episode of “No Priors” — the excellent podcast co-hosted by AI investors Sarah Guo and Elad Gil — Gil made a point about exit timing that’s undoubtedly familiar to founders who’ve spent ti...
For years, the way large language models handle inference has been stuck inside a box — literally. The high-bandwidth RDMA networks that make modern LLM serving work have confined both prefill and dec...
20th April 2026 - Link Blog Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons. I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to comp...
Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” In 2026, though, no blood is required. All you do is sit down at a laptop an...
Some OpenAI shareholders reportedly question whether Altman can steer the company to a public offering OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly facing internal pushback as the company heads toward its IPO....
In this tutorial, we explore how to run OpenAI’s open-weight GPT-OSS models in Google Colab with a strong focus on their technical behavior, deployment requirements, and practical inference workflows....
If you have ever stared at thousands of lines of integration test logs wondering which of the sixteen log files actually contains your bug, you are not alone — and Google now has data to prove it. A t...
Tesla is expanding its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, according to a social media post from the company. The post says simply that “Robotaxi is now rolling out in Dallas & Houston 🤠” and incl...
Deepseek reportedly seeks outside funding for the first time at $10 billion valuation Deepseek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, aiming for at least $300 million at a valuation ...
Zuckerberg reportedly trades headcount for compute as Meta readies to cut 10 percent of its workforce to fund AI infrastructure Meta is preparing major layoffs to offset soaring AI costs. Reuters sour...
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. According to a new analysis from market intelligence provider Appfigures, worldwide app releases in the first quarter of 2026 w...
Planning a big night out at Madison Square Garden? Have fun—but don’t say we didn’t warn you. A WIRED investigation this week revealed new details about the private surveillance state instituted by MS...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says APIs are the new UI for AI agents Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says the API is the new UI. With "Headless 360", the company is opening up its entire platform, including...
Guides > Agentic Engineering Patterns Adding a new content type to my blog-to-newsletter tool Here's an example of a deceptively short prompt that got a quite a lot of work done in a single shot. Firs...
Just ten minutes of using AI as an answer machine can measurably erode problem-solving skills, new study finds Just 10 to 15 minutes with an AI assistant is enough to measurably weaken problem-solving...
Samuel Beek knew he had a problem when he blew every fuse in his house. The culprit was an electric door opener he had built himself, guided by instructions for wiring and piecing together a device dr...
Cerebras Systems, a startup building what CEO Andrew Feldman describes as “the fastest AI hardware for training and inference,” has filed to go public. The company previously filed for an initial publ...
Anthropic CEO Amodei declares "there is no end to the rainbow" for AI scaling Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks the scaling of large AI models still has plenty of room to run. "There's no end to the r...
The promise of physical AI is that engineers will be able to program physical agents the same way they do digital ones. We’re not there yet. Robotics is still held back by a paucity of data from physi...
Table of contents What Is AI Red Teaming? AI Red Teaming is the process of systematically testing artificial intelligence systems—especially generative AI and machine learning models—against adversari...
Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach—we have new AI and security tracks this year 17th April 2026 This year’s PyCon US is coming up next month from May 13th to May 19th, with the core conference tal...
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a reasoning model built for life sciences research Key Points - OpenAI has introduced GPT-Rosalind, a reasoning model built for life sciences research that assists with t...
Physical Intelligence shows robot model with LLM-like generalization, flaws included US start-up Physical Intelligence has introduced π0.7, a new robot foundation model designed to recombine skills le...
AI coding startup Cursor is nearing new funding in which the four-year-old company would raise at least $2 billion in fresh capital, according to four sources familiar with the matter. Returning inves...
The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion Plus: Despite blacklisting Anthropic, the White House wants its new model. This is today's edition of The Download, our w...
How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build...
The case for fixing everything A new book by Stewart Brand, an architect of modern tech culture, asks: How do we prioritize maintenance? And why? But it doesn’t quite have the answers. The handsome ne...
17th April 2026 I was upgrading Datasette Cloud to 1.0a27 and discovered a nasty collection of accidental breakages caused by changes in that alpha. This new alpha addresses those directly: - Fixed a ...
Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer, resigned from the board of interface design company Figma on April 14. His departure was disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by th...
Nvidia wants to scale robot simulation training with Lyra 2.0 Key Points - Nvidia researchers present Lyra 2.0, a system that generates coherent 3D environments with an extension of up to 90 meters fr...
Training and Finetuning Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers As a practical example, I'll walk through finetuning Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B for Visual Document Retrieval ...
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman will head to trial this month in an Oakland, California, federal courtroom, where nine jurors will settle a years-long dispute between the cofounders of OpenAI o...
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 makes a big leap in coding, while deliberately scaling back cyber capabilities Key Points - Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, which delivers a major jump in autonomou...
Sponsored Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments Purpose-built small language models provide a practical solution for government organizations to operationalize AI with the se...
More than three years after the emergence of generative AI, AI-assisted coding remains by far the most popular and lucrative use case for the technology. Although multiple companies — including Anthro...
The quest to measure our relationship with nature The United Nations wants to know what country works best with the natural world. That’s tough to measure. As a movement, environmentalism has been pre...
Speech-to-text capability is now baked into all modern computers. But what if you didn’t have to dictate to your computer? What if you could type just by thinking? Silicon Valley startup Sabi is emerg...
The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles Plus: Ukraine says Russian troops have surrendered to robots. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter...
Cloud migration becomes much harder when teams are not moving workloads, but also trying to make every environment reproducible and deployment-ready through Infrastructure as Code. The challenge is no...
Bytedance rolls out Seedance 2.0 to 100+ countries but keeps the US off the list Bytedance's cloud division, Byteplus, has made its AI video generation model, Seedance 2.0, available to business custo...
Meta is raising the prices of its virtual reality headsets due to the rising cost of memory chips, the company announced on Thursday. Starting April 19, the price of the Meta Quest 3S (128GB) and Meta...
Cristóbal Valenzuela, the co-founder and CEO of AI video-generation startup Runway, now valued at north of $5 billion, may not be winning over more hearts and minds in the anti-AI, creative crowd with...
Sponsored Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer The organizations most likely to shape the enterprise AI era are those that can embed intelligence directly into operational platforms. Provided ...
Roblox is introducing new agentic features to help developers plan, build, and test games on its platform, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. Roblox is revamping Roblox Assistant, its plain-lang...
Anthropic is moving into a new London office as it seeks to expand its research and commercial footprint in Europe, setting up a scrap between the leading AI labs for talent emerging from British univ...
DeepL, a translation company best known for its text tools, released a voice-to-voice translation suite today that covers use cases like meetings, mobile and web conversations, and group conversations...
Drug discovery is one of the most expensive and time-consuming endeavors in human history. It takes roughly 10 to 15 years to go from target discovery to regulatory approval for a new drug in the Unit...
The role of observability tools has evolved once again. While the market for solutions to ensure tech systems’ reliability has grown over the years, the center of gravity has steadily shifted from “tr...
15th April 2026 This plugin was using the ds_csrftoken cookie as part of a custom signed URL, which needed upgrading now that Datasette 1.0a27 no longer sets that cookie. Recent articles - Meta's new ...
After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D’Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system: People who felt harmed by coverage had little recourse to figh...
When Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc got COVID despite being vaccinated and boosted, he tried to fund research for a better solution. What he quickly found out? You can’t just write a ch...
Since its launch in 2021, Gizmo, an AI-powered learning platform that transforms students’ notes into interactive study materials, has attracted more than 13 million users across over 120 countries. T...
LinkedIn’s Blake Lawit, the chief global affairs and legal officer of the Microsoft-owned professional networking site, confirmed in an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week that the...
Singapore-based DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to be called GEODASH Aerosystems, to build an agricultural spraying drone for large industrial farms. The companies say t...
Meet HoloTab by HCompany. Your AI browser companion. We built one of the most powerful computer-use AIs in the world. And made it directly accessible from your browser. On March 31st, we released Holo...
After selling its shoe brand and assets last month for $39 million, Allbirds is pivoting to AI. Of course, the company is also changing its name, since the footwear brand “Allbirds” was part of the sa...
Inside VAKRA: Reasoning, Tool Use, and Failure Modes of Agents VAKRA Dataset | LeaderBoard | Release Blog | GitHub | Submit to Leaderboard We recently introduced VAKRA, a tool-grounded, executable ben...
It usually starts with a photo downloaded from social media. Around the world, teenage boys are saving Instagram and Snapchat images of girls they know from school and using harmful “nudify” apps to c...
“Give me tokens. Just give me tokens. I want them fast. I want them cheap. I want them now.” That’s the mantra for developers building software on generative AI models, or at least what Parasail CEO M...
Sponsored Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX Reimagining data consent as an ongoing relationship rather than a one-time compliance concern. In partnership withUsercentrics The practice o...
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s introducing a native Gemini app for Mac, catching up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have had Mac apps for quite some time. “Now, you can bring up Ge...
No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated. For four days in February 201...
Historically, marketers relied on designers and other creative professionals to develop images and videos for personalized online ad campaigns. In late 2024, seven-year-old startup Hightouch launched ...
Agentic AI is the tech industry’s newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises the tools they need to create these automated little helpers. To that end...
Last October, Adobe previewed a new assistant under the “Project Moonlight” moniker that could do tasks for you by tapping different Adobe apps like Acrobat, Photoshop, and Express. That product is no...
A vibe-coding application creation company, Emergent, has released Wingman, an autonomous agent that can address and take control of the applications used to manage daily tasks. The company’s press re...
The assumption that the US holds a durable lead in AI model performance is not well-supported by the data, and that is just one of the uncomfortable findings in Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index Rep...
On April 7, Allbirds sent out a press release celebrating its new “canvas cruiser” collection and a partnership with Pantone, the color company. One week later, on April 15, Allbirds sent out a press ...
15th April 2026 The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to...
Ukraine captures a Russian position using only drones and ground robots Key Points - For the first time in the war, the Ukrainian military has captured a Russian position using only ground robots and ...
Collaborative AI Systems: Human-AI Teaming Workflows Everyone says they're "collaborating" with AI. Most are just giving orders and accepting whatever comes back. Image by Author # Introduction When w...
NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work? The agency wants to fly it to Mars by the end of 2028. Experts say that’s … ambitious. MIT Technology Re...