The AI model race is over. Most people won’t realize it for another six months. Stanford’s 2026 AI Index published the numbers two weeks ago. Arena Elo ratings across every major lab: Anthropic 1,503. xAI 1,495. Google 1,494. OpenAI 1,481. Alibaba 1,449. DeepSeek 1,424.
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Samsung Smart Glasses, Spotify Fitness, and Tech Policy Updates
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Top stories in tech today: – Samsung’s Meta-rival smart glasses leak
– Spotify is now a fitness app
– Australia slaps Big Tech with journalism tax
– SpaceX, Anduril win Golden Dome contracts
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Codex-Max Controversy: What Happened and Why It Matters
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Are we going to pretend like the while 'Codex-Max' thing never happened?
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Meta Ad Performance Issues: Strategies for Campaign Relaunches
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Same here. For the accounts seeing the degraded performance the hit rate is near 0. We keep notes and just plan to relaunch when things improve whenever Meta figures out the issues
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Google’s Pentagon deal raises autonomous weapons and surveillance concerns
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Google’s Pentagon deal seems to allow for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
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Microsoft Releases TRELLIS.2: Open-Source Image-to-3D Model
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Microsoft Presents "TRELLIS.2": An Open-Source, 4B-Parameter, Image-to-3D Model producing up to 1536³ PBR textured assets.
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 28 avril 2026
Built On Native 3D VAES With 16× Spatial compression, delivering efficient, scalable, high-fidelity asset generation.
Ngl, pretty cool! pic.twitter.com/p2sGxFm616Microsoft Presents "TRELLIS.2": An Open-Source, 4B-Parameter, Image-to-3D Model producing up to 1536³ PBR textured assets. Built On Native 3D VAES With 16× Spatial compression, delivering efficient, scalable, high-fidelity asset generation. Ngl, pretty cool!
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Ati Motors Unveils Sherpa Mecha Humanoid Industrial Robot
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Ati Motors Unveils “Sherpa Mecha”: A Humanoid-Inspired Industrial #Robot
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 28 avril 2026
by @CyberRobooo#AI #Robotics #RPA #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology pic.twitter.com/RXxPX2kW6VAti Motors Unveils “Sherpa Mecha”: A Humanoid-Inspired Industrial #Robot
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Google Partners Pentagon AI Models Despite Employee Protests
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Google just signed a deal letting the Pentagon use its AI models for classified work and "any lawful government purpose." This comes despite over 600 employees urging CEO Sundar Pichai to reject the agreement, and marks a dramatic reversal from 2018 when Google pulled out of
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AI Giants Make Major Moves: OpenAI, Meta Deals, ChatGPT Agents
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Top stories in AI today: – OpenAI rewrites Microsoft deal, removes AGI clause
– Beijing blocks Meta's $2B Manus deal
– Set up AI teammates with ChatGPT Workspace Agents
– AlphaGo creator’s new $1.1B 'superlearner' lab
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Google Cloud AI Hub launched in Visakhapatnam with $15B investment
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AI Patnam is born! With a $15B investment and a 1 GW hyperscale data centre, “AI Patnam” will drive innovation across sectors—from healthcare to defence. Union Minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw just presided over the groundbreaking of the Google Cloud AI Hub in Visakhapatnam.