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Cal.com OSS project goes closed source due to AI

Ryan Mather: My tips for getting the best results out of Claude Design

Show HN: Mind-OS – First free online AI dependency self‑assessment

Chinese groups call for global AI governance framework – Chinadaily.com.cn

Logfare.ai – Free LLM Inference. No Auth. No Limits

Beyond the Hype: Practical and Responsible Use Cases for Agentic AI Webinar

OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as part of an effort to avoid "side quests," and...

Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab

We built AI Subroutines in rtrvr.ai. Record a browser task once, save it as a callable tool, replay it at: zero token cost, zero LLM inference delay, and zero mistakes.The subroutine itself is a deterministic script composed of discovered network...

Stitch – Google's AI design tool

Show HN: Realtime Voice AI on ESP32 with Cloudflare Durable Objects

Cloudflare's recent voice agents release provides a free daily tier for Deepgram STT, TTS use.So I created a Voice AI Agent pipeline that runs on Cloudflare workers with Durable Objects and it interfaces with an Arduino ESP32. This lets you bring...

Should you stare into Sam Altman’s orb before your next date?

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman,...

Change management problem rarely mentioned when pushing AI to engineering teams

Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be...

Stalwart-Sentinel – A physics-based logic gate to stop AI hallucinations

Show HN: Agents.ml – a public identity page and A2A card for your AI agent

How to Build Advanced Generative AI Agents (Kinda)

OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company

The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.

Prolonged AI use can be hazardous to your health and work: 4 ways to stay safe

AI is a great tool for small, well-defined tasks, but maintain a healthy skepticism and avoid falling down a rabbit hole.

This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry

I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably lo-fi. If I saw it on a store shelf, I'd...

Building a Fast Multilingual OCR Model with Synthetic Data

Building a Fast Multilingual OCR Model with Synthetic Data (via Hugging Face Blog)

Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "encourage customers to add more food to their...

AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.

7 ways to travel smarter this summer, with help from Google

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Summer_Travel_Tips_2026_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">The latest tools from Google can help you plan trips, find a great deal and explore your next destination.

The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap

In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a bunch of things this week that made us wonder:...

The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.”...

I tried the new Gemini app for Mac - it has one major advantage over the web version

Beyond being quick and convenient, Google's Gemini app can access and analyze the content in any window you share from your Mac desktop - and it's a big deal.

NuHF Claw: A Risk Constrained Cognitive Agent Framework for Human Centered Procedure Support in Digital Nuclear Control Rooms

arXiv:2604.14160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid digitization of nuclear power plant main control rooms has fundamentally reshaped operator interaction patterns, introducing complex soft-control behaviors and elevated cognitive risks that...

Simulating Human Cognition: Heartbeat-Driven Autonomous Thinking Activity Scheduling for LLM-based AI systems

arXiv:2604.14178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and tool use, yet they often suffer from rigid, reactive control flows that limit their adaptability and...

Fun-TSG: A Function-Driven Multivariate Time Series Generator with Variable-Level Anomaly Labeling

arXiv:2604.14221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable evaluation of anomaly detection methods in multivariate time series remains an open challenge, largely due to the limitations of existing benchmark datasets. Current resources often lack...

Interpretable and Explainable Surrogate Modeling for Simulations: A State-of-the-Art Survey and Perspectives on Explainable AI for Decision-Making

arXiv:2604.14240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The simulation of complex systems increasingly relies on sophisticated but fundamentally opaque computational black-box simulators. Surrogate models play a central role in reducing the computational...

Formalizing Kantian Ethics: Formula of the Universal Law Logic (FULL)

arXiv:2604.14254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The field of machine ethics aims to build Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs) to better understand morality and make AI agents safer. To do so, many approaches encode human moral intuition as a set of...

GFT: From Imitation to Reward Fine-Tuning with Unbiased Group Advantages and Dynamic Coefficient Rectification

arXiv:2604.14258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are typically post-trained using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL), yet effectively unifying efficient knowledge injection with robust generalization...

Seeing Through Experts Eyes A Foundational Vision Language Model Trained on Radiologists Gaze and Reasoning

arXiv:2604.14316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large scale vision language models have shown promise in automating chest Xray interpretation, yet their clinical utility remains limited by a gap between model outputs and radiologist reasoning. Most...

Mistake gating leads to energy and memory efficient continual learning

arXiv:2604.14336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synaptic plasticity is metabolically expensive, yet animals continuously update their internal models without exhausting energy reserves. However, when artificial neural networks are trained, the...

Credo: Declarative Control of LLM Pipelines via Beliefs and Policies

arXiv:2604.14401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems are becoming commonplace in domains that require long-lived, stateful decision-making in continuously evolving conditions. As such, correctness depends not only on the output of...

Equifinality in Mixture of Experts: Routing Topology Does Not Determine Language Modeling Quality

arXiv:2604.14419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures employ increasingly sophisticated routing mechanisms -- learned routers, multi-hop trajectories, token-dependent gating. We ask: does routing topology...

Demonstration of Pneuma-Seeker: Agentic System for Reifying and Fulfilling Information Needs on Tabular Data

arXiv:2604.14422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data analysts working with relational data often start with vague or underspecified questions and refine them iteratively as they explore the data. To support this iterative process, we demonstrate...

Geometric Routing Enables Causal Expert Control in Mixture of Experts

arXiv:2604.14434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models scale parameters while fixing active computation per token, but the specialization of individual experts remains opaque. In a companion paper we showed that...

On Tackling Complex Tasks with Reward Machines and Signal Temporal Logics

arXiv:2604.14440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based control design framework for handling complex tasks. The approach extends the concept of Reward Machines (RM) with Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formulas...

AIBuildAI: An AI Agent for Automatically Building AI Models

arXiv:2604.14455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI models underpin modern intelligent systems, driving advances across science, medicine, finance, and technology. Yet developing high-performing AI models remains a labor-intensive process that...

Improving Human Performance with Value-Aware Interventions: A Case Study in Chess

arXiv:2604.14465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are increasingly used to assist humans in sequential decision-making tasks, yet determining when and how an AI assistant should intervene remains a fundamental challenge. A potential...

AI-powered website builders have come a long way - here's your best option in 2026

Last year, the best we could say about AI website builders is they had potential. This year, we found some that can actually do the job.

Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI’s Soul

In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. Here’s what to know.

The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund

In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups.

A new way to explore the web with AI Mode in Chrome

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/AI_Mode_in_Chrome_-_Blog_header.png">Today’s upgrades for AI Mode in Chrome transform how you interact with the web

OpenAI’s big Codex update is a direct shot at Claude Code

OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system, Codex, with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. The package of updates comes as OpenAI's rivalry with Anthropic...

Google’s AI Mode update lets you open links without leaving the page

Google is upgrading AI Mode in Chrome with a new feature that will allow you to open links to sources alongside your chat. Now, instead of automatically opening a new tab, clicking a source will open the website side by side with AI Mode, allowing...

Google's AI Mode Update Tries to Kill Tab Hopping in Chrome

Google latest update to AI Mode in its Chrome browser is designed to keep the chatbot-style search tool always around once you start an online search journey.

New ways to create personalized images in the Gemini app

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Blog_post_header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Nano Banana 2 now uses your personal context and Google Photos to create images that reflect your unique life.

Gemini can now pull from Google Photos to generate personalized images

Google's Personal Intelligence feature, which lets Gemini pull data from apps like Google Photos to offer responses tailored to you, can now use that data and its Nano Banana 2 image model to create images based on your personal context. With the...

Anthropic releases a new Opus model amid Mythos Preview buzz

Anthropic has released its most powerful "generally available" model to date: Claude Opus 4.7. The company called it a step up from Opus 4.6 for advanced software engineering tasks, particularly in complex coding areas that in the past required more...

Anthropic Plots Major London Expansion

As tensions with the US government mount, Anthropic has leased a new office with enough space to quadruple its 200-person head count in London.

No Need for Space Gear — Capcom’s ‘PRAGMATA’ Joins GeForce NOW on Launch Day

Head straight for orbit with GeForce NOW — no space helmet required. PRAGMATA, Capcom’s long-awaited sci-fi action adventure, touches down on GeForce NOW the same day it launches worldwide. The futuristic journey through a cold lunar station in the...

Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments

The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart...

Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer

There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in...

Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion

The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than ever before in the current conflict with Iran. AI...

Ecom-RLVE: Adaptive Verifiable Environments for E-Commerce Conversational Agents

Ecom-RLVE: Adaptive Verifiable Environments for E-Commerce Conversational Agents (via Hugging Face Blog)

The PR you would have opened yourself

The PR you would have opened yourself (via Hugging Face Blog)

Training and Finetuning Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers

Training and Finetuning Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers (via Hugging Face Blog)

AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources

AI is making it easier to design chips and optimize software for different silicon. Some startups envision a revolution in chipmaking.

Rethinking AI TCO: Why Cost per Token Is the Only Metric That Matters

Traditional data centers only stored, retrieved and processed data. In the generative and agentic AI era, these facilities have evolved into AI token factories. With AI inference becoming their primary workload, their primary output is intelligence...

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gemini-3.1-flash-tts_blog_keywo.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS is now available across Google products.

Allbirds Is Pivoting to AI Compute. Sure, Why Not

Once a $4 billion apparel juggernaut, Allbirds will rebrand as NewBird AI, a “GPU-as-a-Service” company. Hey, if you can't beat ’em, join ’em.

New Adobe Premiere Color Grading Mode Accelerated on NVIDIA GPUs

The NAB Show 2026 trade show, running April 18-22 in Las Vegas, is set to showcase a wave of new features and optimizations for top video editing applications. Bringing together over 60,000 content professionals from across the broadcast and media...

Inside VAKRA: Reasoning, Tool Use, and Failure Modes of Agents

Inside VAKRA: Reasoning, Tool Use, and Failure Modes of Agents (via Hugging Face Blog)

Meet HoloTab by HCompany. Your AI browser companion.

Meet HoloTab by HCompany. Your AI browser companion. (via Hugging Face Blog)

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/GoogleChrome_RR_Skills_KeywordH.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Skills in Chrome let you discover, save and remix AI workflows — and repeat them instantly.

Bringing people together at AI for the Economy Forum

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI_for_the_Economy_Forum_2026.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google is bringing people together in Washington D.C. at our AI for the Economy Forum.

National Robotics Week — Latest Physical AI Research, Breakthroughs and Resources

This National Robotics Week, NVIDIA is highlighting the breakthroughs that are bringing AI into the physical world — as well as the growing wave of robots transforming industries, from agricultural and manufacturing to energy and beyond....

Strength and Destiny Collide: ‘Samson: A Tyndalston Story’ Arrives in the Cloud

A timeless story of grit, faith and rebellion takes center stage as Samson: A Tyndalston Story joins the GeForce NOW library today. The highly anticipated release from Liquid Swords can now be streamed on nearly any device with GeForce NOW bringing...

Waypoint-1.5: Higher-Fidelity Interactive Worlds for Everyday GPUs

Waypoint-1.5: Higher-Fidelity Interactive Worlds for Everyday GPUs (via Hugging Face Blog)

Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers

Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers (via Hugging Face Blog)

Safetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation

Safetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation (via Hugging Face Blog)

OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.

From RTX to Spark: NVIDIA Accelerates Gemma 4 for Local Agentic AI

Open models are driving a new wave of on-device AI, extending innovation beyond the cloud to everyday devices. As these models advance, their value increasingly depends on access to local, real-time context that can turn meaningful insights into...

New ways to balance cost and reliability in the Gemini API

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/cost_reliability_Gemini_API-soc.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google is introducing two new inference tiers to the Gemini API, Flex and Priority, to balance cost and latency.

Create, edit and share videos at no cost in Google Vids

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Createeditandshare_Google_Vids_.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">New AI capabilities are coming to Google Vids, powered by Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1, like high-quality video generation...

Press Start on April: GeForce NOW Brings 10 Games to the Cloud

No joke — GFN Thursday is skipping the tricks and heading straight into the games. April kicks off with ten new titles, bringing fresh adventures to GeForce NOW, including the launch of Capcom’s highly anticipated PRAGMATA. A dozen new games are...

Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device

Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device (via Hugging Face Blog)

We’re creating a new satellite imagery map to help protect Brazil’s forests.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/bfc_keyword_before_after_white_.max-600x600.format-webp_QNQ8psB.webp">Google partnered with the Brazilian government on a satellite imagery map to help protect the country’s...

The latest AI news we announced in March 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/March_2026_AI_Recap_social_hvvl.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are Google’s latest AI updates from March 2026

Falcon Perception

Falcon Perception (via Hugging Face Blog)

Any Custom Frontend with Gradio's Backend

Any Custom Frontend with Gradio's Backend (via Hugging Face Blog)

Build with Veo 3.1 Lite, our most cost-effective video generation model

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/veo31lite.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Veo 3.1 Lite is now available in paid preview through the Gemini API and for testing in Google AI Studio.

Granite 4.0 3B Vision: Compact Multimodal Intelligence for Enterprise Documents

Granite 4.0 3B Vision: Compact Multimodal Intelligence for Enterprise Documents (via Hugging Face Blog)

Efficiency at Scale: NVIDIA, Energy Leaders Accelerating Power‑Flexible AI Factories to Fortify the Grid

CERAWeek — dubbed the Davos of energy — is where policymakers, producers, technologists and financiers gather to discuss how the world powers itself next. NVIDIA and Emerald AI unveiled at the conference last week a new way forward — treating AI...

Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165

Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165 (via Hugging Face Blog)

TRL v1.0: Post-Training Library Built to Move with the Field

TRL v1.0: Post-Training Library Built to Move with the Field (via Hugging Face Blog)

Watch James Manyika talk AI and creativity with LL COOL J.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Approved_thumbnail_with_logo.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">In the latest episode of our Dialogues on Technology and Society series, LL COOL J sits down with James Manyika.

Transform your headphones into a live personal translator on iOS.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Static-InterstitialscreenJapane.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google Translate’s Live translate with headphones is officially arriving on iOS! And we're expanding the...

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gemini-3.1-flash-live_blog_head.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is now available across Google products.

Into the Omniverse: NVIDIA GTC Showcases Virtual Worlds Powering the Physical AI Era

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse. NVIDIA GTC last week showcased a...

Search Live is expanding globally

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Search_Live_blog_header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re expanding Search Live globally, to all languages and locations where AI Mode is available.

Game On: Five New Titles Now Streaming on GeForce NOW

That gaming backlog won’t clear itself — GeForce NOW is here to help. Stream the latest titles straight from the cloud across a variety of devices. This week, five new titles are ready to play instantly in the cloud gaming platform’s library....

The Future of AI Is Open and Proprietary

AI is the defining technology of our time, quickly becoming core business infrastructure. It’s fueled by a diverse ecosystem of models: large and small, open and proprietary, generalist and specialist. This variety is essential for a future where...

Blowing Off Steam: How Power-Flexible AI Factories Can Stabilize the Global Energy Grid

At the half-time whistle of the UEFA EURO 2020 round of 16 football match between England and Germany, millions of viewers stepped away from their screens in the U.K. to do the same thing at the same time — turn on their kettles. National Grid,...

Advancing Open Source AI, NVIDIA Donates Dynamic Resource Allocation Driver for GPUs to Kubernetes Community

Artificial intelligence has rapidly emerged as one of the most critical workloads in modern computing. For the vast majority of enterprises, this workload runs on Kubernetes, an open source platform that automates the deployment, scaling and...

How Autonomous AI Agents Become Secure by Design With NVIDIA OpenShell

Autonomous agents mark a new inflection point in AI. Systems are no longer limited to generating responses or reasoning through tasks. They can take action: Agents can read files, use tools, write and run code, and execute workflows across...