AI News — Friday, April 24, 2026

Claude is connecting directly to your personal apps like Spotify, Uber Eats, and TurboTax

US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.”

Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment

Meta is laying off 10 percent of its staff

Meet Noscroll, an AI bot that does your doomscrolling for you

Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’

Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating

At 'AI Coachella,' Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty

OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficient and better at coding

Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets

Greenhouse gases from data center boom could outpace entire nations

What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity

The Download: introducing the Nature issue

AI Designs Thermoelectric Generators 10,000 Times Faster Than We Can

Will fusion power get cheap? Don’t count on it.

How to Use Transformers.js in a Chrome Extension

Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn't Exist

Anthropic tested removing Claude Code from the Pro plan

5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good

Google unveils two new TPUs designed for the "agentic era"

Gemma 4 VLA Demo on Jetson Orin Nano Super

The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

AI Agent Designs a RISC-V CPU Core From Scratch

AI needs a strong data fabric to deliver business value

QIMMA قِمّة ⛰: A Quality-First Arabic LLM Leaderboard

AI and the Future of Cybersecurity: Why Openness Matters

Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI