AI News — Thursday, April 30, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
Reid Hoffman Thinks Doctors Should Ask AI for a Second Opinion
SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO
Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending
Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B
Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk
On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Me’
Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark Her Likeness. These TikTok Deepfake Ads Show Why
Google Search queries hit an ‘all time high’ last quarter
OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to "never talk about goblins"
All the evidence unveiled so far in Musk v. Altman
Ubuntu’s AI plans have Linux users looking for a ‘kill switch’
Drone strikes on data centers spook Big Tech, halting Middle East projects
AI evals are becoming the new compute bottleneck
Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built
The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents
Sam Altman is “the face of evil” for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer
Can Biologists Rewrite the Genome’s Spaghetti Code?
It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste
DeepInfra on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes
Humanoid robots start sorting luggage in Tokyo airport test amid labor shortage
Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio and Video Agents
“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”
The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future
Claude Mythos Preview Requires New Ways to Keep Code Secure
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