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Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 Google Mobile AI Chrome

Sources: Upscale AI, which builds AI networking infrastructure, is in talks to raise $180M to $200M at a $2B valuation, its third funding round in seven months (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17 AI

AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-17 Startup AI Slack

OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen (www.axios.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Google, Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-17 Google AI Pentagon

Memo: the White House notified Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17

OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI “doomers” and says “when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences” (sfstandard.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Add Azure Architect & Administrator skills to your resume for $40 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17

IPv6 Usage Reaches Historic 50% Across Google Services (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-17 Google

The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together (www.wired.com)
2026-4-17 Startup AI

DeepL, best known for its text translation tools, launches DeepL Voice-to-Voice, which enables real-time spoken translation, with add-ons for services like Zoom (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17

OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more (www.zdnet.com)
2026-4-17 Browser

Drift Protocol secures $147.5M in funding, including $127.5M from Tether, to replace Circle stablecoin with USDT after a $270M exploit linked to North Korea (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-17 Korea

Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 Google AI

Hackers exploit Marimo flaw to deploy NKAbuse malware from Hugging Face (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17

Anthropic Rolls Out Claude Opus 4.7, an AI Model That Is Less Risky Than Mythos (slashdot.org)
2026-4-17 AI

The US DOJ says a judge sentenced two US citizens to a combined 16 years in prison for running laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US workers (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-4-17 Korea

Solidroad, which uses AI to evaluate customer interactions with human and AI agents to find risk, skill gaps, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Hedosophia (siliconangle.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator “automatically reflect” users' tastes (9to5google.com)
2026-4-17 Google AI Intelligence

Roblox revamps Roblox Assistant, its plain-language AI tool for game development, with agentic tools to let developers plan, build, and test games (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Factory, whose AI coding agents switch between AI models depending on the complexity of the task, is in talks to raise $150M led by Khosla at a $1.5B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Sabi, which is developing a brain-computer interface beanie that can decode internal speech into words, emerges from stealth with backing from Khosla and others (www.wired.com)
2026-4-17

EU Age Verification App Announced To Protect Children Online (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-17

Canva unveils Canva AI 2.0, which can generate editable layered designs from conversational prompts using Canva's foundation model built specifically for design (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Anthropic says Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that “improves how the model processes text”, but “the tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens” (9to5mac.com)
2026-4-17

Google expands Gemini AI use to fight malicious ads on its platform (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17 Google AI

Anthropic says Opus 4.7 is “less broadly capable” than Claude Mythos Preview and that its “cyber capabilities are not as advanced” as those of Mythos Preview (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-17

Researchers Induce Smells With Ultrasound, No Chemical Cartridges Required (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-17

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, saying it is a “notable improvement” on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering and comes with a new “xhigh” effort level (www.anthropic.com)
2026-4-17

Most "AI SOCs" Are Just Faster Triage. That's Not Enough. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17 AI

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