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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

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

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

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

New ATHR vishing platform uses AI voice agents for automated attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Financial services startup Slash, which is building an AI agent, raised $100M led by Ribbit at a $1.4B valuation and reports nearly $300M in annualized revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17 Startup AI

Sources: Google is negotiating a deal with the US DOD that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing its previous stance (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-16 Google AI Pentagon

A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M (www.thewrap.com)
2026-4-16 Bitcoin AI

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-16 AI Iran

Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-4-16 AI

Alibaba's new Token Hub unit releases Happy Oyster, a new AI world model that can create 3D environments, interactive videos, films, video content, and games (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 Alibaba AI

Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to $26M (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-4-16 AI

Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised $40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific (siliconangle.com)
2026-4-16 Germany Europe Asia AI

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (restofworld.org)
2026-4-16 AI

A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-16 AI

India produces over 1.5M CS graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding tools; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 India AI

Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-4-16 India AI

Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 AI

European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-4-16 Europe AI

Sources: Apple plans to send a significant part of its Siri team, known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp; the group is expected to be fewer than 200 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-16 AI Apple

Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-16 AI

NY-based Auctor, which uses AI to curate resource plans and process flows to help companies adopt new software, raised $20M in a combined seed and Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-4-16 AI

Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-16 AI

Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more (www.dwarkesh.com)
2026-4-16 China Google AI Nvidia

Snapchat Blames AI As It Cuts 1,000 Jobs (slashdot.org)
2026-4-16 AI Snapchat

Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-16 AI Adobe

Permalink to AI-assisted Development Multiplies Human Error: What's Your AI Governance and Risk Management Strategy? (sdtimes.com)
2026-4-16 AI

Struggling Shoe Retailer Allbirds Pivots To AI, Stock Explodes More Than 700% (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-16 AI

Microsoft pays $2.3M for cloud and AI flaws at Zero Day Quest (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-16 Microsoft AI

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