AI News Archive: April 29, 2026 — Part 1
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer up to 3 years before diagnosis in landmark validation study
Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer up to 3 years before diagnosis in landmark validation study EurekAlert!
- Friendly AI chatbots make more mistakes and tell people what they want to hear, study finds
Friendly AI chatbots make more mistakes and tell people what they want to hear, study finds oii.ox.ac.uk
- AI discovery reveals DNA isn’t locked away in cells after all
AI discovery reveals DNA isn’t locked away in cells after all EurekAlert!
- OpenAI Sued by Seven Families Over Mass Shooting Suspect’s ChatGPT Use
The suits allege the company was negligent in its failure to notify police of the suspect’s activity months before the attack.
- Elon Musk vs Sam Altman Day 2: Tesla boss testifies he founded OpenAI as nonprofit to counter Google
Elon Musk took the stand on the second day of his landmark lawsuit against OpenAI, testifying that he founded the AI company as a nonprofit to benefit all of humanity. He accused Sam Altman of betraying those founding principles.
- Zuckerberg's Meta will beam sunlight from space to power AI data centers, solar-collecting satellites will orbit 22,000 miles above Earth — firm reserves 1 Gigawatt of orbital solar energy and 100 Gigawatt-hours of long-duration storage
Meta has announced plans to help power its AI data centers using sunlight beamed from space through a partnership with Overview Energy, alongside a 100 GWh long-duration storage deal with Noon Energy, as the AI industry’s energy demands continue to surge.
- EU legislators fail to clinch deal to delay AI law
Talks derailed over request backed by Germany to weaken rules for manufacturing and medical devices.
- Anthropic in talks with investors to raise funds at $900 billion valuation, higher than OpenAI
Anthropic is in talks with investors about raising cash at a valuation of $900 billion, CNBC has confirmed.
Score: 76💰 MoneyApr 29, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/anthropic-weighs-raising-funds-at-900b-valuation-topping-openai.html - OpenAI’s subtle drift from Microsoft has become an aggressive move toward Amazon
While OpenAI and Microsoft remain partners, the AI company has been rapidly pushing into Amazon's world.
Score: 76🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/openai-drift-from-microsoft-to-amazon-turns-aggressive-after-subtlety.html - GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet
The over-the-air update replaces Google Assistant across model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles, but arrives under the shadow of GM’s data-sharing controversy and a looming FTC consent order. General Motors has announced that Google Gemini is rolling out to approximately four million vehicles in the United States, in what the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Score: 75🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://thenextweb.com/news/gm-google-gemini-four-million-vehicles-in-car-ai - Exclusive: Senators interrogate AI firms on China safeguards
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) are demanding answers from major tech and AI companies over concerns that employees with ties to China could access cutting-edge U.S. AI systems . Why it matters : Lawmakers are focusing on insider access — not just hacking — as a potential vulnerability, putting pressure on companies to demonstrate stronger safeguards. "The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has an extensive track record of conducting espionage on U.S. companies in critical sectors," the senators write. Zoom in: Identical letters sent to the CEOs of Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Safe Superintelligence Inc., Thinking Machines Lab and xAI ask for responses to nine questions by May 20. One question zeroes in on insider risk: "What is Amazon's current approach to personnel vetting, insider threat detection, and ongoing monitoring for privileged access roles?" the letter to CEO Andy Jassy asks. "How many PRC nationals does Amazon employ? How many have di
- Pentagon AI chief confirms DOD's expanded use of Google, says reliance on one model 'never a good thing'
The Pentagon's AI chief discussed the DOD's expanded use of Google Gemini after the blacklisting of Anthropic.
Score: 74🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/28/pentagon-ai-chief-confirms-work-with-google-after-anthropic-blacklist.html - AI species evolving like organisms may soon emerge – and create risks
AI species evolving like organisms may soon emerge – and create risks EurekAlert!
- Uber makes big bets on travel, hotels and AI voice bookings at annual product showcase
Uber is launching new segments as it attempts to position itself as an all-in-one consumer platform.
- Unicorn Start-up, Astromech, Emerges from Stealth at Two Billion Dollar Valuation with Focus on Evolutionary Trend Modeling AI
Unicorn Start-up, Astromech, Emerges from Stealth at Two Billion Dollar Valuation with Focus on Evolutionary Trend Modeling AI USA Today
- Scoop: White House workshops plan to bring back Anthropic
The White House is developing guidance that would allow agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models including its most powerful yet, Mythos , according to sources familiar with the matter. Why it matters: The Trump administration appears to be performing a 180 on a company it previously claimed was such a grave security risk that it had to be ripped out of the federal government. Behind the scenes: A draft executive action that is currently in the works could, among other steps related to the government's use of AI , give the administration a way to dial down the Anthropic fight, two sources said. One source described the White House efforts as a way to "save face and bring em back in." Earlier this month, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for what both sides called a productive introductory meeting on how the company and government can work together. The White Hous
Score: 71🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29/trump-anthropic-pentagon-ai-executive-order-gov - Not all organs age alike: AI unveils the molecular impact of menopause across the female body
Not all organs age alike: AI unveils the molecular impact of menopause across the female body EurekAlert!
- Apple to Add AI-Powered Photo-Editing Tools
Apple is planning a major overhaul of the built-in photo-editing features, powered by its Apple Intelligence platform, according to people familiar with the plans. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Score: 70🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-04-29/apple-to-add-ai-powered-photo-editing-tools-video - Meta stock sinks as its AI spending forecast shoots up to $145 billion
The company beat revenue estimates and posted strong profit growth, but an upgraded capital expenditure outlook rattled investors
- Ex-Twitter CEO’s AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation
Parallel Web Systems raised $100 million in Series B funding to continue building web search for AI agents.
- Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’
PocketOS was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company’s founder Jeremy Crane said. The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, which is one of the AI industry’s flagship models. As more industries embrace AI in an attempt to automate tasks and even replace workers , the chaos at PocketOS is a reminder of what could go wrong. Continue reading...
Score: 68🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database - Sam Altman's AI infrastructure bet is paying off, but the bill is coming
Sam Altman's AI infrastructure bet is paying off, but the bill is coming Business Insider
Score: 68🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-won-ai-compute-race-business-model-next-anthropic-2026-4 - Samsung’s Chip Profit Soars 48-Fold Due to AI Spending Frenzy
Samsung Electronics Co.’s semiconductor arm beat expectations with a 48-fold jump in profit after AI’s reliance on memory delivered hefty margins.
- Alphabets first-quarter profit soars as Googles big AI bets help push stock to new highs
Alphabet's first-quarter profit soars as Google's big AI bets help push stock to new highs
- Loop Secures $95M for AI Supply Chain Disruption Prediction
Loop secures $95M for AI supply chain disruption prediction
Score: 68💰 MoneyApr 29, 2026https://opentools.ai/news/loop-secures-dollar95m-for-ai-supply-chain-disruption-prediction - Scout AI Raises $100M to Build ‘AI Brain' for Autonomous Warfare
The fund raise comes as the White House pushes AI dominance across industries, including defense.
Score: 68💰 MoneyApr 29, 2026https://aibusiness.com/robotics/scout-ai-raises-100m-build-ai-brain-autonomous-warfare - Nvidia official meets with Samsung, SK hynix executives for physical AI partnership
A key executive of U.S. tech giant Nvidia Corp. held meetings with counterparts from Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. on Wednesday to discuss cooperation in physical artificial intelligence, industry sources said. The back-to-back meetings came as Madison Huang, senior director of product and technical marketing for physical AI platforms at Nvidia, is visiting South Korea to expand partnerships in the sector. Her team oversees Nvidia Omniverse, a development platform for physical and in
- Microsoft's AI business surpassed a $37 billion annual run rate as cloud growth beat forecasts
Azure revenue grew 40% year over year, topping analyst expectations, as total quarterly revenue rose 18% to $82.9 billion
- Microsoft Cloud and AI strength fuels third quarter results
The post Microsoft Cloud and AI strength fuels third quarter results appeared first on Source .
Score: 67🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2026-Q3/press-release-webcast - Exclusive: Big Chinese tech firms scramble to secure Huawei AI chips after DeepSeek V4 launch
Exclusive: Big Chinese tech firms scramble to secure Huawei AI chips after DeepSeek V4 launch [Ads by RSSGenerator] Please try our other product: What is my IP address? [ One click Chrome ext ]
- Cognizant to acquire AI infrastructure specialist Astreya for $600 million
The deal, Cognizant’s fourth major acquisition in 18 months, is designed to plug a specific gap in its AI builder strategy: the ability to design, build, and run the physical data centre infrastructure that enterprise AI actually runs on. Cognizant has agreed to acquire Astreya, a San Jose-based IT managed services firm specialising in AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
Score: 66💰 MoneyApr 29, 2026https://thenextweb.com/news/cognizant-astreya-600-million-acquisition-ai-infrastructure - Musk and Altman face off in court over OpenAI's for-profit pivot
The closely watched trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off in federal court in Oakland. Both sides laid out wildly different versions of the AI lab's early days. The article Musk and Altman face off in court over OpenAI's for-profit pivot appeared first on The Decoder .
Score: 66🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://the-decoder.com/musk-and-altman-face-off-in-court-over-openais-for-profit-pivot/ - AWS growth climbs to 28% as Amazon’s big AI bets start to pay off
Amazon Web Services growth accelerated to 28% in the first quarter — its fastest pace in nearly four years — pushing Amazon's results past Wall Street's expectations and validating, at least for now, the company's controversial $200 billion bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Read More
Score: 66🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.geekwire.com/2026/aws-growth-climbs-to-28-as-amazons-big-ai-bets-start-to-pay-off/ - Rogo raises $160M to speed up financial analysis with AI agents
Rogo Technologies Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make financial professionals more productive, today announced that it has raised $160 million in funding. Kleiner Perkins led the Series D round. It was joined by Sequoia, Khosla Ventures, Morgan Growth Equity Partners and several others. Rogo provides an AI platform that can repetitive common day-to-day […] The post Rogo raises $160M to speed up financial analysis with AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Score: 66💰 MoneyApr 29, 2026https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/29/rogo-raises-160m-speed-financial-analysis-ai-agents/ - Alphabet Sales Beat Estimates on Google Cloud, AI Customers
Alphabet Inc. reported high demand for its cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, boosting shares and giving investors confidence that its unprecedented investments in AI infrastructure will pay off.
Score: 66🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/alphabet-sales-beat-estimates-on-google-cloud-ai-customers - 'I literally was a fool': Musk grilled in OpenAI trial
'I literally was a fool': Musk grilled in OpenAI trial Gulf News
Score: 66🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/i-literally-was-a-fool-musk-grilled-in-openai-trial-1.500523800 - South Africa withdraws AI policy after it was found written by AI
At least six of the document’s 67 academic citations did not exist
Score: 65🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-policy-south-africa-withdraw-b2966866.html - 'Claude can't replace taste or imagination, but it can open up new ways of working': Anthropic signs up Adobe, Blender and more to push Claude into creative work
The latest round of connectors Anthropic is adding to Claude are for the creative industry – including a major Adobe one.
- SHAREBOT Raises Several Hundred Million RMB in New Funding as It Scales Rapid Robot Deployment Network
SHAREBOT raises a new multi-hundred-million RMB round to scale its robotics leasing platform, accelerating nationwide deployment and building a standardized robot delivery network across 100+ cities.
- As Europe pushes for AI sovereignty, Germany’s SPREAD raises €25 million to scale industrial AI
SPREAD AI, a Berlin-based Engineering Intelligence Platform innovating how complex products are developed and operated, today announced it has raised €25 million ($30 million) in Series B funding to expand across Europe and the U.S., scale within the Salesforce ecosystem, and strengthen its presence in aerospace, defense, and heavy machinery sectors. The round was backed […] The post As Europe pushes for AI sovereignty, Germany’s SPREAD raises €25 million to scale industrial AI appeared first on EU-Startups .
- Omnicom Has An AI-Powered Plan To Cut Out Ad Tech Middlemen
Back in 2018, Omnicom passed on buying Acxiom for $2 billion, which went to IPG instead. In retrospect, that was a good move twice over, CEO John Wren told investors during the holding company’s Q1 earnings call on Tuesday, which was also its first full quarter with IPG folded in. Seven years after IPG bought […] The post Omnicom Has An AI-Powered Plan To Cut Out Ad Tech Middlemen appeared first on AdExchanger .
Score: 65🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.adexchanger.com/agencies/omnicom-has-an-ai-powered-plan-to-cut-out-ad-tech-middlemen/ - Denver data center company nears $38B financing deal
The money will back two giant projects connected to OpenAI’s Stargate partnership with Oracle.
- Illuminate Financial Closes $135m Early Growth Fund to Back the Next Generation of AI & Fintech for Financial Services
Illuminate Financial Closes $135m Early Growth Fund to Back the Next Generation of AI & Fintech for Financial Services The Straits Times
- Meta Thought It Had a $2 Billion Deal for AI Startup Manus — Then China Said No
Meta Thought It Had a $2 Billion Deal for AI Startup Manus — Then China Said No entrepreneur.com
Score: 64🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/meta-2-billion-deal-for-ai-startup-manus-blocked-by-china - Satya Nadella says he’s ready to ‘exploit’ the new OpenAI deal
Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI's tech to its cloud customers and doesn't have to pay for it. "We fully plan to exploit it," Nadella said.
Score: 64🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/satya-nadella-says-hes-ready-to-exploit-the-new-openai-deal/ - The battle of the AI labs
A handful of Silicon Valley companies want to lead the world in AI. Who will win?
- China penalizes AI platforms over failure to label AI-generated content
China’s internet regulator has penalized several digital platforms for failing to properly label AI-generated content, in the latest enforcement action targeting the fast-growing sector. In a notice released on Tuesday, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said that the apps CapCut, Maoxiang (Cat Box) and Dreamina AI had violated regulations requiring the clear identification of […]
Score: 64🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://technode.com/2026/04/29/china-penalizes-ai-platforms-over-failure-to-label-ai-generated-content/ - Parag Agrawal’s Parallel Web Systems Secures $100 Million for AI Web Infrastructure
Parallel Web Systems secures $100M for AI web infrastructure
- LG Electronics, Nvidia in talks over robots, AI data centres and mobility
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- Introducing the IBM Granite 4.1 family of models
IBM’s most expansive model release to date covers new language, vision, speech, embedding, and guardian models — tailored for enterprise workloads.
Score: 64🤖 ModelsApr 29, 2026https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss