AI News Archive: April 29, 2026 — Part 23
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- S. Korea, Qatar to push for deeper cooperation in manufacturing AI, semiconductor, biohealth
Trade ministers of South Korea and Qatar agreed Wednesday to expand the two countries' cooperation in advanced industries, including artificial intelligence (AI) transformation of the manufacturing sector, semiconductor and biohealth, a Seoul ministry said. Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo met with his Qatar counterpart, Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Sayed, in Seoul to discuss ways to expand economic and investment cooperation between the two nations, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources
- SAS makes AI governance the centerpiece of its agent strategy
Enterprises are quickly moving from AI experimentation to deployment, however, when agentic AI begins making more decisions, invoking more tools, and operating across fragmented data environments, there can be an erosion of visibility, governance, and trust. SAS laid out its answer to that problem at its annual conference, SAS Innovate , introducing a new family of copilots, agent frameworks, Model Context Protocol (MCP) plugins, and management tools to help enterprises operationalize AI without losing control of it. “What we’re seeing here is really a shift from AI that forms to AI that acts,” Marinela Profi , the company’s global AI and generative AI market strategy lead, said at the event. “This is a significant leap, because it introduces new requirements around trust, around governance, around accountability.” Interacting with agents more intuitively To begin with, SAS today announced SAS Viya Copilot, a human-governed, conversational AI assistant embedded into its Viya platform.
- SAS Launches AI Governance Tools to Tame Agentic AI in the Enterprise
SAS expands Viya with governed AI agents, copilots, and new governance tools aimed at helping enterprises manage shadow AI and build trust in automation. The post SAS Launches AI Governance Tools to Tame Agentic AI in the Enterprise appeared first on TechRepublic .
- Bloomberg: China pauses AV permits after Baidu disruption
Baidu’s robotaxi operations in Wuhan have been suspended, sources tell the publication. Read more: Bloomberg: China pauses AV permits after Baidu disruption
- Gartner flags rising AI agent sprawl, outlines six-step governance framework
As enterprises accelerate their adoption of AI agents, Gartner has warned of a looming “agent sprawl” that could introduce significant operational and security risks. The firm predicts that by 2028, […] The post Gartner flags rising AI agent sprawl, outlines six-step governance framework appeared first on Express Computer .
- Flux Multilingual Technical Deep Dive: Multilingual Speech-to-Text Without the Routing Mess
How Deepgram Flux Multilingual and its new `language_hint` parameter collapse multilingual voice infrastructure into a single real-time streaming connection.
- Deepgram expands Flux to 10 languages with mid-call switching for voice agents
Real-time voice artificial intelligence startup Deepgram Inc. today announced the general availability of Flux Multilingual, an extension of its Flux conversational speech recognition model to 10 languages with real-time language detection and the ability to switch languages mid-call. The extended model is being pitched by the company as the first multilingual conversational speech recognition model, a category it […] The post Deepgram expands Flux to 10 languages with mid-call switching for voice agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- An experimental cafe run by AI opens in Stockholm
The avocado toasts and baristas making foamy lattes make it look like any other café, except at this one, located in a Stockholm residential neighborhood, artificial intelligence (AI) is running the place.
- AI spots pancreatic cancer years before it shows up: US study
AI spots pancreatic cancer years before it shows up: US study The Straits Times
- AI spots pancreatic cancer years before it shows up: Study
AI spots pancreatic cancer years before it shows up: Study The Straits Times
- AI spots pancreatic cancer years before it shows up: US study
AI spots pancreatic cancer years before it shows up: US study The Straits Times
- How AI Is Spotting Pancreatic Cancer Signals That Most Doctors Miss
A model developed at the Mayo Clinic identified early signs of pancreatic cancer in routine scans more than a year before diagnosis.
- SG's FORMAS.AI secures $3.98m funding and other SE Asia deals
SG's FORMAS.AI secures $3.98m funding and other SE Asia deals DealStreetAsia
- Data scientists say the AI boom won’t deliver without them
The post Data scientists say the AI boom won’t deliver without them appeared first on The Logic .
- Families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sue OpenAI
Sam Altman apologized for not notifying local authorities last week.
- Tumbler Ridge families are suing OpenAI
OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, are being accused of negligence and launching GPT-4o with a ‘defective’ design.
- Tumbler Ridge families likely to seek US$1 billion in lawsuit against OpenAI: lawyer
Tumbler Ridge families likely to seek US$1 billion in lawsuit against OpenAI: lawyer Toronto Star
- Sage Deepens Collaboration with AWS to Fast-Track Agentic AI for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
Sage Deepens Collaboration with AWS to Fast-Track Agentic AI for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Toronto Star
- CareerHub Launches AI-Powered Platform That Matches Job Seekers to Roles Using Their Resume Instead of Keywords
CareerHub Launches AI-Powered Platform That Matches Job Seekers to Roles Using Their Resume Instead of Keywords Toronto Star
- Introducing Blomma, the AI App Bringing Career Coaching Beyond the C-Suite
Introducing Blomma, the AI App Bringing Career Coaching Beyond the C-Suite USA Today
- Bell converting plant on Winnipeg's outskirts into AI data centre
Bell converting plant on Winnipeg's outskirts into AI data centre CBC
- Should B.C. ban or regulate social media and AI for youth?
Should B.C. ban or regulate social media and AI for youth? CBC
- OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre
"The 'safeguards' OpenAI pointed to after the attack did not fail; they did not exist." The post OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre appeared first on Futurism .
- Lawsuits Claim OpenAI Employees Warned Leaders of Potential Shooter Months Before Tragedy
Families of the victims claim OpenAI identified a ‘credible and specific’ threat but failed to alert authorities, raising new questions about AI companies’ responsibility.
- Nvidia exec says AI is more expensive than actual workers — yet some companies don't see the extra costs as a negative
As advanced LLMs do more and more for modern businesses, the outlays to cover all those tokens can cost more than worker salaries alone. But some companies don't see the added costs as a negative as they look toward a more automated future.
- I Like ChatGPT's New AI Image Generator, But Nano Banana Pro Still Wins
I Like ChatGPT's New AI Image Generator, But Nano Banana Pro Still Wins PCMag
- Arm launches Performix toolkit for AI workload optimisation
Arm launches Performix toolkit for AI workload optimisation verdict.co.uk
- AI is coming to Ubuntu: Canonical exec teases future AI features and agentic workflow capabilities for version 26.10 — but on a ‘strictly opt-in basis’
AI is coming to Ubuntu: Canonical exec teases future AI features and agentic workflow capabilities for version 26.10 — but on a ‘strictly opt-in basis’ IT Pro
- California Adopts Rules Allowing Testing And Deployment of Heavy-Duty AVs
The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday adopted new regulations for autonomous vehicles, allowing manufacturers to test and deploy heavy-duty driverless vehicle technology on the state’s roads. Related: Tesla Avoids California Sales Halt Over Autopilot Marketing The new regulations …
- You can now get Gemini to generate downloadable files directly in chat
Gemini’s new file export trick could make your workflow a lot smoother.
- Apple Reportedly Plans Major Camera AI Overhaul in iOS 27
Another update may help iPhone users switch quickly between photo, video and portrait modes.
- Apple may integrate visual AI directly into camera app with iOS 27
Apple may bring Siri-powered AI directly into the camera app with iOS 27, making it easier to identify objects, search information, and interact with surroundings in real time.
- Uninstalls of ChatGPT Are Spiking at the Worst Time Imaginable for OpenAI
It's not looking good. The post Uninstalls of ChatGPT Are Spiking at the Worst Time Imaginable for OpenAI appeared first on Futurism .
- Port Washington data center developer nears $38B financing package
The financing is to cover a portion of the costs for its massive Port Washington data center campus as well as a campus in Texas.
- Could AI make Duke business school students more human?
Could AI make Duke business school students more human? The News & Observer
- Evolving AI may arrive before AGI and create hard-to-control risks
Evolutionary biology holds clues for the future of AI, argue researchers from the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Eötvös Loránd University, and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. In a new Perspective published April 20 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team warn that evolvable AI (eAI) systems that can undergo Darwinian evolution may soon emerge, and they will generate special risks that can be understood, and mitigated, based on insights from evolutionary biology.
- AI and Griefbots Are Changing How We Mourne (IMAGE)
AI and Griefbots Are Changing How We Mourne (IMAGE) EurekAlert!
- New research uses AI to unlock decades of hidden flood risk data
New research uses AI to unlock decades of hidden flood risk data EurekAlert!
- AI Uncovers a Hidden “Grammar” in DNA Packaging
Researchers have discovered a new "organizational code" for the genome, showing that most DNA is partially accessible even when wrapped up.
- Sam Altman’s Hard Reset & Baldonigate Down Under
Sam Altman’s Hard Reset & Baldonigate Down Under Puck
- Lehane’s OpenAI Playbook & The King’s Trump Digs
Lehane’s OpenAI Playbook & The King’s Trump Digs Puck
- A retrieval-augmented framework enabling VLM spatial awareness for object-centric robot manipulation
Science Robotics, Volume 11, Issue 113, April 2026.
- DSO: Direct Steering Optimization for Bias Mitigation
Generative models are often deployed to make decisions on behalf of users, such as vision-language models (VLMs) identifying which person in a room is a doctor to help visually impaired individuals. Yet, VLM decisions are influenced by the perceived demographic attributes of people in the input, which can lead to biased outcomes like failing to identify women as doctors. Moreover, when reducing bias leads to performance loss, users may have varying needs for balancing bias mitigation with overall model capabilities, highlighting the demand for methods that enable controllable bias reduction…
- Rule-based High-Level Coaching for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning in Search-and-Rescue UAV Missions Under Limited-Simulation Training
This paper presents a hierarchical decision-making framework for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) missions motivated by search-and-rescue (SAR) scenarios under limited simulation training. The framework combines a fixed rule-based high-level advisor with an online goal-conditioned low-level reinforceme...
- ViCrop-Det: Spatial Attention Entropy Guided Cropping for Training-Free Small-Object Detection
Transformer-based architectures have established a dominant paradigm in global semantic perception; however, they remain fundamentally constrained by the profound spatial heterogeneity inherent in natural images. Specifically, the imposition of a uniform global receptive field across regions of vary...
- Bian Que: An Agentic Framework with Flexible Skill Arrangement for Online System Operations
Operating and maintaining (O&M) large-scale online engine systems (search, recommendation, advertising) demands substantial human effort for release monitoring, alert response, and root cause analysis. While LLM-based agents are a natural fit for these tasks, the deployment bottleneck is not reasoni...
- MemOVCD: Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Change Detection via Cross-Temporal Memory Reasoning and Global-Local Adaptive Rectification
Open-vocabulary change detection aims to identify semantic changes in bi-temporal remote sensing images without predefined categories. Recent methods combine foundation models such as SAM, DINO and CLIP, but typically process each timestamp independently or interact only at the final comparison stag...
- Exploring the Potential of Probabilistic Transformer for Time Series Modeling: A Report on the ST-PT Framework
The Probabilistic Transformer (PT) establishes that the Transformer's self-attention plus its feed-forward block is mathematically equivalent to Mean-Field Variational Inference (MFVI) on a Conditional Random Field (CRF). Under this equivalence the Transformer ceases to be a black-box neural network...
- FutureWorld: A Live Environment for Training Predictive Agents with Real-World Outcome Rewards
Live future prediction refers to the task of making predictions about real-world events before they unfold. This task is increasingly studied using large language model-based agent systems, and it is important for building agents that can continually learn from real-world. Just as interactive enviro...
- Atomic-Probe Governance for Skill Updates in Compositional Robot Policies
Skill libraries in deployed robotic systems are continually updated through fine-tuning, fresh demonstrations, or domain adaptation, yet existing typed-composition methods (BLADE, SymSkill, Generative Skill Chaining) treat the library as frozen at test time and do not analyze how composition outcome...