AI News Archive: April 29, 2026 — Part 4
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- India entering new growth chapter; AI to multiply productivity: BlackRock
With particular interest in the energy sector, Ben Powell said that his eyes are following fuel price in India
- What to know about how a suspect in the killing of 2 Florida students used ChatGPT
What to know about how a suspect in the killing of 2 Florida students used ChatGPT AP News
Score: 54🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://apnews.com/article/missing-grad-students-florida-chatgpt-bangladesh-17b149db0519bb4f305f521fb4dee6ca - Salesforce Launches Agentforce Operations to End Back-Office Bottlenecks
Slow, manual back-office processes break customer experiences and hold companies back. Agentforce Operations solves this problem by making every process fast, accurate, and automated. Specialized back-office agents autonomously perform work across disconnected systems from email to ERP, cut cycle times by up to 70% for processes like auditing and onboarding, eliminate 80% of manual tasks […]
Score: 54🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/agentforce-operations-announcement/ - OpenAI researchers explain why math is the road to AGI
AI models have jumped from grade-school arithmetic to olympiad-level and research mathematics in only two years. In the OpenAI Podcast, OpenAI researchers Sebastian Bubeck and Ernest Ryu explain why math has become the key test on the road to artificial general intelligence. The article OpenAI researchers explain why math is the road to AGI appeared first on The Decoder .
Score: 54🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://the-decoder.com/openai-researchers-explain-why-math-is-the-road-to-agi/ - AI Is Costing Jobs. Here’s How Financial Advisors Say It Is Changing The Way They Work.
AI Is Costing Jobs. Here’s How Financial Advisors Say It Is Changing The Way They Work. Barron's
Score: 54🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.barrons.com/advisor/articles/ai-jobs-layoffs-financial-advisors-add9167c - Forget keywords: YouTube wants you to search by talking to AI
Forget keywords: YouTube wants you to search by talking to AI Gulf News
Score: 54🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://gulfnews.com/technology/media/forget-keywords-youtube-wants-you-to-search-by-talking-to-ai-1.500522758 - Doosan to build W180b CCL plant in Thailand to meet AI demand
Doosan Corp. said Wednesday it will establish a new copper-clad laminate production plant in Thailand to meet rising demand driven by the expansion of artificial intelligence data centers. The company plans to set up a new subsidiary and build a manufacturing plant at the Araya Industrial Estate in Bang Bo, Samut Prakan province. The investment is estimated at 180 billion won ($121.7 million), while the facility will span approximately 73,000 square meters. Construction is scheduled to kick off
- Tesla Stock Falls. Elon Musk Talks Up ‘Special’ Optimus 3 Robot.
Tesla Stock Falls. Elon Musk Talks Up ‘Special’ Optimus 3 Robot. Barron's
Score: 54🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-stock-robot-optimus-elon-musk-c629ad83 - FirstFT: Goldman Sachs prevents Hong Kong bankers from using Anthropic’s Claude
Also in today’s newsletter: oil tops $120 and Asian chipmakers surge
- Alphabet investors push for safeguards on use of its cloud, AI tech
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- 'The ocean is really unlimited in terms of how much energy is available': No land, no fuel, no cables — how wave-powered ocean platforms could tackle the power needs of AI data centers
A startup is developing floating platforms that use wave energy to power offshore AI data centers, reducing emissions, but faces potential durability issues.
- To misinformation researchers, AI is a scourge—and a powerful new tool
Surge in generative AI is upending a field that was just finding its feet
Score: 53🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.science.org/content/article/misinformation-researchers-ai-scourge-and-powerful-new-tool - As AI drives energy demand, PJM wants to add new power generators to the region's grid
As AI drives energy demand, PJM wants to add new power generators to the region's grid Inquirer.com
Score: 53🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.inquirer.com/business/energy/pjm-electrical-grid-operator-new-projects-20260429.html - Celebrities like Taylor Swift are setting the guardrails for the AI age
Taylor Swift recently filed a series of trademark applications designed to protect the star from AI -enabled impersonations. Swift already holds a wide array of trademarks, but these latest filings, at least one intellectual property firm suggests, serve a new purpose: protecting the timbre and character of her voice itself through what is known as a “sound mark.” In two recent filings, posted April 24 by Swift’s company, the celebrity applied to trademark two recordings. In one, she says, “Hey, it’s Taylor,” and in the other, “Hey, it’s Taylor Swift.” The recordings themselves are not particularly novel, but that is likely beside the point. “The concept of protecting sound as a trademark is not new, though it remains relatively rare,” wrote Josh Gerben, the Gerben IP attorney who spotted the trademarks on the law firm’s website. “Historically, singers relied on copyright law to protect their recorded music. But AI technologies now allow users to generate entirely new content that mimi
- OpenAI Falls Short of Revenue and User Targets as It Races Toward IPO, WSJ Reports
OpenAI has recently fallen short of targets for user growth and revenue, raising concerns among some executives about whether it can fund its heavy data centre investments, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report also says OpenAI missed several monthly revenue goals earlier this year after ceding ground to Anthropic in coding and enterprise segments in key te...
- XPENG Releases World Model Technical Report, Powering VLA 2.0 Model R&D And Verification
Guangzhou — XPENG (NYSE: XPEV, HKEX: 9868), a leading China-based high-tech company, recently officially released its X-World Technical Report, providing a comprehensive breakdown of the model’s construction and deployment across data, architecture, training, validation, and application. X-World is a controllable, multi-view generative world model designed for autonomous driving. Built on ... [continued] The post XPENG Releases World Model Technical Report, Powering VLA 2.0 Model R&D And Verification appeared first on CleanTechnica .
- Trump threatens Iran with AI picture of himself with a gun: 'No more Mr. Nice guy!'
Oil prices continued to rise on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to threaten Iran in a TruthSocial post.
Score: 53🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/trump-iran-threat-ai-picture-gun-war-strait-of-hormuz.html - All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software
The London-founded startup wants to replace the entire construction value chain, from architect’s brief to move-in-ready building, using AI and a purpose-built on-site robot called the Mantis. Construction is the world’s largest industry by value and one of its least automated. A typical building project today involves roughly the same sequence of hand-offs, on-site labour, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Score: 53💰 MoneyApr 29, 2026https://thenextweb.com/news/all3-25m-seed-construction-robots-ai-housing - Ramping Figure 03 Production
Ramping Figure 03 Production Figure
- Cambricon Shares Jump 14% After Its AI Chip Sales Surge in China
Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon Technologies Corp.’s shares surged 14% in Shanghai, after its first-quarter sales more than doubled thanks to Beijing’s push for self-sufficiency in critical technologies including semiconductors.
Score: 52🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/cambricon-s-revenue-jumps-on-strong-ai-chip-demand-in-china - 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.
Score: 52🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.cio.com/article/4164659/sas-makes-ai-governance-the-centerpiece-of-its-agent-strategy.html - OpenAI's Wall Street Disconnect
OpenAI's Wall Street Disconnect The Information
Score: 52🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-briefing/openais-wall-street-disconnect - Japan's Kao, Ajinomoto boost chip material operations on AI demand
Japan's Kao, Ajinomoto boost chip material operations on AI demand Nikkei Asia
- Schroders backs Wayve and Elevenlabs with UK’s first venture capital fund for pensions
Autonomous vehicle unicorn Wayve and deeptech darling Elevenlabs are among the fast-growing unicorns that have been backed by the cash raised in a historic funding round by the UK’s first venture capital vehicle set up to cater for pensions. Schroders Capital announced on Wednesday it had injected over £100m into British-based tech and life sciences [...]
Score: 52💰 MoneyApr 29, 2026https://www.cityam.com/schroders-backs-unicorns-in-first-venture-fund-for-pensions/ - Deepfakes, impersonation, and AI manipulation: The new frontline of cyber defence
Deepfakes, impersonation, and AI manipulation: The new frontline of cyber defence YourStory.com
Score: 52🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://yourstory.com/2026/04/deepfakes-impersonation-ai-manipulation-cyber-defence - Visa Stock Soars Because AI Agents Will Pay With Cards
The Dow payment giant's Q2 revenue growth was the best since 2022. The post Visa Stock Soars Because AI Agents Will Pay With Cards appeared first on Investor's Business Daily .
Score: 52🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.investors.com/news/visa-stock-soars-earnings-q2-dow-jones-ai-agents/ - Google drops out of $100 million Pentagon drone swarm contest after advancing
Google abruptly withdrew from a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge for autonomous drone swarms after an internal ethics review. The company cited "resourcing" as the official reason for pulling out of the initiative, which aims to enable voice-controlled drone swarm operations. This decision follows internal worker objections to AI being used for classified military work.
- Why AI Is Not a Normal Technology (with Peter Wildeford)
Why AI Is Not a Normal Technology (with Peter Wildeford)
Score: 52🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://futureoflife.org/podcast/why-ai-is-not-a-normal-technology-with-peter-wildeford/ - Indiana Rolls Out GenAI for All State Staff — and Leadership
CIO Warren Lenard describes how Indiana has made Microsoft Copilot available for any state employee who wants it, and a key part of the program is training. That training also extends to cabinet-level secretaries.
Score: 52🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.govtech.com/artificial-intelligence/indiana-rolls-out-genai-for-all-state-staff-and-leadership - AI 'deadbots' can fuel pathological grief and affect how we deal with death
Due to recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), it's now possible to digitally "revive" dead people and interact with them.
Score: 51🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-ai-deadbots-fuel-pathological-grief.html - Elderly woman rescued by autonomous robot near Ukraine frontline
Video released by Ukraine’s Third Army Corps shows a four-hour rescue in Lyman, where a 77-year-old woman was saved by an autonomous vehicle after being spotted by drone pilots. The ground drone carried a blanket and a note reading: “Grandma, sit down!”
Score: 51🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026http://www.euronews.com/video/2026/04/29/elderly-woman-rescued-by-autonomous-robot-near-ukraine-frontline - Sage expands AI agents across finance, HR and operations to automate workflows and help teams act faster with control
Sage expands AI agents across finance, HR and operations to automate workflows and help teams act faster with control Toronto Star
- Poolside AI Introduces Laguna XS.2 and M.1: Agentic Coding Models Reaching 68.2% and 72.5% on SWE-bench Verified
Poolside AI Introduces Laguna XS.2 and M.1: Agentic Coding Models Reaching 68.2% and 72.5% on SWE-bench Verified MarkTechPost
- Korea, Qatar strengthen cooperation in advanced industries, focusing on AI and biotechnology
Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo speaks at a conference held at the Chamber of Commerce & Industry in central Seoul on April 9. [YONHAP] Trade ministers of Korea and Qatar agreed Wednesday to expand the two countries' cooperation in advanced industries, including 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. Related Article Vice trade minister discusses supply chain cooperation with Polish counterpart in Seoul New U.S. metal tariffs likely to reduce burden on Korean companies, trade minister says Trade minister voices need to expand cooperation with EU amid global uncertainties The ministers concurred to bolster bilateral cooperation in advanced industries by integrating Seoul's manufacturing capabil
- Oxford Robotics Institute and AtkinsRéalis to scale up autonomous robotics systems in new partnership
Oxford Robotics Institute and AtkinsRéalis to scale up autonomous robotics systems in new partnership University of Oxford
- Humanoid robots will work as baggage handlers at Tokyo airport
Has nobody watched Terminator?
Score: 51🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.engadget.com/2160602/humanoid-robots-will-work-as-baggage-handlers-at-tokyo-airport/ - The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing
Building on a long-standing MIT–IBM collaboration, the new lab will chart the convergence of AI, algorithms, and quantum computing.
- GSMA, Pleias seek to close African language gap in AI
The organisations release CommonLingua, an open-source language identification model that supports 61 African languages.
Score: 51🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.itweb.co.za/article/gsma-pleias-seek-to-close-african-language-gap-in-ai/mQwkoM6YbnY73r9A - Amazon introduces ‘Join the Chat’ AI tool for voice-based shopping help
Amazon introduces ‘Join the Chat’ AI tool for voice-based shopping help
- Microsoft's CFO defends the company's hefty AI investments
Microsoft's CFO defends the company's hefty AI investments
Score: 51🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://www.marketwatch.com/bulletins/redirect/go?g=ea9f465d-1f8f-477a-b6fc-4a28e82b4a93&mod=mw_rss_bulletins - How foundation models will revolutionize robot swarms
Science Robotics, Volume 11, Issue 113, April 2026.
- Prompts now, pollutants later: Report claims data centers are harming the environment to the tune of $25 billion and inducing a debt on the health of current and future generations
A new paper theorizes that the cost of gross external damages generated by data centers could exceed $25 billion.
- 'Singapore washing' will remain in spotlight long after Manus AI is over
'Singapore washing' will remain in spotlight long after Manus AI is over PitchBook
Score: 50🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/chinas-block-on-manus-ai-deal-wont-kill-singapore-washing - Transformational Utah investment in artificial intelligence and computing to advance health and discovery
Transformational Utah investment in artificial intelligence and computing to advance health and discovery EurekAlert!
- Exclusive: Vanta hits $300 million ARR as ‘shadow AI’ explodes across corporate America
Exclusive: Vanta hits $300 million ARR as ‘shadow AI’ explodes across corporate America Fortune
Score: 50💰 MoneyApr 29, 2026https://fortune.com/2026/04/29/exclusive-vanta-arr-300-million-sequoia-shadow-ai-claude-cursor/ - A $72B Incentive Gap: Why AI Could Unlock Billions in U.S. Agricultural Input Revenue
A $72B Incentive Gap: Why AI Could Unlock Billions in U.S. Agricultural Input Revenue USA Today
- Fort Lauderdale firm strikes $22 million deal to expand into AI data centers
It gives the firm the ability to tap into the AI data center boom without taking on debt or spending cash.
- Google rolls out Gemini memory in Europe and wants you to bring your ChatGPT data along
Gemini can now remember your preferences and import your chat history from other AI apps. The article Google rolls out Gemini memory in Europe and wants you to bring your ChatGPT data along appeared first on The Decoder .
Score: 50🌐 MovesApr 29, 2026https://the-decoder.com/google-rolls-out-gemini-memory-in-europe-and-wants-you-to-bring-your-chatgpt-data-along/ - Man who used robot vacuum camera to spy on woman before trying to kill her gets 12-year prison sentence
A robot vacuum cleaner [JOONGANG ILBO] A man who attempted to kill his former partner after spying on the woman's private life through a camera of a robot vacuum cleaner was sentenced to 12 years in prison in an appeals court, upholding the same sentence as the lower court, according to the Gwangju High Court on Wednesday. The ruling follows the attacker's repeated harassment of the victim, trespassing, threatening with a weapon and threatening the victim's daughter. Related Article ADOR wins court order to provisionally seize real estate assets in suit against Danielle, former CEO Appeals court raises Yoon Suk Yeol's sentence to 7 years in obstruction of justice case Life sentence upheld for Telegram-based sex crime network leader The attacker reportedly first met the victim in 2013 and maintained a de facto marital relationship for 11 years before separating in November 2024. He repeatedly contacted the victim after the separation. On June 8 last year, the attacker accessed the camer
- Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips.
Score: 50🤖 ModelsApr 29, 2026https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-ai-giant-sensetime-is-running-its-new-model-on-chinese-chips/