Latest news from the AI world
April 18, 2026: xAI launches audio STT and TTS APIs at the best prices on the market, Claude for Word in beta for Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise, Midjourney V8.1 with native 2K rendering, Luma opens Innovative Dreams with AWS, and Kimi publishes its PraaS architecture.
April 17, 2026: Claude Design in research preview, Claude Code v2.1.113 in native binary, Codex CLI v0.121 with plugin marketplace, Copilot CLI Auto Model GA, NotebookLM Free in Gemini App, NVIDIA NemoClaw and Runway Seedance 2.0 iOS.
April 16, 2026: Claude Opus 4.7 GA with SWE-bench Pro 64.3%, Codex extends computer use to macOS, GPT-Rosalind for the life sciences, Gemini integrates Nano Banana 2 into Google Photos, Perplexity Personal Computer, and the gh skill command.
Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop with parallel sessions, OpenAI launches Agents SDK v0.14.0 with native sandbox, Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and its macOS app on April 15, 2026.
April 14, 2026: Anthropic launches routines in Claude Code (planning, API, webhooks), Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 with industrial instrument reading, Z.ai opens GLM-5.1 under MIT license, and GitHub Copilot gains three new features.
April 13, 2026: GitHub launches remote control for Copilot CLI sessions from web and mobile, MiniMax releases M2.7 open-source with day-0 vLLM support, the Qwen3.5-Omni API becomes available internationally, and Gemini 3.1 Flash Live takes the lead in the τ-Voice voice leaderboard.
April 11, 2026: Claude Code 2.1.101 with system CA certificates and dynamic /loop, MiniMax launches Music 2.6 and MMX-CLI, GitHub suspends Copilot Pro trials following abuse, Qwen Code v0.14 adds Channels and Cron Jobs.
April 10, 2026: OpenAI details the Axios supply chain incident, GitHub Copilot CLI supports BYOK and offline local models, and ElevenLabs rolls out its voice AI on-premise and on-device.
Week of April 5 to 9, 2026: Anthropic launches Project Glasswing with Claude Mythos Preview (SWE-bench 93.9%), Meta unveils Muse Spark, Gemini CLI v0.37.0, Stability AI Brand Studio, and more.
April 3-4, 2026: Anthropic removes third-party tools from Pro and Max subscriptions with compensatory measures, releases Claude Code v2.1.92 with Bedrock wizard and per-model cost breakdown. Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite in the API, Lyria 3 in the Gemini app, and expands video generation in Workspace.
On April 3, 2026, Anthropic opens Microsoft 365 connectors to all Claude plans, GitHub strengthens the Copilot cloud agent security with signed commits and organization-level firewall, and Gemini CLI moves to version 0.36.0 with native sandboxing.
April 2, 2026: Google releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 with native vision and audio, Qwen3.6-Plus tops Terminal-Bench with a 1M-token context window, and Anthropic publishes foundational research on functional emotions in language models.