April 2026

Since Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI back in 2019, the exclusive partnership between the two firms has been one of the strongest and most consequential in the AI industry. Today, though, OpenAI and Microsoft jointly announced an amended agreement that will allow the company to go beyond Microsoft’s Azure and “serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider.” The announcement clarifies that Microsoft will continue to have a license for OpenAI’s IP and models through […]

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In January, the European Commission began an initial investigation, known as a specification proceeding, into how Google has implemented AI in the Android operating system. The results are in, and the EU says Android needs to be more open, which is not surprising. Meanwhile, Google says this amounts to “unwarranted intervention,” which is equally unsurprising. Regardless of Google’s characterization of the investigation, the commission may force Google to make Android AI changes this summer. This action stems from […]

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NASA has assigned its first crew to launch on a mission “13” since Apollo 13 “had a problem” on the way to the Moon 56 years ago. Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney with NASA, Joshua Kutryk with the Canadian Space Agency, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov will lift off for the International Space Station as Crew-13 on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in mid-September. The four will serve as members of the station’s Expedition 75 and 76 crews, before […]

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I’ve found agentic coding (with Anthropic’s Claude) to be something between an x10 and x100 multiplier on what I personally can do in a software engineering vein. This seems to be significantly more than what other folks are observing, so I wanted to share some notes on how I got there in case of broader interest. Is it real? I believe it is. It’s always hard to measure exactly what is productivity with “lines of code” being a […]

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Understanding what’s happening in an audio clip is a deceptively hard problem. Transcribing spoken words is the easy part. A truly capable system also needs to recognize who is speaking, detect their emotional state, interpret background sounds, analyze musical content, and answer time-grounded questions like ‘what did the speaker say at the 2-minute mark?’. Tackling all of that required stitching together multiple specialized systems. Tthe OpenMOSS team, MOSI.AI, and Shanghai Innovation Institute released MOSS-Audio: an open-source audio understanding […]

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Aficionados of game console emulator history will almost certainly be familiar with ZSNES, an MS-DOS-based (and, later, Windows-based) emulator for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that originally launched back in 1997. Originally written in x86 assembly code, it was known best for its performance on low-end PCs and was capable of running some games at full speed on chips as slow as a 233 MHz Pentium II, though it usually did so at the expense of emulation accuracy. […]

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Consider a typical Monday morning: you’re manually copying data from several different systems to create a weekly report, then formatting it for different stakeholders. This single task can consume several hours that could be spent on more strategic work. Multiply this across your team, and these repetitive tasks add up quickly. Amazon Quick Flows automates these tasks using AI workflows. With Quick Flows, you create intelligent workflows using natural language—no coding or machine learning (ML) expertise required. You describe […]

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