This weekly post collects notable tech news from curated public RSS feeds and is updated daily.
2026-04-19
Anthropic’s relationship with the Trump administration seems to be thawing
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-18 22:56 GMT+8
English Summary: Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration.
AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-19 03:19 GMT+8
English Summary: In recent months, the company announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to use Cerebras chips in Amazon data centers, as well as a deal with OpenAI reportedly worth more than $10 billion.
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/18/ai-chip-startup-cerebras-files-for-ipo/
Tesla brings its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-19 05:37 GMT+8
English Summary: Tesla is expanding its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, according to a social media post from the company. The post says simply that “Robotaxi is now rolling out in Dallas & Houston 🤠” and includes a 14-second video showing Tesla vehicles driving without human monitors or drivers in the front seat. The company now […]
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/18/tesla-brings-its-robotaxi-service-to-dallas-and-houston/
The RAM shortage could last years
Source: The Verge Tech Published: 2026-04-19 05:08 GMT+8
English Summary: According to Nikkei Asia, even as suppliers ramp up DRAM production, manufacturers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027. SK Group chairman has even said that shortages could last until 2030. The world’s largest memory makers - Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron - are all working to add […]
Link: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years
VC Ron Conway says he has a ‘rare form of cancer’
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-19 04:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Conway wrote that he “will be stepping back from some of my usual activities,” but he will “continue to support” founders backed by his firm SV Angel.
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/18/vc-ron-conway-says-he-has-a-rare-form-of-cancer/
Cheap stuff that doesn’t suck, take 3
Source: The Verge Tech Published: 2026-04-18 23:33 GMT+8
English Summary: From fancy OLED TVs to robot vacuums with arms, we tend to cover a lot of cool stuff here at The Verge that, unfortunately, often costs as much as a month’s rent (or more). But with the ongoing tariff situation in the US and a global memory shortage pushing up the cost of, well, everything, we’re well aware that not […]
The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-18 21:00 GMT+8
English Summary: New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/18/the-app-store-is-booming-again-and-ai-may-be-why/
Dyson’s handheld fan is more powerful and louder than I expected
Source: The Verge Tech Published: 2026-04-18 21:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Two years ago I attended a picturesque outdoor wedding in August where the hot and humid weather had guests occasionally ducking into their cars to enjoy a blast of AC. Dyson’s new $99.99 handheld fan would have provided some much-needed relief then, although I’m not sure I would have been comfortable powering it up during […]
Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/908962/dyson-hushjet-mini-cool-personal-handheld-fan-hands-on
2026-04-18
GitHub Copilot CLI now supports Copilot auto model selection
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-18 06:32 GMT+8
English Summary: Copilot auto model selection is now generally available in GitHub Copilot CLI for all Copilot plans. With auto, Copilot chooses the most efficient model on your behalf. How it works… The post GitHub Copilot CLI now supports Copilot auto model selection appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-17 23:00 GMT+8
English Summary: The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.
CLAUDE Design Anthropic Labs
Source: Anthropic News Published: 2026-04-17 22:58 GMT+8
English Summary: See the source link for the full update.
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs
Agents that remember: introducing Agent Memory
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-17 21:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Cloudflare Agent Memory is a managed service that gives AI agents persistent memory, allowing them to recall what matters, forget what doesn’t, and get smarter over time.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-agent-memory/
Agents Week: network performance update
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-17 21:00 GMT+8
English Summary: By migrating our request handling layer to a Rust-based architecture called FL2, Cloudflare has increased its performance lead to 60% of the world’s top networks. We use real-user measurements and connection trimeans to ensure our data reflects the actual experience of people on the Internet.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/network-performance-agents-week/
Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-18 01:48 GMT+8
English Summary: A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to exploit them. Now, hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in real-life attacks, according to a cybersecurity firm.
7 ways to travel smarter this summer, with help from Google
Source: Google Blog Technology Published: 2026-04-17 22:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Illustration showing a person with a Pixel phone in a beach town farmers’ market by the water
Link: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/summer-travel-tips-google-search-ai/
Unweight: how we compressed an LLM 22% without sacrificing quality
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-17 21:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Running LLMs across Cloudflare’s network requires us to be smarter and more efficient about GPU memory bandwidth. That’s why we developed Unweight, a lossless inference-time compression system that achieves up to a 22% model footprint reduction, so that we can deliver faster and cheaper inference than ever before.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unweight-tensor-compression/
2026-04-17
Introducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model in Amazon Bedrock
Source: AWS News Blog Published: 2026-04-16 22:49 GMT+8
English Summary: AWS launches Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic’s most intelligent Opus model for advancing performance across coding, long-running agents, and professional work. Claude Opus 4.7 is powered by Amazon Bedrock’s next generation inference engine, purpose-built for generative AI inferencing and fine-tuning workloads.
Link: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-anthropics-claude-opus-4-7-model-in-amazon-bedrock/
Claude Opus 4.7 is generally available
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-16 22:02 GMT+8
English Summary: Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic’s latest Opus model, is now rolling out on GitHub Copilot. In our early testing, Opus 4.7 delivers stronger multi-step task performance and more reliable agentic execution,… The post Claude Opus 4.7 is generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Link: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7-is-generally-available
Cloudflare’s AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-16 22:00 GMT+8
English Summary: We’re building AI Gateway into a unified inference layer for AI, letting developers call models from 14+ providers. New features include Workers AI binding integration and an expanded catalog with multimodal models.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-platform/
Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research
Source: OpenAI Blog Published: 2026-04-16 09:00 GMT+8
English Summary: OpenAI introduces GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built to accelerate drug discovery, genomics analysis, protein reasoning, and scientific research workflows.
Link: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-rosalind
Rule insights dashboard and unified filter bar
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-16 23:30 GMT+8
English Summary: Rule insights dashboard GitHub repository rulesets are powerful, but it hasn’t been easy to spot trends like spikes in blocked pushes during an incident or patterns in bypass activity without… The post Rule insights dashboard and unified filter bar appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Link: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-rule-insights-dashboard-and-unified-filter-bar
OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-17 03:18 GMT+8
English Summary: OpenAI’s agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.
Manage agent skills with GitHub CLI
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-17 01:24 GMT+8
English Summary: Agent skills are reshaping how developers work with AI coding agents. Today we’re launching gh skill, a new command in the GitHub CLI that makes it easy to discover, install,… The post Manage agent skills with GitHub CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Link: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-manage-agent-skills-with-github-cli
OpenAI’s big Codex update is a direct shot at Claude Code
Source: The Verge Tech Published: 2026-04-17 01:00 GMT+8
English Summary: OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system, Codex, with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. The package of updates comes as OpenAI’s rivalry with Anthropic intensifies, following the stellar successes of Claude Code and OpenAI aggressively shifting resources to catch up. […]
Link: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/913034/openai-codex-updates-use-macos
2026-04-16
Register domains wherever you build: Cloudflare Registrar API now in beta
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-15 21:00 GMT+8
English Summary: The Cloudflare Registrar API is now in beta. Developers and AI agents can search, check availability, and register domains at cost directly from their editor, their terminal, or their agent — without leaving their workflow.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/registrar-api-beta/
The next evolution of the Agents SDK
Source: OpenAI Blog Published: 2026-04-15 18:00 GMT+8
English Summary: OpenAI updates the Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and a model-native harness, helping developers build secure, long-running agents across files and tools.
Link: https://openai.com/index/the-next-evolution-of-the-agents-sdk
OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-16 03:28 GMT+8
English Summary: OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.
Prepay for the Gemini API to get more control over your spend
Source: Google Blog Technology Published: 2026-04-15 22:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Gemini API
Link: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/prepay-gemini-api/
Project Think: building the next generation of AI agents on Cloudflare
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-15 21:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Announcing a preview of the next edition of the Agents SDK — from lightweight primitives to a batteries-included platform for AI agents that think, act, and persist.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-think/
Google launches a Gemini AI app on Mac
Source: The Verge Tech Published: 2026-04-16 02:10 GMT+8
English Summary: Google is launching a new Gemini app on Mac that allows you to interact with the AI assistant without switching windows on your desktop. With the app, you can use the Option + Space shortcut to pull up a floating chat bubble, where you can ask Gemini questions and share your window. Before sharing your […]
Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/912638/google-gemini-mac-app
Introducing Agent Lee - a new interface to the Cloudflare stack
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-15 21:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Agent Lee is an in-dashboard agent that shifts Cloudflare’s interface from manual tab-switching to a single prompt. Using sandboxed TypeScript, it helps you troubleshoot and manage your stack as a grounded technical collaborator.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-agent-lee/
Rearchitecting the Workflows control plane for the agentic era
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-15 21:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Cloudflare Workflows, a durable execution engine for multi-step applications, now supports higher concurrency and creation rate limits through a rearchitectured control plane, helping scale to meet the use cases for durable background agents.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/workflows-v2/
2026-04-15
Model selection for Claude and Codex agents on github.com
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-14 23:21 GMT+8
English Summary: Model selection is now available for the Claude and Codex third-party coding agents on github.com. Just like Copilot cloud agent, you can now select a model when kicking off a… The post Model selection for Claude and Codex agents on github.com appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Link: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-14-model-selection-for-claude-and-codex-agents-on-github-com
Link code scanning alerts to GitHub Issues
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-15 02:28 GMT+8
English Summary: You can now link code scanning alerts to GitHub Issues, bringing security remediation into your existing planning and tracking workflows. This functionality is in public preview. With this update, you… The post Link code scanning alerts to GitHub Issues appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Link: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-14-link-code-scanning-alerts-to-github-issues
GitHub Code Quality: Improvements to standard findings in public preview
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-14 19:31 GMT+8
English Summary: We’ve updated the GitHub Code Quality experience to make it easier to navigate and triage findings across your repository. GitHub Code Quality standard findings help you detect potential reliability and… The post GitHub Code Quality: Improvements to standard findings in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
AWS Interconnect is now generally available, with a new option to simplify last-mile connectivity
Source: AWS News Blog Published: 2026-04-15 07:54 GMT+8
English Summary: Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, a managed private connectivity service that connects your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) directly to VPCs on other cloud providers. We’re also introducing AWS Interconnect – last mile, a new capability that simplifies how you establish high-speed, private connections to AWS from your […]
Deployment context in repository properties and alerts
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-15 04:26 GMT+8
English Summary: Artifact and deployment context now appears in two new places: repository properties and security alert pages. Repository properties: deployable and deployed Two new built-in repository properties—deployable and deployed—are now available.… The post Deployment context in repository properties and alerts appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Link: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-14-deployment-context-in-repository-properties-and-alerts
Google introduces “Skills” in Chrome to make Gemini prompts instantly reusable
Source: Ars Technica Published: 2026-04-15 01:00 GMT+8
English Summary: You can save custom prompts you find useful or grab a premade Skill from Google’s library.
OIDC support for Dependabot and code scanning
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-15 04:29 GMT+8
English Summary: Dependabot and code scanning now support OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication for private registries configured at the organization level, eliminating the need to store long-lived credentials as repository secrets. What’s new… The post OIDC support for Dependabot and code scanning appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Link: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-14-oidc-support-for-dependabot-and-code-scanning
SBOM exports are now computed asynchronously
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-15 00:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) exports from repository pages and new API endpoints are now asynchronous operations. Previously, navigating to a repository’s dependency graph page and clicking the Export SBOM… The post SBOM exports are now computed asynchronously appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Link: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-14-sbom-exports-are-now-computed-asynchronously
2026-04-14
Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI
Source: OpenAI Blog Published: 2026-04-13 14:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Cloudflare brings OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and Codex to Agent Cloud, enabling enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI agents for real-world tasks with speed and security.
Link: https://openai.com/index/cloudflare-openai-agent-cloud
Copilot data residency in US + EU and FedRAMP compliance now available
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-14 07:03 GMT+8
English Summary: GitHub Copilot now supports data residency for US and EU regions, ensuring all inference processing and associated data stay within your designated geography. For US government customers, all model hosts… The post Copilot data residency in US + EU and FedRAMP compliance now available appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Mythos Preview in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Agent Registry, and more (April 13, 2026)
Source: AWS News Blog Published: 2026-04-14 00:16 GMT+8
English Summary: In my last Week in Review post, I mentioned how much time I’ve been spending on AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops with customers this year. A common theme in those sessions is the need for better cost visibility. Teams are moving fast with AI, but as they go from experimenting to full production, finance and […]
Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-13 22:29 GMT+8
English Summary: We’re introducing cf, a new unified CLI designed for consistency across the Cloudflare platform, alongside Local Explorer for debugging local data. These tools simplify how developers and AI agents interact with our nearly 3,000 API operations.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cf-cli-local-explorer/
Agents have their own computers with Sandboxes GA
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-13 21:08 GMT+8
English Summary: Cloudflare Sandboxes give AI agents a persistent, isolated environment: a real computer with a shell, a filesystem, and background processes that starts on demand and picks up exactly where it left off.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/sandbox-ga/
Fix merge conflicts in three clicks with Copilot cloud agent
Source: GitHub Blog Changelog Published: 2026-04-14 03:36 GMT+8
English Summary: You can now fix merge conflicts in three clicks with the new Fix with Copilot button on github.com, powered by Copilot cloud agent. Click the button, and a comment is… The post Fix merge conflicts in three clicks with Copilot cloud agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Dynamic, identity-aware, and secure Sandbox auth
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-13 21:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Outbound Workers for Sandboxes provide a programmable, zero-trust egress proxy for AI agents. This allows developers to inject credentials and enforce dynamic security policies without exposing sensitive tokens to untrusted code.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/sandbox-auth/
OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-14 08:23 GMT+8
English Summary: The acquisition indicates a capability that OpenAI is building into ChatGPT: financial planning.
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/openai-has-bought-ai-personal-finance-startup-hiro/
2026-04-13
Welcome to Agents Week
Source: Cloudflare Blog Published: 2026-04-13 01:01 GMT+8
English Summary: Cloudflare’s mission has always been to help build a better Internet. Sometimes that means building for the Internet as it exists. Sometimes it means building for the Internet as it’s about to become. This week, we’re kicking off Agents Week, dedicated to what comes next.
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-agents-week/
Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-13 05:14 GMT+8
English Summary: The report is particularly surprising since the Department of Defense recently declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk.
At the HumanX conference, everyone was talking about Claude
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-12 23:00 GMT+8
English Summary: Anthropic was the star of the show at San Francisco’s AI-centric conference.
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/12/at-the-humanx-conference-everyone-was-talking-about-claude/
Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’
Source: The Verge Tech Published: 2026-04-13 01:02 GMT+8
English Summary: Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company’s Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is demanding a ransom by April […]
Link: https://www.theverge.com/games/910815/rockstar-games-says-hack-will-have-no-impact
X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-13 01:02 GMT+8
English Summary: X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/12/x-says-its-reducing-payments-to-clickbait-accounts/
From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-12 23:07 GMT+8
English Summary: The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
The Hisense UR9 is a great first shot against OLED’s bow
Source: The Verge Tech Published: 2026-04-12 21:30 GMT+8
English Summary: RGB LED TVs have been the talk of the TV world this year, with models coming from all the manufacturers, and the first one of 2026 is here - the Hisense UR9. It’s the first look at the viability of the new backlight technology outside of demo rooms, and it’s a step above the traditional […]
Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/910537/hisense-ur9-rgb-led-tv-review
Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses
Source: TechCrunch Published: 2026-04-13 03:58 GMT+8
English Summary: These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple to launch a variety of mixed and augmented reality devices.
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/12/apple-reportedly-testing-four-designs-for-upcoming-smart-glasses/