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Tencent and Alibaba Want 20% of DeepSeek. DeepSeek Said No.

Tencent proposed a 20% stake in DeepSeek. DeepSeek refused. Valuation target: $20B+ (initial $10B doubled in 48 hours). Our read: split round, Liang walks if 20% holds.

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April 26, 2026

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Anthropic + NEC Sign Japan's Largest AI-Native Engineering Deal: 30,000 Employees, First Global Partner

Anthropic names NEC first Japan Global Partner. 30,000 employees get Claude, 3 sectors targeted, Claude Code at massive scale. April 23, 2026 deal explained.

Meta Will Record Every Keystroke and Mouse Click of US Employees to Train AI Agents: The Model Capability Initiative Leak

Meta's Model Capability Initiative (MCI), leaked April 21 2026, installs software that records every keystroke, click, screen and dropdown navigation of US employees as training data for autonomous AI agents. Our analysis of what this means for AI training ethics, workplace surveillance and Big Tech's next decade.

Jeff Bezos Nears $10 Billion for Project Prometheus: Inside His Secret AI Lab Betting on Physical World Models at $38B Valuation

Jeff Bezos is closing a $10B round for Project Prometheus at a $38B valuation, led by JPMorgan and BlackRock. Inside the post-LLM physical AI lab with 120+ engineers from OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta.

3 Macaques Just Navigated a Virtual Forest With Their Minds: Inside the AI-Powered iBCI That Could Give Paralyzed People Their Freedom Back

Three rhesus macaques navigated a first-person VR forest with thought alone using an iBCI across M1, PMd, and PMv motor cortex regions. Session success rates up to 96 percent, published in Science Advances April 2026, with direct implications for paralyzed-patient mobility.

MIT's Waste-Heat Silicon Computers Hit 99% Accuracy — AI Efficiency's New Dark Horse

MIT engineers designed dust-sized silicon structures that perform matrix-vector multiplication with 99% accuracy using only waste heat as information. We break down what the Physical Review Applied paper actually says, what it means for the AI energy crisis, and when — or if — it reaches production.

AI Protein Design Finally Leaves the PhD Lab: OpenProtein.AI, BioPipelines, and GYDE Put Drug Discovery on Every Biologist's Laptop

AI protein design goes no-code in April 2026. OpenProtein.AI, BioPipelines, and GYDE compress AlphaFold-era workflows into point-and-click tools any biologist can use.

Google Launches Deep Research Max on Gemini 3.1 Pro: 93.3% on DeepSearchQA, MCP Support, and the Autonomous Research Agent War Has a New Leader

Google shipped Deep Research and Deep Research Max on Gemini 3.1 Pro on April 21, 2026. Max hits 93.3% DeepSearchQA (+27 pts), 54.6% HLE, 85.9% BrowseComp, with native MCP support and FactSet/PitchBook integrations.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 Launches: DALL-E Dies May 12, And Yes, Every Image In This Article Was Generated By It

OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Images 2.0 on April 21, 2026, the first OpenAI image model with native reasoning. DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 retire May 12. Every visual in this article was generated by the model itself.

GPT-5.5 Launch: OpenAI Ships Agentic Super-App Engine on April 23

On April 23, 2026, OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 and next-gen Codex to paid ChatGPT tiers, six weeks after GPT-5.4. Greg Brockman called it a new class of agentic computing powered by NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 infrastructure. Our analysis of the super-app strategy.

Anthropic Mythos Got Hacked on Day One: Inside the Discord Breach That Exposed a 'Too Dangerous to Release' AI Model

On April 21, 2026, a private Discord group accessed Claude Mythos Preview through a compromised Mercor contractor credential — Anthropic's third security incident in 26 days.

Altman vs Anthropic: "Fear-Based Marketing" — Inside Sam Altman's Brutal Takedown of Claude Mythos

On April 21, 2026 Sam Altman attacked Anthropic's Claude Mythos marketing on Core Memory podcast: "We built a bomb, we'll sell you a $100M bomb shelter." Our analysis of the fear-based marketing critique, Project Glasswing, and the 8-day OpenAI-Anthropic escalation.

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April 23, 2026

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