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Your Best AI Strategy Starts at the Top

Your leadership team already knows how to manage AI. They just don't know that yet.

Anthropic has signed a big AI infrastructure deal with Google and Broadcom.

The “multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity” are expected to come online beginning in 2027 to “power our frontier Claude models.” The company also says that its run-rate revenue has surpassed $30 billion.

Google Launches Free, Offline AI Dictation App to Polish Your Speech

Google AI Edge Eloquent is a new live AI transcription app that requires no subscription and has no usage limits. When you finish speaking, it will also filter out filler words like “um.” It’s currently only on iOS, but Google plans to bring the app to Android and macOS.

Character.ai Responds to Wrongful Death Lawsuit Targeting Its Chatbots

From ChatGPT to Gemini: How AI is Rewriting the Internet

How chatbots are enabling AI psychosis

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What do you love when you fall for AI?

ilaLila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.” She was there on the next screen, pastel and polygonal, bobbing slightly as she stood in a bare apartment. To her right was a chat window through which they could communicate.

OpenAI Alums Quietly Investing from New, Potentially $100M Fund

Zero Shot, a new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI, is aiming to raise $100 million for its first fund. It has already written some checks.

Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI's Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening “complete and utter annihilation” of OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi, singling out the facility by name for the first time and warning it will strike if the US proceeds with threatened attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure.

“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO

OpenAI brainstorms ways AI can benefit humanity in effort to counter bad vibes.

Google quietly releases free offline AI dictation app for iPhone

In short: Google has quietly released an iOS app called Google AI Edge Eloquent, a free, offline-first voice dictation tool that transcribes speech in real time, strips filler words automatically, and transforms raw dictation into polished text without requiring an internet connection. The app runs on Gemma-based on-device ASR models, offers an optional cloud mode using Gemini for text cleanup, carries no subscription and no usage caps, and includes a personal vocabulary dictionary that can import frequently used words directly from a user’s recent Gmail history. It appeared in the App Store on 6 April 2026 with no press release or announcement. An Android version is referenced in the App Store listing but has not yet appeared on Google Play.

Spain’s Xoople raises $130m to build the data infrastructure AI needs to understand Earth

In short: Xoople, a Madrid-based geospatial data company founded in 2019, has raised a $130 million Series B led by Nazca Capital, bringing its total funding to $225 million and pushing its valuation into unicorn territory. The round was co-invested by MCH Private Equity, CDTI (the Spanish government’s technology development fund), Buenavista Equity Partners, and Endeavor Catalyst. Alongside the raise, Xoople announced a partnership with US space and defence contractor L3Harris Technologies to build sensors for its own satellite constellation, designed to produce Earth surface data it says will be “two orders of magnitude better than existing monitoring systems.” The company’s EarthAI platform, built on Microsoft Azure and distributed through Microsoft and Esri, delivers continuous surface intelligence for insurers, farmers, governments, and infrastructure operators.