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The WeekofApril 6April 6, 2026

Announcements Chatter Podcasts The week Models Connect your AI

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AI lab announcements, 6–12 April 2026 — forck

Week 15, 2026 · AI lab announcements, 6–12 April 2026

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Monday

6 April

OpenAI Story of the week

Announcing the OpenAI Safety Fellowship

OpenAI announces a pilot program for a Safety Fellowship to support independent safety and alignment research and develop next-generation talent.

6 Apr

Also Monday

LG AI Research
LG Aimers 8th: Taking on the Challenge with ‘EXAONE,’ Korea’s Representative AI

LG AI Research
LG Aimers 8th: Taking on the Challenge with ‘EXAONE,’ Korea’s Representative AI

On the shows on Monday2 episodes

57:45Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wants data centers in space

Decoder · 6 Apr · 58 min

28:37Peter Yang on Small Teams, Coding Agents, and Why Human Ambition Has No Ceiling

a16z Podcast · 6 Apr · 29 min

Tuesday

7 April

Harvey
Building Spectre
CognitionModel update
Introducing SWE 1.6: Improving Model UX

Z.aiNew model
GLM-5.1
Together AI
What is an AI Native Cloud?

On the shows on Tuesday3 episodes

1:07:07Balaji on Why AI Raises the Cost of Verification

a16z Podcast · 7 Apr · 67 min

Wednesday

8 April

Google ResearchDeveloper tool
Improving the academic workflow: Introducing two AI agents for better figures and peer review
ByteDanceNew model
Introducing Seed Full-Duplex Speech LLM: Attentive Listening, Robust Interference Suppression, Enabling More Natural Interaction
Harvey
Harvey in Practice: How Emerging Companies and VC Teams Support Growth at Every Stage
OpenAI
The next phase of enterprise AI
Stability AIProduct launch
Introducing Brand Studio: The creative production platform powered by your brand
VercelCapability change
Zero Data Retention on AI Gateway
OpenAISafety or policy
Introducing the Child Safety Blueprint

SupabaseCapability change
Custom OIDC Providers for Supabase Auth
Genspark
Introducing Genspark AI Workspace 4.0: Your AI Employee, Now Everywhere
Factory AI
The Factory Desktop App
Liquid AIModel update

On the shows on Wednesday1 episode

59:37The Agent Era: Building Software Beyond Chat with Box CEO Aaron Levie

a16z Podcast · 8 Apr · 60 min

Thursday

9 April

HarveyCapability change
The Brief: April 2026
ElevenLabs
Enterprise voice AI, deployed locally
Google ResearchResearch paper
ConvApparel: Measuring and bridging the realism gap in user simulators
VercelCapability change
Agentic Infrastructure
SupabaseDeveloper tool
AI Agents Know About Supabase. They Don't Always Use It Right.
GradiumResearch paper
Evaluating Phonon: how we made the best TTS model for edge devices

Luma
Luma Submits 21 AI-Generated Finalists to Cannes Lions After Inspiring 400 Ads in Less Than 8 Weeks
CognitionAvailability change
Launching in Japan with Takumi Masai
LG AI ResearchNew model
LG's first publicly released Vision Language Model, EXAONE 4.5

On the shows on Thursday4 episodes

38:19The AI industry's existential race for profits

Decoder · 9 Apr · 38 min

Friday

10 April

falNew model
Introducing PATINA
Factory AI
How Missions Work
OpenAI
Prompting fundamentals
RunwayPartnership
Runway Expands Collaboration with NYU Tisch School of the Arts
AnthropicSafety or policy
Preparing your security program for AI-accelerated offense
OpenAI
Learn ChatGPT workflows for sales teams
OpenAI
Learn ChatGPT workflows for marketing teams
OpenAI
Learn ChatGPT workflows for finance teams
OpenAI
Our response to the Axios developer tool compromise
OpenAICapability change
Creating images with ChatGPT
OpenAI
Healthcare
OpenAI
Learn ChatGPT for Sales Teams
OpenAI
ChatGPT for customer success teams
OpenAI
Analyzing data with ChatGPT
OpenAI
ChatGPT for operations teams
OpenAI
AI fundamentals

OpenAI
ChatGPT for marketing teams
OpenAI
Using custom GPTs
OpenAI
ChatGPT for finance teams
OpenAI
Financial services
OpenAICapability change
Working with files in ChatGPT
OpenAI

Sunday

12 April

On the shows on Sunday1 episode

1:22:39Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)

Lenny's Podcast · 12 Apr · 83 min

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Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses

Dwarkesh Podcast · 7 Apr · 123 min

1:12:43Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code, 0% human review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI Frontier & Symphony

Latent Space · 7 Apr · 73 min

LFM2.5-VL-450M: Structured Visual Intelligence, Edge to Cloud

CognitionCapability change

How Devin Is Modernizing COBOL at Fortune 500 Companies

CursorCapability change

Bugbot Learned Rules and MCP Support

Safetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation

Hugging FaceCapability change

Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers

Hugging FaceModel update

Waypoint-1.5: Higher-Fidelity Interactive Worlds for Everyday GPUs

CyberAgent moves faster with ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex

1:39:00

Who Controls AI Acceleration? Vitalik Buterin and Guillaume Verdon Debate

a16z Podcast · 9 Apr · 99 min

44:00The Agentic Economy: How AI Agents Will Transform the Financial System with Circle Co-Founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire

No Priors · 9 Apr · 44 min

1:09:31OpenClaw for normies is here

Sources · 9 Apr · 70 min

Responsible and safe use of AI

Brainstorming with ChatGPT

Research with ChatGPT

Applications of AI at OpenAI

ChatGPT for managers

Using projects in ChatGPT

OpenAICapability change

Personalizing ChatGPT

Writing with ChatGPT

ChatGPT for research