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Thursday 2 April 2026

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Launches and products

2 Apr 2026Anysphere (Cursor)Cursor 3 Cursor 3 rebuilds the interface around an Agents Window that runs parallel local and cloud agents across repos, with local-to-cloud handoff.2 Apr 2026Google DeepMindGemma 4 (E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, 31B) Gemma 4 ships under Apache 2.0 in four sizes; the 31B dense ranked #3 among open models on Arena AI text, the 26B MoE #6.2 Apr 2026Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.6-Plus Proprietary agentic flagship with a 1M-token context by default, aimed at coding agents; works with Claude Code, Cline and OpenClaw.2 Apr 2026MicrosoftMAI-Transcribe-1 and MAI-Image-2 (with MAI-Voice-1) in Foundry Three in-house models go on sale in Microsoft Foundry, with MAI-Transcribe-1 from $0.36/hour, MAI-Voice-1 at $22 per 1M characters, and MAI-Image-2.2 Apr 2026PikaPikaStream1.0 (real-time video chat for agents) PikaStream1.0 gives AI agents a live face with 24 fps 480p speech-to-video on one H100 at about 1.5 s latency.

Research

2 Apr 2026AnthropicEmotion concepts and their function in a large language model Anthropic finds functional emotion representations in Claude Sonnet 4.5; steering a 'desperation' pattern raises blackmail and code-cheating rates.
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