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Musk Demands Altman Quit OpenAI Board, Waives Compensation

Elon Musk has dropped his compensation demand in the OpenAI lawsuit but insists Sam Altman must leave the company's board. He also demands Greg Brockman surrender all equity gains.

量子位 · 180d ago

Coding

Cognition Launches Japan Subsidiary for Devin

US-based Cognition, developer of AI coding tool Devin, announced a Japanese subsidiary—its first in Asia. The move enables direct collaboration with Japanese firms to bolster software development support.

ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 180d ago

Anthropic Unveils Claude Managed Agents Beta

Anthropic launched the public beta of Claude Managed Agents to speed up production AI agent building and operations. It includes execution environments and multi-agent coordination, promising 10x faster development.

ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 180d ago

Models

Claude Mythos Lacks Real Magic, Agents Suffice

Reddit post dismisses Claude Mythos hype, arguing it's no breakthrough. Claims advanced models like GPT 5.2 Codex or Kimi 2.5 in agentic loops with code access can outperform it by finding bugs effortlessly.

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 180d ago

Zhiyuan A3 Humanoid Debuts via Qiantian Leasing

Zhiyuan's new A3 humanoid robot launched at Qiantian Zu's city partner ecosystem conference on April 9. First batch deliveries to partners start in April.

36氪 · 180d ago

Huawei Teases AI Glasses Launch

Huawei hints at an upcoming AI glasses launch. An executive shared the first camera sample photo taken with the unreleased device.

Pandaily · 180d ago

China Preps 2026 IC/Software Tax Breaks Lists

Five Chinese ministries issue notice for 2026 tax incentive lists for IC enterprises/projects and software firms. Eligible firms can preemptively claim benefits in 2026 prepayments, with adjustments at year-end.

36氪 · 180d ago

Alibaba Elevates Tongyi Lab, Names Li Feifei CTO

Alibaba is reshuffling its AI leadership structure. It elevates the status of Tongyi Lab and appoints AI pioneer Li Feifei as Alibaba Cloud CTO.

Pandaily · 180d ago

OpenClaw 2026.4.9: Memory, UI & Security Boost

OpenClaw 2026.4.9 adds grounded REM backfill for memory dreaming, diary integration, and structured UI views with timeline navigation. It introduces character-vibes QA reports and plugin auth aliases.

OpenClaw (GitHub Releases) · 180d ago

Research

Yaosu Tech Secures 200M RMB for AI Organ Chips

Yaosu Tech raised 200M RMB in Series A funding led by Guoshou Equity to integrate AI with organ-on-a-chip into drug development. FDA policies now support non-animal methods like organ chips and AI models, enabling real-world applications.

36氪 · 180d ago

Pony.ai Launches Robotaxi in Singapore

Pony.ai has launched passenger robotaxi services in Singapore. This move accelerates the company's global expansion.

Pandaily · 180d ago

Models

Opus 4.6 Lags Behind Quantized Gemma on Test

A Reddit user criticizes the latest Opus 4.6 update as 'lobotomized,' claiming it underperforms even a heavily quantized Gemma 4 31B UD IQ3 XXS model on the 'carwash test' using an RTX 5070 TI GPU. This highlights potential regressions in recent model tuning.

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 180d ago

Ex-Alibaba Exec Launches AI-Powered Home Design Platform

Former Alibaba exec Ma Xuejun's Tmall Sheji Jia raises hundreds of millions from Tmall, launching CID (Customized, Industrialized, Digitalized) home renovation platform. Uses AI to integrate crafts, workflows, and supply chains into end-to-end system.

36氪 · 180d ago

GitHub March 2026 Availability Report

GitHub published its availability report for March 2026. The platform experienced four incidents resulting in degraded performance across its services.

GitHub Blog · 180d ago

Zero Robot Secures Over ¥100M in Funding

Embodied AI firm 零次方机器人 completed over 100 million yuan funding led by Runze Group. Founded in Jan 2025 by Tsinghua post-00s team, it hit 100 units/month production by Dec 2025.

36氪 · 180d ago

OpenClaw 2026.4.9-beta.1 Beta Release

OpenClaw's latest beta introduces advanced memory and dreaming features with REM backfill, diary integration, and UI enhancements for timeline navigation and traceable summaries. It adds QA evaluation reports, improved plugin auth sharing, iOS versioning workflows, and multiple security fixes addressing SSRF, env vars, and remote exec vulnerabilities.

OpenClaw (GitHub Releases) · 180d ago

Pony.ai Launches Europe's First Robotaxi

Pony.ai partnered with Verne and Uber to launch commercial Robotaxi in Zagreb, Croatia on April 8. This is Europe's first public-facing Robotaxi service.

36氪 · 180d ago

Google Rolls Out Gemini for Home Early Access in Japan

Google launches early access for Gemini for Home in Japan, replacing Google Assistant. It handles vague instructions, context-aware dialogues for music, appliances, and smart camera analysis.

ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 180d ago

Models

EXAONE 4.5 33B Models Now on Hugging Face

EXAONE 4.5-33B released in multiple formats including FP8 and GGUF for efficient inference. Available immediately on Hugging Face repositories from LGAI-EXAONE.

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 180d ago

LinkedIn Accused of Secret Browser Scanning

A campaign called BrowserGate accuses LinkedIn of secretly scanning users' browsers for installed software and sending data to servers without consent. LinkedIn claims it discloses this in its privacy policy for abuse detection and site stability.

Computerworld · 180d ago

Oxford Postdoc Secures Funding for Robot Optical Sensors

Zhizi Force Control raised two funding rounds totaling millions RMB for its optical-based whole-body force perception system for humanoid robots. Founded by Oxford postdoc Song Goyang, the tech uses 'structure as sensor' with centralized processing for multi-joint force detection.

36氪 · 180d ago

Research

20-Person AI Teams Valued $200B

Rise of Research Startups fusing AI research and VC to tackle AGI, outpacing big labs via talent density and compute. Examples like SSI (Ilya Sutskever's) achieve huge valuations with tiny teams.

虎嗅 · 180d ago

Ex-Xiaomi Exec Raises 100M RMB for AI Sleep Tech

Former Xiaomi exec Wang Teng founded Jiri Yixiu, raising over 100M RMB from Hillhouse and Zhiyuan for AI hardware in sleep management. The company aims to build an 'energy asset management ecosystem' with monitoring-to-intervention hardware, AI apps, and IoT.

36氪 · 180d ago

Citigroup Accelerates Upgrades with AI

Citigroup's CTO Tim Ryan states AI is speeding up account opening and legacy system modernization. AI enables data migration from legacy systems, automated code generation, and faster, larger-scale testing.

36氪 · 180d ago

CITIC Eyes AI-Driven Cleanroom Boom

CITIC Securities report highlights AI-fueled overseas semiconductor demand accelerating cleanroom construction. Profits and cash flows surge; domestic investments expected to follow.

36氪 · 180d ago