Ace the Ping-Pong Robot Can Whup Your Ass
Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players.
April 2026
Google DeepMind Introduces Vision Banana: An Instruction-Tuned Image Generator That Beats SAM 3 on Segmentation and Depth Anything V3 on Metric Depth Estimation
For years, the computer vision community has operated on two separate tracks: generative models (which produce images) and discriminative models (which understand them). The assumption was straightforward — models good…
Meet GitNexus: An Open-Source MCP-Native Knowledge Graph Engine That Gives Claude Code and Cursor Full Codebase Structural Awareness
There is a quiet failure mode that lives at the center of every AI-assisted coding workflow. You ask Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf to modify a function. The agent does…
Lachy Groom to back India startup Pronto at a $200M valuation, sources say
This round, should it occur, would double the house-help startup’s valuation in a matter of weeks.
A Coding Implementation on Deepgram Python SDK for Transcription, Text-to-Speech, Async Audio Processing, and Text Intelligence
In this tutorial, we build an advanced hands-on workflow with the Deepgram Python SDK and explore how modern voice AI capabilities come together in a single Python environment. We set…
A Coding Implementation on Microsoft’s OpenMementos with Trace Structure Analysis, Context Compression, and Fine-Tuning Data Preparation
In this tutorial, we work with Microsoft’s OpenMementos dataset and explore how reasoning traces are structured through blocks and mementos in a practical, Colab-ready workflow. We stream the dataset efficiently,…
Steve Ballmer blasts founder he backed who pleaded guilty to fraud: ‘I was duped and feel silly’
Steve Ballmer wrote a fiery letter in the sentencing of disgraced founder Joseph Sanberg documenting all the harm that’s befalling him as an investor.
Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model V4 matters
On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to…
Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes
The IRS has used Palantir’s software since at least 2018, The Intercept reports.
Cohere acquires, merges with German-based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’
Cohere, the Canada-based AI company that makes AI tools for businesses in regulated industries, announced Friday it would merge with Aleph Alpha, a German company that also builds AI systems…