AI News. April 10, 2026
OpenAI paused its Stargate UK infrastructure project citing high energy costs and regulatory uncertainty
Revolut launched AIR, an in-chat AI assistant rolling out to UK users first that can take actions like blocking payments, buying eSIMs, and breaking down spending history
Perplexity integrated with Plaid to let users link bank accounts, credit cards, and loans alongside brokerage accounts, enabling full financial tracking and freeform AI-powered queries across all connected accounts
LM Studio acquired Locally AI, bringing mobile-native on-device AI to its platform with plans to ship seamless cross-device model and agent experiences
CoreWeave and Meta expanded their partnership with a $21B agreement through 2032, bringing the total value of their announced deals to ~$35B, with capacity to include one of the first NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform deployments
Tether launched the open-source QVAC SDK, a local-first AI framework for running and fine-tuning models on-device across mobile and desktop platforms without relying on cloud infrastructure
Surf AI launched Surf Skill, a single-line SDK replacing 60+ crypto data APIs for agentic environments, and is giving away $200K in API credits to early users
Intel and Google announced a multiyear collaboration expanding Intel Xeon CPU usage across Google Cloud AI workloads and co-developing custom ASIC-based IPUs
Runway made Seedance 2.0 available on all paid plans including the US
CodecFlow launched agent-first robotics and desktop operator infrastructure powered by vision language models, with payments via x402 on Solana
AlphaTON Capital is looking to raise $43M through a deal with Vertical Data Inc. to scale AI infrastructure for Telegram’s Cocoon platform, expected to close Q2 2026
Shopify launched an official AI Toolkit supporting Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and VS Code, enabling agents to build apps and manage stores via Shopify’s API and CLI
Florida AG launched a full investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT over their alleged role in last year’s FSU mass shooting that killed 2 and injured 5
Anthropic released an Advisor Strategy for the Messages API, pairing Opus 4.6 as an advisor to Sonnet or Haiku models, scoring 2.7 percentage points higher on SWE-bench Multilingual than Sonnet alone while costing 11.9% less per task
OpenAI introduced a new $100/month Pro tier offering 5x more Codex usage than Plus, with a limited-time 10x promotion through May 31st
x402 launched usage-based pricing via a new Upto scheme, letting agents pay only for what they consume across ERC20s with gasless payments via CDP Facilitator
Morpho launched a User Agent Beta letting AI agents check positions, simulate transactions, and construct deposit transactions on Morpho Vaults and Markets with no SDK required
Gemini added interactive visualizations directly in chat, letting users adjust variables and explore 3D models for complex concepts
Covenant AI announced its departure from the Bittensor network, citing centralized control by founder Jacob Steeves (Const), who suspended the team’s subnet emissions, removed their moderation access, and applied economic pressure through timed token sales
