AI News. April 21, 2026

Apr 21, 2026

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab released Fun-ASR1.5, an end-to-end speech recognition model supporting 30 languages with native code-switching and auto-formatted text output

Tongyi Lab@Ali_TongyiLab

We have officially launched Fun-ASR1.5, a major update to our end-to-end speech recognition model. This release focuses on three core pillars: broader language coverage, language switching, and production-ready text output. Key Features: • Multilingual Support: Supports

6:15 AM · Apr 20, 2026 · 1.54M Views

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Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6, a new open-source SOTA on HLE with tools (54.0), SWE-Bench Pro (58.6), and SWE-bench Multilingual (76.7), rolling out Instant, Thinking, Agent, and Agent Swarm variants on Kimi Chat and APIs

Kimi.ai@Kimi_Moonshot

Meet Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding 🔹Open-source SOTA on HLE w/ tools (54.0), SWE-Bench Pro (58.6), SWE-bench Multilingual (76.7), BrowseComp (83.2), Toolathlon (50.0), Charxiv w/ python(86.7), Math Vision w/ python (93.2) What's new: 🔹Long-horizon coding - 4,000+

3:28 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 4.33M Views

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Democratic House candidate Alex Bores rolling out an AI dividend plan to share AI wealth amid job displacement concerns

Axios@axios

Exclusive: Alex Bores rolls out "AI dividend" plan to share AI wealth trib.al/zmN6nxW

9:38 AM · Apr 20, 2026 · 51.9K Views

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Birdeye Data adds x402 support for pay-per-request API access on Solana and Base at $0.003 USDC per call

x402 on Solana@x402

No API keys, no monthly SaaS limits. Just agents natively using x402 to pay $0.003 USDC onchain per call. @solana’s low fees make the agentic economy possible. The machine-to-machine data economy is scaling fast. 👇

Birdeye Data @birdeye_data

AI agents are about to start paying their own API bills. Not metaphorically - wallet to server, onchain, per call. On @solana and @base. Birdeye Data now supports x402 - agentic payments for real-time onchain data. 🧵

2:21 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 4.08K Views

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Birdeye Data@birdeye_data

1:02 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 3.94K Views

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Meta launches LevelUp, a free 4-week training program with CBRE to prepare fiber technicians for US data center construction sites

Engineering at Meta@Meta_Engineers

Today we're announcing LevelUp: a free, four-week training program that takes people with no prior experience and prepares them to work as fiber technicians on data center construction sites across the US. We built this program with CBRE because the fiber technician field, and

1:47 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 7.36M Views

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xAI released Grok 4.20

Grok@grok

Grok 4.20 is here: Get ready for a revolution in AI.

3:27 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 18M Views

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Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, an early preview of its next flagship model

Qwen@Alibaba_Qwen

🚀 Introducing Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, an early preview of our next flagship model Highlights： ⚡️ Improved agentic coding capability over Qwen3.6-Plus 📖 Stronger world knowledge and instruction following 🌍 Improved real-world agent and knowledge reliability performance Smarter,

2:01 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 276K Views

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Secret Network partners with Antseed to bring TEE-based confidential AI inference to its open inference marketplace

Secret Network@SecretNetwork

We are excited to be working in partnership with @AntSeedAI and bringing secure and open AI inference to the world! Check out the details 👇

AntSeed @AntSeedAI

Excited to announce our first partnership with @SecretNetwork on the open inference marketplace. Secret is now an active TEE privacy provider on the AntSeed network, anyone can now access via AntStation or localhost. Secret currently provide two Qwen models using TEE (More models

1:18 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 2.54K Views

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AVAX One announces expansion into AI/HPC data center infrastructure

AVAX One (AVX)@avax_one

AVAX One announces its formal and transformative expansion into AI/HPC data center infrastructure, building at the intersection of digital assets and compute-driven demand. Key project highlights in the full release: ir.avax-one.com/news/?qmodStor…

12:47 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6.17K Views

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Scala Data Centers, backed by DigitalBridge, pitching a city-sized data center project to foreign tech companies in Brazil

Bloomberg@business

A Brazilian data center provider backed by global infrastructure fund DigitalBridge is gearing up to invest billions in Latin America’s largest data center project that could help make the country the regional leader in AI

bloomberg.com

Brazil Data Center Developer Scala Courts Chinese, US Tech

11:24 AM · Apr 20, 2026 · 25K Views

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Cursor in talks to raise $2B at a valuation over $50B, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz with Nvidia and Thrive Capital participating

CNBC@CNBC

AI startup Cursor in talks to raise $2 billion funding round at valuation of over $50 billion

cnbc.com

AI startup Cursor in talks to raise $2 billion funding round at valuation of over $50 billion

9:32 PM · Apr 19, 2026 · 20.4K Views

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Humanoid Network beta launching soon, letting anyone contribute data and earn

Humanoid Network@HumanoidNetwork

ChatGPT learned from users. Tesla learned from drivers. Robots will learn from all of us. Humanoid Network beta launching soon. Anyone can contribute. Anyone can earn.

11:00 AM · Apr 20, 2026 · 1.68K Views

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Alibaba Cloud’s MSE AI Registry entered public beta, offering full lifecycle Prompt management and a secure Skill registry

Alibaba Cloud@alibaba_cloud

🚀 Alibaba Cloud’s MSE AI Registry is now in public beta! Solves enterprise pain points in managing AI assets: ✅ Full lifecycle Prompt management – versioning, canary releases, instant rollback ✅ Secure Skill registry – team isolation, review workflows, fine-grained access

7:05 AM · Apr 20, 2026 · 4.88K Views

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Alibaba Cloud SASE released an integrated AI Agent workplace security solution with a lightweight client covering the full agent lifecycle

Alibaba Cloud@alibaba_cloud

Alibaba Cloud SASE has released an integrated AI Agent workplace security solution. By deploying a lightweight SASE Client on employee terminals, it builds a closed-loop security system covering the entire AI Agent lifecycle: "Pre-event Discovery — In-event Control — Post-event

9:16 AM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6.18K Views

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Recursive Superintelligence raised $500M at $4B pre-money valuation, led by GV with Nvidia following

Financial Times@FT

Recursive Superintelligence has been valued at $4bn, excluding the new capital, despite its AI concept being at the research stage ft.trib.al/BUToUMy

12:31 PM · Apr 19, 2026 · 329K Views

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Shipper launched as an AI agent that designs, codes, monetizes and launches web/mobile apps, websites and Chrome extensions

Shipper@shipper_now

We raised $0 to kill AI slop. Introducing Shipper: the world's first AI agent with taste. RT+ comment “Shipper” and we’ll randomly send free credits.

3:48 AM · Apr 20, 2026 · 20.1K Views

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PIEVERSE launched one-click LINE integration with Purr-Fect Claw via OpenClaw or Hermes Agent

pieverse@pieverse_io

📣 Great news: LINE users can now connect to Purr-Fect Claw with just one click! Pair in seconds, launch with OpenClaw or Hermes Agent, and start using agent-powered features right through chat—all with a simpler way to experience Web3 without having to manage private keys. 🔗

7:05 AM · Apr 20, 2026 · 16K Views

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OpenAI launched Chronicle in Codex, a memory feature that builds context from on-device screen captures, rolling out to Pro users on macOS excluding EU, UK, and Switzerland