AI News. April 28, 2026
DeepSeek v4 Pro launched on Ollama’s cloud
China blocked Meta’s $2B acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus on national security grounds and ordered a full unwind
Meta partnered with Overview Energy for up to 1 GW of space solar and Noon Energy for up to 1 GW/100 GWh of long-duration storage to power its AI data centers
Google is working on a Printable Stickers feature for its Mixboard experiment, letting users convert images into stickers and order physical copies
Teneo Protocol relaunched its website featuring CLI for building agents, Teneo Beacon for earning fragments across devices, and Expedition Hub for quests and referrals
Gemini launched Agentic Trading, letting users connect Claude and ChatGPT to trading accounts via the MCP standard, billed as the first agentic trading tool on a regulated US exchange
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI heading to trial, with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman set to be questioned under oath over the conversion of OpenAI from non-profit to for-profit
Microsoft’s license to OpenAI tech is now non-exclusive and Microsoft will no longer pay revenue to OpenAI, freeing OpenAI to sell to Google, Amazon, Meta ahead of its IPO
Fraction AI launched Index, letting users turn plain-English trading ideas into live perps trading agents
Google DeepMind announced a partnership with the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT, including a new AI Campus in Seoul
Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo-V2.5 under MIT license, with both Pro and base variants supporting a 1M-token context window; MiMo-V2.5-Pro ranked No.1 among open-source models on GDPVal-AA and ClawEval
Xiaomi launched MiMo Orbit, making 100T tokens (up to a 1-month Max Plan worth 1.6B credits) available free to AI builders globally via application
Venice raised programmatic VVV buy-and-burns to $2 per Pro, $5 per Pro+, and $10 per Max subscription (up from $1 across the board)
Cognition partnered with Mercedes-Benz to deploy Devin and Windsurf across its global engineering teams; in pilot, Devin cut COBOL modernization from 8 months to 8 days on 200,000+ lines of code
Hundreds of Google AI researchers signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse making the company’s AI systems available for classified US defense workloads
Perplexity launched Sonar 2 on web
OpenClaw 2026.4.25 shipped with 13 TTS providers, persisted plugin registry metadata, expanded OTEL coverage for model calls and tool loops, and browser/install fixes
OpenAI released gpt-realtime-1.5, enabling voice-controlled interactive applications
Google Wallet is rolling out digital IDs in India via Aadhaar Verifiable Credentials, plus passport-based ID passes in Singapore, Taiwan, and Brazil
Google signed a classified AI deal with the Pentagon allowing use of its models for lawful government purposes, excluding domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons
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