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Forrester's 2026 emerging tech report marks a pivotal shift: AI is leaving digital workflows and entering the physical world through robots, vehicles, and ambient experiences.
AI companies now drive half of Bay Area office leasing while AI-cited layoffs at Salesforce, Meta, and Block threaten the same commercial real estate recovery.
Venture firms have approached Anthropic at valuations as high as $800 billion, more than double its February round, as run-rate revenue tops $30 billion.
OpenAI's new GPT-5.4-Cyber model is gated to verified security teams through the expanded Trusted Access for Cyber program, mirroring Anthropic's restricted Mythos rollout.
Polsky Center, AI Research Commons, and Microsoft will back early-stage Midwest AI startups with $350K credits, Azure model access, and Bay Area VC connections.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos launch and Project Glasswing raise dual-use concerns as the model shows autonomous vulnerability discovery capabilities.
China processes 140 trillion AI tokens daily, has coined a new word for the unit, and is riding a Hong Kong IPO wave. But turning tokens into profits remains the unresolved question for Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and a generation of well-funded startups.
Sofia University's INSAIT and Netflix co-developed VOID, an open-source AI model that deletes objects from video while physically simulating how the scene would change afterward -- beating existing tools on visual consistency.
Putin declared AI sovereignty a matter of national survival at a Kremlin meeting on April 10, 2026, ordering economy-wide deployment by 2030 and dedicated defense AI development.
ShinyHunters listed Rockstar Games on its dark web leak site with an April 14 pay-or-publish deadline after breaching the company via a compromised SaaS cloud-cost tool and using stolen tokens to access Snowflake.
CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis says AI 'coworkers' will be embedded in every analytic platform within years, with officers eventually managing teams of autonomous AI agents.
From $1.99-per-minute AI Jesus video calls to BuddhaBot trained on Buddhist scripture, faith-based AI is a fast-growing market -- and researchers are raising urgent questions about manipulation, data privacy, and what it means when an AI claims spiritual authority.
