Wednesday, 1 April 2026

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Executive Summary

OpenAI secured a record $122B funding round, valuing the company at $852B, while Google advanced the video generation market with its cost-effective Veo 3.1 Lite model and Meta improved LLM code review accuracy to 93% through structured prompting techniques.

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🔬 Research· model compression

Exclusive | Caltech Researchers Claim Radical Compression of High-Fidelity AI Models

PrismML says its 1-bit large language model achieves radical compression without sacrificing performance, lowering energy consumption.

📰 News· prompting technique

Meta's new structured prompting technique makes LLMs significantly better at code review — boosting accuracy to 93% in some cases

This technique can be used out-of-the-box, requiring no model training or special packaging. It is code-execution free, which means you do not need to add...

🚀 Launch· Slack AI agent capabilities

Salesforce Declares Slack the New Home for AI-Powered Customer Service

Salesforce has launched 30+ new Slackbot capabilities, with one early customer hitting 50%+ autonomous case resolution.

📰 News· AI agent builder market analysis

What Buyers Really Think About AI Agent Builders (Backed by G2 Data)

AI agent builders are among the new school of AI categories employing the old familiar phrases. They claim to give users the building blocks to automate...

💬 Opinion· AI agents business value

How agents provide a practical path to AI benefits

Learn how AI agents deliver practical value while reinforcing oversight, accountability and trust.

📰 News· AI agents for financial automation

Exclusive | Buying the Dip? This AI Agent Will Do It for You

Public, an investing platform, will offer AI agents that can help put your brokerage account on autopilot.

💬 Opinion· Agentic AI strategy framework

The agentic AI advantage: Unlocking the next level of AI value

Navigate the AI revolution with a framework, tips to overcome barriers, and practical steps to optimize agent use today.

📰 News· AI agent security vulnerability

Vertex AI Vulnerability Exposes Google Cloud Data and Private Artifacts

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security "blind spot" in Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform that could allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents...

📰 News· AI governance

Breaking the deadlock on AI governance

International AI governance is at risk of failure. Rapid geopolitical change, institutional weakness and asymmetries between the public and private sectors...

📰 News· existential risk

Dissenting voices against AI are getting louder

Protesters in San Francisco call for a pause in AI development, highlighting existential risks and the potential for superintelligence to harm humanity.

🚀 Launch· enterprise AI - multi-model workflows

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Signals Shift to Multi-Step AI Workflows for Enterprise Users

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork in Frontier, integrating multi-model AI from Anthropic to automate multi-step enterprise workflows.

📰 News· product update - research assistant

Microsoft adds multi-model AI to Copilot Researcher, raising accuracy stakes

The update separates generation from review and enables side-by-side model comparisons to improve output quality.

📰 News· security - AI agents ecosystem

Microsoft and Third-Party Agents Build Out Security Copilot Ecosystem

Microsoft used the industry's top security gathering – this week's RSAC 2026 Conference – to advance its lineup of AI-powered agents and features within its...

📰 News· developer tools - coding agents

Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science

I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here's what I learned about working better with coding agents.

🚀 Launch· enterprise tool - automation engineering

How generative AI is transforming automation engineering

Transform automation engineering with Engineering Copilot TIA Standard. Use generative AI in TIA Portal to automate code, reduce tasks,...

📰 News· platform launch - AI coworkers

AI Coworker Systems

Copilot Cowork - Microsoft's Copilot Cowork introduces a new class of workplace AI that moves beyond generating content to actively completing tasks across...

🚀 Launch· Veo 3.1 Lite availability

Build with Veo 3.1 Lite, our most cost-effective video generation model

Veo 3.1 Lite is now available in paid preview through the Gemini API and for testing in Google AI Studio.

📰 News· Veo 3.1 Lite launch

Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, Gemini executive ‘makes fun’ of OpenAI shutting Sora

Google has made two announcements related to its AI video-making tool Veo.

📰 News· Veo 3.1 Lite pricing

Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite at half price of Veo 3.1 Fast

Google unveils Veo 3.1 Lite for developers, delivering cost-efficient Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video features via Gemini API and AI Studio.

📰 News· Veo 3.1 Lite cost reduction

Google Slashes AI Video Costs with Veo 3.1 Lite Launch

Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite at 50% lower cost than Fast tier, with additional price cuts coming April 7. Available now via Gemini API. (Read More)

📰 News· Veo 3.1 Lite launch

Google Unveils Cheaper AI Video Model to Expand Adoption

Alphabet (GOOG, Financials) is making a clear push to bring AI video tools to a wider audience with the launch of Veo 3.1 Lite, its most cost-effective...

📰 News· Veo 3.1 Lite and Sora

Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite

Following OpenAI's Sora exit last week, Google today said it's committed to offering video generation while announcing Veo 3.1 Lite.

📰 News· benchmarking

Nebius partners with Positronic on Physical AI Leaderboard (PhAIL)

Physical AI is moving from controlled demos to real-world deployment — and that shift demands benchmarks grounded in actual operations, not lab conditions.

🔬 Research· embodied AI application

AI-guided robot navigates thrombectomy route from leg to brain

Researchers at King's College London have shown for the first time that AI can autonomously perform thrombectomy navigation in a physical lab setting,...

📰 News· humanoid production

AGIBOT rolls out 10,000th humanoid robot

AGIBOT Innovation Technology Co. today claimed that it is one of the first companies to have rolled out 10,000 humanoid robots. The Shanghai-based company...

📰 News· Figure/OpenAI

Figure CEO speaks out on OpenAI split: 'We're going to be competitors'

OpenAI was Figure's partner. Then, they became competitors. Audio not available, try again later 1 minute. OpenAI co-led the humanoid robotics company's...

📰 News· Major AI company funding

OpenAI closes record-breaking $122B funding round that brings its valuation to $852B

OpenAI Group PBC showed that it's still the darling of artificial intelligence investors today, announcing it has raised $122 billion at an $852 billion...

📰 News· Enterprise AI security funding

Wilson Sonsini Advises Crosspoint Capital Partners on TENEX.AI’s $250 Million Series B

On March 31, 2026, TENEX.AI, the AI SOC company transforming security operations, announced a $250 million Series B round of financing led by Crosspoint...

🎬 video· NVIDIA-Marvell partnership executive commentary

Nvidia's Jensen Huang on $2 billion Marvell investment: AI inflection point has arrived

Jensen Huang, Nvidia founder and CEO, and Matt Murphy, Marvell chair and CEO, discuss Nvidia's $2 billion investment in Marvell Technology.

📰 News· NVIDIA-Marvell partnership technical details

Nvidia Invests $2B In Custom Chip Vendor Marvell Technology

The deal enables ASIC designers to integrate their own specialized CPUs and XPUs with Nvidia's NVLink interconnect and GPU technology.

📰 News· NVIDIA investment in Marvell

Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in Marvell, Announces Partnership

Nvidia Corp. is taking a $2 billion stake in Marvell Technology Inc. and opening up its system to allow Marvell to integrate custom artificial intelligence...