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Models · 2026-04-30
via Anthropic
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7 with native multi-agent orchestration
A new top-tier model with first-class tools for spawning sub-agents, sharing memory, and routing tasks. Beta closed; production opens next week.
Funding · TechCrunch
Mistral raises $1.4B at $25B post for sovereign-EU inference
Series E led by Andreessen with Lightspeed and the French government participating. Funding earmarked for owning the GPU stack on EU soil.
Product · The Verge
OpenAI tests Pulse Mode — a daily 30-second personalised AI briefing
Internal screenshots show a personalised audio briefing pulled from the user's ChatGPT memory. Rolling out to Pro users this week.
Research · arXiv
DeepMind paper claims 41% gain on long-horizon planning
New attention scheme called Helix beats Gemini 3 Pro on a battery of multi-step planning benchmarks — including ARC-AGI v2.
M&A · The Information
Cursor acquires Sweep, folds it into a background-agents tier
The deal closes ~$120M in stock + cash. Sweep's GitHub-issue-to-PR pipeline becomes Cursor's flagship long-running agent feature.
More from the wire
Meta open-sources Llama 4.5-Omni — text, audio, video in one model
70B and 405B variants under a permissive license. Day-1 support in vLLM, llama.cpp, and Ollama. First credible Apache-licensed video gen model.
EU AI Act Article 50 compliance window closes — 7 vendors miss it
Public list of compliant general-purpose AI providers shrinks. Two US labs request 90-day extensions; one declines to confirm participation.
NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra ships — 1.7x training throughput
B200-Ultra cards arrive at Microsoft and CoreWeave first. Long lead times for Tier-2 customers; expected to extend through Q3.
Stripe soft-launches an Agent Payments API
Lets autonomous agents take actions with metered budgets and per-action human-in-the-loop. Early access program is invite-only.