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<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/April_2026_AI_Recap_still.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are Google’s latest AI updates from April 2026

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first,&#160;sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions he spent to&#8230;

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/WebhooksGeminiAPI-hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Event-Driven Webhooks are a push-based notification system that eliminates the need for inefficient polling.

How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.

In the first week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk took the stand in a crisp black suit and tie and argued that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into bankrolling the company. Along the way, he warned&#160;that AI could destroy us all and sat through&#8230;

Cybersecurity was already under strain before AI entered the stack. Now, as AI expands the attack surface and adds new complexity, the limits of legacy approaches are becoming harder to ignore. This session from MIT Technology Review&#8217;s EmTech AI conference explores why security must be rethought with AI at its core, not layered on after&#8230;

Companies are taking control of their own data to tailor AI for their needs. The challenge lies in balancing ownership with the safe, trusted flow of high‑quality data needed to power reliable insights. This conversation from MIT Technology Review&#8217;s EmTech AI conference examines how AI factories unlock new levels of scale, sustainability, and governanc

A new US-wide cell phone network marketed to Christians is set to launch next week. It blocks porn, which experts in network security say marks the first time a US cell plan has used network-level blocking for such content that can’t be turned off even by adult account owners. It’s also rolling out a filter&#8230;

The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training. This could give model makers more fine-grained control over how this technology is built than was once thought possible. Goodfir

Introducing Advanced Account Security: phishing-resistant login, stronger recovery, and enhanced protections to safeguard sensitive data and prevent account takeover.

How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.

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OpenAI scales Stargate to build the compute infrastructure powering AGI, adding new data center capacity to meet growing AI demand.

OpenAI outlines a five-part action plan for strengthening cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age, focused on democratizing AI-powered cyber defense and protecting critical systems.

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<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Google_Translate_20th_hero_NC8a.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google’s sharing 20 fun facts to celebrate Google Translate turning 20, from its roots as a 2006 AI experiment to supporting almost 250 languages today.

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Learn how OpenAI protects community safety in ChatGPT through model safeguards, misuse detection, policy enforcement, and collaboration with safety experts.

OpenAI GPT models, Codex, and Managed Agents are now available on AWS, enabling enterprises to build secure AI in their AWS environments.

After a yearslong legal feud, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are heading to trial this week in Northern California in a case that could have sweeping consequences. Ahead of OpenAI’s highly anticipated IPO, the court could rule on whether the company is allowed to exist as a for-profit enterprise and might even oust&#8230;

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In February, I picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London. I can’t say for sure whether or not its writers meant to riff on South Park’s underpants gnomes. But&#8230;

OpenAI is available at FedRAMP Moderate authorization for ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API, enabling secure AI adoption for U.S. federal agencies.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Vibe_Coding_Course_herosocial.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google is bringing back its 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Kaggle and registration is open.

Artificial intelligence may be dominating boardroom agendas, but many enterprises are discovering that the biggest obstacle to meaningful adoption is the state of their data. While consumer-facing AI tools have dazzled users with speed and ease, enterprise leaders are discovering that deploying AI at scale requires something far less glamorous but far more c

OpenAI and Microsoft announce an amended agreement that simplifies the partnership, adds long-term clarity, and supports continued AI innovation at scale.

Learn how Symphony, an open-source spec for Codex orchestration, turns issue trackers into always-on agent systems—boosting engineering output and reducing context switching.

How Choco used OpenAI APIs to streamline food distribution, boost productivity, and unlock growth—an in-depth customer story on real-world AI impact.

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Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Sam Altman shares five principles that guide our work.

On April 24, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. The model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently. Like DeepSeek’s previous models, V4 is open source, meaning it is available&#8230;

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Gemini_Spring_Cleaning_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Organize your home and digital space with Gemini. Use AI-powered tips for cleaning schedules, inbox decluttering, seasonal chores.

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<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/What_is_a_TPU_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Learn how Google’s TPUs power increasingly demanding AI workloads with this new video.

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Introducing GPT-5.5, our smartest model yet—faster, more capable, and built for complex tasks like coding, research, and data analysis across tools.

Explore 10 practical Codex use cases to automate tasks, create deliverables, and turn real inputs into outputs across tools, files, and workflows.

Learn how to automate tasks in Codex using schedules and triggers to create reports, summaries, and recurring workflows without manual effort.

Learn how Codex helps you go beyond chat by automating tasks, connecting tools, and producing real outputs like docs and dashboards.

Learn how to get started with Codex by setting up projects, creating threads, and completing your first tasks with step-by-step guidance.

Learn how to set up your Codex workspace, create threads and projects, manage files, and start completing tasks with step-by-step guidance.

Learn how to configure Codex settings, including personalization, detail level, and permissions, to run tasks smoothly and customize your workflow.

Learn how to use Codex plugins and skills to connect tools, access data, and follow repeatable workflows to automate tasks and improve results.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Google_Kronstorf_Data_Center_1.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google has been a proud part of Austria’s landscape for years, and today, we’re announcing our first data center in Kronstorf, generating 100 direct jobs. This facility …

Explore the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty: a red-teaming challenge to find universal jailbreaks for bio safety risks, with rewards up to $25,000.

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OpenAI makes ChatGPT for Clinicians free for verified U.S. physicians, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists, supporting clinical care, documentation, and research.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Were_launching_two_TPUs_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">The eighth generation of Google’s TPU includes two specialized chips that will power the future of AI.

Artificial intelligence is moving quickly in the enterprise, from experimentation to everyday use. Organizations are deploying copilots, agents, and predictive systems across finance, supply chains, human resources, and customer operations. By the end of 2025, half of companies used AI in at least three business functions, according to a recent survey. But a

Workspace agents in ChatGPT are Codex-powered agents that automate complex workflows, run in the cloud, and help teams scale work across tools securely.

Learn how to build, use, and scale workspace agents in ChatGPT to automate repeatable workflows, connect tools, and streamline team operations.

A deep dive into the Codex agent loop, showing how WebSockets and connection-scoped caching reduced API overhead and improved model latency.

OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text with state-of-the-art accuracy

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When ChatGPT launched as an experimental prototype in late 2022, OpenAI’s chatbot became an everyday everything app for hundreds of millions of people. LLMs like ChatGPT were the new future: The entire tech industry was consumed by the inferno, with companies racing to spin up rival products. The ashes of the old tech world still&#8230;

When ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, it opened people’s eyes to how easily generative AI could churn out vast amounts of human-seeming text from simple prompts. This quickly caught the attention of criminals, who soon began using large language models to produce malicious emails—both the untargeted spam kind and more sophisticated,&#8230;

AI systems have already gained impressive mastery over the digital world, but the physical world is still humanity’s domain. As it turns out, building an AI system that can compose a novel or code an app is far easier than developing one that can fold laundry or navigate a city street. To get there, many&#8230;

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Road_to_GML_Master-Header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Three new agentic safety and policy features integrated into Ads Advisor will help protect and streamline your Google Ads account.

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