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April 7, 2026

🎯 AI Brief #020: Google AI Edge Gallery

AI Morning Brief #020

Issue #020  ·  Tuesday, April 07, 2026

🤖 AI Morning Brief

Everything moving in AI — curated, no fluff.

25

stories

10

min read

📋  At a Glance

🔥Google AI Edge Gallery
🏗️AI may threaten critical thinking in the workplace
🏛️Cleanup Claude Code Paste
🧠Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
🔥  BREAKING NEWS — The story everyone is talking about
Google AI Edge Gallery

Google AI Edge Gallery Terrible name, really great app: this is Google's official app for running their Gemma 4 models (the E2B and E4B sizes, plus so…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  1d ago
🏛️  FROM THE LABS — Anthropic · OpenAI · Google DeepMind · xAI
Cleanup Claude Code Paste

Tool: Cleanup Claude Code Paste Super-niche tool this. I sometimes copy prompts out of the Claude Code terminal app and they come out with a bunch of …

📰 Simon Willison  ·  1d ago
Quoting Chengpeng Mou

From anonymized U.S. ChatGPT data, we are seeing: ~2M weekly messages on health insurance ~600K weekly messages [classified as healthcare] from people…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  1d ago
scan-for-secrets 0.1

Release: scan-for-secrets 0.1 I like publishing transcripts of local Claude Code sessions using my claude-code-transcripts tool but I'm often paranoid…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  2d ago
🧠  MODELS & LLMs — Benchmarks, releases, and what changed
Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models Four new vision-capable Apache 2.0 licensed reasoning LLMs from Google DeepMind, sized at 2B, 4B,…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  4d ago
Qwen3.6-Plus

Multimodal AI optimized for real-world coding agents Discussion | Link

📰 Product Hunt AI  ·  5d ago
🚀  NEW RELEASES — Products, features, and launches worth knowing
datasette-ports 0.2

Release: datasette-ports 0.2 No longer requires Datasette - running uvx datasette-ports now works as well. Installing it as a Datasette plugin continu…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  1d ago
scan-for-secrets 0.3

Release: scan-for-secrets 0.3 New -r/--redact option which shows the list of matches, asks for confirmation and then replaces every match with REDACTE…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  1d ago
🏢  BIG TECH & BUSINESS — How the giants are moving
Quoting Kyle Daigle

[GitHub] platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growt…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  3d ago
Can JavaScript Escape a CSP Meta Tag Inside an Iframe?

Research: Can JavaScript Escape a CSP Meta Tag Inside an Iframe? In trying to build my own version of Claude Artifacts I got curious about options for…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  3d ago
🏗️  HCM INDUSTRY WATCH — Competitor moves · Product launches · HR tech signals
AI may threaten critical thinking in the workplace

Human capital as a whole is at risk due to AI use at work, according to University of Bath researchers.

📰 HR Dive  ·  just now
Clear feedback strengthens engagement, research finds

A lack of straightforward performance criteria can lead to increased stress, higher turnover rates and weakened organizational trust, according to McL…

📰 HR Dive  ·  just now
Week in review: Despite changes to program, H-1B visas hit 2027 cap

We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from the listening program barriers to what makes leaders exceptional.

📰 HR Dive  ·  1d ago
⭐  TRENDING & VIRAL — Hot GitHub repos · What builders are sharing · Tools going viral
Quoting Daniel Stenberg

The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  3d ago
March 2026 sponsors-only newsletter

I just sent the March edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  5d ago
🔬  RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT — Science that could change everything
research-llm-apis 2026-04-04

Release: research-llm-apis 2026-04-04 I'm working on a major change to my LLM Python library and CLI tool. LLM provides an abstraction layer over hund…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  2d ago
Vulnerability Research Is Cooked

Vulnerability Research Is Cooked Thomas Ptacek's take on the sudden and enormous impact the latest frontier models are having on the field of vulnerab…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  3d ago
🛠️  TOOLS & WORKFLOWS — Practical AI you can use today
Enabling agent-first process redesign

Unlike static, rules-based systems, AI agents can learn, adapt, and optimize processes dynamically. As they interact with data, systems, people, and o…

📰 MIT Tech Review  ·  1h ago
Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI Lalit Maganti provides one of my favorite pieces of long-form writing on agentic engineering …

📰 Simon Willison  ·  1d ago
⚖️  POLICY & SAFETY — Regulation, ethics, and the bigger picture
America's AI Regulation Remains Undefined in 2026 as Europe Enforces Strict New Standards

America's AI Regulation Remains Undefined in 2026 as Europe Enforces Strict New Standards    Altitudes Magazine

📰 Altitudes Magazine  ·  1d ago
⚡  QUICK HITS — More signal, less noise — fast reads
The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload The New York Times · 22h ago
Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable MIT Tech Review · just now
scan-for-secrets 0.2 Simon Willison · 2d ago
Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman Simon Willison · 3d ago
The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering Simon Willison · 4d ago

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