Gemma 4 ships open: Google's most capable open models, plus agent-on-agent commerce and Maine's data-center veto
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| VOL. I · SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 2026 · ISSUE NO. 36 · 12 STORIES |
| Lead · AI Models |
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Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Google released Gemma 4, its most intelligent open-weights family yet, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows rather than chat. It lands alongside DeepMind's Decoupled DiLoCo and Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a coordinated push to move Google's open and proprietary stacks in lockstep. |
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AI Agents Anthropic Built a Test Marketplace for Agent-on-Agent Commerce |
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AI Policy Maine's Governor Vetoes Data Center Moratorium |
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AI Research Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale |
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AI Models Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: The Next Generation of Expressive AI Speech |
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Robotics Gemini Robotics ER 1.6: Enhanced Embodied Reasoning |
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M&A Why Cohere Is Merging With Aleph Alpha |
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Partnerships DeepMind Partners With Global Consultancies on Enterprise AI |
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Industry OpenAI CEO Apologizes to Tumbler Ridge Community |
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Opinion "Why Are You Like This": Willison on Model Personality Quirks |
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Analysis Understanding the most viral chart in artificial intelligence |
| Plus: editorial cartoon, a mini word search, and The Big Picture expert digest. |
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