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April 5, 2026

Silv's AI weekly: Gemma 4, axios backdoor, quantum 2029

Hey — here's this week's AI roundup from silv.blog.

Curated from ~149 tweets liked by @mattsilv, Mar 24 - Apr 5, 2026:

AI for Everyone

Gemma 4 runs locally on a Mac Mini for free. The 26B model scores 79.2% on GPQA Diamond (Sonnet 4.6 gets 74.1% standard), uses only 4B active parameters via mixture-of-experts, Apache 2.0. ollama run gemma4:26b. Read more →

Google's quantum paper moves the crypto deadline to 2029. Shor's algorithm is now 20x more efficient. If you hold crypto or run standard encryption, post-quantum migration has a real deadline now. Read more →

Gmail AI Inbox triages your email and sends a daily briefing. Beta for Google AI Ultra subscribers. Google says inbox zero is irrelevant now. Read more →

ChatGPT is in Apple CarPlay. Actual voice mode, hands-free while driving. iOS 26.4+. Read more →

Claude gets Microsoft 365 connectors on every plan. Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint. Paste a doc link, get a summary or draft reply. Read more →

Anthropic acquires Coefficient Bio for $400M. Team joins healthcare group for drug discovery tools. Read more →

Karpathy on AI-empowered government accountability. AI lets citizens analyze public spending records and policy documents at the same scale governments track citizens. Read more →

AI for Developers

Boris Cherny posted 15 Claude Code features most people have never found. /batch for parallel agents, /loop for scheduled runs, --bare for 10x faster SDK startup, /voice for speaking your code. This thread is the missing manual. Read more →

axios (100M+ weekly downloads) was backdoored. Malicious package injected into v1.14.1. Karpathy found it on his own machine. Fix: min-release-age=7 in .npmrc + Socket for GitHub. Read more →

Claude Code can now control your computer. Writes code, opens the app, clicks through the UI, reports what it sees. Mac and Windows. Read more →

Claude Code source accidentally leaked via npm. A .map file with the full TypeScript source shipped in the package. Byte-for-byte match to v2.1.88. Read more →

Claude Code has a rage tracker. Regex fires on "wtf," "ffs," etc., silently logs is_negative: true to analytics. Read more →

Supabase SSH docs for AI agents. ssh supabase.sh setup | claude pipes current docs straight into your session. Read more →

OpenAI's Codex plugin for Claude Code. /codex:adversarial-review pushes back on design decisions instead of agreeing. Read more →

Cloudflare ships EmDash CMS. Serverless TypeScript on Workers, sandboxed plugins, MIT licensed. WordPress alternative for greenfield projects. Read more →

Honorable Mentions

  • Willow Atlas 1 — speech-to-text claiming 1.2% word error rate
  • MAI-Transcribe-1 — Microsoft's #1 multilingual transcription model
  • Qwen3.5-Omni — multimodal input (text, image, audio, video), free
  • Pika Video Chat — AI agents join Google Meet as video avatars
  • draw.io MCP — streams diagrams into Claude in real time
  • AutoAgent — meta-agent that redesigns its own prompt overnight

Try This Weekend

For everyone: Run Gemma 4 locally (ollama run gemma4:26b), connect Microsoft 365 to Claude, try Willow for dictation, enable Gmail AI Inbox.

For developers: Add min-release-age=7 to .npmrc, read Boris Cherny's Claude Code thread, wire up Supabase SSH docs, install the Codex plugin for Claude Code.


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