Accenture and Google Cloud unveil Brussels centre to accelerate sovereign AI adoption

Today, Accenture, in partnership with Google Cloud, is launching a new Accenture and Google Cloud Sovereign Centre in Brussels, with a dedicated training facility. The new centre comes as governmen…

OpenAI’s new $100 ChatGPT Pro plan targets Claude Max with five times the Codex access
OpenAI’s new $100 ChatGPT Pro plan targets Claude Max with five times the Codex access

In short: OpenAI launched a new $100 per month Pro plan for ChatGPT on 9 April 2026, inserting a new tier between the existing $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro plan and directly targeting Anthropic’s Claude Max, which is also priced at $100 per month. Th…

Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases
Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases

In short: Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing as a native tracked change and legal contract review listed first among the tool’s example applications. The add-in…

From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking
AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking

AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge launched an open-source platform called Gas Town. It lets u…

Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents
Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents

In short: Meow Technologies has launched what it describes as the world’s first agentic banking platform, enabling AI agents to open business bank accounts, issue cards, send payments, and manage day-to-day account activity on behalf of users, with no …

Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign
Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign

In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched “Protect Playtime,” a campaign combining an AI-powered pet-matching tool on Amazon with Amazon Nova Reel-generated videos of individual shelt…

CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform
CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform

In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centres for production-scale AI workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives …

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos isn’t a sentient super-hacker, it’s a sales pitch — claims of ‘thousands’ of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews

Anthropic has convened America’s big tech companies and the U.S. government to deal with the many bugs and vulnerabilities its new AI found, but this may be just the latest attempt by Anthropic to scare people into thinkin…

Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion
Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion

In short: Meta has committed an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave for dedicated AI cloud capacity running from 2027 through December 2032, bringing the total value of the two companies’ infrastructure relationship to approximately $35 billion. The ne…