Demis Hassabis says Google DeepMind had to return to its startup roots after the Brain merger
Demis Hassabis says Google DeepMind had to return to its startup roots after the Brain merger

In short: Demis Hassabis, speaking on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings in early April 2026, described how Google DeepMind has accelerated its pace over the past two to three years by merging Google Brain’s compute resources with DeepMind’s researc…

Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic
Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic

In short: Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as chief technology officer in May 2025, left the company last month and has taken a role as member of technical staff at Anthropic, where he will focus on reinforcement learning engineering. The move strips a…

Kia cuts EV target, confirms electric pickup, and plans to put Atlas robots in its Georgia factories
Kia cuts EV target, confirms electric pickup, and plans to put Atlas robots in its Georgia factories

In short: On the day that 25% US tariffs on South Korean imports took effect, Kia held its 2026 CEO Investor Day in Seoul and presented a plan built for a changed world: a quietly reduced EV sales target for 2030, a major expansion of its hybrid range,…

BILL lets enterprise suppliers collect from any SMB, even ones not on its platform
BILL lets enterprise suppliers collect from any SMB, even ones not on its platform

In short: BILL has expanded its Supplier Payments Plus product to let large enterprise suppliers accept card and ACH payments from any SMB customer, including those with no BILL account, converting paper checks into digital transactions automatically a…

Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles
Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles

In short: Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary MOIA America and Uber have begun on-road testing in Los Angeles with roughly 10 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles, the opening phase of a deployment that is scheduled to offer commercial rides with human…

Meta’s Muse Spark is here – and it’s closed source
Meta’s Muse Spark is here – and it’s closed source

In short: Meta has released Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit it assembled under Alexandr Wang after spending $14.3 billion to acquire a stake in Scale AI. Rebuilt from scratch over nine months, the model is nativel…

Atlassian brings AI visual tools and partner agents to Confluence, 1 month after cutting 1,600 jobs
Atlassian brings AI visual tools and partner agents to Confluence, 1 month after cutting 1,600 jobs

In short: Atlassian is rolling out Remix, a visual AI tool in open beta that transforms Confluence pages into charts, infographics, and scorecards without requiring users to open another application, alongside three partner agents built on the Model Co…

Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb
Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb

Verne, the autonomous mobility company spun out of Croatian hypercar maker Rimac, launched commercial robotaxi rides in Zagreb on 8 April alongside Pony.ai and Uber. The vehicles operate with safety operators onboard for now. Waymo is targeting London …

Intel joins Musk’s Terafab as foundry partner in $25B chip megaproject
Intel joins Musk’s Terafab as foundry partner in $25B chip megaproject

In short: Intel has signed on as the primary foundry partner for Elon Musk’s Terafab, a $25 billion joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI targeting a terawatt of AI compute per year, handing the struggling chip giant the marquee customer it has …

Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow
Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the ban in a TikTok video on Wednesday. It takes effect on 1 January 2027. Enforcement will rely on a state-mandated app on every device. Around 80% of Greeks support the measure, according to a February poll. Greece ha…