A roundup of the latest artificial intelligence developments for April 28, 2026:
- Anthropic bans entire company without notice: In a controversial move, Anthropic reportedly banned an entire 110-employee company from using its API without prior warning, while continuing to charge for access.
- Microsoft VIBEVOICE ASR: A new speech recognition tool can transcribe up to 60 minutes of audio in one go, supporting 50 languages, and is available for free.
- Google's local browser agent: Google has launched a browser agent that runs entirely locally on the user's device, with no server involvement and no data leaving the machine.
- Xiaomi and Tencent push boundaries: The Chinese tech giants have introduced a model with 1 million token context, 295 billion parameters using Mixture of Experts (MoE), available for free on OpenRouter.
- Alibaba Qwen3.6: Alibaba's latest model tops six coding benchmarks with a 260,000 token context window.
- Claude Opus 4.7 + Onshape: A demonstration showed generating a Raspberry Pi case from a prompt in just 30 seconds.
- Decepticon open source: A new open-source tool for autonomous multi-agent red teaming, featuring a complete kill chain for security testing.
- Obsidian as AI memory: A workflow using Obsidian as an AI memory system, delivering Telegram briefings at 7 AM and financial reports by 9 AM, with no vendor lock-in.