As of: 2026-10-07 23:43 CEST.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code). Human editor: Adam Bicz.
Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2026/04/

# AI in April 2026

22 events: 7 major, 2 historic. Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026.
Every event, newest first. Each line: date, short title, page, first primary source.

- 2026-04-30: [1X opens Hayward NEO factory](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-30-1x-neo-factory/). Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/04/30/3285118/0/en/1x-opens-neo-factory-in-hayward-ca-america-s-first-vertically-integrated-humanoid-robot-factory-with-consumer-shipments-planned-for-2026.html
- 2026-04-28: [Google lets the Pentagon use Gemini on classified networks, a day after 600+ employees urged Pichai to refuse](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-28-google-pentagon-gemini-classified-deal/). Source: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/tech/pentagon-deal-google-ai-services/6496267/
- 2026-04-27: [Microsoft and OpenAI restructure partnership, drop the AGI clause and exclusivity](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-27-microsoft-openai-deal-restructured/). Source: https://spyglass.org/the-openai-microsoft-agi-clause/
- 2026-04-27: [China blocks Meta's ~$2B acquisition of AI-agent startup Manus](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-27-china-blocks-meta-manus-acquisition/). Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/meta-manus-china-blocks-acquisition-ai-startup.html
- 2026-04-24: [DeepSeek V4 preview: a 1.6T-parameter open MoE running on Huawei Ascend](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-24-deepseek-v4-preview/). Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/
- 2026-04-23: [OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 (codename Spud)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-23-gpt-5-5/). Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
- 2026-04-22: [Google unveils eighth-generation TPUs, split into TPU 8t and TPU 8i](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-22-google-tpu-8t-8i/). Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/eighth-generation-tpu-agentic-era/
- 2026-04-19: [Honor's humanoid 'Flash' wins Beijing robot half-marathon in 50:26, beating human world record](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-19-robot-wins-beijing-half-marathon/). Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/20/g-s1-118086/humanoid-robot-half-marathon
- 2026-04-17: [OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a trusted-access reasoning model for life-sciences research](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-17-openai-gpt-rosalind/). Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-rosalind/
- 2026-04-17: [Kevin Weil and Sora lead Bill Peebles leave OpenAI as it folds OpenAI for Science into other teams and sheds 'side quests'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-17-kevin-weil-bill-peebles-leave-openai/). Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/kevin-weil-and-bill-peebles-exit-openai-as-company-continues-to-shed-side-quests/
- 2026-04-16: [Physical Intelligence's π0.7 shows compositional generalization to untrained robot tasks](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-16-physical-intelligence-pi-0-7/). Source: https://www.pi.website/blog/pi07
- 2026-04-16: [Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, admits it trails the unreleased Mythos Preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7
- 2026-04-15: [Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies' robotics division (formerly Fetch Robotics) to put its robot brain in warehouses](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-15-skild-ai-acquires-zebra-fetch-robotics/). Source: https://www.skild.ai/blogs/skild-zebra
- 2026-04-14: [Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-14-gemini-robotics-er-1-6/). Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/
- 2026-04-10: [Sam Altman's San Francisco home hit by a Molotov cocktail and, two days later, by gunfire](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-10-altman-home-molotov-gunfire-attacks/). Source: https://blog.samaltman.com/2279512
- 2026-04-09: [AgiBot releases GO-2 embodied foundation model with action chain-of-thought](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-09-agibot-go-2/). Source: https://www.agibot.com/article/231/detail/56.html
- 2026-04-08: [Meta Superintelligence Labs debuts Muse Spark, its first model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-08-meta-muse-spark/). Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/04/introducing-muse-spark-meta-superintelligence-labs/
- 2026-04-08: [Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents (public beta)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-08-claude-managed-agents/). Source: https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents
- 2026-04-07: [Anthropic reveals Claude Mythos Preview, withholds it over cyber risk and launches Project Glasswing](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-07-claude-mythos-preview-project-glasswing/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
- 2026-04-07: [Intel joins Musk's Terafab as manufacturing partner](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-07-intel-joins-terafab-14a/). Source: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-center-chips/intel-joins-musks-terafab-as-ai-compute-war-heads-to-space
- 2026-04-02: [Generalist GEN-1 claims 99% success on simple robot tasks, trained on 500k+ hours of human wearable data](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-02-generalist-gen-1/). Source: https://generalistai.com/blog/gen-1
- 2026-04-02: [Anthropic finds functional emotion representations that causally drive Claude's behavior](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-02-anthropic-emotion-concepts-interpretability/). Source: https://arxiv.org/html/2604.07729v1

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