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    Google Cloud Next '26 Kicks Off With Agentic-Cloud Keynote
    • Thomas Kurian and Sundar Pichai opened Next '26 in Las Vegas this morning at 9am PT under the banner 'The agentic cloud'.
    • Agentspace folds into Gemini Enterprise; no-code Agent Designer lands in preview, Agent Gallery + Deep Research agent go GA.
    • Gemini 3.1 Pro available in Vertex AI, Android Studio, Antigravity, and Gemini CLI; 3.1 Flash-Lite ships as the cheapest Gemini 3 tier.
    • Next-gen Ironwood TPU (10× v5p, 4× v6e per chip) featured across the AI Hypercomputer stack; event runs Apr 22–24.
    industry cloud.google.com

    Kimi K2.6 Ships Open Weights, Matches Opus 4.7 at 88% Lower Cost
    • Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6 on April 20 under Modified MIT — 1T total / 32B active MoE, 256K context, native vision.
    • 58.6% SWE-Bench Pro beats GPT-5.4 (57.7%) and Claude Opus 4.6 (53.4%); 80.2% SWE-Bench Verified, 96.4% AIME 2026.
    • Orchestrates up to 300 parallel sub-agents across 4,000 coordinated steps, with 12+ hour autonomous coding runs demoed.
    • $0.60/M input vs Opus 4.7's $5.00/M; HN launch thread at 592 pts / 303 comments, now the #4 model on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
    models news.ycombinator.com

    Vercel Breached via Context AI OAuth Supply-Chain Attack
    • Vercel disclosed on April 20 that an employee's Context.ai OAuth grant let attackers pivot into Vercel's Google Workspace.
    • Attack chain: Lumma Stealer malware hit Context.ai in February; 'Allow All' OAuth scope exposed Vercel's internal systems.
    • ShinyHunters impersonator listed Vercel source, databases, and API keys on BreachForums for $2M; real group denies involvement.
    • Mandiant engaged; 'sensitive' encrypted env vars reportedly not readable, but crypto devs are rotating keys en masse.
    industry techcrunch.com

    Mozilla's Thunderbolt Hits GitHub Trending as Self-Hostable AI Client
    • MPL-2.0 'AI client' from MZLA Technologies — pitched as what Thunderbird did for email, but for enterprise AI.
    • 596 stars added today on GitHub; native Linux/Windows/macOS/iOS/Android plus a web client.
    • Multi-provider out of the box: Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, OpenRouter, plus local Ollama and llama.cpp.
    • Pitched against Copilot/ChatGPT Enterprise/Claude Enterprise for shops that refuse vendor lock-in.
    open-source github.com

    WiFi DensePose Repo RuView Goes Viral With 22k Stars
    • ruvnet/RuView turns commodity WiFi CSI into real-time human pose, vitals, and presence detection — no cameras.
    • 22,400+ stars total, 824 added today; hit #1 trending on X globally over the weekend.
    • Targets $9 ESP32 sensors, 17-keypoint pose via a WiFlow model trained without video, per the README.
    • Critics note much of the signal-processing core is still stubbed — the hype may be outrunning the code.
    open-source github.com