April 1, 2026

Daily AI Digest: April 1, 2026

Full archive memo · 9 app sections.

Perplexity made search results smarter and gave you more control over media.

Perplexity

You can now get smarter search results that pick the best mix of images and videos for your questions.

You can also choose to turn off certain media types or pick exactly what you want to see.

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Grok

Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI.

Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.

ChatGPT

Gradient Labs uses GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.4 mini and nano to power AI agents that automate banking support workflows with low latency and high reliability.

Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI raises $122 billion in new funding to expand frontier AI globally, invest in next-generation compute, and meet growing demand for ChatGPT, Codex, and enterprise AI.

Accelerating the next phase of AI

Claude Code

Overeager behavior . In this case, the agent understands the user's goal, and is genuinely trying to help, but takes initiative beyond what the user would approve.

Honest mistakes . Here, the agent misunderstands the blast radius.

Prompt injection . Instructions planted in a file, webpage, or tool output hijack the agent, redirecting it from the user's task toward the attacker's.

Cursor

Cursor now supports self-hosted cloud agents that keep your code and tool execution entirely in your own network.

Your codebase, build outputs, and secrets all stay on internal machines running in your infrastructure, while the agent handles tool calls locally.

Self-hosted cloud agents offer the same capabilities as Cursor-hosted cloud agents, including isolated VMs, full development environments, multi-model harnesses, plugins, and more.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API.

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: Pushing the boundaries of reasoning capabilities. API-only for now.

Introduces a new massive agent training data synthesis method covering 1,800+ environments & 85k+ complex instructions.

Claude

Today, Anthropic signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian government to cooperate on AI safety research and support the goals of Australia’s National AI Plan.

At Anthropic, we believe that AI has the potential to significantly accelerate scientific progress.

A multidisciplinary team from the ANU John Curtin School of Medical Research is using Claude to analyze genetic sequencing data to help tackle rare diseases.

Gemini

Our most cost-effective video generation model is now available to developers in the Gemini API.

We are introducing Veo 3.1 Lite , Google’s most cost-effective video model.

On April 7, we’ll also be reducing the pricing for Veo 3.1 Fast allowing for even more developers to integrate video generation into their products.