AI News for April 29, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Google signs classified Pentagon AI deal for 'any lawful purpose,' overriding 600-employee protest: Google signed a classified contract giving the US Department of Defense access to its AI models for 'any lawful government purpose,' a day after more than 600 employees demanded CEO Sundar Pichai block the deal.
[NEWS] AWS launches Bedrock Managed Agents with OpenAI models, day after Microsoft cedes exclusivity: Amazon Web Services unveiled Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI's latest models and Codex, hours after OpenAI and Microsoft amended their pact to end Azure exclusivity.
[TOOLS] Anthropic launches 9 Claude creative connectors for Adobe, Blender, Ableton, and Autodesk: Anthropic released a coalition of Claude connectors that plug the model directly into Photoshop, Premiere, Express, Affinity, Blender, Ableton, Autodesk Fusion, and Splice.
[TOOLS] Mistral launches Workflows, Temporal-powered orchestration running millions of daily executions: Mistral released Workflows in public preview, a production-grade orchestration layer built on Temporal that already runs critical processes for ASML, ABANCA, CMA-CGM, France Travail, La Banque Postale, and Moeve.
[RESEARCH] MIT method speeds privacy-preserving federated AI training on edge devices by 81%: MIT researchers developed a federated-learning technique that accelerates privacy-preserving AI training on heterogeneous wireless devices by roughly 81%.
[NEWS] Meta grants execs $9.5T moonshot stock package as Q1 capex hits $115-135B: Meta disclosed seven-tranche stock-option packages for five top executives with strike prices from $1,116 to $3,727, requiring the share price to climb 66% just to reach the lowest tier.
[NEWS] Poolside releases free open-source Laguna XS.2 model for local agentic coding: San Francisco-based Poolside released Laguna and Laguna XS.2 as open-source models tuned for agentic coding, paired with a coding agent harness called 'pool' and a mobile-optimized development environment 'shimmer.' The smaller XS.2 variant is designed to run locally and approach frontier performance at lower cost.
[TOOLS] Microsoft open-sources VibeVoice frontier voice AI on GitHub and Hugging Face: Microsoft released VibeVoice as an open-source frontier voice AI suite on GitHub, including the multilingual VibeVoice-ASR speech-recognition model now integrated into Hugging Face Transformers.
[RESEARCH] Alibaba Damo unveils Coca AI that beats radiologists at early colorectal cancer detection: Alibaba's Damo Academy released Coca, an AI model that flagged five missed cases of colorectal cancer from non-contrast CT scans across more than 27,000 patients, claiming higher sensitivity than radiologists for early-stage disease.
[RESEARCH] AI spots pancreatic cancer years before symptoms in Bloomberg-covered study: An AI system flagged pancreatic cancer in patient scans long before the disease appeared on conventional imaging, raising the prospect of catching one of the deadliest tumors early enough to treat.

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