DeepSeek appears to be closing in on the release of its next flagship AI model, with mounting signs pointing to an April debut for what many in the market are calling DeepSeek V4. While the Chinese AI lab has not publicly confirmed a date on its official site, recent reporting and industry chatter suggest the company’s next major model launch has slipped from earlier March expectations into April. The speculation has been strong enough to spill into prediction markets. On Polymarket, traders have recently priced April 15 as the leading outcome for a public DeepSeek V4 release, with implied odds...

OpenAI is pulling the plug on the Sora app, marking the end of the company’s standalone home for AI-generated video. The move may sound bigger than it is, but the key point is this: OpenAI is closing the app experience, not necessarily abandoning Sora itself. That distinction matters. Sora remains one of the company’s best-known AI video efforts, and current signs suggest the underlying technology will continue in some form even as the dedicated app is phased out. For users, though, the result is still significant. The Sora app had become the main place to experiment with text-to-video generation, test...

Anthropic is making an aggressive push into the next phase of artificial intelligence, unveiling new Claude models designed to do more than chat. The company says its latest systems can act more like digital workers, handling complicated assignments, using tools, searching the web, and carrying out tasks over long stretches with less human supervision. The release marks a clear shift in strategy for the Amazon-backed AI startup. Instead of focusing primarily on chatbot conversations, Anthropic is now aiming squarely at AI agents — systems built to complete real work, not just respond to prompts. According to the company, its new...

If there’s one question hanging over the AI developer world right now, it’s this: where is DeepSeek V4? For months, the model has been rumored as DeepSeek’s next big leap — especially for coding, long-context work, and serious developer use. But as of March 23, 2026, the expected release windows have come and gone. Mid-February passed. Lunar New Year passed. Late February passed. Early March passed. And still, no official public launch. That hasn’t stopped the speculation. The first strong signal came back in January, when Reuters reported that DeepSeek was preparing a new coding-focused flagship model expected in February....

ByteDance is facing mounting pressure in Washington after its new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, sparked fresh concerns over copyright, celebrity likenesses, and the growing power of generative media. The tool, which can produce highly realistic video clips featuring recognizable people and popular fictional characters, has quickly drawn scrutiny from US lawmakers. Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch are urging the company to shut the platform down, arguing that it crosses a line on intellectual property and risks enabling widespread misuse of copyrighted content. In a letter to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo, the senators described Seedance 2.0 as a serious...