New Jersey ends a de facto nuclear construction ban while the NRC finalizes Part 53, a landmark rule that streamlines reactor approvals for the first time in decades.
Nintendo's dedicated competitive battler launched April 8 to mixed reviews, fan backlash over missing items and bugs, yet remains the official VGC platform for the 2026 season.
Meta plans to eliminate 10% of its global workforce starting May 20, restructuring around AI-driven productivity as it nearly doubles capital spending to $135 billion.
ICE's acting director confirmed in an April letter that the agency deploys Paragon's zero-click Graphite spyware against fentanyl suspects, months after the same tool was linked to attacks on European journalists and civil society members.
Phase 3 data presented at AAN 2026 show azetukalner nearly halved seizure frequency in treatment-resistant focal epilepsy, with 38% of long-term patients achieving over a year of seizure freedom.
Kubernetes v1.36, releasing April 22, brings accelerated SELinux volume labelling to GA, expands Dynamic Resource Allocation for AI hardware, and permanently removes the insecure gitRepo volume driver.
Node.js 26 ships April 22 as the final release under the project's long-running odd/even cadence, with the Temporal API on track and a new annual LTS-for-all model beginning with Node.js 27.
Croatia becomes Europe's first country with a paid commercial robotaxi service, as Verne, Pony.ai, and Uber open Gen-7 autonomous rides to the public in Zagreb.
OpenAI's April 16 Codex update adds background computer use on Mac, parallel multi-agent execution, persistent memory, and 111 plugin integrations, escalating the agentic coding tool race with Anthropic.
Researchers at Northwestern University have used aerosol jet printing to create flexible artificial neurons that generate biologically realistic signals and directly activate living neural tissue.
Governor Hochul's March 27 chapter amendment transforms New York's RAISE Act from a vague skeleton into binding law, imposing 72-hour incident reporting and mandatory safety frameworks on frontier AI developers before federal preemption efforts can intervene.
The Trump administration's drive to create a single federal AI framework is colliding with a bipartisan wall of state resistance, setting up a constitutional battle that could define AI governance for a generation.