Breaking developments from the AI sector continue to come through thick and fast, and April has been an action packed month.
With regards to new models, a number of new releases have hit the market including DeepSeek V3-0324, Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.5, Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Omni-7B and Tencent’s T1 Reasoning Model, to name a few.
Chinese start-up Monica also launched its Manus AI agent, while startups introduced autonomous agents for DevSecOps use cases. Many expect agentic AI to transform industries, with NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang, fresh from this year’s GTC, envisioning a future where employees oversee millions of AI agents to optimize workflows.
OpenAI would consider acquiring Google’s Chrome browser if antitrust regulators compel Alphabet to sell it, according to testimony on Tuesday from OpenAI executive Nick Turley. The remarks were made during Google’s antitrust trial, where the Justice Department is seeking structural changes to reintroduce competition in online search.
Meanwhile the White House announced a new task force on April 23rd that places AI front and center with educational strategy, to both develop new opportunities, foster interest in the technology, and maintain America’s dominance in this technology for future generations.
Domino Data Lab will spearhead AI efforts for the U.S. Navy’s Project AMMO following a $16.5 million deal, through the APFIT program. This news comes amid growing pressure inside and outside the Pentagon to smartly adopt software.
Finally, amid rising concerns about the environmental footprint of AI, the International Monetary Fund reported that the economic gains, boosting global output by around 0.5% a year between 2025 and 2030, outweigh the costs of rising carbon emissions by the data centers.
Here’s a look into more of the AI news in April.
Biopharma executive Janet Dorling joins the Board of AI startup Prezent
Prezent, an AI platform for business presentations, announced that Janet Dorling, Senior VP at Gilead Sciences, has joined its Board of Directors. Gilead Sciences is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to advancing innovative treatments for serious diseases. The appointment by Janet (article’s featured photo) marks the latest milestone in Prezent’s roadmap to support organizational productivity by using AI to tackle the challenges that stem from poor business communication.
DTI researchers investigate improving remanufacturing processes using AI and robotics
Mikkel Labori Olsen, a consultant at the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) and a member of the RoboSAPIENS consortium — an EU-funded project to make self-adapting industrial robots more trustworthy to work alongside humans using AI — announced in April another EU-funded project, RENÉE, in which DTI researchers investigate the possibilities of improving remanufacturing processes using AI and robotics. According to the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), the researchers are exploring using a so-called “cobot, a collaborative robot that can stand side by side with humans and perform more similar tasks.”
Agentic AI platform Teneo.ai and CloudHesive partner-up
CloudHesive and Teneo.ai announced a new partnership to integrate conversational AI automation into ConnectPath CX, the company’s cloud-based contact center platform powered by Amazon Connect. The integration brings advanced natural language understanding and automation capabilities into enterprise contact centers, helping organizations to improve how they handle customer inquiries at scale.
SQream names new CEO to spearhead AI Factories
SQream, a leader in GPU-accelerated big data processing, appointed Liam Galin as its new CEO. Galin, who earlier led publicly-traded companies, plans to spearhead SQream 2.0’s era, positioning the company as the ultimate AI Factory enabler, in which enterprises transform massive data into AI-driven insight.
Y Combinator startup DeepSource launches autonomous AI agents to fix security vulnerabilities
DeepSource, a San Francisco-based unified DevSecOps platform for securing code, announced this week the launch of three fully autonomous AI agents to save coders hours of work by scanning and fixing code security vulnerabilities. According to a company statement, the new AI Agents observe key events, apply reasoning to optimize for their security goals, and autonomously take action to proactively keep code bases secure.
New alliance formed between Nisum and AAIC to make AI adoption useful
Two tech leaders—Nisum and AAIC—have formed a partnership with a clear mission: make AI adoption actually useful, fast, and secure for enterprise teams drowning in complexity. The alliance will take the headache out of cloud, IT and App modernization. One of the first joint projects is OpsPilot, an agentic AI-powered production engineer designed for IT teams overwhelmed by alerts and shrinking head counts, in order to help cut incident resolution times by up to 90%.
Energy infrastructure in US gets boost from AI and Think Power Solutions
Think Power Solutions in April renewed its contract with American Electric Power (AEP) to expand AI-enabled utility services in move that will drive efficiency and performance across the grid. Despite the recent volatility seen in the markets, AEP was named one of the safest dividend stocks for investors in 2025. This confidence is likely bolstered by strong third-quarter performance driven by the rising electricity demand stemming from data centers. In fact, according to the International Energy Agency, by the end of the decade the US will use more electricity for data centers than for the production of aluminum, steel, cement, chemicals and all other energy-intensive goods combined.
Big data company expands in Latin America
Big data and ML enterprise Source Meridian announced that it has opened a new office in Ecuador. The company, which is led by Mike Hoey and has offices in the US and Colombia, frequently tops the lists of best companies to work for in the Americas. With the opening of its new office in Ecuador, Source Meridian is looking to boost the country’s tech scene, which has experienced significant growth in recent years, with the nation’s digital economy expected to grow by 18% annually.
Track 3D announces RealView
Track3D, which has leveraged AI to become a leader in Reality Intelligence, announced the launch of its RealView 3D. According to the company, then next-gen 3D visualization solution “delivers fast, photorealistic walkthroughs of your site, all accessible directly from your browser with no need for external viewers or plugins.”
