April 8, 2026

Daily AI Digest: April 8, 2026

Full archive memo · 3 app sections.

Gemini now helps with Google Maps captions, and Perplexity offers smarter media display.

Gemini

Gemini can now create captions for your photos and videos when you want to share them on Google Maps.

The app now helps you find the right photos and videos from your phone to share with the Google Maps community.

Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps, the company announced on Tuesday.

Perplexity

Perplexity can now smartly pick between showing you images, videos, or both, depending on what you're searching for.

You can now choose to turn off or change the types of media (like images or videos) that Perplexity shows you.

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

Claude

Following leaked revelations at the end of March that Anthropic had developed a powerful new Claude model, the company formally announced Mythos Preview on Tuesday along with news.

The group includes Microsoft , Apple , and Google as well as Amazon Web Services , the Linux Foundation, Cisco, Nvidia , Broadcom, and more than 40 other tech, cybersecurity, crit.

“The real message is that this is not about the model or Anthropic,” Logan Graham, the company's frontier red team lead, tells WIRED.