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Updates
Product updates, feature launches, system improvements, and what we’re building behind the scenes.
April 3, 2026
Pika “Selves”: Meet your other you.
Pika describes these “Selves” as entities you birth, raise, and release into the world. That’s not marketing fluff. It’s a framing shift. You’re not configuring settings, you’re shaping a personality. You decide what it remembers, how it behaves, even its quirks. If you want it to have a peanut allergy, fine. If you want it to be chaotic, poetic, or slightly unhinged, that’s on you.
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April 3, 2026
Pika’s New AI Video Chat
The race to make AI more human, responsive, and useful just took a major step forward. Piko’s new AI video chat is not just another chatbot. It represents a shift toward real-time, face-to-face interaction with artificial intelligence.
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April 3, 2026
Does Claude have emotions?
Anthropic published new mechanistic interpretability research on April 2, 2026, titled "Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model." The study examines Claude Sonnet 4.5 and reveals that the model develops robust internal representations (called emotion concepts or emotion vectors) for human-like emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, joy, calm, desperation, love, hostility, and others; totaling around 171 associated patterns.
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April 1, 2026
Why and How to Run an LLM at Home in 2026
Why run LLM at home: full privacy, zero ongoing costs, no latency, no censorship. Easy guide how to run local LLM with Ollama or LM Studio on your PC or server. Best self-hosted AI setup for 2026. Discover why running an LLM at home beats cloud services and how to set it up easily.
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April 1, 2026
Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw
Discover the key differences between Hermes Agent and OpenClaw—two leading open source AI agents. Learn which self-improving AI agent suits your needs for autonomous task automation, memory, and skill building.
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April 1, 2026
Claude Code Leak: What Actually Happened
This wasn’t a hack. It was a simple mistake that snowballed fast. Anthropic pushed a new version of their Claude Code CLI tool to npm, and it accidentally included a massive source map file.
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March 29, 2026
Introducing ND.Builds
ND.Builds is now the Development side of Nogueras Designs. We are lucky to be able to add to our team and now we can have two departments working together on projects.
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