April closes the last gap of 2026

Where this pass came from

As of 28 September 2026, April 2026 was the only month of the year still without its own pass - May and September already had their own packages. The brief followed scheme 1b: the report gives only names, identifiers and addresses, and the session reads every date and figure itself.

The report itself is unusual. Its own preamble says plainly that it was not written by a separate model behind a share.gemini.google link, but earlier in this same session, by live web research, “as part of testing whether the safeguards hold on this text” - and none of that pass’s verdicts were saved anywhere a new session could read them, only in chat context. So its ten candidates were treated exactly as strictly as a genuine outside report: every one re-verified from its primary source.

What entered

Seven records: a federal court’s stay of Colorado’s AI law (27 April, with the United States joining as a plaintiff-intervenor), Google’s eighth-generation TPU chips, Britain’s permitting regulations for robotaxis, Artificial Analysis’s independent measurement of GPT-5.5, Moonshot AI’s open weights for Kimi K2.6, Microsoft’s three MAI models, and the FDA’s decision creating a new class of AI-based diagnostic device.

A document already in the atlas

One candidate - the text of China’s April order on anthropomorphic services - turned out to be the very same URL already the sole source of an existing record about those rules taking effect. Rather than a second record for the same document and day, the existing record gained the order number and adoption date it was missing, by a direct edit that raised its text’s version.

Two finds that were not from April

One candidate turned out to be an article about the January Grok scandal - the page’s own metadata dates it 9 January, not 14 April as the report had it, and that episode is already fully in the atlas. Another carried the title “The Last Ones: a cyber range for evaluating AI agents’ cyberattack capabilities” - but the actual title at that same arXiv address is something else entirely, and every version of the paper is dated in March. “The Last Ones” is the name Britain’s AI Security Institute gave its own range, already named in an existing record; the paper itself is not an April event.

Fixed along the way

The data-validation gate was failing on a clean main: a just-committed EPUB book builder reads the interface dictionaries directly, and the check did not yet know how to follow it. March’s pass had already hit the same file while it was another chat’s uncommitted work, and correctly left it alone; since then the code was committed, and the gap became a real one. Fixed the same way the check already follows the service worker: one function was rewritten as a declaration instead of a constant, and the check was taught to see it.