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The latest developments, breakthroughs, and analysis from the world of artificial intelligence.
Meta Opens AI Business Assistant to All Advertisers Globally
Meta's AI assistant is now live for every advertiser across APAC, EMEA, LATAM, and the US — driving 12% lower cost per result in early use.
Microsoft Pours A$25 Billion Into Australia's AI Build-Out
Microsoft's largest-ever Australia investment expands Azure AI capacity 140%, trains 3 million workers, and ties into national cyber defense.
OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents in ChatGPT for Enterprise Teams
OpenAI's new Workspace Agents replace custom GPTs with shared, always-on agents that run across Slack, Salesforce, Notion, and Google Drive.
Sony's Project Ace Robot Beats Elite Humans at Table Tennis in Nature
Sony AI's autonomous table tennis system reacts in 20ms — ten times faster than elite humans — and just beat three pros in published Nature research.
Tesla Triples Capex to $25B for AI, Optimus, and Robotaxi in 2026
Tesla raised its 2026 capital spending plan to over $25B — nearly 3x last year — to fund Optimus production, an Austin chip fab, and AI compute.
xAI's Grok Build Coding Agent Nears Launch With Arena Mode
Elon Musk says Grok Build ships next week with parallel agents and a CLI, putting xAI directly against Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex.
DeepSeek V4 Preview Drops: 1M Context, 1.6T MoE, Fully Open-Source
DeepSeek's V4 preview lands with a 1M-token context window, a 1.6T mixture-of-experts model, and an open-source license — a direct shot at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Huawei's Ascend 950 'Supernode' Powers DeepSeek V4 Without Nvidia
Huawei trained DeepSeek V4 on Ascend 950 clusters linked by its Supernode fabric — the clearest sign yet China can train frontier models without Nvidia.
Meta's MTIA 400 Nears Deployment as Custom Inference Silicon Ramps
Meta's MTIA 400 inference chip is finishing testing for data center rollout — the second of four custom chips aimed at cutting its Nvidia dependency.
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.5 With 1M Context and Doubled API Pricing
GPT-5.5 brings sharper coding, a 1M-token context, and a price tag twice as high as GPT-5.4 — OpenAI is betting intelligence gains outrun the cost.
Siemens and NVIDIA Turn Erlangen Into the AI Factory Blueprint
Hannover Messe demos showed a Siemens factory cutting ventilation energy 70% with AI-driven digital twins — the template for fully autonomous manufacturing.
Musk's xAI Held Talks With Mistral and Cursor on Three-Way Tie-Up
Business Insider says xAI explored a partnership with Mistral and Cursor to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI in AI coding — Musk's most direct move yet.
Google Launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Replacing Vertex AI
Google's new Gemini Enterprise platform gives every AI agent a cryptographic ID, ships 200+ models, and takes direct aim at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Google Splits TPUs in Two: Meet TPU 8t and 8i, Built for the Agent Era
Google's 8th-gen TPUs split training and inference into specialized chips — TPU 8t hits 2.8x Ironwood's speed, TPU 8i triples SRAM for faster agents.
Google Unveils TPU 8t and 8i: Two Chips for the Agentic Era
Google's 8th-gen TPUs split training and inference into two dedicated chips — 2.8x faster training and 80% better inference over Ironwood.
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.5: The Agent That Actually Operates Your Computer
GPT-5.5 launched Thursday with 78.7% on OSWorld, a 1M-token context window, and double the API price of GPT-5.4. Here's what's new.
OpenAI Open-Sources Privacy Filter for On-Device PII Masking
OpenAI's new Privacy Filter is an open-weight model that redacts PII locally before data ever leaves your machine — Apache 2.0, runs on a laptop.
Murati's Thinking Machines Inks Multibillion Google Cloud Deal
Thinking Machines Lab signed a multi-billion-dollar agreement for Nvidia GB300 capacity on Google Cloud, expanding a quiet 2025 partnership.
OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind Targets Drug Discovery, Beats GPT-5.4
OpenAI's first domain-specific model targets drug discovery — and on bioinformatics benchmarks, it outperforms GPT-5.4 and every rival tested.
Sora Shuts Down in Six Days: What Users Need to Do Now
OpenAI's Sora video app closes April 26. Users have less than a week to export their AI-generated videos before the infrastructure goes dark.
DeepSeek Breaks Tradition, Raises $300M at $10B Valuation
DeepSeek is in talks for its first-ever outside funding — $300M at a $10B+ valuation — as it preps a trillion-parameter V4 model for late April.
Perplexity's Personal Computer Turns Your Mac Into an Always-On AI Agent
Perplexity rolled out Personal Computer for Mac to Max subscribers — an AI agent that orchestrates iMessage, Mail, Calendar, and local files 24/7.
xAI Quietly Drops Grok 4.3 Beta for $300/Month SuperGrok Heavy Tier
xAI shipped Grok 4.3 beta to its priciest subscribers on April 17, with native PDF, spreadsheet, and PowerPoint generation built in.
Google Puts AI Mode Inside Chrome: Side-by-Side Browsing Goes Live
Google's AI Mode now opens web pages next to the chat in Chrome, pulls multi-tab context, and embeds directly in the New Tab page — starting today in the US.