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The latest developments, breakthroughs, and analysis from the world of artificial intelligence.
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.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Lets You Direct AI Voices With Text
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS ships 200+ audio tags, 70+ languages, native multi-speaker dialogue, and SynthID watermarking — already #2 on TTS leaderboards.
NVIDIA's Lyra 2.0 Turns One Photo Into a Walkable 3D World
NVIDIA released Lyra 2.0, a research model that converts a single image into an explorable, physics-ready 3D scene — and drops a robot inside it.
EU AI Act Hits Recruitment Tools: High-Risk Rules Take Effect Aug 2
HR and recruiting AI is about to become 'high-risk' under the EU AI Act. Companies have until August 2 to document, test, and monitor or face 3% turnover fines.
Jane Street Commits $7B to CoreWeave in AI Cloud and Equity Deal
Jane Street signed a $6 billion AI cloud agreement with CoreWeave and added a $1 billion equity investment, becoming a top-five shareholder in the GPU cloud.
OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.4-Cyber for Vetted Defensive Security Teams
OpenAI launched GPT-5.4-Cyber, a cyber-permissive variant of GPT-5.4 available only through its Trusted Access program, as it races Anthropic's Mythos model.
Harvey Launches End-to-End Legal Agents at $11B Valuation
Harvey is rolling out AI agents that run legal work start to finish — drafting memos, reviewing diligence, and editing contracts across 100,000 lawyers.
Microsoft's GigaTIME Turns $10 Slides Into Advanced Cancer Maps
Microsoft just open-sourced GigaTIME — an AI model trained on 40M cancer cells that generates advanced immune imaging from routine pathology slides.
Microsoft's $19B Ontario AI Data Center Push Adds 1,250 Jobs
Microsoft opens two new Ontario AI data centers in York Region and a third in Toronto, part of a $19B Canada investment supporting 1,250 jobs.
MiniMax Launches Music 2.6, Open-Sources Three Agent Skills
MiniMax ships Music 2.6 with AI Cover mode and open-sources three music skills, giving AI agents native song-making capabilities.