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The latest developments, breakthroughs, and analysis from the world of artificial intelligence.
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.
NVIDIA Ising: First Open AI Models Built for Quantum Computing
NVIDIA just released Ising, an open-source family of AI models that decode quantum errors 2.5x faster and 3x more accurately than today's industry standard.
OpenAI Buys Hiro Finance to Build a Personal AI CFO in ChatGPT
OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance in an acquihire to bring a personal AI CFO experience into ChatGPT.
Pulse Launches AI Social News Network for Busy Professionals
Pulse launches an AI-powered social news network that filters and compresses business and tech news into a high-signal daily stream.
Google Gemini Hits 750M Users as Gemini 3.1 Pro Tops Benchmarks
Google's Gemini platform reaches 750 million monthly users while Gemini 3.1 Pro leads 13 of 16 major AI benchmarks — and a 1M token context window makes it the long-context leader.
Maine Sends AI Therapy Ban to Governor as Missouri Follows
Maine's LD 2082 would ban AI from clinical therapy with $10K penalties. Missouri's HB 2372 passed the House. States are moving faster than the feds here.
OpenAI's Enterprise Push: Codex 5x Growth and the AI Superapp Vision
OpenAI outlines its enterprise AI strategy as Codex surpasses 3 million weekly users, a new $100/month Pro plan launches, and the company aims to build a unified AI superapp for the workplace.
Palantir Drops 7% as Agentic AI Panic Hits Software Stocks
Palantir fell 7% on April 10 after Michael Burry said Anthropic is 'eating its lunch.' The software ETF is off 35% from its high. Panic or SaaS reckoning?
PwC Study: 75% of AI Gains Are Going to Just 20% of Companies
A new PwC report surveying 1,200 executives reveals a widening divide between AI leaders and laggards — and pinpoints exactly what separates the winners.