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[AINews] OpenAI launches GPT-Image-2
with Cursor getting a $10B contract with xAI and a right to acquire for $60B.
AI was ruining my college philosophy classes. So I assigned a new kind of essay
Google’s new Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents can search the web and your private data
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Voyage Launches the First AI-Native RPG Platform, Signaling the Future of Gaming
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2026--Latitude today launched Voyage, the world’s first AI role-playing game (RPG) platform. Voyage is the first RPG where nothing is scripted: every world is player-created, every character thinks for itself and every choice has real consequences.
Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models
Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.
Astera Labs Stock Hits Buy Point After This News
Astera Labs stock attempted a breakout after Amazon and Anthropic announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration.
Are services the new software? This venture capitalist thinks the future is in selling AI-delivered outcomes, not AI-powered products
Sequoia partner Julien Bek penned a viral essay arguing there's a gold mine in AI-native service firms
Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit
Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.
Schematic Raises $6.5M To Help Companies Update Their Pricing Faster And Easier In The AI Era
Schematic, a startup that aims to simplify pricing and packaging for software and AI companies, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
John Ternus’ first big problem is AI
Less than a year ago, Apple made headlines for a lack of AI announcements at its annual WWDC event. Ten months later, the company has announced that hardware executive John Ternus will succeed longtime CEO Tim Cook as chief executive - and the official release doesn't mention AI once. Ternus, currently Apple's SVP of hardware engineering, will take over as CEO on September 1st, after Cook's decade and a half in the role. Ternus is a 25-year veteran of the company and the first Apple CEO in about 30 years to come from the hardware sector. According to Apple, he's led hardware engineering work for every model of iPad, as well as the most rec … Read the full story at The Verge.
Australia's Syenta raises $26 million to ease AI chip bottleneck, former Intel CEO joins board
Syenta, an Australian semiconductor technology startup, said on Tuesday that it has raised $26 million for a new manufacturing technique that could help ease persistent supply chain bottlenecks for artificial intelligence. Along with the funding, the company said it will open an office in the U.S. state of Arizona, near the manufacturing facilities of Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, and that former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will be joining its board of directors. Modern AI chips such as those from Nvidia, Google and others are not a single chip, but rather multiple chips bonded together with what is known as advanced packaging technology, mostly from TSMC.
Update: Meta Platforms to Track Employees' Mouse Movements, Keystrokes for AI Training
(Changes sourcing in first paragraph, company comment added in fourth, fifth and sixth paragraphs).
Vercel breach exposes the OAuth gap most security teams cannot detect, scope or contain
One employee at Vercel adopted an AI tool. One employee at that AI vendor got hit with an infostealer. That combination created a walk-in path to Vercel’s production environments through an OAuth grant that nobody had reviewed. Vercel, the cloud platform behind Next.js and its millions of weekly npm downloads, confirmed on Sunday that attackers gained unauthorized access to internal systems. Mandiant was brought in. Law enforcement was notified. Investigations remain active. An update on Monday confirmed that Vercel collaborated with GitHub, Microsoft, npm, and Socket to verify that no Vercel npm packages were compromised. Vercel also announced it is now defaulting environment variable creation to “sensitive.” Next.js, Turbopack, AI SDK, and all Vercel-published npm packages remain uncompromised after a coordinated audit with GitHub, Microsoft, npm, and Socket. Context.ai was the entry point. OX Security’s analysis found that a Vercel employee installed the Context.ai browser extension
Tim Cook’s Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription
The soon-to-exit Apple CEO went all in on services. Now, the incoming CEO, John Ternus, will need to embrace the AI era.
Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 151 Bugs in Firefox
The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition.
Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’
The AI industry's mudslinging continues.
Siemens launches AI engineering agent to automate PLC coding and industrial workflows
Siemens has launched the Eigen Engineering Agent, its purpose-built AI for automation engineering, now generally available. The Eigen Engineering Agent represents a new class of industrial AI product: one that no longer just generates suggestions but instead uses multi-step reasoning and self-correction to carry out tasks autonomously. Unlike generic AI tools, the Eigen Engineering Agent […]
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ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text
ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.
Building agent-first governance and security
As AI agents increasingly work alongside humans across organizations, companies could be inadvertently opening a new attack surface. Insecure agents can be manipulated to access sensitive systems and proprietary data, increasing enterprise risk. In some modern enterprises, non-human identities (NHI) are outpacing human identities, and that trend will explode with agentic AI. Solid governance and…
Google launches Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents to automate complex research
Google Deepmind is rolling out Deep Research Max, a new AI agent built on Gemini 3.1 Pro that runs autonomous research across the web and proprietary data sources. For the first time, developers can plug in financial feeds and other specialized sources through the Model Context Protocol. The benchmarks come with the usual lack of transparency. The article Google launches Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents to automate complex research appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web
An image generated by ChatGPT Images 2.0. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is rolling out the latest version of its AI-powered image generator with new "thinking capabilities," allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt. In a blog post, OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 can now create more "sophisticated" images, with improvements to its ability to follow instructions, preserve details of your choosing, and generate text. It's powered by OpenAI's new GPT Image 2 model, with new thinking capabilities available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscribers. When a thinking model is selected, the chatbot's image generator can pull information from the web, cr … Read the full story at The Verge.
OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT’s Image Generation Model
The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it’s better at creating more detailed images and rendering text, but it still struggles with languages other than English.
AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans
Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 is here and it does multilingual text, full infographics, slides, maps, even manga — seemingly flawlessly
It's been only a few months since OpenAI released its last big improvement to AI image generations in ChatGPT and through its application programming interface (API) — namely, a new image generation model known as GPT-Image-1.5, released in December 2025, which brought about improved instruction following, colors, and lighting. Now, after weeks of testing, the company that kicked off the generative AI boom is unveiling a far more dramatic and even more impressive update: ChatGPT Images 2.0, which has been available not-so-secretly for several weeks on LM Arena AI, a third-party testing platform used by OpenAI and other major AI model providers to get early feedback, under the name "duct tape." Throughout that time, it's already blown early users' minds with its capacity to generate long blocks of text or disparate text panels within the same image, its insanely realistic generation of user interfaces and screenshots from popular websites and platforms, its reproduction of real life fig
3 new ways Ads Advisor is making Google Ads safer and faster
Three new agentic safety and policy features integrated into Ads Advisor will help protect and streamline your Google Ads account.
QIMMA قِمّة ⛰: A Quality-First Arabic LLM Leaderboard
Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business
Skild AI has acquired Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business, including its Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform. Central to the company’s plans is its “Skild Brain” – described as “the industry’s first omnibodied AI software designed to operate without prior knowledge of a robot’s exact body form” – is claimed to be able to control any robot, […]
Robotics
Dronamics Opens Japan Subsidiary, Names Asia Air Survey as First Japanese Investor
Dronamics has announced a strategic investment from Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd. (TSE: 9233). The company is also establishing a Japanese subsidiary, Dronamics Japan Holdings Co., Ltd. Asia Air Survey, investing through its Corporate Venture Capital arm, becomes the first Japanese investor in Dronamics. Black Swan Drone Targets Japan’s Geospatial Sector Founded in 1954, Asia Air Survey […] The post Dronamics Opens Japan Subsidiary, Names Asia Air Survey as First Japanese Investor appeared first on DRONELIFE.
The New Unicorn Count Reached A 4-Year High In March, Led By Robotics, Frontier Labs And AI Infrastructure
A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups.
Business & Industry
The AI governance mirage: Why 72% of enterprises don’t have the control and security they think they do
Decision makers at 72% of organizations claim to have two or more AI platforms that they identify as their "primary" layer, according to a survey of 40 enterprise companies conducted by VentureBeat last month, revealing real gaps in security and control. For enterprise management and technical leaders, and especially security leaders, these multiple AI platforms extend the attack surfaces of most enterprises at a time when AI-driven attacks have become increasingly potent. The multiple platforms — which include offerings from hyperscaler or AI labs like Microsoft Azure, Google, OpenAI or Anthropic, or big application companies like Epic, Workday or ServiceNow — reflect a state of sprawl that has emerged as these big software providers rush to offer their own AI to their enterprise customers. Those customers, in their own rush to scale AI, are finding they aren’t building a singular strategy — in fact they may be building a collection of contradictions. The strategic paradox: why lead