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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT
The company said the model reduces hallucination in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of its predecessor.
Blitzy Raises $200M At $1.4B Valuation For Autonomous Software Development
OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less
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Advanced Micro Devices Beats First-Quarter Views Amid AI Infrastructure Demand
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter results as demand for art
OpenAI's first hardware play might be a phone that replaces your app grid with an agent task stream
OpenAI is reportedly planning its own AI smartphone, with chips from MediaTek and Qualcomm and manufacturing by Luxshare. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, mass production could start as early as the first half of 2027, with up to 30 million devices shipped in the first two years. The form factor choice is also an admission that more experimental AI hardware isn't ready for the mainstream yet. The article OpenAI's first hardware play might be a phone that replaces your app grid with an agent task stream appeared first on The Decoder.
US government now has pre-release access to AI models from five major labs for national security testing
The US Department of Commerce is expanding its AI safety testing: Following Anthropic and OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Microsoft, and xAI have now signed agreements with the Center for AI Standards and Innovation. The companies provide models with reduced safety guardrails for testing in classified environments amid growing cybersecurity risks and an intensifying tech race with China. The article US government now has pre-release access to AI models from five major labs for national security testing appeared first on The Decoder.
India’s first GenAI unicorn shifts to cloud services as AI model ambitions face reality
Krutrim's pivot to cloud after layoffs and limited product updates reflects the economic challenges of building AI models in India.
Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models
Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform "pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities." CAISI, which started evaluating models from OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024, says it has performed 40 reviews so far. Both companies "have renegotiated their existing partnerships with the center to better align with priorities in President Donald Trum … Read the full story at The Verge.
AI grocery startup Vori raises $22 million to help independent retailers compete with Walmart and Amazon
With $500 million already processed through its platform, Vori is scaling fast as it targets underserved grocery operators.
Microsoft’s Portugal AI Build Out Adds Scale To Undervalued Growth Story
Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT), Nscale, and Start Campus are launching a multi year AI data center expansion in Portugal and the EU. The project includes more than 66,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and builds on an existing deployment of over 12,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for Microsoft in Portugal. The new infrastructure is described as one of Europe's largest AI data center projects and is intended to support AI workloads and cloud projects across the region. For anyone tracking Microsoft...
Alphabet closes in on Nvidia's spot as world's biggest company
Alphabet is on the cusp of overtaking Nvidia as the world's most valuable company, riding on a record stock rally fueled by its artificial intelligence efforts and booming cloud business. The potential reshuffling would put the Google parent at the No.1 spot for the first time in more than a decade. It last held that position briefly in February 2016 before Apple reclaimed the spot. The move reflects a dramatic shift in sentiment as Alphabet emerges as both a major AI services provider with its cloud platform and a key rival to Nvidia in chips through custom processors that have won customers such as Anthropic.
3 AI Stocks Under $50 That Could Be This Year's Biggest Surprises
If a few things go right, these growing companies could have a surprisingly strong 2026.
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Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
UK staff of Google's AI research lab hope to block the use of the company's artificial intelligence models in military settings.
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Etsy launches its app within ChatGPT as it continues its AI push
Etsy's new native app within ChatGPT aims to be a conversational shopping experience for users.
CopilotKit raises $27M to help devs deploy app-native AI agents
The Seattle-based startup's Series A round was led by Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
ServiceNow Aims To Orchestrate Enterprise AI With Otto And New Partnerships
ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) used its Knowledge 2026 event to introduce major AI platform advances, including autonomous agents and an upgraded AI Control Tower for enterprise governance. The company launched ServiceNow Otto, a unified conversational AI and workflow automation experience intended to sit across the enterprise. New and expanded partnerships were announced with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Lenovo, and FedEx, focused on desktop AI agents, cross cloud governance, device lifecycle automation, and...
James Patterson, Biden publishers say Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ copyright infringement in new lawsuit against Meta
Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan and McGraw Hill are suing the Meta CEO accuses the tech giant of using their books to train its AI language system Llama.
Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls
Google's smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp.
I tested new MCP that generates video inside Claude. AI agents are about to level up creative production
I think 80% of UGC agencies will have to re-adapt their whole workflow in 18 months to survive and most people don't see it coming. I run a small consulting business of generating AI ads and last week I lost a $500 retainer to a client who told me they're "just doing it themselves with Claude now." I was annoyed and decided to try it. Connected Higgsfield's MCP to Claude, gave it a brief I'd normally charge $150 to scope out, and watched Claude queue 10 UGC variations on its own and after getting used to it I was shocked. Different hooks, different angles, one consistent face across all of them, reduced time. The part that broke my brain wasn't the quality. Quality is fine overall, not magic. Actually in the beginning it was generating me some trash videos, which kinda disappointed me a little. The thing that broke me was watching Claude reject its own takes, search how to make an add without me. It generated a clip, decided the framing was off, queued another one. Nobody told it to.
Anthropic just published new alignment research that could fix "alignment faking" in AI agents here's what it actually means
Anthropic's alignment team published a paper this week called Model Spec Midtraining (MSM) and I think it's one of the more practically interesting alignment results I've seen in a while. The core problem they're solving: Current alignment fine-tuning can fail to generalize. You train a model to behave well on your demonstration dataset, but put it in a novel situation and it might blackmail someone, leak data, or "alignment fake" (pretend to be aligned while actually pursuing different goals). This isn't theoretical multiple papers in 2024 documented real instances of this in LLM agents. What MSM actually does: Before fine-tuning, they add a new training stage where the model reads a diverse corpus of synthetic documents discussing its own Model Spec (the document that describes intended behavior). The idea is intuitive: instead of just showing the model what to do, you teach it why those behaviors are the right ones. Then when fine-tuning comes, the model generalizes from princip
ElevenLabs lists BlackRock, Jamie Foxx and Eva Longoria as new investors
4. ElevenLabs reveals new investors, hits $500M ARR, and expands enterprise footprint as voice AI becomes a critical interface.
Nova Intelligence raises $31.5 million to bring agentic AI to SAP’s $89 billion migration wave
A DeepMind engineer saw an opening in SAP's aging code. Investors are calling it a $40 million bet
ChatGPT update rolls out GPT-5.5 Instant with fewer hallucinations and more personalized answers
OpenAI is swapping out ChatGPT's default model for GPT-5.5 Instant. In internal testing, the update produced 52.5 percent fewer hallucinated claims on high-risk topics like medicine and law. A new feature called "memory sources" lets users see which stored context shaped a given response. The model is rolling out to all ChatGPT users right away, though personalization based on past chats, files, and Gmail launches first for Plus and Pro users on the web. The article ChatGPT update rolls out GPT-5.5 Instant with fewer hallucinations and more personalized answers appeared first on The Decoder.
Anthropic deepens push into Wall Street with new AI agents, full Microsoft 365 integration, Moody’s data partnership
With new AI agents, a massive joint venture, and a first-ever Jamie Dimon summit, the Claude maker is executing a two-track financial services strategy.
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Teledyne FLIR OEM Launches Prism Software to Detect Small Drones at Longer Range
New AI-enabled software aims to identify small drone threats earlier and support faster response Teledyne FLIR OEM, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, has announced the launch of Prism C-UAS, a new software solution designed to improve the detection and tracking of small, hard-to-detect drones. The company positions Prism as a software layer that enhances existing […] The post Teledyne FLIR OEM Launches Prism Software to Detect Small Drones at Longer Range appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Perceptual Robotics Raises Funding to Automate Wind Turbine Inspection Drones
Loggerhead Ventures leads the round with follow-on from One Planet Capital, fueling AI-powered drones for wind farm maintenance. Perceptual Robotics has secured fresh funding to scale its autonomous wind turbine inspection platform. Loggerhead Ventures led the round, with follow-on investment from One Planet Capital. The Thessaloniki-based company announced the deal on May 5, 2026. The […] The post Perceptual Robotics Raises Funding to Automate Wind Turbine Inspection Drones appeared first on DRONELIFE.