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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: GPT-5.5 is priced at 5/1M input tokens and 30/1M output tokens, double GPT-5.4's pricing; GPT-5.5 Pro costs 30/1M input tokens and 180/1M output tokens — After months of ru

The Verge: GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, and GPT-5.5 Pro to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT — The new model ‘excels’ at tasks

Data center facilities linked to major tech companies could emit 129 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, potentially surpassing the total emissions of entire nations like Morocco. Tech companie

Healthcare has long operated in data silos — payers, providers and patients each holding fragmented pieces of the same clinical story. That fragmentation, once accepted as the cost of doing business,

Shawn Wen / Bloomberg: How Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted — The 2023 murder o

OpenAI's Codex is a code-generating AI model that translates natural language instructions into functional code across multiple programming languages. This guide provides foundational steps for develo

This guide explains how to integrate Transformers.js, a JavaScript library for running machine learning models, into Chrome extensions to enable on-device AI capabilities. It covers the technical setu

A 7B agent that beats GPT-4o. Lossless weight compression that speeds up inference by 177%. An arena where 23 teams battled across 103,000 adversarial rounds. This year at ICLR, Lambda is presenting t

A ransomware gang called Kyber became the first known ransomware operation to deploy NIST standardized post-quantum cryptography in production. The Windows variant uses Kyber1024 post-quantum key enca

Enterprise AI scaling is accelerating as organizations shift from experimentation to full deployment, embedding intelligence into core workflows. At the same time, agentic systems are driving a broade

Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: Instagram launches Instants, an app for sharing disappearing photos, in Italy and Spain, after rolling out an Instants feature in its main app in some regions — - In

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to 13.58B, vs. 12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15%+ after hours — - Intel reported first-qua

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Internal memo: Amazon is replacing white-collar job titles at its Ring and Blink units with the designation “builder”, and “builder leaders” for managers — During Amazon's (A

Olivia Raimonde / Bloomberg: Joint statement: Apple, Amazon, and others push back on stricter emissions reporting rules proposed by climate body Greenhouse Gas Protocol to cut greenwashing — The tech

Prediction market platform Kalshi said today that it has suspended and fined three congressional candidates from Minnesota, Texas and Virginia for “political insider trading” relating to wagering bets

UC Santa Cruz astronomers using GPU-accelerated simulations have discovered rotating disk galaxies resembling the Milky Way appearing far earlier in the universe than expected, breaking records for th

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Manila-based Salmon, a consumer finance app targeting underbanked Filipinos, raised 60M in equity and 40M in debt; it raised 310M to date, 160M in equity — The Philippines has

AI investment is surging to manic heights, but C-suites have yet to see it translate into measurable business outcomes — a gap that is now one of the defining strategic challenges of the current techn

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency — Meta Platforms

Financial Times: Memo: White House says it has info indicating “foreign entities, principally based in China” are engaged in “industrial scale distillation” of American AI tech — Trump official Michae

Meta Platforms Inc. told staff today that it’s planning to lay off about 8,000 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, and cancel 6,000 open roles in an efficiency drive aimed at offsetting a mass

Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale, published by Bloomberg. That means approximately 8,000 peop

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible — Microsoft will off

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the first voluntary retirement program in its 50-year history, for US staffers whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70+ — Microsoft is

Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously described by Microsoft as 'vibe working,' the Agent Mode is a more powerful version

Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law: Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit — Publishers

Omni Analytics Inc. today announced that it has closed a 120 million funding round at a 1.5 billion valuation, more than double what it was valued at last year. ICONIQ led the Series C investment. It

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Omni, which is building a “semantic translation layer” for enterprise data, raised a 120M Series C led by Iconiq at a 1.5B valuation, up from $650M in 2025 — For years, com

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, designed to handle complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the company's upcoming “super app” — OpenAI is introducing an

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival Anthr

OpenAI: OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving, while performing at a much higher level of intelligence” — A new class of intelligence for real work — We're relea

Madison Mills / Axios: OpenAI says GPT-5.5's improvements are strongest in agentic coding, computer use, and early scientific research, which require reasoning across longer contexts — OpenAI on Thurs

OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its 'smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer.' OpenAI j

OpenAI Group PBC said today it’s pushing ChatGPT outside its usual chat interface with the launch of “workspace agents,” which is a new feature that allows business users to automate recurring tasks,

AI agents have revolutionized developer workflows, and their next frontier is knowledge work: processing information, solving complex problems, coming up with new ideas and driving innovation. Codex,

Chris Metinko / Axios: Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised 60M, including a 40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~90M — Orkes, which helps compani

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are naturally suited to efficient inference, requiring far less memory and compute than attention-based architectures, but the sequential nature of their computation h

Plugins and skills are extensions that enhance the capabilities of OpenAI's Codex, allowing developers to integrate custom functionality and extend the model's functionality beyond its base capabiliti

Generative artificial intelligence security startup Portal26 Inc. today announced the launch of a new module designed to rein in runaway token consumption by autonomous AI agents, a problem the compan

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Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: Report: China's 360 Digital Security Group has uncovered ~1,000 previously unknown vulnerabilities, including in Microsoft's Office, using an AI-powered agent — A large Chi

A startup called Rilian that’s building agentic systems integration tools for companies operating in the defense and national security industries, said today it has raised 17.5 million in seed funding

Reuters: S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market could be as much as 28.5T, with 26.5T from the AI sector, most of it from AI for businesses — Over the last quarter century, Elon Musk r

Salesforce Inc. said today it’s trying to break down the siloes that separate enterprise’s customer relationship management data from their productivity tools, specifically for artificial intelligence

Reuters: SAP reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to €9.56B, vs. €9.53B est., non-IFRS operating profit up 17% to €2.87B, cloud revenue up 19% to €5.96B; SAP up 10%+ after hours — Europe's largest software ma

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: India's mobile app IAP revenue crossed 300M in Q1, up 33% YoY, with non-gaming apps generating 200M+, much of it captured by global platforms — India's mobile