Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Built by ex-Tesla and Netflix engineers, Osaurus routes between local Llama, DeepSeek V4, and Gemma 4 and cloud GPT-5.5, Claude, and Gemini in one sandboxed macOS app — with 112K downloads so far.
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Locked out of Anthropic's limited-access Mythos cyber model, European lenders are talking with Mistral about an on-premises alternative — and OpenAI is circling the same gap.
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A validation study in Gut shows Mayo Clinic's REDMOD model catches pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans roughly 16 months before diagnosis — nearly doubling the sensitivity of human radiologists.
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A public dashboard tracks daily volatility across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity — confirming what marketers have suspected: citation patterns from answer engines can swing 40-60% inside a single month.
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Read more →Grok Build pairs a new Grok 4.3 model with a 2 million token context window and the ability to spawn up to 8 parallel subagents — the most aggressive answer yet to Anthropic's lead in agentic coding tools.
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Once known for plugging into Hollywood production pipelines, Runway is now spending its $860 million of total funding on world models — systems that simulate reality from observed video — and squaring off directly against Google Veo and Genie.
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After a 68% pop on debut, Cerebras dropped 10% on May 15 as investors weighed an eye-watering valuation, two-customer concentration, and a $20B+ OpenAI bet against Nvidia's grip on AI silicon.
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Test UI strings inside Gemini reveal a new Google video model that lets users remix and edit clips directly in chat, with a likely debut at I/O 2026 on May 19-20.
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OpenAI is letting developers monitor and steer Codex coding sessions from iPhone, iPad, and Android, turning the phone into a remote control for an agent that runs back on a desktop or hosted runtime.
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Backed by GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, and AMD at a $4.65B valuation, the Socher–Rocktäschel lab is betting recursive self-improvement is the fastest path to superintelligence.
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ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S. can now wire up Plaid and 12,000+ institutions, surfacing portfolios, spending, and long-range planning inside the chat.
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Claude for Small Business ships 15 ready-to-run agentic workflows for payroll, invoice chasing, and lead triage, plus a 10-city free training tour kicking off in Chicago.
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Read more →Higgsfield's new agent orchestrates Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and video models like Kling 3.0 through a Hermes brain with three layers of memory and 40+ built-in tools.
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Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia, and Altimeter are co-leading a $30 billion round that nearly triples Anthropic's valuation in 90 days as annualized revenue races past $45 billion.
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Cisco doubled its AI hyperscaler order forecast to $9B, raised full-year revenue guidance, and announced a $1B restructuring to redirect investment toward silicon, optics, and security as the AI capex boom keeps reshaping incumbents.
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Sutter Hill, John Doerr, and National Grid Partners back GridCARE's bet that the AI economy is constrained by megawatts, not GPUs, and that physics-based AI can unlock 400+ MW from grids already operating at 30% utilization.
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Amazon is sunsetting its standalone Rufus chatbot and rolling its product expertise into Alexa for Shopping, a personalized agent that tracks prices, schedules reorders, and even buys items off Amazon through Shop Direct.
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Read more →Sam Altman pitches enterprises switching from Claude with 60 days of complimentary Codex access. Hours later, Anthropic boosts Claude Code weekly limits by 50% through July 13 — for free.
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Read more →Self-serve campaigns now start at a $50,000 minimum (down from $250,000), with conversion measurement and CPC bidding aimed at making ChatGPT a real Google Ads competitor.
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Cat Wu, head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, lays out a six-month roadmap built around proactivity: agents that learn your workflow and set up automations without being asked.
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Palmer Luckey's defense tech firm doubled its valuation in less than a year, capping a defense funding surge that has poured nearly $13.6 billion into the sector since January.
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OpenAI has carved out a majority-owned subsidiary, the OpenAI Deployment Company, seeded with $4 billion from a consortium led by TPG and valued at $10 billion at launch — and is acquiring London-based consultancy Tomoro to give it 150 forward-deployed engineers from day one.
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DeepMind's new hierarchical research agent has resolved Problem 21.10 from the Kourovka Notebook, a group theory question that had stood unsolved since 1965, and topped FrontierMath Tier 4 at 48% accuracy — but the team is also publicly flagging a 'reviewer-pleasing bias' that nearly let a flawed proof slip through.
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Demis Hassabis's Alphabet-backed drug discovery spinout has closed a $2.1 billion Series B led by Thrive Capital, with new money from MGX, Temasek, CapitalG and the UK Sovereign AI Fund — capital it says will push its IsoDDE platform from research curiosity to clinical pipeline.
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