Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Microsoft launches a Word-native AI agent purpose-built for legal work — playbook-driven contract review, deterministic redlining, and tracked changes that preserve document structure rather than rewriting it.
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A new report says Anthropic is in early discussions to buy specialized inference silicon from UK-based Fractile when it ships in 2027, joining a broader push to ease its dependence on Nvidia and AWS.
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Mistral fuses chat, reasoning, and coding into a single 128B dense model and pairs it with Vibe — async cloud-based coding agents that hand back work as pull requests instead of terminal output.
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Researchers at Zhejiang University tested last year's headline-grabbing "human-like" Centaur model with a simple twist: replace the task with "Please choose option A." The model kept picking the original right answers — exposing pattern memorization, not understanding.
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The web-search-for-agents startup founded by the former Twitter CEO closed a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation just five months after its Series A — a near tripling of its price tag as Clay, Harvey, Notion, and Opendoor pile in as customers.
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The Defense Department signed procurement contracts with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Reflection to deploy AI in classified networks — leaving Anthropic on the outside after the company refused to allow Claude to be used for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
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Powered by Opus 4.7 and the Mythos-fueled Project Glasswing, Claude Security reasons over entire codebases like a human researcher — tracing data flows instead of matching patterns.
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Read more →Google split its eighth-generation TPU into a training giant and an inference workhorse, paired with a 134,000-chip Virgo Network fabric aimed squarely at agentic AI.
Accenture Ventures led a $110 million round in Netomi as the agentic AI platform expands deployments at Delta, United, Paramount Skydance, the NBA and DraftKings.
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Meta beat Q1 estimates with $56.3B in revenue, but raised its 2026 capex guidance to as much as $145 billion — and the market punished the stock for it.
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Anthropic is fielding preemptive offers for up to $50 billion in new funding at a valuation between $850 billion and $900 billion, with a board decision expected in May.
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Read more →Rogo closed a $160M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins to scale Felix, its agentic AI for investment banking, now used by 35,000 professionals across top banks and private equity firms.
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Claude can now drive a coalition of creative apps — Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Ableton Live, Autodesk Fusion, SketchUp, Affinity, Resolume, and Splice — through MCP-based connectors.
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Chinese lab DeepSeek released two open-weight V4 preview models with 1M-token context windows, matching closed-source rivals on reasoning while undercutting them on price.
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A new Create button inside the Gemini tab on Google TV lets viewers swap outfits in photos, animate stills, and generate clips by voice — turning the television into the first big-screen home for generative AI.
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Google opened a public beta of Ask YouTube on April 28, turning the world's largest video platform into a conversational answer engine that returns clips, segments, and step-by-step explanations instead of a list of links.
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The San Diego defense startup wants to bring drone manufacturing to the front lines, packing HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printers into 20-foot containers that can produce a flyable airframe in under 24 hours.
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Read more →The legal-AI startup raised the largest Series A in legal tech history at a $750 million valuation, betting on a model that replaces billable hours with AI-supervised attorneys under a single brand.
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The Sora consumer app went dark on April 26 and the API will follow in September, ending a 17-month experiment that reportedly cost OpenAI roughly $1 million per day to keep running.
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Musk testified in Oakland federal court on Tuesday, seeking $130 billion in damages and the ouster of Sam Altman, in a case that could decide whether OpenAI is forced back into a nonprofit.
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Meta inked agreements with Overview Energy for up to 1 GW of orbital solar capacity and with Noon Energy for up to 1 GW / 100 GWh of ultra-long-duration storage, betting on exotic energy sources to keep its AI data centers humming.
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Beijing’s NDRC ordered Meta and agentic-AI startup Manus to unwind their already-closed acquisition, dealing a major blow to Zuckerberg’s AI-agent ambitions and underscoring how AI deals are now entangled in U.S.-China rivalry.
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Amazon rolled out a conversational audio shopping assistant on April 28 that answers product questions in real time, deepening its push to embed AI agents directly into the buying flow.
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Founded by ex-Google and Meta chip veterans, Majestic Labs has revealed a server purpose-built to break AI's memory wall — packing up to 128TB of unified memory to run multi-trillion-parameter models in a single box.
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