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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
A joint team used 94 qubits across two Heron r2 processors, plus Fugaku and Miyabi-G, to simulate trypsin and T4-lysozyme — a 40x jump in system size and 210x accuracy gain over results from six months ago.
IBM
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German robotics startup Sereact closed a $110M Series B led by Headline to scale its vision-language-action models — already running in BMW, Daimler Truck, and Mercedes plants — and to push into the US warehouse market.
TNW
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Anthropic's restricted Project Glasswing gives 12 launch partners early access to Claude Mythos Preview — a frontier model that already uncovered a 27-year-old OpenBSD bug and thousands of zero-days across every major OS and browser.
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CEO Arvind Krishna unveiled an agentic control plane, made Sovereign Core generally available and folded the Confluent acquisition into watsonx.data as IBM argued enterprises now need an entirely new model for running AI.
IBM Newsroom
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A new grok-imagine-image-quality endpoint targets product visualization, brand-safe ad creative and consistent character workflows, with image outputs designed to feed directly into Grok video generation.
xAI
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Mizuho analyst Jordan Klein flagged a sharp rotation this week as AMD and Intel jumped roughly 25 percent, Micron leapt 37 percent and Corning added 18 percent, while Nvidia trailed the broader Nasdaq for the year.
CNBC
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The Center for AI Standards and Innovation will get pre-release access to frontier models from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI — including versions with safeguards stripped — to evaluate cyber, bio, and chemical risk.
HPCwire
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Nvidia has now committed more than $40 billion to AI equity deals this year, including $30B in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning for optical interconnect plants, and $2.1B in data-center operator IREN.
CNBC
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OpenAI rolled out three new voice models on May 7 — a reasoning agent with a 128K context window, a 70-language live translator at $0.034 a minute, and a streaming Whisper that transcribes as you speak.
OpenAI
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At its second annual developer conference, Anthropic unveiled a stack of agentic features — overnight self-improving 'dreaming' agents, scheduled Routines, multi-agent orchestration, automated Code Review and CI auto-fix — alongside doubled Claude Code rate limits.
Simon Willison's Live Blog
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is now generally available on Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise, pitched as the cheapest, fastest member of the Gemini 3 family for high-volume agentic, classification, and tool-use workloads.
Google Cloud Blog
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A bespoke build of GPT-5.5 with relaxed restrictions on offensive-security tasks is rolling out in limited preview to thousands of verified cybersecurity professionals, OpenAI's answer to Anthropic's Mythos cyber preview from a month earlier.
Help Net Security
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Anthropic's annualized revenue tripled to $30 billion in the first four months of 2026, eclipsing OpenAI's disclosed $24 billion run rate as enterprise demand for Claude Mythos and the new managed agents pulled forward years of forecast growth.
Sherwood News
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A privacy researcher revealed that Chrome has been quietly downloading a 4GB Gemini Nano model to billions of devices without explicit consent, reigniting debate over default-on AI features at browser scale.
9to5Google
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Google shut down Project Mariner on May 4 without a public announcement, ending its 17-month run as a standalone browser-controlling AI and folding the technology into the Gemini API and the new Gemini Agent.
Android Authority
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Anthropic has secured the entire compute capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis — over 300 megawatts and 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs — and the two companies are exploring multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute.
Anthropic
Read more →Anthropic launches a 10-agent suite for banks and insurers, full Microsoft 365 integration, a Moody's data partnership, and Claude Opus 4.7 — with JPMorgan, Goldman, Citi, and Visa as launch customers.
Fortune
Read more →DoD finalizes AI agreements with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Nvidia, SpaceX, and Reflection AI for classified workloads — while labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk.
gHacks Tech News
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NVIDIA releases Ising, an open-source family of AI models that automates qubit calibration and runs real-time quantum error decoding 2.5x faster than the pyMatching standard.
NVIDIA Newsroom
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Anthropic has reportedly agreed to spend $200 billion with Google over five years on TPUs and cloud capacity, accounting for more than 40% of Google's disclosed revenue backlog and briefly pushing Alphabet past Nvidia in market value.
Engadget
Read more →OpenAI replaced GPT-5.3 Instant with GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's default model, delivering a 16-point jump on AIME 2025 math, sharper multimodal reasoning, and lower hallucination rates in legal, medical, and financial queries.
TechCrunch
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SAP is buying Prior Labs and pledging more than €1B over four years to spin up a Freiburg-based frontier lab for Tabular Foundation Models, AI built for structured business data.
SAP News
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FIS is rolling out an Anthropic-built Financial Crimes AI Agent that turns AML investigations from a days-long slog into minutes, starting with BMO and Amalgamated Bank.
FIS
Read more →Anthropic is lining up a $50B round at a roughly $900B valuation, more than doubling its February mark and leapfrogging OpenAI ahead of a possible October IPO.
TechCrunch
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