ElevenLabs Adds BlackRock, Celebrities in $500M Round
May 05, 2026: ElevenLabs Adds BlackRock, Celebrities in $500M Round - Voice AI company ElevenLabs has revealed new investors in its $500 million Series D, including institutions BlackRock, Wellington, and D.E. Shaw; enterprises Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, and Deutsche Telekom; and celebrities Jamie Foxx, Eva Longoria, and Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk. The compa...
Nvidia, AMD invest in $100M AI tooling startup
May 05, 2026: Nvidia, AMD invest in $100M AI tooling startup - RadixArk, an AI developer tools startup, has raised $100 million in a seed round led by Accel and Spark Capital, with backing from Nvidia, AMD, Databricks, and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. The funding values the company at $400 million. RadixArk builds commercial tools around two open-source projects: Mi...
Google Home Gemini Upgrade Handles Complex Commands
May 05, 2026: Google Home Gemini Upgrade Handles Complex Commands - Google has updated Gemini for Home to version 3.1, enabling users to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple commands in a single request. The upgrade improves the assistant's ability to interpret and act on user requests. The update also enhances Gemini's handling of recurring...
Dyna Software Unveils AI Tool for ServiceNow Configuration
May 05, 2026: Dyna Software Unveils AI Tool for ServiceNow Configuration - Dyna Software has launched Platform Copilot, an agentic AI tool it claims is the first to autonomously configure, design and build on the ServiceNow platform. The tool integrates with a customer's development instance, applies natural language-prompted changes, and validates them before execution, p...
ChatGPT's New Model Hallucinates 52% Less
May 05, 2026: ChatGPT's New Model Hallucinates 52% Less - OpenAI claims its new default ChatGPT model, GPT-5.5 Instant, significantly reduces hallucinations. The company says internal evaluations show the model produces 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims than its predecessor. Hallucinations, where AI models generate false or fabricated information, have been...
Brockman Defends $30B Stake in OpenAI Trial
May 05, 2026: Brockman Defends $30B Stake in OpenAI Trial - OpenAI President Greg Brockman testified in a landmark trial that his stake in the company is worth nearly $30 billion, a figure Elon Musk's lawsuit cites as proof OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission for profit. Brockman defended the fortune, saying compensation was secondary to the mission and c...
OpenAI Rushes AI Agent Phone for 2027
May 05, 2026: OpenAI Rushes AI Agent Phone for 2027 - OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its first AI agent phone, with mass production targeted as early as the first half of 2027, according to TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The accelerated timeline may be driven by a desire to support a year-end IPO narrative, Kuo suggested. The de...
IBM Think: AI-First, Hybrid, Quantum Now Engineering
May 05, 2026: IBM Think: AI-First, Hybrid, Quantum Now Engineering - IBM CEO Arvind Krishna used his Think 2026 keynote to argue that AI is shifting from a technology initiative to a core business model, warning that the gap between AI leaders and laggards is widening fast. He framed the moment as a day zero opportunity, urging enterprises to move beyond pilots into ...
Etsy Launches Native ChatGPT App for Shopping
May 05, 2026: Etsy Launches Native ChatGPT App for Shopping - Etsy has launched a native app within ChatGPT, letting users search its 100 million-plus listings using natural language prompts. By tagging @Etsy in a chat, shoppers can describe what they need conversationally and browse relevant results, clicking through to Etsy to purchase. The move follows a f...
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant Becomes New ChatGPT Default
May 05, 2026: OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant Becomes New ChatGPT Default - OpenAI has launched GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default ChatGPT model, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant. The update reduces hallucinations in law, medicine, and finance, improves math and multimodal reasoning benchmarks, and introduces personalized context management by referencing past conversations, files...
DeepMind Unionizes, Alexa+ Leads AI Race
May 05, 2026: DeepMind Unionizes, Alexa+ Leads AI Race - Google DeepMind workers in the UK have voted to unionize, seeking recognition of two unions as joint representatives. A key driver was concern over reports of Google nearing a deal with the US Department of Defense. Amazon's Alexa+ has received strong praise, with reviewers calling the GenAI-powere...
Xbox Scraps Copilot AI on Mobile and Console
May 05, 2026: Xbox Scraps Copilot AI on Mobile and Console - Xbox is shutting down its Copilot AI features, winding down the mobile version and halting console development entirely. The announcement came from new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma on Tuesday. The decision follows Sharma's restructuring of the Xbox platform team, which brought in executives from Microsoft'...
ChatGPT Shows Memory Sources, But Not All
May 05, 2026: ChatGPT Shows Memory Sources, But Not All - OpenAI has updated ChatGPT's default model to GPT-5.5 Instant, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant. The new model promises improved dependability, accuracy, and intelligence, alongside a new memory transparency feature rolling out across all platform models. The feature lets users see which saved memories or...
Anthropic, OpenAI Launch Rival Enterprise AI Ventures
May 05, 2026: Anthropic, OpenAI Launch Rival Enterprise AI Ventures - Anthropic and OpenAI have each announced joint ventures with major Wall Street firms to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. Anthropic is partnering with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and others in a $1.5 billion venture, while OpenAI's Deployment Company, led by COO Brad Lightcap, plans to inject up to ...
IBM Launches AI Operating Model for Enterprises
May 05, 2026: IBM Launches AI Operating Model for Enterprises - IBM used its Think 2026 conference to unveil a broad enterprise AI expansion centered on a new AI operating model, positioning it as the next step beyond early experimentation. CEO Arvind Krishna framed the shift as operational transformation, built around a four-part architecture of agents, data, a...
One Command Turns Any Repo Into AI Backdoor
May 05, 2026: One Command Turns Any Repo Into AI Backdoor - Researchers at the University of Hong Kong launched CLI-Anything in March, a tool that generates structured command line interfaces allowing AI coding agents to operate any open-source repository with a single command. It has amassed over 30,000 GitHub stars and supports major platforms including Cl...
OPAQUE Buys UAE Quantum-Proof Cryptographic AI Tech
May 04, 2026: OPAQUE Buys UAE Quantum-Proof Cryptographic AI Tech - OPAQUE, a Confidential AI company, has acquired advanced cryptographic AI technologies from Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute (TII). The deal adds confidential AI model training using multi-party computation and fully homomorphic encryption, plus post-quantum cryptographic protections to O...
SoundHound Surges 17% on LivePerson Deal, Twilio Beat
May 04, 2026: SoundHound Surges 17% on LivePerson Deal, Twilio Beat - SoundHound AI jumped 17% Friday, driven by two simultaneous catalysts. The company announced a $43 million equity deal to acquire LivePerson at a 22% premium, combining its voice AI platform with LivePerson's digital messaging infrastructure. A strong Twilio earnings report also boosted broader sect...
Musk Threatened OpenAI Founders Before Trial Began
May 04, 2026: Musk Threatened OpenAI Founders Before Trial Began - Days before his trial against OpenAI began, Elon Musk texted company president Greg Brockman urging a settlement. When Brockman suggested both sides drop their suits, Musk responded: 'By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.' OpenAI's lawyers submitted the exchang...
Musk's AI Expert Warns of AGI Arms Race at Trial
May 04, 2026: Musk's AI Expert Warns of AGI Arms Race at Trial - Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI called its only AI technology expert witness, UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell, to testify about the dangers of artificial general intelligence. Russell warned jurors of an AGI arms race among frontier labs and the tension between safety and unconstrained AI de...
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