Microsoft and OpenAI Reach Surprisingly Amicable Split
April 30, 2026: Microsoft and OpenAI Reach Surprisingly Amicable Split - Microsoft and OpenAI have restructured their long-complicated partnership in what appears to be a surprisingly smooth separation. Despite years of executive disagreements, contract renegotiations, and tensions over AI infrastructure, the two companies managed to part ways without a messy fallout. T...
Musk Admits xAI Trained Grok on OpenAI Models
April 30, 2026: Musk Admits xAI Trained Grok on OpenAI Models - Elon Musk testified in a California federal court that xAI used distillation techniques on OpenAI models to train Grok, calling it a general industry practice. When pressed for a direct answer, he confirmed it was partly true. The admission came during his ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam ...
Appian Bets on Reliability to Fix Enterprise AI Gaps
April 30, 2026: Appian Bets on Reliability to Fix Enterprise AI Gaps - Appian is shifting enterprise AI focus from building agents to making them accurate and auditable in live workflows. At Appian World 2026, the company announced expanded document processing for complex Excel files, inline agent collaboration, and a feedback loop that helped one customer improve agen...
Featherless.ai Raises $20M for Open-Source AI Hosting
April 30, 2026: Featherless.ai Raises $20M for Open-Source AI Hosting - Featherless.ai, a serverless inference platform hosting over 30,000 open-source AI models, has raised $20 million in a Series A round co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures. The company offers enterprises a single API to access language, vision and audio models without dedicated infrastructure c...
OpenAI Restricts Cyber Access After Mocking Anthropic
April 30, 2026: OpenAI Restricts Cyber Access After Mocking Anthropic - Sam Altman previously criticized Anthropic for limiting access to its cybersecurity tool Mythos, calling it fear-based marketing. Now OpenAI is doing the same with its competing tool, Cyber, built on GPT-5.5. OpenAI will roll out Cyber to vetted cybersecurity professionals through an application pr...
Anthropic Nears $900B+ Valuation in Final Private Round
April 30, 2026: Anthropic Nears $900B+ Valuation in Final Private Round - Anthropic is closing in on a roughly $50 billion fundraise within two weeks, with investors given just 48 hours to submit allocations. Soaring demand could push the valuation beyond the $900 billion target, more than doubling its February valuation of $380 billion and surpassing rival OpenAI's $852 ...
Netomi Raises $110M for Enterprise AI Customer Service
April 30, 2026: Netomi Raises $110M for Enterprise AI Customer Service - Netomi has secured $110 million in funding to expand its agentic AI platform for enterprise customer service. The round was led by Accenture Ventures, with Adobe Ventures and others participating. Customers include Delta Air Lines, MetLife, and the NBA. The platform handles customer interactions ac...
Lookout Targets Shadow AI Lurking on Mobile Devices
April 29, 2026: Lookout Targets Shadow AI Lurking on Mobile Devices - Cybersecurity firm Lookout has launched AI Visibility & Governance, a mobile-native tool that helps organizations detect and control unauthorized AI app usage across corporate and personal devices. The solution identifies shadow AI activity that traditional endpoint and cloud tools cannot see, while...
Salesforce Launches AI Agents for Back-Office Automation
April 29, 2026: Salesforce Launches AI Agents for Back-Office Automation - Salesforce has launched Agentforce Operations, an AI system that deploys intelligent agents to automate repetitive back-office tasks without requiring engineers to build or maintain the workflows. The agents understand company culture, business logic, and security needs, adapting automatically to ch...
Microsoft Copilot Hits 20M Paid Enterprise Users
April 29, 2026: Microsoft Copilot Hits 20M Paid Enterprise Users - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that M365 Copilot now has 20 million paid enterprise seats, with the number of companies holding over 50,000 seats quadrupling. Major clients include Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mercedes, while Accenture signed on for over 740,000 seats in Microsoft's largest C...
Rogo Raises $160M for AI Financial Analysis
April 29, 2026: Rogo Raises $160M for AI Financial Analysis - Rogo Technologies has raised $160 million in a Series D round led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Sequoia, Khosla Ventures, and Morgan Growth Equity Partners. The AI startup automates financial workflows including due diligence, valuation, competitor analysis, and financial modeling for ...
Zebra Technologies Invests in Apera AI Robotics
April 29, 2026: Zebra Technologies Invests in Apera AI Robotics - Zebra Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Zebra Technologies, has made a strategic investment in Apera AI, a company developing 4D Vision technology for factory automation. The investment aims to advance intelligent automation in manufacturing environments. Apera AI's Physical AI technol...
Google Search Queries Reach All-Time High
April 29, 2026: Google Search Queries Reach All-Time High - Google Search queries reached an all-time high in the first quarter of 2026, according to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who made the announcement alongside the company's latest earnings report. Pichai credited the company's artificial intelligence strategy for the milestone, stating that AI investment...
Google Photos lets you virtually try on outfits
April 29, 2026: Google Photos lets you virtually try on outfits - Google Photos is launching an AI-powered virtual try-on feature using clothes you already own. The tool scans your photo gallery to build a digital wardrobe. Users can mix and match outfits, save favorite looks, and share them with friends, as demonstrated in a video shared by Google.
OpenAI pravi telefon bez aplikacija za 2028.
April 29, 2026: OpenAI pravi telefon bez aplikacija za 2028. - OpenAI razvija pametni telefon koji funkcioniše potpuno drugačije od postojećih uređaja. Analitičar Ming-Či Kuo potvrdio je da Sam Altman radi na AI agent telefonu bez klasičnih ikonica i aplikacija, gde veštačka inteligencija samostalno izvršava sve zadatke korisnika. Na dizajnu radi bivši Apple di...
Dell and Intel Tackle AI Security on May 7
April 29, 2026: Dell and Intel Tackle AI Security on May 7 - Dell Technologies and Intel are hosting a live event on May 7 exploring how security and cyber resiliency underpin scalable enterprise AI. The discussion will focus on Dell's AI Factory platform and how its collaboration with Intel builds intrinsic security into enterprise infrastructure. Experts w...
Tumbler Ridge Families Sue OpenAI Over Shooting
April 29, 2026: Tumbler Ridge Families Sue OpenAI Over Shooting - Seven families affected by the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging negligence. The families claim OpenAI failed to alert police despite its systems flagging suspicious ChatGPT activity by shooting suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar. The ...
Nadella Plans to 'Exploit' Revised OpenAI Deal
April 29, 2026: Nadella Plans to 'Exploit' Revised OpenAI Deal - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella dismissed concerns about the revised OpenAI partnership, calling it a win-win despite the company losing exclusive access to OpenAI's technology. He confirmed Microsoft retains royalty-free access to OpenAI's most advanced AI models through 2032 and no longer has to pay f...
New AI Model Identifies 61 African Languages Accurately
April 29, 2026: New AI Model Identifies 61 African Languages Accurately - GSMA and French AI firm Pleias have released CommonLingua, an open-source language identification model covering 334 languages, including 61 African languages across eight language families. The two-million-parameter model achieves 83% accuracy, significantly outperforming existing tools that routin...
AI Becomes Cloud Infrastructure, Expanding Attack Surface
April 29, 2026: AI Becomes Cloud Infrastructure, Expanding Attack Surface - A new Wiz report reveals AI has shifted from experimental tool to default cloud infrastructure, with 81% of environments running managed AI services and 90% running self-hosted AI software. The report warns of an inherited attack surface organizations never explicitly chose, with 68% of self-hosting...
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