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MicrosoftAGENTIC COMPUTER USE · GAAI agents that canuse any app — no APIComputer-using agents, now GA across allcommercial regions (since May 13).OpenAI CUA + Claude Sonnet 4.5Purview audit · human-in-the-loopRunSource: Microsoft · Copilot Studio blog
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Microsoft Ships Computer-Using Agents in Copilot Studio to GA — AI That Drives Any App, No API Needed

Microsoft has made computer-using agents in Copilot Studio generally available across every commercial region, becoming the first major hyperscaler to put production-grade "computer use" into enterprises' hands. The agents operate desktop and web apps directly through the interface — clicking, typing and navigating like a person — using OpenAI's CUA and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, wrapped in Azure Key Vault, Microsoft Purview auditing and human-in-the-loop review.

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OPENAI · CODEX 26.519 · MAY 21, 2026 BITSMINDS LOCKED USE Codex on a locked Mac Trigger from your phone · screen stays off "Codex can securely use apps on your Mac, even when the screen is off and locked." SHIPPING IN 26.519 ⌘⌘ Appshots · window to chat GA Goal Mode · hours-long tasks 📱 Remote run from Codex Mobile 3 REGIONS BLOCKED AT LAUNCH EU · UK · Switzerland Rolling out elsewhere on macOS 14+ GUARDRAILS Per-app allowlist · short-lived auth Instant relock on local input Source: OpenAI Developers · MacRumors · Macworld
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OpenAI Lets Codex Drive Your Mac While It Sits Locked — A Background Agent in Your Pocket

In its May 21 release, OpenAI gave Codex permission to keep clicking, typing and navigating macOS apps even after the screen is off. The new "Locked Use" mode — triggered remotely from the ChatGPT mobile app — turns a Mac sitting on your desk into a 24/7 agent runtime, with short-lived authorization and a hard relock the moment you touch the keyboard.

OpenAI Developers / MacRumors

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Apple Quietly Registers genai.apple.com Two Weeks Before WWDC, Telegraphing Its Long-Promised AI Reset
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Apple Quietly Registers genai.apple.com Two Weeks Before WWDC, Telegraphing Its Long-Promised AI Reset

A new genai.apple.com subdomain spotted on May 23 — sitting dormant but reserved — is the clearest signal yet that WWDC 2026 will be the keynote where Apple finally ships the Siri overhaul it promised in 2024, reportedly powered by a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model from Google.

9to5Mac / MacRumors

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Google's New 'Ask Advisor' Folds Ads, Analytics, and Merchant Center Into One Gemini Agent
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Google's New 'Ask Advisor' Folds Ads, Analytics, and Merchant Center Into One Gemini Agent

At Google Marketing Live 2026, Google unveiled Ask Advisor — one Gemini agent that spans Ads, Analytics, Merchant Center, and the Marketing Platform — alongside conversational ad formats built for AI Mode search.

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Cursor's Composer 2.5 Matches Claude Opus 4.7 on Coding Benchmarks at One-Tenth the Price
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Cursor's Composer 2.5 Matches Claude Opus 4.7 on Coding Benchmarks at One-Tenth the Price

Cursor shipped its third-generation in-house coding agent at /usr/bin/bash.50/.50 per million tokens — about a tenth of Opus 4.7 — and benchmarks put it shoulder-to-shoulder with Anthropic's flagship.

TechTimes

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Google's Gemini Glasses Arrive This Fall With Warby Parker and Gentle Monster on the Frames
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Google's Gemini Glasses Arrive This Fall With Warby Parker and Gentle Monster on the Frames

At I/O 2026 Google unveiled Intelligent Eyewear — Gemini-powered audio and display glasses built on Android XR, co-designed with Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, with the audio frames shipping first this fall.

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Google Drops Pics, an AI Design App Going Straight at Canva and Claude Design
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Google Drops Pics, an AI Design App Going Straight at Canva and Claude Design

Pics, unveiled at Google I/O 2026, lets Workspace users generate and edit marketing graphics, mockups and social posts from text prompts — with every element re-editable like a comment in Google Docs.

TechCrunch

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Google Rebuilds the Search Box for the AI Era, the Biggest Change in 25 Years
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Google Rebuilds the Search Box for the AI Era, the Biggest Change in 25 Years

At I/O 2026, Google replaced its iconic blue-link search with a Gemini-powered intelligent box, generative UI, and background 'information agents' that monitor the web for you.

TechCrunch

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Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lands Today, a Personal AI Agent Called Spark, and a $5B TPU Cloud With Blackstone
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Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lands Today, a Personal AI Agent Called Spark, and a $5B TPU Cloud With Blackstone

Pichai opened I/O with Gemini 3.5 Flash shipping immediately, Gemini Omni for video, a 24/7 Spark agent in beta next week, Android XR audio glasses for fall, and a $5B Blackstone TPU venture.

9to5Google

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Gemini Spark Is Google's Bet on a 24/7 Personal AI Agent — And It Lands on Ultra Next Week
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Gemini Spark Is Google's Bet on a 24/7 Personal AI Agent — And It Lands on Ultra Next Week

Spark runs in the cloud while you sleep, plans events, drives spreadsheets, and chases follow-ups — a clear shot across the bow of ChatGPT Pulse and Claude Cowork.

Analytics Insight

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Claude Cowork's New Marketing Plugin Runs Campaigns Through Slash Commands and an Ahrefs-to-Klaviyo Stack
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Claude Cowork's New Marketing Plugin Runs Campaigns Through Slash Commands and an Ahrefs-to-Klaviyo Stack

Anthropic's new Cowork plugin for marketers ships /campaign-plan, /brand-review, /seo-audit, and email-sequence commands with connectors to Canva, HubSpot, Amplitude, and more.

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Anthropic Pushes Claude Cowork Into Big Law With 20+ Integrations and an M365 Agent
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Anthropic Pushes Claude Cowork Into Big Law With 20+ Integrations and an M365 Agent

12 role-specific plugins, a cross-app Microsoft 365 agent, and live deployments at Freshfields and Quinn Emanuel — Anthropic is making legal its biggest Cowork beachhead.

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Osaurus Lets Mac Users Mix Local and Cloud AI Models in One Sandboxed App
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Osaurus Lets Mac Users Mix Local and Cloud AI Models in One Sandboxed App

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.

TechCrunch

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Musk's xAI Launches Grok Build, a 2M-Context Coding CLI Aimed Square at Claude Code
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Musk's xAI Launches Grok Build, a 2M-Context Coding CLI Aimed Square at Claude Code

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.

Bloomberg

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OpenAI Drops Codex Into the ChatGPT Mobile App, Putting an Agentic Coder in Your Pocket
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OpenAI Drops Codex Into the ChatGPT Mobile App, Putting an Agentic Coder in Your Pocket

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.

TechCrunch

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OpenAI Plugs ChatGPT Into Your Bank Accounts With New Personal Finance Tools
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OpenAI Plugs ChatGPT Into Your Bank Accounts With New Personal Finance Tools

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.

TechCrunch

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Anthropic Goes After the 36 Million Small Businesses With Claude Inside QuickBooks, PayPal, and HubSpot
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Anthropic Goes After the 36 Million Small Businesses With Claude Inside QuickBooks, PayPal, and HubSpot

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.

TechCrunch

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Higgsfield Ships Supercomputer, a Cloud-Native AI Agent That Runs Campaigns End-to-End
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Higgsfield Ships Supercomputer, a Cloud-Native AI Agent That Runs Campaigns End-to-End

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.

Higgsfield

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Amazon Folds Rufus Into New Alexa for Shopping Agent That Buys Across the Web
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Amazon Folds Rufus Into New Alexa for Shopping Agent That Buys Across the Web

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.

Amazon

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Coding Freebie War: OpenAI Offers Two Months of Free Codex, Anthropic Lifts Claude Code Limits 50% the Same Day
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Coding Freebie War: OpenAI Offers Two Months of Free Codex, Anthropic Lifts Claude Code Limits 50% the Same Day

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.

Business Insider / OpenAI / Anthropic

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OpenAI Opens ChatGPT Ads Manager to All U.S. Businesses, Adds Cost-Per-Click Bidding
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OpenAI Opens ChatGPT Ads Manager to All U.S. Businesses, Adds Cost-Per-Click Bidding

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.

OpenAI

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Google Unveils Gemini Intelligence to Turn Android Into an AI Agent Platform
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Google Unveils Gemini Intelligence to Turn Android Into an AI Agent Platform

Google introduced Gemini Intelligence, a sweep of agentic Android features — cross-app task automation, a Chrome auto-browse tool, a Rambler voice-to-text rewriter and natural-language Create My Widget — debuting on the Samsung Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 this summer ahead of Apple's AI reboot.

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Anthropic's Claude Platform Goes Generally Available Inside AWS Accounts
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Anthropic's Claude Platform Goes Generally Available Inside AWS Accounts

AWS is the first cloud provider to host the full Claude Platform — APIs, console, Managed Agents, Skills and all — natively inside a customer's AWS account, with consolidated billing, IAM access controls and same-day availability for new Anthropic releases across 17 regions.

AWS

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Akool Unveils Video Inference Engine That Cuts Generation to Seconds and Streams AI Frames in Under 30ms
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Akool Unveils Video Inference Engine That Cuts Generation to Seconds and Streams AI Frames in Under 30ms

Palo Alto-based Akool rebuilt its full stack for a 10-20x speedup, pushing generative video clips to 1-3 seconds and live streaming below 30ms per frame.

PR Newswire

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xAI Opens Grok Imagine Quality Mode API to Push Generative Visuals Into Enterprise Pipelines
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xAI Opens Grok Imagine Quality Mode API to Push Generative Visuals Into Enterprise Pipelines

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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OpenAI Opens GPT-5.5-Cyber to Vetted Defenders, Loosens Guardrails for Red Teams
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OpenAI Opens GPT-5.5-Cyber to Vetted Defenders, Loosens Guardrails for Red Teams

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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Chrome Caught Silently Installing 4GB Gemini Nano on Users' Devices
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Chrome Caught Silently Installing 4GB Gemini Nano on Users' Devices

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 Quietly Kills Project Mariner, Folding Its Browser AI Into Gemini Agent
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Google Quietly Kills Project Mariner, Folding Its Browser AI Into Gemini Agent

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 Floods Wall Street With 10 Financial Agents, Microsoft 365 and Moody's Tie-Ups
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Anthropic Floods Wall Street With 10 Financial Agents, Microsoft 365 and Moody's Tie-Ups

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

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OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the New Default ChatGPT Model, Cutting Hallucinations in Law and Medicine
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OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the New Default ChatGPT Model, Cutting Hallucinations in Law and Medicine

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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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Clinicians: Free GPT-5.4 Tool for U.S. Healthcare Workers
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Clinicians: Free GPT-5.4 Tool for U.S. Healthcare Workers

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free GPT-5.4-powered tool for verified U.S. physicians, nurse practitioners, PAs, and pharmacists, with safety scores that beat human doctors on a new HealthBench Professional benchmark.

OpenAI

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AWS Brings GPT-5.5 and Codex to Bedrock as OpenAI Partnership Goes Production
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AWS Brings GPT-5.5 and Codex to Bedrock as OpenAI Partnership Goes Production

Amazon Web Services puts OpenAI's frontier models, the Codex coding agent, and a new managed-agents service inside Bedrock — and ships an Amazon Quick desktop app for AI work outside the browser.

AWS Blog

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Cloudflare and Stripe Let AI Agents Open Accounts and Deploy Apps Without Humans
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Cloudflare and Stripe Let AI Agents Open Accounts and Deploy Apps Without Humans

A new Cloudflare-Stripe protocol lets AI coding agents provision accounts, register domains, and ship apps to production autonomously, with a $100-per-month default spending cap per provider.

Cloudflare Blog

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Microsoft Agent 365 Hits General Availability as Enterprise AI Agent Control Plane
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Microsoft Agent 365 Hits General Availability as Enterprise AI Agent Control Plane

Microsoft's control plane for AI agents went GA on May 1 at $15 per user per month, adding multicloud discovery, shadow-AI detection on Windows endpoints, and runtime blocking of malicious agent behavior.

Microsoft Security Blog

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Microsoft Drops a Legal Agent Into Word, Targeting Contract Review and Redlining
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Microsoft Drops a Legal Agent Into Word, Targeting Contract Review and Redlining

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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Anthropic Opens Claude Security Public Beta to Hunt Vulnerabilities Across Whole Codebases
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Anthropic Opens Claude Security Public Beta to Hunt Vulnerabilities Across Whole Codebases

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.

SiliconANGLE

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Anthropic Plugs Claude Into Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton With Nine New Creative Connectors
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Anthropic Plugs Claude Into Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton With Nine New Creative Connectors

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.

9to5Mac

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Google TV Gets Nano Banana and Veo as Gemini Brings AI Creation to the Living Room
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Google TV Gets Nano Banana and Veo as Gemini Brings AI Creation to the Living Room

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.

TechCrunch

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YouTube Tests 'Ask YouTube' AI Search That Answers Questions Like a Chatbot
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YouTube Tests 'Ask YouTube' AI Search That Answers Questions Like a Chatbot

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.

TechCrunch

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OpenAI Pulls the Plug on Sora as $1M-a-Day Burn Ends Video App Era
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OpenAI Pulls the Plug on Sora as $1M-a-Day Burn Ends Video App Era

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.

OpenAI Help Center

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Amazon Launches "Join the Chat": AI Audio Q&A That Lets Shoppers Talk to Products
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Amazon Launches "Join the Chat": AI Audio Q&A That Lets Shoppers Talk to Products

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.

TechCrunch

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Majestic Labs Unveils Prometheus: AI Server With 128TB Memory and 1,000x More Capacity Than GPUs
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Majestic Labs Unveils Prometheus: AI Server With 128TB Memory and 1,000x More Capacity Than GPUs

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.

BusinessWire

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Google CEO: 75% of All New Code at Google Is Now AI-Written
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Google CEO: 75% of All New Code at Google Is Now AI-Written

Sundar Pichai revealed at Cloud Next 2026 that three-quarters of Google's new code is now AI-generated, up from 30% a year ago — with engineers shifting from authors to reviewers.

Google Blog / Cloud Next 2026

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Anthropic Launches Claude Design: AI-Powered Visual Creation for Non-Designers
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Anthropic Launches Claude Design: AI-Powered Visual Creation for Non-Designers

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Design, a new research preview product that lets founders, product managers, and anyone without design expertise generate prototypes, slides, and polished one-pagers from a text description — powered by Claude Opus 4.7.

TechCrunch

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NVIDIA Unveils Open Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint for Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles
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NVIDIA Unveils Open Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint for Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA's new open reference architecture automates training data generation for physical AI systems, dramatically cutting the cost and time to train robots, vision agents, and self-driving vehicles.

NVIDIA Newsroom

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NousResearch Launches Hermes Agent v0.8: The AI That Grows With You
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NousResearch Launches Hermes Agent v0.8: The AI That Grows With You

NousResearch shipped Hermes Agent v0.8, an autonomous server-side agent with a built-in learning loop that builds persistent memory and self-generated skills over time.

NousResearch / AIToolly

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Anthropic Launches Claude Managed Agents for Enterprise AI Workflows
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Anthropic Launches Claude Managed Agents for Enterprise AI Workflows

Anthropic debuts Claude Managed Agents, a fully managed cloud service that lets developers build and deploy autonomous AI agents with secure sandboxing, persistent sessions, and built-in tooling — no infrastructure required.

SiliconANGLE

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Anthropic Withholds Claude Mythos from Public, Launches Project Glasswing for Cyber Defense
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Anthropic Withholds Claude Mythos from Public, Launches Project Glasswing for Cyber Defense

Rather than a public release, Anthropic is deploying Claude Mythos Preview exclusively to 40+ vetted tech companies — including Apple, Google, and Microsoft — to bolster critical software security before attackers can exploit the model's power.

The Hacker News

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Google Launches LiteRT-LM: Open-Source Framework for On-Device LLM Deployment
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Google Launches LiteRT-LM: Open-Source Framework for On-Device LLM Deployment

Google has released LiteRT-LM, a production-grade open-source framework enabling developers to run large language models directly on smartphones and IoT devices without cloud dependency.

AIToolly

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Suno V4: AI Music Indistinguishable from the Real Thing
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Suno V4: AI Music Indistinguishable from the Real Thing

Suno V4 delivers a dramatic quality leap — full songs up to 4 minutes long at studio quality.

Suno Blog

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Midjourney V7: A New Bar for AI Image Quality
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Midjourney V7: A New Bar for AI Image Quality

Midjourney V7 delivers unprecedented photorealistic quality and more precise control over image generation.

Midjourney

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