Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 arrives: the AI super app is here. OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, described as its smartest and most intuitive model yet, with superior benchmark performance, improved token efficiency, and steps toward a super app, available initially to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex. 📢 News Posting GPT-5.5 … Read more

SpaceX’s strategic partnership and option to acquire Cursor SpaceX has secured a strategic partnership with Cursor AI, granting it an option to acquire the AI coding startup for $60 billion later in 2026 or pay $10 billion for collaborative work, primarily to access compute resources via xAI’s Colossus infrastructure ahead of a potential SpaceX IPO. … Read more

In Japan, the robot isn’t coming for your job; it’s filling labor shortages In the last 30 days, Japan is accelerating robot and physical AI adoption in factories, warehouses, and services to combat severe labor shortages from an aging population, with a 2024 Reuters/Nikkei survey identifying shortages as the primary driver for AI use. 📢 … Read more

Google and Intel Team Up to Power the AI Future In April 2026, Intel and Google announced a multiyear collaboration for deploying multiple generations of Intel CPUs in Google’s data centers and developing custom Intel IPUs for AI infrastructure. 📢 News Posting GOOGLE AND INTEL ANNOUNCE MULTIYEAR AI INFRASTRUCTURE COLLABORATION A cloud and AI infrastructure … Read more

Intel Teams Up With Elon Musk on $25B Terafab Chip Megaproject Intel announced on April 7, 2026, its role as the primary foundry partner for Elon Musk’s $25 billion Terafab semiconductor megaproject, a joint venture by Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI targeting 1 terawatt of AI compute per year using Intel’s 18A process node in Austin, … Read more

NeoCognition raises $40M to build AI agents that learn like humans NeoCognition, an AI research lab founded by Ohio State professor Yu Su, emerged from stealth with a $40M seed funding round to develop self-learning AI agents that build world models like humans. 📢 News Posting $40M FOR NECOGNITION TO BUILD AI AGENTS THAT LEARN … Read more

Google Cloud unleashes new AI chips to take on Nvidia’s dominance Google Cloud announced its eighth-generation TPUs on April 22, 2026, splitting them into two specialized chips: the TPU 8t for model training and TPU 8i for inference. The new chips deliver up to 3x faster training, 80% better performance per dollar, and support clustering … Read more

Amazon Invests Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic AI Partnership On April 9-20, 2026, Amazon announced an additional $5 billion investment in Anthropic, with up to $20 billion more contingent on milestones, totaling up to $25 billion alongside prior $8 billion, alongside a partnership securing up to 5 GW of AWS compute capacity including Trainium … Read more