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According to **The Register**, OpenAI cofounder and president **Greg Brockman** testified in court that **OpenAI** expects to burn **$50 billion** on compute before the end of 2026. The figure was previously reported by…
Business Insider reports three founders of lean AI startups running teams of **fewer than 10** people shared lessons on operating small, AI-driven teams. The founders told Business Insider that speed is the biggest…
Google Cloud Next '26 emphasized agentic AI for government and academia, with the Google Cloud public sector blog reporting over **40** public sector customers and partners presenting on stage and the show floor…
Reuters reports that **Sergei Vassilvitskii**, a distinguished scientist at **Google**, sent a written warning to EU antitrust regulators saying the European Commission's proposed requirement to share search data with…
Bloomberg and Reuters report that Apple will let users select third-party AI services to power features across **iOS 27**, **iPadOS 27** and **macOS 27** this fall. Reporting says Apple labels the capability…
Great Southern Bank will begin deploying its first AI agents after a multi-year data modernisation programme, ITNews reports. The bank's head of customer technology, data and AI, Matt Cammack, said the bank launched a…
Business Insider reports that **BlackRock** CEO **Larry Fink** told the Milken conference he will announce a partnership with an unspecified hyperscaler later this week to build data centers. Business Insider reports…
Reporting from Engadget, Tom's Hardware, finance outlets and others shows that parts of **OpenAI**'s multi-faceted **Stargate** infrastructure initiative have stalled. Reporting by Engadget, citing Bloomberg, says…
U.S. News reports that **Freshworks** will cut about **11%** of its global workforce, a headcount reduction multiple outlets frame as roughly **660** roles (medial.app). Stock Titan reports Freshworks grew **Q1 2026**…
Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of **OpenAI**, told a federal court that the company plans to spend **$50 billion** on computing power in 2026, according to reporting by Bloomberg and Seeking Alpha. Bloomberg…
Astera Labs unveiled an AI fabric switch codenamed **Scorpio X**, which "crams 320 lanes of PCIe 6.0 connectivity into a single ASIC with **5.12 TB/s** of bidirectional bandwidth," The Register reports. The switch…
A study empirically analyzes discourse on **Twitter (X)** to measure global sentiment toward `Health AI` at the dawn of **ChatGPT**. The description frames AI as increasingly proposed for use in health and health care…
Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced, according to The Verge. Sharma's remarks accompanied a reorganization of the Xbox platform…
Anthropic released **10** ready-to-run financial agent templates for its **Claude** platform, aimed at tasks such as pitchbook generation, KYC screening, earnings review, and month-end close, the company announced on…
OpenAI updated ChatGPT's default model to **GPT-5.5 Instant**, the company announced in a blog post on May 5, 2026. According to OpenAI's blog post, internal evaluations show **GPT-5.5 Instant** produced **52.5%** fewer…
Business Insider reports that Paul Zimmerman, formerly OpenAI's head of private equity, has joined Google to lead efforts selling Google AI to private-equity firms and their portfolio companies. Per his LinkedIn…
Coinbase announced layoffs affecting about **14%** of its workforce, roughly **700** employees, and said managers must also be active individual contributors, reporting changes in internal messages and covered by…
CISA officials told Cyberscoop at the UiPath FUSION Public Sector event that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has seen the "by far" biggest gains from AI automation in its security operations unit,…
Nathan Murray and Elisa Tersigni write in The Conversation that **human-created art** is increasingly treated as a luxury because it embodies deliberate labour, intention and lived experience. The authors invoke…
Researchers at **Duke University School of Medicine** report that an AI model can estimate a child's future risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using routine electronic health records. According to…
According to AWS documentation, the **AWS WAF** console now includes **AI Traffic Analysis** dashboards on the protection pack (web ACL) Traffic overview tab, providing near real-time summaries of Amazon CloudWatch…
Bloomberg reports that Apple is testing an "Extensions" system in **iOS 27**, **iPadOS 27**, and **macOS 27** that will let installed third-party AI apps serve as the backend for Apple Intelligence features such as…
A new project, SynthMT, provides a synthetic dataset and benchmark for instance segmentation of microtubules in microscopy images, according to the project's GitHub repository and a bioRxiv preprint. The GitHub…
The study, published May 5 in the journal Radiology and described in an RSNA release, used an open-source deep-learning framework to analyse whole-body MRI scans from **66,608** participants drawn from the UK Biobank…
EY's third annual "New shape of risk" survey found corporate risk leaders reporting the impact of AI on staffing and specializations, Dig-in reports. The survey compiled responses from chief risk officers and senior…
According to a Meta blog post on about.fb.com, the company is expanding its **AI age assurance** to analyze profile context plus photos and videos to find users likely under 18 and place them into Teen Accounts. Meta's…
According to Business Insider, Google is developing an AI agent codenamed "Remy" that runs inside a staff-only version of the **Gemini** app. An internal document described Remy as a "24/7 personal agent" that can take…
According to Google's May 05, 2026 blog post, the **Gemini API**'s **File Search** tool now supports multimodal retrieval, custom metadata filters, and page-level citations. The update, the blog states, uses `Gemini…
According to supply-chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on X, as reported by multiple outlets including Beebom, India Today, and GizmoChina, OpenAI is accelerating development of an "AI agent" smartphone targeting mass…
ServiceNow introduced the enterprise AI experience **Otto** at its Knowledge 2026 customer event, according to a Business Wire release republished by Stocktitan. The company announced expanded collaborations with…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni denounced the circulation of AI-generated images of her after a viral image showed her apparently in lingerie, seated on a bed. According to Reuters and AP, Meloni posted the image…
**Asio Technologies** is transforming **IDF** capabilities with platforms such as **Orion**, enhancing battlefield coordination and autonomous operations in modern engagements. These systems enhance tactical situational…
According to IBM's Think 2026 announcement, **Db2 Genius Hub** now supports **Google Vertex AI** and **Intel Gaudi** for model deployment and inferencing, adding to prior integrations with **Amazon Bedrock** and **IBM…
Airbyte launched Airbyte Agents, a new context layer that pre-replicates and pre-indexes enterprise data into a managed Context Store, according to a BusinessWire press release published May 5, 2026. The **Context…
Per the company press release (Business Wire), **Paymentus** announced new products: patented **Billeo** and **BillWallet**, plus an AI integration layer called **AI360**, which the release frames as enabling a new…
The column links **Battlestar Galactica**'s Cylons with contemporary AI and describes the series as one of television's strongest political and social parables. It juxtaposes the show's fictional conflict with…
OpenAI announced **GPT-5.5** in an April 23, 2026 blog post and is deploying `GPT-5.5 Instant` as ChatGPT's new default, according to OpenAI's post and reporting by The Verge. The Verge reports that OpenAI's internal…
**Anthropic** acquired **Bun**, the JavaScript runtime. Developers are divided over memory leaks, open issues, and concerns about dependency on `Claude Code`.
Per Anthropic's May 5 announcement, the company released **ten ready-to-run agent templates** for financial services, covering tasks such as pitchbook creation, KYC screening, model building, and month-end close,…
Business Insider reports that Marc Andreessen shared his "current AI custom prompt" on X, instructing an assistant to be "provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed." The published excerpt begins, "You are a…
The GEOINT Symposium 2026 convened May 3-6 in Aurora, Colorado, as geospatial intelligence actors focused on operationalizing AI, delivering data at mission speed, and scaling systems across the enterprise. SpaceNews…
**Team PCC** built an RC car that performs `lane keeping`, `speed control`, and `stop detection`. The project demonstrates a practical hardware implementation of basic autonomous driving functions on an RC platform.…
Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiated their partnership, loosening exclusivity so OpenAI can sell products on Amazon and Google Cloud, Reuters reports. According to OpenAI's blog, the company reorganized as an OpenAI Group…
Yale published a Q&A with Klar Yaggi, professor of internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine, on evolving treatments for sleep apnea. Yale reports that about **one in eight** people globally have some form of sleep…
Verisk announced in a May 5 press release that its insurance analytics are now available inside Anthropic's `Claude` through standardized Verisk Model Context Protocol (`MCP`) connectors. The connectors provide…
At a Toronto conference panel moderated by BetaKit reporter Josh Scott, Canadian venture capitalists Udit Bhatnagar (McRock Capital), Neha Khera (IRV Fund) and Zeeshan Ali (Wittington Ventures) debated whether the…
Variety reports that Coursera is highlighting more than **10,000** classes focused on next-generation technologies and artificial intelligence, and that the platform's annual subscription is discounted by **40% through…
Five major publishers - **Elsevier**, **Cengage**, **Hachette**, **Macmillan**, and **McGraw Hill** - plus author **Scott Turow** filed a proposed class action in Manhattan federal court on May 5, 2026, alleging **Meta…
Deadline's column "Rendering" reports that AI-generated images of the **Met Gala** circulated widely online, producing viral fakes that fooled many users and some automated tools. According to Deadline, Google's…
Astropad introduced **Workbench**, a remote desktop app for **Mac**, **iPhone**, and **iPad** designed to monitor and interact with long-running AI workflows, according to Astropad's product page and reporting by…
