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Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Ultra With 2M Token Context and Native Multimodal

Google's Gemini 3.1 Ultra ships with a 2-million token context window operating natively across text, image, audio, and video — no transcription intermediaries. A sandboxed Code Execution tool ships built-in.

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OpenAI Ships GPT-5.5 — 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, Pushing Toward AI Super App

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OpenAI Ships GPT-5.5 — 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, Pushing Toward AI Super App

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 (codenamed Spud) six weeks after GPT-5.4, scoring 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and 58.6% on SWE-Bench Pro. It rolled out immediately to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users.

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China Blocks Meta's $2B+ Acquisition of AI Startup Manus

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China Blocks Meta's $2B+ Acquisition of AI Startup Manus

China blocked Meta's planned acquisition of AI agent startup Manus, complicating Meta's push into autonomous AI and signaling tighter Beijing scrutiny of US investment in Chinese-linked technology companies.

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Microsoft and OpenAI End Exclusive Cloud Deal — Azure Stays Primary Partner

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Microsoft and OpenAI End Exclusive Cloud Deal — Azure Stays Primary Partner

Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their partnership, ending cloud exclusivity while keeping Azure as OpenAI's primary cloud provider. AGI-linked deal terms were also removed from the agreement.

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Elon Musk Takes the Stand as OpenAI Trial Begins in Oakland

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Elon Musk Takes the Stand as OpenAI Trial Begins in Oakland

Elon Musk testified in Oakland as the OpenAI trial against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft got underway. Two claims remain: breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment.

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Four Chinese AI Labs Drop Frontier-Capable Open-Weights Models in 12 Days

GLM-5.1, MiniMax M2.7, Kimi K2.6, and DeepSeek V4 all launched within a 12-day window in early May — each matching Western frontier performance on agentic coding benchmarks at less than a third of Claude Opus 4.7's inference cost.

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Microsoft Report: 17.8% of World's Working-Age Population Now Uses AI

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Microsoft Report: 17.8% of World's Working-Age Population Now Uses AI

Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion Report reveals 17.8% of the world's working-age population now actively uses AI tools. The UAE leads all nations at 70.1% adoption.

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Google DeepMind UK Staff Vote 98% to Unionize Over Pentagon AI Contract

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Google DeepMind UK Staff Vote 98% to Unionize Over Pentagon AI Contract

Google DeepMind's UK employees voted 98% in favor of unionizing — the first union at any top AI lab — citing concerns over a classified Pentagon AI contract the company entered without staff consultation.

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Anthropic Q1 Revenue Grew 80x Year-Over-Year — ARR Now Above $44 Billion

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Anthropic Q1 Revenue Grew 80x Year-Over-Year — ARR Now Above $44 Billion

Anthropic disclosed Q1 2026 revenue grew 80x year-over-year, pushing annual recurring revenue above $44 billion. The figures arrived alongside a $200 billion Google Cloud contract and the Claude Agent SDK opening to all external developers.

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Anthropic Signs SpaceX Colossus 1 Deal — 220,000+ GPUs, Claude Code Rate Limits Doubled

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Anthropic Signs SpaceX Colossus 1 Deal — 220,000+ GPUs, Claude Code Rate Limits Doubled

Anthropic secured access to SpaceX's entire Colossus 1 supercomputer — 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs running at 300MW — the fastest compute deal to come online in AI history. Claude Code rate limits were doubled for all paid plans the same day.

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California's Governor Just Told the Pentagon to Back Off Its Biggest AI Company

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California's Governor Just Told the Pentagon to Back Off Its Biggest AI Company

Gavin Newsom signed an executive order protecting Anthropic after the Defense Department tried to blacklist them for refusing to build AI weapons.

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Google Just Made a Powerful AI You Can Run on Your Laptop With 5GB of RAM

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Google Just Made a Powerful AI You Can Run on Your Laptop With 5GB of RAM

Google's new Gemma 4 models are open source, multimodal, and can run on hardware most people already own. The local AI crowd is calling it a game changer.

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Netflix Just Quietly Dropped an AI Model That Can Erase Anything From a Video

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Netflix Just Quietly Dropped an AI Model That Can Erase Anything From a Video

Netflix released their first-ever public AI model, and it can literally delete objects and people from video footage. The internet has thoughts.

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The Anthropic Leak Nobody's Talking About Is Way Bigger Than You Think

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The Anthropic Leak Nobody's Talking About Is Way Bigger Than You Think

A new video breaking down Anthropic's leaked information is blowing up on YouTube, and the implications go way beyond what the headlines are saying.

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Two Brothers, $20K, and 2 Months: How AI Helped Build a $1.8 Billion Company From a Living Room

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Two Brothers, $20K, and 2 Months: How AI Helped Build a $1.8 Billion Company From a Living Room

Matthew Gallagher didn't have a team, a fancy office, or millions in funding. He had his brother, twenty grand, and a bunch of AI tools. Now his startup is worth $1.8 billion.

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Chinese AI Founders Are Making Billions, and America Says They Stole the Playbook

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Chinese AI Founders Are Making Billions, and America Says They Stole the Playbook

A new report accuses Chinese AI startups of copying American technology. But the founders are now worth billions, and the drama is just getting started.

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California's Governor Just Told the Pentagon to Back Off Its Favorite AI Company

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California's Governor Just Told the Pentagon to Back Off Its Favorite AI Company

Newsom signed an executive order defending Anthropic after the Department of Defense blacklisted them for refusing to build autonomous weapons.

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Anthropic's Newest AI 'Conway' Has People Saying It's Unlike Anything We've Seen Before

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Anthropic's Newest AI 'Conway' Has People Saying It's Unlike Anything We've Seen Before

A video breaking down Anthropic's new Claude Conway model is blowing up on YouTube with over 45,000 views in just 15 hours.

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OpenAI Just Bought a Podcast, and It's Not as Weird as You Think

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OpenAI Just Bought a Podcast, and It's Not as Weird as You Think

Sam Altman's company acquired TBPN, a tech news show that's had Mark Zuckerberg and Satya Nadella as guests. Here's why it matters.

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Google Just Found a Way to Make AI Run on 6x Less Memory, and Chip Stocks Are Panicking

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Google Just Found a Way to Make AI Run on 6x Less Memory, and Chip Stocks Are Panicking

Google's new TurboQuant algorithm could slash the amount of expensive memory chips AI needs to run, and Wall Street is already freaking out.

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