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China's NDRC Orders Meta to Unwind $2 Billion Manus Deal After Four-Month Investigation
Beijing's National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta and the AI agent startup Manus to undo their roughly $2 billion acquisition, capping a four-month review that began in January 2026 and citing concerns over the 'Singapore-washing' of a company with deep Chinese roots.
OpenAI Replaces Its 2018 Charter Tone With Five Looser Principles, Hours Before the Musk Trial Opens
Sam Altman published a five-principle framework for OpenAI on April 26, dropping the 2018 charter's pledge to step aside for a safer competitor and reframing the company as AI infrastructure for humanity, just before jury selection in Elon Musk's $134 billion lawsuit.
Berkeley Researchers Hit Perfect Scores on Eight Top AI Agent Benchmarks Without Solving a Single Task
A UC Berkeley team showed that SWE-bench, GAIA, WebArena and five other widely cited agent benchmarks can be exploited to near-perfect scores, calling into question how the industry measures AI capability.
Thinking Machines Lab Signs Multibillion-Dollar Google Cloud Deal for GB300 Compute, Adding a Second Hyperscaler to Its Stack
Mira Murati's startup expands its Google Cloud relationship with a non-exclusive multibillion-dollar deal centered on GB300 systems and reinforcement-learning workloads behind its Tinker fine-tuning API.
From Lab to Deployment: Mechanistic Interpretability Moves From Research Curiosity to AI Safety Tool
Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI are integrating mechanistic interpretability into pre-deployment safety checks, marking a shift from academic technique to frontline defense.
DeepSeek Releases V4 Under MIT License, Putting a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Open Model Within Three to Six Months of the Frontier
DeepSeek's V4-Pro and V4-Flash arrive with 1M-token context, three reasoning modes, and pricing that undercuts frontier rivals by up to 8x.
Meta Breaks Ground on $1 Billion AI Data Center in Tulsa as City Moratorium Exempts 'Project Anthem'
Meta's first Oklahoma data center — a 2-million-square-foot AI facility in East Tulsa — was grandfathered past a city moratorium that paused similar projects, drawing local protests.
Salesforce Launches Headless 360 at TDX 2026, Turning Its Entire CRM Platform Into API and MCP Infrastructure for AI Agents
At TrailblazerDX 2026, Salesforce unveiled Headless 360, exposing its full platform as APIs, MCP tools, and CLI commands so AI coding agents can build and operate on Salesforce without a browser.
Google Renames Vertex AI as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Launches Agentic Data Cloud at Cloud Next 2026
At Cloud Next 2026, Google overhauled its AI cloud stack: Vertex AI becomes the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a new Agentic Data Cloud offers cross-cloud data access via Apache Iceberg, and the Virgo Network delivers 47 Pb/s to connect 134,000-chip training clusters.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5, the First Fully Retrained Base Model Since GPT-4.5, With 1M-Token Context and State-of-the-Art Agentic Benchmarks
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 arrives as a ground-up retrain with a 922K-token context window, 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, and two-tier pricing starting at $5/$30 per million tokens.
UnitedHealth Says It Will Spend $1.5 Billion on AI in 2026 as Optum Real Targets 2.5 Billion Healthcare Transactions
UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley told investors the insurer will spend roughly $1.5 billion on AI in 2026, with a target of 2:1 returns, even as the STAT+ investigation puts the total bet at $3 billion and questions what the shift means for patients.
OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents to Replace Custom GPTs, Plugging ChatGPT Into Slack, Salesforce, and Google Drive
OpenAI unveiled workspace agents on April 22 — shared, always-on Codex-powered agents that operate inside ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans, with native integrations for Slack, Salesforce, Google Drive, and SharePoint.