General AI News

OpenAI replaced ChatGPT’s default with GPT-5.5 Instant on May 5. Fewer hallucinations, fewer emojis, and a new Gmail memory layer. Here is what changed.

Anthropic just signed a $1.5B Wall Street AI venture with Goldman, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman in May 2026. Here is what it really changes.

Microsoft Agent 365 hit general availability May 1 at $15 per user per month. Here is whether the AI agent governance platform is worth paying for in 2026.

Google Gemini Omni just leaked 16 days before I/O 2026. Here is what the new video tool really is and why it threatens OpenAI Sora.

The Pentagon awarded May 2026 classified AI contracts to seven vendors. Anthropic was cut out as a supply chain risk. Here is what that means.

xAI just shipped Grok 4.3 to the API at $1.25/$2.50 per 1M tokens. Fast and cheap, but not beating Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.5. Here’s the breakdown.

Anthropic is in talks to raise at a $900 billion valuation, topping OpenAI. Here is what flipped, and what it means for tools you already pay for.

Character AI removed Roar, Soft Launch, and most models in a single April 2026 update. Here’s what changed and what to do next.

Candy AI pricing reviewed tier by tier with the real token cost most people miss. Here is what active users end up paying each month.

Alec Radford’s pre-1931 language model talkie just dropped. The 13B vintage LLM is a clean test of how AI generalizes vs memorizes.