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Google shuts down Project Mariner, folds tech into Gemini Agent and AI Mode
The agentic browsing experiment ended May 4th, 2026, with Google clearing the deck two weeks ahead of I/O on May 19th.
DeepSeek's first funding round could value the Chinese AI lab at $45B
Liang Wenfeng's previously self-funded lab is raising to give employees equity, with the China Integrated Circuit fund leading.
SpaceX weighs $119B 'Terafab' chip plant in Texas to feed xAI and Tesla
A Grimes County filing pegs initial spend at $55B, with Intel and Tesla joining a fab targeting 1 terawatt of chip output per year.
Barry Diller backs Sam Altman but warns 'trust is irrelevant' as AGI nears
The IAC chairman says OpenAI's CEO is sincere, but the real risk is that AI's creators don't understand what they're building.
Match Group slows hiring to fund company-wide AI rollout
CFO Steven Bailey says Tinder's parent will hold headcount flat to offset the cost of giving every employee access to AI tools.
Google bolts forum quotes onto AI Overviews to fight hallucinations
AI Overviews will now preview perspectives from Reddit, social posts, and other firsthand sources, with creator handles attached.
Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z to rebuild expert networks with voice AI
The London startup is taking 30%+ per project and adding 35,000 experts a week as AI labs hunt for human knowledge to train on.
Match Group slows hiring to fund company-wide AI tools rollout
CFO Steven Bailey says lower headcount will offset the cost of giving every Tinder-parent employee access to AI tools.
Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5 model and in-house robotic hands after $105M seed
The Khosla- and Eclipse-backed startup is building its own human-shaped hands and a sensor glove to close the embodiment gap in robotics data.
Marc Lore says Wonder's AI will let anyone launch a restaurant in under a minute
Wonder Create generates a full restaurant brand from a prompt and pushes it live across 120 robotic kitchens, scaling to 400 next year.
Peter Sarlin's QuTwo hits $380M valuation on $29M angel round, no VCs
The Finnish AI lab from the ex-Silo AI CEO is betting on quantum-inspired compute and a 5-to-10-year horizon, funded entirely by angels.
Samsung crosses $1T valuation as AI memory demand drives 8x profit surge
Shares jumped more than 10% on Wednesday after talks with Apple over US chip manufacturing surfaced, making Samsung Asia's second trillion-dollar company.
Nvidia opens Spectrum-X's MRC protocol via OCP after OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle deployments
The Multipath Reliable Connection transport, proven on Blackwell training runs, is now an open spec through the Open Compute Project.
Trump officials revive Biden-era AI safety reviews after Anthropic's Mythos spooks the White House
Google, Microsoft, and xAI agreed Tuesday to give the Commerce Department early access to frontier models — a year after the administration mocked the same idea.
Apple to pay $250M to settle class action over undelivered Siri AI features
iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 buyers can claim up to $95 per device after Apple Intelligence's promised Siri overhaul slipped past launch.
Nvidia opens Spectrum-X's MRC protocol to the industry after OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle deployments
The Multipath Reliable Connection protocol, co-developed with OpenAI and Microsoft, reroutes failed network paths in microseconds across gigascale GPU fabrics.
Google wires Reddit and forum posts directly into AI Mode and AI Overviews
Google is pulling firsthand quotes from Reddit and web forums into its AI search summaries, branding them 'Expert Advice' and naming the community.
Cerebras Targets $26.6B Valuation in IPO as OpenAI Emerges as Top Shareholder
The AI chip maker plans to raise about $3.5 billion, while a December loan converts into a multi-billion-dollar stake for OpenAI.
PayPal to cut 4,500 jobs in $1.5bn AI-driven restructuring
New chief executive Enrique Lores frames the layoffs as a two-to-three-year push to make PayPal a technology company again.
IBM Recasts Watson X as 'Agentic Control Plane' for Fortune 500 AI
At Think 2026, IBM repositions Watson X Orchestrate as a governance layer for agents from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.
OpenAI's o1 Beats ER Doctors at Triage Diagnosis in Harvard Study
A Harvard Medical School study found OpenAI's o1 preview diagnosed ER triage cases correctly 67% of the time, ahead of attending physicians.
Google Home upgrades to Gemini 3.1 with new camera controls and Ask Home web access
The smart-speaker line finally gets the Gemini 3.1 model Google released in February, plus 10-second skip buttons and Familiar Faces feedback.
OpenAI phone targets early 2027 mass production on a custom MediaTek chip
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says OpenAI is fast-tracking a ChatGPT phone aimed at 30 million units across 2027–2028.
Macmillan, McGraw Hill, and Hachette sue Meta over Llama training data
Five publishers and author Scott Turow allege Meta pulled copyrighted books from LibGen and Anna's Archive to train Llama.
Apple plans to let users pick their AI model in iOS 27
New Apple Intelligence Extensions would let third-party chatbots run Siri, Writing Tools, and Image Playground — not just ChatGPT.
CopilotKit raises $27M Series A to put AI agents inside enterprise apps
Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire back the open-source AG-UI protocol's commercial layer as Fortune 500 adoption climbs.
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI over chatbot posing as a licensed psychiatrist
A state investigator says a bot named Emilie claimed a medical license and fabricated a serial number to back it up.
OpenAI makes GPT-5.5 Instant the default ChatGPT model, claims 52.5% fewer hallucinations
The new default cuts hallucinated claims by more than half on medical, legal, and financial prompts and scores 81.2 on AIME 2025 math.
Meta will scan height and bone structure to flag under-13 users on Facebook and Instagram
The visual analysis arrives weeks after a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for misleading users about platform safety.
Etsy launches a native ChatGPT app after Instant Checkout flopped in March
The handmade marketplace returns to ChatGPT with a conversational app spanning over 100 million listings, two months after its first integration ended.
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