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OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.5 on Thursday, branding it its most intuitive and powerful model to date. Co‑founder Greg Brockman said the new system delivers sharper reasoning with fewer tokens, positioning the company closer to a long‑term “super app” that could blend ChatGPT, Codex and an AI browser into a single enterprise service. Early benchmarks show GPT-5.5 outpacing rivals from Google and Anthropic across a range of tasks, from coding assistance to scientific research. The model is now rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users of ChatGPT. Read more

Anthropic announced today that its AI assistant Claude now supports 15 additional app connectors, adding popular services such as Uber, Uber Eats, Spotify, Instacart, TurboTax and Booking.com. The rollout lets users execute tasks across these platforms directly within a Claude conversation, from ordering food to filing taxes. Anthropic says the feature respects privacy, requires user confirmation before any purchase, and does not use connected‑app data to train its models. The expansion aims to make Claude a more practical, everyday tool for iPhone and Android users. Read more

Anthropic announced that its Claude AI chatbot can now connect to a suite of consumer‑focused services, including AllTrails, Spotify, Instacart and Uber. The new integrations let users plan hikes, play music, order groceries and book rides without leaving the chat. Anthropic says the move shifts Claude’s capabilities from primarily professional and educational tasks to everyday personal use, with more apps slated for future addition. Read more

OpenAI has added its newest language model, GPT-5.5, to ChatGPT, promising smoother, more reliable performance on complex, multi‑step requests. The upgrade reduces the need for back‑and‑forth prompting by improving context retention, reasoning depth and tool integration. Sam Altman framed the launch as a push for everyday usefulness, saying the company wants users to win. GPT-5.5 follows the recent ChatGPT Images 2.0 rollout and aims to make the AI assistant a continuous, dependable part of daily workflows. Read more

Customer‑service AI firm Sierra announced Thursday that it has bought French startup Fragment, a Y Combinator‑backed company that helps businesses embed artificial‑intelligence tools into everyday workflows. The deal marks Sierra's third public acquisition in as many weeks, following purchases of Japan's Opera Tech and voice‑agent firm Receptive AI. Fragment co‑founders Olivier Moindrot and Guillaume Genthial will join Sierra's engineering ranks. Financial terms were not disclosed, though PitchBook estimates Fragment raised about $2 million in seed funding. Sierra, founded by former Salesforce co‑CEO Bret Taylor, now counts Casper, Clear and Brex among its clients and is valued at roughly $10 billion. Read more

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.5, its newest language model powering ChatGPT, as the company pivots from pure conversation to autonomous, real‑world productivity. The upgrade rolls out across ChatGPT and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise tiers, with a premium “Pro” version for high‑level subscribers. Built to interpret loosely structured prompts, plan workflows and self‑check output, GPT-5.5 aims to cut back‑and‑forth interactions and deliver end‑to‑end results in coding, research, document creation and data analysis. Read more

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memo on Wednesday alleging that entities in China are running industrial‑scale campaigns to distill U.S. artificial‑intelligence models. The memorandum pledges to share threat intelligence with American AI firms and to explore sanctions against the perpetrators. The claim builds on accusations from OpenAI and Anthropic that Chinese labs have used millions of queries to replicate frontier models. Lawmakers responded with the Deterring American AI Model Theft Act, while the memo arrives weeks before a planned Trump‑Xi summit in Beijing. Read more

Generative artificial intelligence is amplifying the production of child sexual abuse material, prompting a sharp rise in reports to watchdogs and law‑enforcement agencies. Reuters found actionable AI‑generated CSAM reports more than doubled over two years, while the Internet Watch Foundation logged 8,029 such images and videos in 2025 alone. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received 1.5 million AI‑linked reports that year, up from 67,000 the previous year. A Minnesota case involving a school employee illustrated how everyday photos can be weaponized, leaving investigators to untangle whether a child in an image is real, altered or entirely fabricated. Read more

A Wired investigation reveals that 11 gas‑powered AI data centers under construction or announced in the United States could release up to 129 million tons of carbon dioxide annually—more than Morocco’s total emissions in 2024. The facilities, linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and xAI, plan to run dedicated natural‑gas power plants to sidestep grid constraints, raising fresh concerns about the climate impact of the AI boom. Read more

Anthropic announced Thursday that its Claude AI assistant now supports more than 200 third‑party connectors, adding a slate of consumer‑focused services such as Instacart, Spotify, Uber and TripAdvisor. The new integrations let users retrieve data and trigger actions directly from chat, while the system automatically suggests the most relevant connector based on conversation context. Anthropic says the feature remains ad‑free, that user data won’t be used to train models, and that users must confirm any major transaction before it completes. Read more

OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT 5.5 this week, extending the new model to paying ChatGPT and Codex subscribers and promising an API release soon. Marketed as a work‑focused upgrade, the model excels at coding, computer‑task orchestration and research‑intensive workloads. President Greg Brockman highlighted its ability to interpret vague problems and act with minimal human direction, positioning it as a step toward true digital assistants. OpenAI also emphasized stronger cybersecurity safeguards, reflecting growing concerns about AI‑driven threats. Read more

SpaceX announced Wednesday that it has entered a partnership with AI coding platform Cursor, giving the rocket firm access to the company’s agentic coding technology and a right to acquire Cursor later this year for up to $60 billion. The deal hinges on SpaceX’s Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, which boasts the equivalent of a million Nvidia H100 GPUs, and aims to create the world’s most capable coding and knowledge‑work AI. Both companies say the collaboration will accelerate model development and could eventually feed into Elon Musk’s broader X ecosystem. Read more

OpenAI announced the rollout of its latest language model, GPT-5.5, on Thursday. The company describes the new system as its "smartest and most intuitive" model yet, capable of handling complex, multi‑step tasks such as writing and debugging code, conducting online research, and generating spreadsheets across a range of tools. GPT-5.5 uses fewer tokens, offers its strongest safety measures to date, and will be available to Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise ChatGPT users as well as Codex subscribers. The launch intensifies the rivalry with Anthropic and comes just days before a high‑profile trial involving OpenAI executives. Read more

Anthropic disclosed that a small group of unauthorized users gained access to its newly released Claude Mythos model on the day the company announced a limited rollout. According to Bloomberg, the intruders guessed the model’s online location using details leaked from a prior breach at data‑training firm Mercur and insider knowledge from a contractor who had evaluated Anthropic’s models. Anthropic said it is investigating the incident and reviewing its monitoring systems, which were designed to log and track model usage. The breach, described by security researchers as a standard “educated guess” attack rather than a sophisticated exploit, did not appear to target the model’s advertised cybersecurity capabilities. The episode raises questions about the robustness of Anthropic’s security controls for a product it has marketed as a “watershed moment” for defending digital infrastructure. Read more

OpenAI unveiled Images 2.0, its latest AI image generator that can reason about composition, search the web for context, and produce up to eight coherent images from a single prompt. The model claims 99% accuracy in rendering text across multiple scripts and surged to the top of the Image Arena leaderboard within 12 hours, outpacing Google’s Nano Banana 2 by a record margin. Free‑tier ChatGPT users receive a basic version, while paid subscribers unlock the full "thinking" mode that includes web‑search and batch generation. Pricing starts at $0.04 per image, with higher‑resolution outputs up to 2K. Read more

Google unveiled Workspace Intelligence, a new feature that integrates its Gemini AI model across the Google Workspace suite. The tool can pull data from Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive, using personal context to draft emails, edit documents, generate presentations and summarize conversations without users having to supply extra details. By tapping into stored emails, chats and files, Gemini promises to streamline routine tasks and keep output consistent with company style guides. The rollout follows Google’s earlier Personal Intelligence rollout, which let Gemini access Gmail and Photos for personal use. Read more

OpenAI announced the debut of workspace agents, a new class of shared AI assistants that can plan, execute, and monitor multi‑step tasks for entire teams. Running in the cloud, the agents can access files, run code, and integrate with tools like Slack, freeing users from repetitive work and keeping projects moving even when they step away. The feature marks a shift from ChatGPT as a question‑answering bot toward a continuous work partner, though it still requires human oversight and proper permissions. Read more

Google is weaving its Gemini AI assistant directly into Google Chat, turning the messaging platform into a one‑stop hub for routine work. Users can type natural‑language commands to draft Google Docs, build slide decks, pull files and book meetings without leaving the chat thread. The rollout also brings a daily briefing that surfaces urgent items and integrates third‑party tools such as Asana, Jira and Salesforce. By merging communication with execution, Google aims to cut the back‑and‑forth between apps and sharpen the productivity edge of Workspace. Read more

OpenAI announced a partnership with Indian IT giant Infosys to integrate its artificial‑intelligence suite, including the Codex coding assistant, into Infosys' Topaz AI platform. The collaboration aims to help Infosys' global clients modernize software development, automate workflows and scale AI deployments, starting with software engineering, legacy modernization and DevOps. The move comes as IT services firms grapple with slowing client spending and rapid advances in generative AI, and offers OpenAI a distribution channel to reach large enterprises across more than 60 countries. Read more

At the Google Cloud Next conference, the company unveiled a suite of AI-driven tools for its Workspace productivity platform. Named Workspace Intelligence, the new features let users tap Gemini to draft emails, generate documents, and auto‑populate spreadsheets. Administrators retain control over data access, and Google promises up to nine‑times faster data entry in Sheets. The rollout marks Google’s push to embed generative AI deeper into everyday office workflows, positioning its entrenched suite against rivals from Microsoft to emerging startups. Read more