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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, designed to handle complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the company's upcoming “super app” — OpenAI is introducing an artificial intelligence model that's intended to be better at completing work without much direction …
More: New York Times, Key Context, Livemint, NVIDIA, TechRadar, Sources, iClarified, Implicator.ai, The Asia Business Daily, OpenAI, and The Deep View
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Forums: r/coding_agents, r/accelerate, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving, while performing at a much higher level of intelligence” — A new class of intelligence for real work — We're releasing GPT-5.5, our smartest and most intuitive to use model yet …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/ClaudeAI, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, r/programare, and r/singularity
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency — Meta Platforms Inc. plans to cut 10% of workers, or roughly 8,000 employees, in an effort to boost efficiency and offset its heavy spending on artificial intelligence.
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LinkedIn: Jaime Casap, Brandon Busteed, and Kurt Wagner
Bluesky: @attorneynora, @mangiotto, @lukaszolejnik, @jessimckenzi, @kurtwagner, @stokel, and @paleofuture
Forums: Hacker News, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/technology, r/bayarea, r/sanfrancisco, r/Layoffs, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months — DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model a year after upending Silicon Valley …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/DeepSeek, r/DeepSeek, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input tokens and $3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M and $0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class — Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible — Microsoft will offer voluntary buyouts to some U.S. employee, a first for the 51-year-old software giant, as the tech industry grapples …
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LinkedIn: Brody Ford, Max Pashman, CFP, and Richard King
Mastodon: @Viss@mastodon.social and @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News, r/business, r/SeattleWA, r/microsoft, r/amazonemployees, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response — Leadership reshuffling signals the mounting pressure on Microsoft's AI bet. … It feels like not a week has gone by this year without … | ABC News: |
The US DOJ arrests a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on his removal from office — The bet was allegedly placed by a commando involved in Nicolas Maduro's capture. — Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Peter Charalambous, and Alexander Mallin
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on building infrastructure for AI agents, balancing internal needs and the demands of customers like Anthropic, and more — An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google's cloud priorities, enterprise agent platform, and Google's integration advantage.
More: Google Cloud Blog
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.58B, vs. $12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15%+ after hours — - Intel reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations … Intel reported first-quarter earnings Thursday …
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LinkedIn: Dan Sheehan, MBA, MS and Vince Condarcuri
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their “return of Xbox” strategy, including daily active players as its “new north star” — Microsoft's new Xbox leader starts to talk strategy for the company's gaming business.
More: Xbox Wire, Pure Xbox, Thurrott, ScreenRant, Tech4Gamers, Variety, Push Square, GeekWire, Neowin, and Polygon.com
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Forums: r/pcgaming and r/consoles
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: Digit, iPhone in Canada, Pure Xbox, DayOne, Digital Trends, PC Gamer, Kotaku, Windows Central, and VideoCardz.com
X: @welfare_jbp, @delta1169, @tomwarren, and @pirat_nation
Bluesky: @wario64, @knoebel, and @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: r/LastStandMedia, r/XboxSeriesXlS, r/technology, r/kindafunny, r/gaming, and r/xbox
| Reuters: |
Singapore is slowly emerging as a neutral ground for AI companies, offering an alternative place to build without worrying about US or Chinese regulations — Singapore is transforming from East-West gateway to neutral ground for the AI sector, with Chinese startups hoping …
Forums: r/singapore
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says it has fixed three causes of recent Claude Code quality issues: reduced default reasoning, a caching bug, and a system prompt to reduce verbosity — We traced recent reports of Claude Code quality issues to three separate changes. Here's what happened and what we're changing.
More: Business Insider, Claude, Implicator.ai, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Register, XDA Developers, and VentureBeat
X: @claudedevs, @firstadopter, @claudedevs, @theo, @claudedevs, @bcherny, and @edzitron. Bluesky: @carnage4life
Forums: Hacker News, r/Anthropic, r/ItalyInformatica, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ClaudeCode
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $25B valuation, up from $10.2B announced in September 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. is in early talks to raise a new round of funding that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion … | Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat Q2 guidance driven by high demand for analog chips used in AI data centers — Texas Instruments had its best day on Wall Street since 2000 after the chipmaker reported better-than-expected quarterly results …
More: Bloomberg
| Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: |
Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 — Venture capital is moving away from K-12 edtech worldwide as investors prioritize AI tools and workforce training with clearer returns.
X: @restofworld
| Reuters: |
Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage — In the western Indian village of Phulenagar, Samadhan Sonawane set up a drip irrigation system on his small onion farm using …
LinkedIn: Jaspreet Kalra
| Tanya Pandey / The Economic Times: |
Staffing experts say India's IT sector is seeing a rise in replacement hiring as companies adapt to Gen Z staff leaving jobs faster than previous generations — India's IT sector is experiencing a surge in replacement hiring. Gen Z professionals are leaving jobs at a faster rate, prompting companies to revise their strategies.| Bloomberg: |
The AI boom has pushed the market cap of Shenzhen-listed Zhongji Innolight, a leading optical communications device maker, close to $146B, a record high — Chinese optical stocks are attracting growing investor interest on expectations that rising demand for optical components critical … | Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
China's top market regulator says it is launching a six-month crackdown on the country's online ad sector, targeting malpractices including the misuse of AI — Market watchdog flags AI abuse and traffic-driven tactics as it launches first campaign to overhaul online advertising| The Information: |
Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~$900M loss in its last fiscal year on $770M in total revenue — Weeks before Cursor agreed to a $60 billion potential takeover from SpaceX, the hot AI coding startup set out to raise billions of dollars.| Reuters: |
S-1 excerpts: SpaceX warns multiple investigations into sexually abusive AI imagery created with xAI's Grok may hurt the company's global market access — The multiple investigations into xAI's creation and dissemination of sexually abusive imagery may lead the company to lose access to certain markets … | Emma Dunkley / Financial Times: |
EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions — Gen Z and millennials the most likely groups to consult chatbots on money matters — Nearly half of global consumers are turning …
More: EY
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