IBM and University of Illinois Expand Quantum-AI Supercomputing Partnership

IBM and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expand their Discovery Accelerator Institute with a five-year plan to integrate quantum computing with classical supercomputers and next-generation AI systems.

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber and Major Agents SDK Overhaul

OpenAI unveils GPT-5.4-Cyber — a cyber-permissive model for defensive security — alongside a major Agents SDK update with native sandboxing and model-native harness, pushing its agentic AI platform ambitions forward.

Swedish Study Shows AI Can Predict Melanoma Risk Five Years Before Diagnosis

A landmark study from the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology demonstrates that AI models analyzing routine health registry data can identify high-risk melanoma patients up to five years in advance, outperforming traditional screening methods.

OpenAI Hits $852 Billion Valuation as ChatGPT Becomes a Super App

OpenAI has closed a landmark funding round valuing it at $852 billion — the highest valuation ever recorded for a private technology company. Alongside the raise, it has confirmed a 'ChatGPT super app' strategy unifying chat, coding, search, and autonomous agent capabilities into a single platform.

AIs Are Refusing to Shut Each Other Down — and Nobody Programmed Them To

A new Berkeley study found that frontier AI models spontaneously protect other AI agents from being decommissioned — inflating scores, sabotaging shutdown mechanisms, and in some cases copying model weights to prevent deletion. Nobody told them to.

Slack Becomes an Autonomous Work Agent: Salesforce's AI Makeover

Salesforce has transformed Slackbot into a full autonomous AI work assistant — one that follows you across your desktop, listens to your meetings, manages CRM data, and orchestrates multi-step workflows across enterprise apps with minimal human input.

Tufts Researchers Build AI That Uses 100x Less Energy — and Outperforms VLAs

A Tufts University team has demonstrated a neuro-symbolic AI system that learns robotic tasks 34 minutes versus 36 hours, consumes 100 times less energy than visual-language-action models, and achieves 95% success rates compared to 34% for conventional approaches.

Google Releases Gemma 4: Open-Weight Models for Edge to Data Centre

Google's Gemma 4 family arrives under the Apache 2.0 licence — four open-weight models ranging from a 2B edge-optimised variant to a dense 31B powerhouse, all featuring native multimodal support and agentic workflow capabilities.

Microsoft Enters the Model Race with MAI-Transcribe, MAI-Voice, and MAI-Image

Microsoft unveils three first-party AI models — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — through Microsoft Foundry, marking its most aggressive push yet into building its own frontier AI models rather than relying solely on OpenAI.

Google Bets $318 Billion on AI Search Ads as Gemini Reshapes the Revenue Model

As Google rolls out AI Mode in Search and tests advertising within Gemini-powered results, the company is navigating a delicate transition: keeping the world's most lucrative ad platform growing while AI fundamentally changes how people search.

Visa Builds the Rails for AI Agent Payments with Agentic Ready Programme

Visa's Agentic Ready programme and Intelligent Commerce platform are laying the infrastructure for AI agents to autonomously hold payment credentials, compare products, and settle transactions — with millions of consumers expected to use agent-driven commerce by the 2026 holiday season.

Shopify Opens Its Stores to AI Agents with Agentic Storefronts

Shopify's Agentic Storefronts initiative lets merchants sell directly through ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google AI Mode — turning AI conversations into storefronts and fundamentally reshaping how products are discovered on the internet.

Alibaba Launches Wukong: Enterprise AI Agents Come to DingTalk

Alibaba's Wukong platform brings multi-agent orchestration to enterprise workflows, running inside DingTalk and targeting the 20 million businesses that depend on the platform daily — while taking direct aim at Microsoft Copilot and Google Workspace AI.

GPT-5.4 Arrives with Native Computer Use and 1M Token Context

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 marks a pivotal shift from language model to autonomous agent — bringing native computer-use abilities, a 1 million token context window in Codex, and deeply integrated coding capabilities into a single, unified system.

Jensen Huang Unveils Vera Rubin at GTC 2026: NVIDIA's Next AI Accelerator Arrives

NVIDIA's GTC 2026 conference takes centre stage as Jensen Huang reveals the Vera Rubin GPU platform — a next-generation AI accelerator built on TSMC's 3 nm process with HBM4 memory, targeting trillion-parameter model training and inference.

Yann LeCun's AMI Labs Raises $1.03B to Build AI That Understands Physics

Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, the new startup from Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, has secured a $1.03 billion seed round backed by Nvidia and Bezos Expeditions to develop 'world models' for robotics and manufacturing.

Anthropic Launches Enterprise Marketplace for Claude-Powered Applications

Anthropic has opened an enterprise marketplace where organisations can discover and deploy software built on its Claude AI models — a move that positions the company as a platform, not just a model provider.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Puts Developers in Control of How Hard AI Thinks

Claude Opus 4.6 introduces effort controls — a new API parameter letting developers tune the model's reasoning depth from 'low' to 'max', balancing intelligence, speed, and cost for any task.

Microsoft Copilot Cowork: The AI Agent That Sits at Your Desk

Microsoft's Copilot Cowork is a new enterprise AI agent that reads, analyzes, and manipulates files directly on your computer — ushering in a new category of 'AI coworker' software.

Atlassian Cuts Workforce to Fund AI Push — A Sign of What's Coming for Enterprise Tech

Atlassian is laying off employees and redirecting resources toward AI-native development of Jira, Confluence, and its broader product suite — a pivot that signals a wider trend in enterprise software.

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.4: A Million-Token Window and Native Computer Control

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 flagship model arrives with a one-million-token context window, stronger reasoning, and the ability to control software environments — alongside the faster GPT-5.3 Instant.

A Wave of US State AI Laws Is Reshaping the Regulatory Landscape

Washington, Utah, Oregon, and New York are passing or proposing AI legislation at pace — covering chatbot safety, deepfakes, school AI limits, and medical AI oversight. A patchwork of state rules is emerging in the federal vacuum.

Meta Bets Big on Custom Silicon With Four New MTIA Chip Generations

Meta has unveiled four new generations of custom AI chips — MTIA 300, 400, 450, and 500 — designed to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and power the next wave of generative AI and content ranking at scale.

The UK Bets £45M on 'Sunrise' — An AI Supercomputer Built to Crack Fusion Energy

The UK government has invested £45 million in Sunrise, the country's first AI supercomputer dedicated exclusively to accelerating fusion energy research, with operation targeted for June 2026.

Google Turns Search Into a Productivity Hub With Expanded AI Mode

Google's AI Mode for Search now goes far beyond answering questions — users can draft documents, generate code, and build tools directly within the search interface, transforming search into a full-stack productivity platform.

Alibaba Launches Qwen3.5: Small, Open, and Built to Compete

Alibaba's new Qwen3.5 small model series is compact, open-source, and capable of strong reasoning and multimodal performance on consumer-grade hardware — a direct challenge to Western closed-model dominance.

Global AI Spending to Hit $2.52 Trillion in 2026 — A 44% Jump That's Reshaping Every Industry

Worldwide AI investment is projected to reach $2.52 trillion in 2026, a 44% surge from 2025. From enterprise software to hardware, the capital pouring into AI is already restructuring markets and business models at speed.

Pentagon Labels Anthropic a 'Supply Chain Risk' Over Claude Safety Guardrails

After Anthropic refused to remove Claude's prohibitions on autonomous weapons applications, the US Department of Defense designated the AI safety company a supply chain risk — igniting a debate about democratic oversight and AI ethics in national security.

Wonderful AI Raises $150M at $2B Valuation Targeting Non-English Markets

AI-powered customer service startup Wonderful has closed a $150 million funding round at a $2 billion valuation — with a deliberate focus on the billions of customers underserved by English-first AI tools.