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China blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus

China's economic authority NDRC is forcing Meta to unwind its already completed $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus. Reversing the deal is complicated since Meta has already integrated the ...
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The company with a monopoly on AI's most critical machine is racing to build more

ASML plans to build at least 60 standard EUV machines in 2026 - 36 percent more than in 2025 - and expects annual revenue of up to $47 billion. US tech giants Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet ...
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Meta wants to power AI data centers with solar energy from space

Meta has signed a deal with startup Overview Energy for up to one gigawatt of space-based solar power to feed the massive energy demands of its AI data centers. Satellites would collect sunlight in ...
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OpenAI kills its dedicated coding model Codex again, folding it into GPT-5.5

With GPT-5.4, OpenAI rolled its separate Codex model for programming tasks into the main model. There's no dedicated coding line anymore, explains Romain Huet, OpenAI's Head of Developer Experience.
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OpenAI says old prompts are holding GPT-5.5 back and developers need a fresh baseline

OpenAI has released a prompting guide for GPT-5.5 with one major takeaway: don't reuse your old prompts. Start fresh with minimal, result-focused instructions. And role definitions, once dismissed as ...
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GPT-5.5 tops benchmarks but still hallucinates frequently at a 20 percent higher API cost

Update from April 25, 2026: GPT-5.5 also stumbles on the BullshitBench. The benchmark throws 100 questions at a model across five fields—software, finance, law, physics, and medicine—that sound ...
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Sam Altman outlines five principles that double as justification for OpenAI's business decisions

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has published five principles to guide the company's future work. They frame OpenAI's role as decentralizing power over AI through broad user access. The principles cover ...
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Qwen3.6-27B beats much larger predecessor on most coding benchmarks

Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-27B, a new dense open-source model with 27 billion parameters. According to Alibaba, the model outperforms its much larger predecessor, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (397 billion ...
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Anthropic says stronger AI models cut better deals, and the losers don't even notice

In a week-long experiment, Anthropic let Claude agents buy and sell goods for employees. The result: stronger models negotiated better prices. The catch: the people stuck with weaker agents had no ...
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OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a "new class of intelligence" at double the API price

GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro are now both available through OpenAI's Responses and Chat Completions API, each with a one million token context window. "Agents built with GPT-5.5 can plan, gather context, ...
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Google builds elite team to close the coding gap with Anthropic

Google is doubling down on AI coding, using more AI internally and aiming for models that can eventually improve themselves. Google Deepmind has put together a specialized team of researchers and ...
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Cohere takes over Aleph Alpha shortly after the German startup ousted its original founder

Canadian AI company Cohere is acquiring Heidelberg-based startup Aleph Alpha, with the combined company valued at around $20 billion. The Schwarz Group is investing $600 million and providing the ...