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NY Times: OpenAI Unveils Its New, More Powerful GPT-5.5 Model (Apr. 23, 2026)
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 to ChatGPT users, saying it’s better at writing code, handling office tasks, and adding guardrails while delaying API access for security. -
NY Times: Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s Epic Fight Heads to Court (Apr. 23, 2026)
A Monday jury trial could reshape the A.I. race, as Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for $150+ billion, seeking Altman’s removal and to undo OpenAI’s for-profit turn. -
NY Times: Meta to Lay Off 10 Percent of Work Force in A.I. Push (Apr. 23, 2026)
Meta will cut about 8,000 jobs, close 6,000 open roles, and reorganize around AI. It is spending tens of billions on AI infrastructure, tools, and talent to boost efficiency. -
Mozilla: The zero-days are numbered (Apr. 21, 2026)
Firefox used frontier AI models, including Opus and Claude Mythos Preview, to find and fix hundreds of security bugs in Firefox 148 and 150. -
The Economic Times: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data (Apr. 21, 2026)
Meta is installing tracking software on US employees’ computers to record mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screen snapshots, to train AI agents to automate tasks. -
WSJ: OpenAI Is Working With Consultants to Sell Codex (Apr. 21, 2026)
OpenAI has launched a Codex consulting program with firms like Accenture, Capgemini, and PwC to sell its AI coding tool to businesses, and hired Colleen Kapase to oversee partnerships. -
OpenAI: Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT (Apr. 16, 2026)
ChatGPT offers shared workspace agents that run cloud-based, long-running workflows under organizational permissions and controls. -
Anthropic: Anthropic and Amazon expand collaboration for up to 5 gigawatts of new compute
Anthropic signed a deal with Amazon to secure up to 5GW, including Trainium2, Trainium3, Trainium4 capacity, plus a $100 billion cloud commitment and $5 billion current investment. -
WSJ: Intel Sales Rise 7% as AI Agents Drive Growth (Apr. 23, 2026)
Intel reported $13.6 billion in March-quarter sales, up 7%, beating estimates, and raised guidance on strong AI-driven data-center demand. -
WSJ: The Billionaire Math Geek Who Turned AI Into a Money-Printing Machine (Apr. 23, 2026)
Alex Gerko’s XTX Markets uses AI, deep learning, and geothermal supercomputers to run highly profitable algorithmic trading. -
WSJ: America’s Largest Landowner Is Using AI to Digitize the Forest (Apr. 23, 2026)
Weyerhaeuser is using AI—autonomous skidders, a detailed tree database, and decision screens—to optimize logging and long-term returns. -
WSJ: That Video on Your Phone Might Be Made-in-China AI (Apr. 26, 2026)
Amazon’s House of David used generative AI for 73 of 850 visual-effect shots, cutting location costs. Chinese firms dominate AI video tools. -
NY Times: Anthropic Wants Claude to Be Moral. Is Religion Really the Answer? (Apr. 20, 2026)
Anthropic wants Claude moral via religious teachings and advisers, but religion’s influence relies on embodied practices, meditation, fasting, ritual singing, and synchronized action. -
National Catholic Register: Why AI Can’t Replace Education (Apr. 13, 2026)
When AI can write anything, real education must go beyond producing words, restoring diminished capacities through sequence, maturation, and direct contact with reality. Do not mistake command of words for possession of knowledge. -
NY Times: Inside the Courtroom at the OpenAI Trial (Apr. 30, 2026)
Reporters describe courtroom scenes as Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in a trial over OpenAI’s mission shift. -
WSJ: Nike to Cut 1,400 Workers in Latest Round of Layoffs (Apr. 23, 2026)
Nike will cut about 1,400 jobs, mostly in technology, to simplify global operations and streamline manufacturing and supply chains. -
WSJ: How Scientists Use Advanced Technologies Including AI to Search for Extraterrestrial Life (Apr. 23, 2026)
New telescopes, probes, and AI are expanding searches for alien life by probing Mars rocks, icy moons, and exoplanet atmospheres. -
WSJ: Microsoft Offers Its First Ever Buyouts to Shape Workforce Around AI Push (Apr. 23, 2026)
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 7% of U.S. employees, targeting senior‑director level and below whose age plus years of service totals at least 70. -
NY Times: A.I. Is Eliminating Jobs on Wall Street (Apr. 21, 2026)
Major Wall Street banks are using A.I. to automate tasks, boosting profits while cutting thousands of jobs, from back-office clerks to high-paid dealmakers.