A new IBM CEO study finds that AI-first leaders are scaling more initiatives and driving autonomous decision-making from 25% to a projected 48% by 2030, while 76% now have a Chief AI Officer in place and 82% are already tapping into quantum ecosystems, revealing a widening competitive gap between prepared …
California startup Span is partnering with Nvidia and PulteGroup to install silent, liquid-cooled AI computing nodes on residential homes, turning houses into mini data centers while rewarding homeowners with discounted electricity and internet bills.
Microsoft is expanding Copilot Cowork with mobile access on iOS and Android, reusable 'Skills' for repeatable workflows across Microsoft 365, and deeper integrations with tools like Power BI, Dynamics 365, Miro, and monday.com, making AI-powered task delegation more accessible and versatile than ever.
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's new default model, slashing hallucinations by over 52% on high-stakes topics like medicine and law, while delivering smarter, more personalized responses using past conversations and connected files.
Microsoft ends its exclusive deal with OpenAI as AWS immediately launches OpenAI models, Google Cloud breaks $20 billion in quarterly revenue, Elon Musk admits in court that xAI trained Grok using OpenAI models, and Meta's business AI explodes from 1 million to 10 million weekly conversations in under three months.
Anthropic and OpenAI are launching rival enterprise AI ventures worth billions, with Anthropic securing a $1.5 billion joint venture backed by Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, while OpenAI raises $4 billion for its $10 billion-valued Development Company, as both AI giants race toward potential IPOs.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 launches with doubled token prices over GPT-5.4, driving real-world cost increases of up to 92% for users, though longer prompts see partial relief as the model generates significantly fewer completion tokens.
OpenAI overhauled its WebRTC architecture with a split relay-plus-transceiver model, enabling real-time voice AI to scale globally across Kubernetes for over 900 million weekly active users while minimizing latency without requiring custom client modifications.
Voice-Pro goes fully open-source, giving everyone free access to powerful AI voice cloning, speech recognition, multilingual text-to-speech, and vocal isolation tools as its developers shift focus to a new global communication platform.
A new open-source framework called open-slide now lets AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor build polished, React-based presentations from simple natural language descriptions, complete with presenter mode, a click-to-comment inspector, and one-command export to HTML or PDF.