The Trump administration accuses China-backed actors of running an 'industrial-scale' AI theft campaign, using proxy accounts to steal capabilities from American models like Claude and Gemini, with OpenAI and Anthropic confirming attacks by firms including DeepSeek ahead of Trump's upcoming Beijing visit.
Microsoft's Copilot agentic AI is now live in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, delivering multi-step, app-native actions that are already driving massive user engagement gains, with Excel alone seeing a 67% engagement spike, 50% boost in new user retention, and 65% jump in satisfaction ratings.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 just seven weeks after GPT-5.4, achieving a recursive self-improvement milestone where the model helped build itself, while introducing enhanced agentic capabilities across 44 occupations and expanded safety protocols with zero latency impact.
Meta is slashing 10% of its workforce, cutting 8,000 jobs and canceling 6,000 open roles effective May 20, as the tech giant redirects resources toward massive artificial intelligence spending.
Google unveils Workspace Intelligence at Google Cloud Next, bringing AI-powered features across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, while also launching a tool that makes migrating from Microsoft 365 five times faster.
Meta signs a massive deal with AWS to deploy tens of millions of Graviton CPU cores, becoming one of Amazon's largest Graviton customers as it diversifies its AI compute strategy beyond Nvidia GPUs to power next-generation agentic AI workloads.
Claude surges past 200 app integrations, adding Spotify, Uber, TurboTax, and more while introducing mid-conversation connector suggestions and strong privacy protections that keep user data out of AI training.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its most advanced model yet, claiming it outperforms rivals from Google and Anthropic while marking a major step toward a unified AI 'super app' combining ChatGPT, Codex, and an AI browser for enterprise users.
Anker unveils the Thus processor, the world's first neural-net compute-in-memory AI audio chip, set to power next-gen Soundcore earbuds with eight MEMS microphones, two bone conduction sensors, and millions of parameters for dramatically improved noise cancellation — with the Liberty 5 Pro Max and Liberty 5 Pro debuting at Anker …
Vast Data secures a massive $1 billion Series F funding round backed by Nvidia, catapulting its valuation to $30 billion — more than triple its 2023 worth — as the AI infrastructure company surpasses $4 billion in cumulative bookings and $500 million in annual recurring revenue.