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.
SAP acquires Prior Labs in a €1 billion deal to build Europe's leading frontier AI lab, combining the startup's groundbreaking Tabular Foundation Models with SAP's enterprise data and AI infrastructure to deliver instant, top-performing machine learning capabilities at scale.
Celonis co-CEO Alex Rinke warns that companies deploying AI agents without process intelligence risk automating inefficiency at scale, as the Munich-born enterprise giant—now serving half the world's 200 largest companies—re-engineers itself for the AI era.
Cursor engineers have slashed unexpected tool call errors by 10x in a single sprint by combining AI-driven evaluations, A/B testing, anomaly detection, and custom model tuning to sharpen their agent harness and prepare for a multi-agent future.
Google DeepMind launches ProEval, a free open-source tool that slashes generative AI evaluation costs by up to 100x using Bayesian Quadrature techniques, achieving ±1% accuracy with a fraction of typical samples while proactively identifying model failure patterns across major benchmarks.
Perplexity launches a massive enterprise expansion of its AI agent platform at Ask NYC, introducing 50+ prebuilt workflows, Databricks and Snowflake integrations, financial data connections via Morningstar and PitchBook, and a 1Password integration — all while claiming $2.8 billion in labor-equivalent work completed since launch.
AI startup Rogo Technologies hits a $2 billion valuation after two former Wall Street bankers build a platform that automates the tedious grunt work of investment banking, including spreadsheet crunching and slide deck formatting.
Alphabet crushes Q1 2026 expectations as Google Cloud surpasses $20 billion in revenue for the first time, AI-powered cloud revenue skyrockets 800% year-over-year, Waymo hits 500,000 weekly autonomous rides across 11 U.S. cities, and paid subscriptions across YouTube and Google One reach 350 million.
GPT-5-powered agentic search systems are crushing baseline scores with an NDCG of 0.453 versus a 0.289 BM25 baseline on Amazon ESCI, but hit a hard wall when facing knowledge-gap tasks where LLMs cannot evaluate information they don't already know.
Anthropic's Batch API slashes token costs by 50%, but a new analysis reveals the savings only make sense at fleet scale — single-agent use suffers from up to 24-hour latency, and surprisingly, cheaper Haiku models take longer to batch than pricier Sonnet or Opus.