OpenAI Plans Major Overhaul of ChatGPT Into AI ‘Super Assistant’
The unredacted sections suggest this assistant will combine deep personalisation, multimodal interfaces, and agentic task capabilities.
AI Startup Builder.ai Faked Revenue Deal With India's VerSe Innovation
The startup revealed plans to file for insolvency in May after lenders froze its funds.
DeepSeek Releases an Updated R1 Model on Hugging Face
Although DeepSeek described it as a “minor” upgrade, the model is notably large, boasting 685 billion parameters
Elon Musk is Paying $300 mn to Bring Grok to Telegram
Telegram will receive 50% of all revenue generated from xAI subscriptions purchased within the app
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Anthropic Rolls Out Voice Mode for Claude Chatbot
Users can toggle between text and voice, choose from five voice options
AI Startup Zoca Raises $6 mn to Supercharge Local Businesses with Autonomous Growth Agents
Zoca’s AI agents manage everything from discovering customer demand to lead conversion and client re-engagement
6 Companies OpenAI has Acquired so Far
In its largest acquisition to date, OpenAI acquired io, an AI hardware startup founded by former Apple design chief Jony Iv
Anthropic Announces Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4
It claims that Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, capable of working autonomously for up to seven hours—nearly a full corporate workday
Operant AI Launches Woodpecker to Open-Source Automated Security Testing
Woodpecker provides automated red teaming capabilities across three critical domains- Kubernetes, APIs and AI Security
Vibe Coding Startup Windsurf Launches New Models Designed for Software Engineering
The suite includes three models: SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini.
Anthropic Lawyer Admits to Using Fake Citation Generated by Claude AI in Copyright Lawsuit
Anthropic attributed the mistake to “an honest citation error,” emphasising it was not an intentional fabrication
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AI Startup Hyperbots Raises $6.5 mn to Build LLM for Finance
The funds will also be used to expand in the US market