Anthropic is the first AI startup to cross $1T; DeepSeek is raising $20B from Tencent and Alibaba. Sony's robot beat elite table tennis players, and Meta is cutting 8,000 people for AI.
🤖 AI
OpenAI released GPT-5.5. The new flagship model beat its predecessors on agentic tasks, coding, and computer use. Rolling out to paid subscribers. Source
OpenAI launched Workspace Agents in ChatGPT. Teams can now build shared AI agents right in ChatGPT — for presentations, code, and Slack and Salesforce integrations. Free for Business/Enterprise/Edu until May 6. Source
ChatGPT Images 2.0 beat Nano Banana Pro. OpenAI called the new model a "step change" in text rendering, instruction-following, and proportions. Available in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API. Source
DeepSeek unveiled V4 Flash and V4 Pro. The Chinese team is claiming top coding benchmark scores: 1M token context and a Hybrid Attention architecture. Prices to drop once Huawei Ascend 950 clusters come online. Source
Anthropic gave Claude memory and new connectors. Claude Managed Agents now store session memory in editable files. New connectors include Booking, Spotify, Uber, TripAdvisor, and more. Source
💻 Software
Microsoft made Copilot agentic by default in Office. Agent mode is now the default in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint — Copilot handles multi-step tasks in documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on its own. Source
Google launched Workspace Intelligence and AI Overviews in Gmail. A semantic layer connects Gmail, Drive, and projects for Gemini agents, and the inbox now gets natural-language thread summaries. Source
GitHub Copilot switched to token-based pricing. Starting in June, all subscribers pay per token — a single counter for both prompts and generated code.
⚙️ Robots & hardware
Sony's robot beat elite table tennis players. Project Ace became the first autonomous robot to beat top players: 3 matches out of 5, and 16 return hits on serves vs. 8. Source
Google unveiled the eighth-generation TPU. TPU 8t cuts frontier model training from months to weeks; TPU 8i is designed for parallel agents in pods of 1,152 chips. Source
Tesla will spend $3B on a chip fab in Texas. A research fab will be built at Giga Texas using Intel's 14A process node — targeting a few thousand wafers a month. Source
💰 Business
Anthropic overtook OpenAI on valuation — $1T. On Forge Global, Anthropic became the first AI startup to hit a trillion — OpenAI is at $880B for now. The jump was attributed to share scarcity and demand for Claude Code. Source
DeepSeek is raising its first round at a $20B valuation. Tencent (wants a 20% stake) and Alibaba are in talks. The valuation doubled from $10B to $20B in just a few days. Source
Meta will cut 10% of staff for AI. Starting May 20, the company will lay off around 8,000 people to focus on generative AI. Meta had 78,865 employees at end of 2025. Source
SpaceX struck a $60B deal for Cursor. SpaceX got the right to acquire the AI startup for $60B (or pay a $10B breakup fee). The teams are jointly developing coding agents. Source