China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI startup Manus, complicating the company’s push into autonomous AI agents and signalling tighter scrutiny of US investment in Chinese-linked technology companies.
Google plans to invest in Anthropic through cash and compute support worth up to $40 billion as demand for Claude and AI infrastructure grows.
DeepSeek V4 is now available in preview through V4-Pro and V4-Flash, with open weights, 1M context support, claimed gains in coding and reasoning, and early hands-on concerns about real-world output quality.
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, codenamed Spud, for ChatGPT and Codex users on paid plans. The model improves context handling, coding, computer use, research workflows, cybersecurity, and token efficiency while advancing the company’s broader AI super app strategy.
OpenAI launched Workspace Agents in ChatGPT on April 22 for Business, Enterprise, Edu and Teachers plans, replacing Custom GPTs over time with agents built for recurring team workflows.
Google Cloud introduced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Google Cloud Next 2026, turning Vertex AI into a unified stack for building, governing, securing and optimising enterprise AI agents.
Anthropic is investigating unauthorized access to Claude Mythos, a restricted cybersecurity AI model available only to selected companies, cleared organizations, and some government agencies.
Alibaba’s Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is its strongest model yet, with reported benchmark gains, a 256k context window and hosted proprietary access through Alibaba Cloud.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.0 on April 21, adding reasoning before generation, multilingual text, real-time information, broader aspect ratios, and up to eight images from one prompt.
