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OpenAI's GPT-5.5 brings improvements to capabilities like research and agentic coding
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, a model that achieves state-of-the-art performance across coding, knowledge work, and scientific research while preserving efficiency. GPT-5.5 marks progress toward OpenAI's vision of an AI "super app" combining ChatGPT, Codex, and browser capabilities.
Apr 23, 2026
Supply chain AI platform Loop raised $95M to expand into more use cases and data types
Loop raised $95 million in Series C funding led by Valor Equity Partners to scale its AI platform that transforms fragmented supply chain data into actionable intelligence, addressing operational and financial decision-making across logistics, finance, and enterprise workflows.
Apr 20, 2026
Canva launches AI 2.0 with agentic design capabilities
Canva launched AI 2.0, an agentic design platform powered by its custom Canva Design Model that generates fully layered, editable designs from prompts and features six new intelligent workflows.
Apr 18, 2026
Nvidia-backed SiFive raises $400M at $3.65B valuation for open-source AI chips
NVIDIA-backed SiFive raised $400 million at a $3.65 billion valuation to accelerate its open-source RISC-V chip designs for AI data centers, positioning itself as an alternative to proprietary x86 and ARM architectures in the data center solutions market.
Apr 13, 2026
Meta unveils Muse Spark, the first step in its "ground-up overhaul" of its AI strategy
Meta launched Muse Spark, its first model from the newly created Meta Superintelligence Labs. Meta claims Muse Spark marks the beginning of a "ground-up overhaul" of its AI strategy, which aims to fix the performance gap between the company's models and similar offerings from its competitors.
Apr 9, 2026
Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a very capable open-weights reasoning model
Arcee AI, a tiny US startup that recently developed a completely open contender to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick, recently released Trinity-Large-Thinking, an open weights reasoning model claimed to be "the strongest open model ever released outside of China."
Apr 7, 2026
Microsoft has launched three new models heavily marketed towards business use cases
Microsoft AI announced the availability of three foundational models for transcription and voice and image generation. The launch highlights these models' competitive pricing and practical business value as Microsoft shifts its AI strategy towards business and productivity solutions.
Apr 6, 2026
Mistral secures $830M in debt financing to build its first data center in France
Mistral raised $830 million in debt financing from a consortium of seven banks to purchase 13,800 Nvidia GPUs for its first data center near Paris, positioning itself as Europe's sovereign AI alternative to US proprietary models.
Apr 3, 2026
Mercor reports it fell victim to a cyberattack linked to the recently compromised LiteLLM
Mercor recently confirmed it was victim to a security incident related to the compromise of the popular open-source project LiteLLM. Extortion group Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for the attack, allegedly posting a sample of the stolen data on its leak site.
Mar 31, 2026
Legal tech darling Harvey confirms new funding round at a $11B valuation
Legal tech startup Harvey has recently confirmed that it successfully raised $200 million at an $11 billion valuation. The round was co-led by returning investors GIC and Sequoia, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Conviction Partners, and Elad Gil, among others.
Mar 30, 2026
Wikipedia bans LLM usage for article rewriting and generation
Wikipedia has implemented a new policy that bans AI-generated article creation and substantial rewrites. The ban on LLM usage was voted by Wikipedia's editor community, who found themselves increasingly overwhelmed by the non-stop flood of AI slop making its way into the encyclopedia.
Mar 27, 2026
Granola, the viral AI-powered note-taking app, has become a unicorn
Granola recently raised a $125M Series C at a $1.5B valuation. In addition to the round announcement, Granola also shared the three new features coming to the app: personal and enterprise APIs, an updated MCP, and Spaces for sharing and collaboration.
Mar 27, 2026