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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
Mistral raised $830 million in debt financing from a consortium of seven banks to purchase 13,800 Nvidia GPUs for its first data center near Paris, positioning itself as Europe's sovereign AI alternative to US proprietary models.
Mercor recently confirmed it was victim to a security incident related to the compromise of the popular open-source project LiteLLM. Extortion group Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for the attack, allegedly posting a sample of the stolen data on its leak site.
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.
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.
Interloom has raised a $16.5M seed round to develop a platform that captures undocumented operational expertise and transforms it into a permanent context layer for AI agents. With its "Context Graph", Interloom aims to address the critical knowledge gap that affects enterprise AI deployment.