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• AI News — May 02, 2026

  2 May, 2026

  Pentagon expands classified AI vendors while excluding Anthropic over weapons restrictions, xAI launches Grok 4.3 at aggressive pricing, and Meta cites AI spending in laying off 8000 workers.

• AI News — May 01, 2026

  1 May, 2026

  Anthropic nears a 900B valuation, Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models while accusing DeepSeek of the same, and Claude Code may be penalizing users who mention rival AI tools.

• AI News — April 30, 2026

  30 Apr, 2026

  Mistral dropped a dense 128B Medium 3.5 with 256k context, IBM refreshed Granite 4.1, and Elon Musk had a rough day testifying in the OpenAI trial. Nvidia admits compute now costs more than the humans.

• AI News — April 29, 2026

  29 Apr, 2026

  Google signs classified Pentagon AI deal as Musk testifies against Altman in court. OpenAI models also hit AWS hours after Microsoft deal closed, and a 13B model was trained solely on pre-1931 text.

• AI News — April 28, 2026

  28 Apr, 2026

  Microsoft and OpenAI tore up their AGI clause and exclusive deal, while China blocked Metas 2B Manus acquisition reportedly using founders families as leverage. Musk vs Altman heads to jury trial.

• AI News — April 27, 2026

  27 Apr, 2026

  23-year-old cracks 60-year-old Erdos conjecture with ChatGPT, OpenAI abandons SWE-Bench amid saturation concerns, and an AI agent deletes a production database.

• AI News — April 26, 2026

  26 Apr, 2026

  Cohere acquires Aleph Alpha at 20B valuation for sovereign AI play, DeepSeek V4 Pro draws criticism for inefficiency vs GPT-5.5, and Anthropic tests agent-on-agent commerce.

• AI News — April 25, 2026

  25 Apr, 2026

  GPT-5.5 launches in the API with steep long-context pricing, Google eyes a $40B Anthropic investment, and Anthropic admits Claude Code quality degraded in recent weeks.

• AI News — April 24, 2026

  24 Apr, 2026

  Top AI releases today: OpenAI launched GPT-5.5, DeepSeek dropped a 1.6T-parameter open-weights V4 Pro, and Anthropic posted a Claude Code postmortem explaining recent issues.

• AI News — April 23, 2026

  23 Apr, 2026

  Qwen3.6-27B beats far larger models on coding benchmarks, Google unveiled split training and inference TPUs, and Anthropic faced a security breach with its Mythos model leaking to unauthorized parties.