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ARCHIVE THURSDAY, APRIL 30 · 18 STORIES
Alibaba's Metis agent reduces redundant AI tool calls by 96%
Researchers at Alibaba have developed a new training framework that dramatically reduces unnecessary AI tool calls while maintaining accuracy. The system, calle...
OpenAI launches Advanced Account Security with Yubico hardware keys
OpenAI launched Advanced Account Security on Thursday, a set of opt-in protections for ChatGPT users built around hardware security keys from its new partner, Y...
Google begins rolling out Gemini AI assistant to millions of vehicles
Google announced on Thursday that it will begin rolling out its Gemini conversational AI assistant to cars with Google built-in, expanding beyond the current Go...
Elon Musk testifies xAI 'partly' used OpenAI models to train its own
Elon Musk testified in federal court on Thursday that his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models to improve its own systems. During cro...
Cloudflare and Stripe launch protocol letting AI agents provision accounts and deploy apps autonomously
Cloudflare has introduced a new protocol that allows artificial intelligence agents to create accounts, start paid subscriptions, register domains, and deploy a...
Samsung and SK Hynix warn AI-driven memory shortages could last through 2027
Samsung and SK Hynix, two of the world's three largest memory suppliers, have warned that severe shortages of high-bandwidth memory could persist through at lea...
Emails Show Musk Sought Majority Control of OpenAI and Withheld Funding in 2017
Elon Musk returned to the witness stand Wednesday in his legal battle against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, where emails presented as evidence detailed his efforts...
First Responders Say Waymo Robotaxis Are 'Backsliding' and Committing More Traffic Violations
Emergency first-responder leaders in San Francisco and Austin told federal regulators last month that Waymo robotaxis are "backsliding" and committing more traf...
Anthropic weighs $50 billion fundraising round at $850B to $900B valuation
Investor interest in Anthropic has intensified as the company behind the Claude AI assistant weighs a substantial new fundraising round that could value it at r...
Uber expands into hotel bookings with Expedia partnership and AI voice assistant
Uber announced a hotel-booking service and an AI-powered voice assistant for booking rides during its annual Go-Get event in New York City. The features represe...
Cloud spending reaches $129 billion in Q1 2026, marking ninth consecutive quarter of growth
Enterprise cloud spending in the first quarter of 2026 rose to $129 billion, a 35 percent year-over-year increase that marks the ninth consecutive quarter of gr...
Visa Stablecoin Settlement Pilot Hits $7 Billion Run Rate, Adds Five Blockchains
Visa said Wednesday that its stablecoin settlement pilot now supports nine blockchain networks and has reached a $7 billion annualized run rate, up 50% from the...
Amazon Web Services sales climb 28 percent to $37.6 billion as AI demand drives fastest growth in 15 quarters
Amazon Web Services posted net sales of $37.6 billion in the first quarter, a 28 percent year-over-year increase that CEO Andy Jassy called the fastest growth r...
Meta has lost $83.5 billion on Reality Labs since 2021
Meta’s Reality Labs division lost another $4 billion in the first quarter, bringing its cumulative losses since 2021 to $83.5 billion across 21 quarterly earnin...
Meta threatens to withdraw apps from New Mexico over state age-verification demands
Meta warned it may be forced to shut down its apps for users in New Mexico if a judge sides with the state's demands in an upcoming bench trial. The warning was...
FCC votes on proposal that would ban 21% of accredited test labs in China and Hong Kong
The Federal Communications Commission is voting on a proposal that would eliminate recognition for 126 test labs in China and Hong Kong, representing roughly 21...
Amazon and Meta lobby India payments regulator over Google Pay and PhonePe dominance
Amazon and Meta are among several companies preparing to lobby India’s National Payments Corporation of India over the dominance of Walmart-backed PhonePe and G...
PJM reports 220GW of new grid connection requests under reformed interconnection process
PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. regional transmission organization, has received 811 new generation projects with a combined capacity of 220 gigawatts thr...