OpenAI's newest frontier model arrives six weeks after GPT-5.4, pushing harder into agentic coding, computer use, and enterprise-grade reasoning.

Zuckerberg is firing 10% of Meta's workforce on May 20 to help cover a $135 billion AI infrastructure bill, with more rounds coming later in 2026.


OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on Thursday, just six weeks after GPT-5.4. Codenamed "Spud" internally, it's reportedly the company's first fully retrained LLM since GPT-4.5, and the pitch is agentic work — hand it a messy, multi-step task and trust it to finish. On Terminal-Bench 2.0 it scores 82.7%, a clear jump over GPT-5.4's 75.1% and well ahead of Claude Opus 4.7 at 69.4%.


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OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on Thursday, just six weeks after GPT-5.4. Codenamed "Spud" internally, it's reportedly the company's first fully retrained LLM since GPT-4.5, and the pitch is agentic work — hand it a messy, multi-step task and trust it to finish. On Terminal-Bench 2.0 it scores 82.7%, a clear jump over GPT-5.4's 75.1% and well ahead of Claude Opus 4.7 at 69.4%.



Anthropic's new flagship AI model ships today with better software engineering, a new xhigh effort tier, and unchanged pricing.

Anthropic's newest flagship Claude model ships with better agentic coding, a new effort tier, and a visible shadow from the unreleased Mythos Preview.

Alibaba's HappyHorse-1.0 debuted anonymously, shot to the top of global video AI benchmarks, and was confirmed as Alibaba's best-performing video model to date.

From Anthropic's Claude Mythos to OpenAI's Codex Security, AI agents are discovering critical vulnerabilities faster and at a scale no human team can match.


Just one month after the 30-second Lyria 3 debut, Google's upgraded Pro model pushes AI music generation to three full minutes with structural awareness across six platforms simultaneously.