Daily AI News

OpenAI releases GPT‑5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT

OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.5 Instant, positioned as the new default for ChatGPT. The model claims reduced hallucinations in high‑risk domains such as law, medicine and finance while keeping low latency.

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Anthropic ships ten AI agents for finance as it chases IPO‑ready revenue

Anthropic introduced a suite of ten pre‑configured AI agents targeting investment banks, asset managers and insurers, covering research, risk, compliance and accounting tasks.

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Google Home’s Gemini AI upgraded to version 3.1, handling more complex requests

Google rolled out Gemini 3.1 for its Home smart‑assistant, enabling multi‑step commands and combined task execution, improving reliability for connected‑home users.

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Amazon adds agentic fine‑tuning to SageMaker with support for Llama, Qwen, Deepseek and Nova

Amazon SageMaker now includes an AI‑agent that assists developers in customizing large language models, extending fine‑tuning to open‑weight families such as Llama and Qwen.

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SoundHound launches OASYS, a self‑learning AI agent platform

SoundHound unveiled OASYS, a platform where autonomous agents continuously improve through self‑learning, aimed at reducing development time and cost for enterprise customers.

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IBM adds Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi support to Db2 for AI‑driven automation

IBM integrated Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi accelerators into its Db2 database, enabling AI‑powered automation of routine database tasks and performance tuning.

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U.S. government gains pre‑release access to AI models from five major labs for national‑security testing

The Commerce Department expanded its AI safety program, securing reduced‑guardrails model versions from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI for classified security evaluations.

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Blitzy raises $200 M at a $1.4 B valuation to accelerate autonomous software development

Developer‑focused startup Blitzy closed a $200 million Series B round, bringing its autonomous coding platform to larger enterprises and pushing its valuation to $1.4 billion.

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Microsoft abandons Xbox Copilot AI, ending development for console and mobile

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced the winding down of Copilot AI on both mobile and console, redirecting resources to core gaming experiences after a strategic re‑org.

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Apple plans iOS 27 to let users choose from multiple AI models for tasks

Apple’s upcoming iOS 27 will feature a framework enabling users to select third‑party generative AI models for tasks like writing, image generation and voice assistance.

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