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USC Lands $200M Stevens Gift To Hire AI Faculty Across Campus

Two hundred million dollars. That’s the check Mark and Mary Stevens wrote to the University of Southern California, announced Tuesday, May 5, 2026. The gift renames...

Canadian privacy ruling forces OpenAI ChatGPT changes after federal probe.

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Canada Rules OpenAI Broke Privacy Law Training ChatGPT

Canada’s privacy watchdogs ruled Wednesday that OpenAI broke the law when it trained ChatGPT, the first formal Canadian finding of its kind against a generative AI...

UAE national AI test and validation lab certification mark for government AI models.

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UAE Launches Sovereign AI Test Lab To Vet Every Government Model

The UAE has wired a sovereign safety net under its agentic AI rollout. On Tuesday, the UAE Cyber Security Council, Cisco and Abu Dhabi software firm...

Atlassian Teamwork Graph opening to Claude Code agents at Team 26 Anaheim conference.

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Atlassian Opens 150-Billion-Object Graph To Claude Code Agents

Atlassian dropped the wall around its 150-billion-object Teamwork Graph on Wednesday and invited Claude Code in. The Sydney-based software maker used its Team ’26 keynote in...

ChatGPT GPT-5.5 Instant default model launch with reduced hallucinations announcement.

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OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant The Default ChatGPT Model

OpenAI swapped the brain inside ChatGPT on May 5, 2026. The new default, GPT-5.5 Instant, takes the place of GPT-5.3 Instant for every free and paid...

Chrome water faucet pouring blue data cubes representing AI water use forecast through 2028.

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Autodesk Joins WEF Water-AI Nexus Council to Curb AI’s Water Drain

Autodesk has joined the Water-AI Nexus Center of Excellence Advisory Council, the body convened by the Water Environment Federation to put artificial intelligence to work on...

Public Bank Malaysia digital banking IT spend strategy versus Maybank ROAR30 in 2026.

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Public Bank Caps IT Spend At RM500 Million As Maybank Bets Bigger

Public Bank Berhad is spending about RM500 million a year on its technology stack, chief executive Tan Sri Tay Ah Lek told shareholders at the lender’s...

Pentagon AI vendor split with eight orbiting cubes and one isolated chip behind red razor wire.

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Pentagon Picks 8 AI Vendors For Classified Networks, Cuts Anthropic

The Department of War on May 1, 2026 cleared eight artificial intelligence vendors to deploy their models inside the Pentagon’s classified networks. SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft,...

Chrome chat bubble stamped with red sponsored seal illustrating Google Gemini app ads.

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Google Opens Door To Ads Inside Gemini AI App After Q1 Earnings

Google opened the door to advertisements inside its standalone Gemini app on April 29, when chief business officer Philipp Schindler told analysts on the Q1 2026...

PhonePe AI integration agent payment gateway code generation for SME merchants in India.

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PhonePe AI Integration Agent Cuts Merchant Onboarding to Minutes

PhonePe pushed an AI agent into its developer console this week that aims to do something every Indian payments firm has promised and rarely delivered. Cut...