OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT and Codex with GPT-5.5: ‘a new class of intelligence for real work’

OpenAI is capping off a busy week of announcements with the release of GPT-5.5, its latest model upgrade for ChatGPT and Codex. The company calls its new model “a new class of i ...
Business Insider

Seedance 2.0 API Goes Live on fal, Expanding Access to Next-Generation AI Video Generation Infrastructure

San Francisco, California, United States, April 17, 2026-- fal has announced the official launch of the Seedance 2.0 API on its platform, enabling developers and enterprises to access ByteDance’s ...
GeekWire

Ai2 releases open-source web agent to rival closed systems from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic

The Allen Institute for AI is releasing an open-source web agent that can navigate and complete tasks in a browser — letting developers look under the hood to understand what’s happening in ways not ...
The Next Web

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world

The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year ...
Geeky Gadgets

Gemini’s Web Tool Makes Scrapers Look Outdated

What if extracting data from PDFs, images, or websites could be as fast as snapping your fingers? Prompt Engineering explores how the Gemini web scraper is transforming data extraction with ...
Neowin

OpenAI's most advanced coding model, GPT-5.2-Codex, is now available via API

OpenAI has released GPT-5.2-Codex via its API, a frontier-class model optimized for complex, long-running agentic coding tasks. Last month, OpenAI released the GPT-5.2 model series, delivering ...
Newsweek

World’s Biggest Spiderweb Spanning 1,140ft Found—and It’s Nightmare Fuel

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Arachnophobes look away now. Deep inside a pitch-black cave straddling ...
Mashable

Elon Musk's X rolls out pay-per-use API to lure developers back, but there's one big problem

X has announced a new pay-per-use self-serve API model in hopes of luring developers back to the platform. Credit: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Good news! Elon Musk's X has heard the cries ...
InfoQ

Data API Builder 1.6 Adds HTTP Header Controls and Flexible Logging

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
BGR

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Is An AI Model That Can Browse The Web Like You Do

Google on Tuesday announced a brand-new AI model called Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, releasing it in preview to developers. If you've been following the AI industry, you might be familiar with the term ...
The Verge

Google’s latest AI model uses a web browser like you do

The new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can click, scroll, and type in a browser window to access data that’s not available via an API. The new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can click, scroll, and type ...
9to5google

‘Gemini 2.5 Computer Use’ model enters preview with strong web, Android performance

Google is now letting developers preview the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model behind Project Mariner and agentic features in AI Mode. This “specialized model” can interact with graphical user interfaces, ...