AI News Archive: April 29, 2026 — Part 17
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- GPT-5.5 Pro achieves a new high score on the ECI
GPT-5.5 Pro achieves a new high score of 159 on the Epoch Capabilities Index — our statistical tool that combines multiple benchmarks into a unified scale.
- Altman’s Pivot & OpenAI Polyamory
Altman’s Pivot & OpenAI Polyamory Puck
- SoftBank plans to list new AI and robotics company in the US
Masayoshi Son plots IPO for business named Roze as soon as this year
- iOS 27 Rumor Tips New AI Image-Editing Tools for Photos App
iOS 27 Rumor Tips New AI Image-Editing Tools for Photos App PCMag
- iOS 27 Rumor Tips New AI Image-Editing Tools for Photos App
iOS 27 Rumor Tips New AI Image-Editing Tools for Photos App PCMag Middle East
- Google Photos uses AI to make the iconic closet from ‘Clueless’ a reality
Google says the new feature will leverage AI technology to automatically create a copy of your wardrobe that's based on the pieces of clothing appearing in your Google Photos library.
- I tried Google’s new AI wardrobe feature with Motorola’s Razr — and it turns your photos into a surprisingly useful digital closet full of outfits
Google Photos’ new AI wardrobe feature builds a digital closet from your photos, organizes outfits, and even offers virtual try-ons. I tried it on Motorola’s new Razr devices, and it’s a surprisingly compelling look at how AI could reshape your camera roll.
- I tried Google Photos Wardrobe on the Motorola Razr Ultra 2026, and it’s the AI 'Clueless' closet I’ve always wanted
I tried Google Photos Wardrobe on the Motorola Razr Ultra 2026, and it’s the AI 'Clueless' closet I’ve always wanted Tom's Guide
- Google Photos to Get AI 'Wardrobe' Feature
Google Photos is getting a new wardrobe planning feature that will help you decide what to wear. AI will pull in images of clothing from the Google Photos library, organizing clothing items into a digital closet. You will be able to put items together to create outfits, and even virtually try them with a digital avatar on to see how they'll look. The Google Photos app will show all items of clothing in a new Wardrobe section in the Collections tab. Clothing can also be viewed in specific categories like tops or bottoms. Items of clothing can be mixed and matched to create outfits, and the results can be shared with friends or saved to a digital moodboard. In the popular 1995 comedy Clueless, main character Cher Horowitz has an iconic digital wardrobe that Google seems to be making a reality with Google Photos. Cher uses a touchscreen computer to swipe through the clothes in her wardrobe , pairing different tops and bottoms to create an outfit. A built-in "Dress Me" button tells h
- Got a Google TV? It's Getting an AI Upgrade (and YouTube Shorts)
Got a Google TV? It's Getting an AI Upgrade (and YouTube Shorts) PCMag
- Got a Google TV? It's Getting an AI Upgrade (and YouTube Shorts)
Got a Google TV? It's Getting an AI Upgrade (and YouTube Shorts) PCMag UK
- Got a Google TV? It's Getting an AI Upgrade (and YouTube Shorts)
Got a Google TV? It's Getting an AI Upgrade (and YouTube Shorts) PCMag Australia
- Got a Google TV? It's Getting an AI Upgrade (and YouTube Shorts)
Got a Google TV? It's Getting an AI Upgrade (and YouTube Shorts) PCMag Middle East
- Google TV is getting Nano Banana, Veo, and YouTube Shorts — here's what you can do now
Google TV is getting Nano Banana, Veo, and YouTube Shorts — here's what you can do now Tom's Guide
- Uber is in the hotel business now, thanks in part to AI
Uber announced several new features on Wednesday during its annual event, which push far beyond the company's original ride-hailing purpose and deeper into its users' lives.
- Uber just expanded into hotels, AI, and ‘room service’—and it’s moving fast
Uber Technologies is doing everything it can to save its customers time, but for CEO Dara Khosrowshahi , the company’s sixth annual Go-Get event in New York City was something of a trip through time. On Wednesday, Khosrowshahi and other members of Uber’s leadership team unveiled a slew of new features, and also announced Hotels on Uber, a new hotel-booking feature that works in concert with Expedia, a company for which Khosrowshahi previously served as CEO. The feature allows users to book hotel rooms directly in the Uber app, similar to how they’d hail a ride or order food through Uber Eats . Khosrowshahi said that travel was Uber’s “next frontier,” and that “taking all of the complexity” related to booking travel “and making it as easy to get an Uber” was “only natural” for the company. “You can go, you can get, and now you can travel,” he said during the event, adding that the partnership with Expedia—which will list some 700,000 hotel properties through Uber’s platform—is “the perf
- The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating ‘sacrifice zones’ that harm water and health of world’s poor
The rapid expansion of critical mineral extraction is trading away human and ecological well-being for technological breakthroughs. There are ways to fix this.
- Why did OpenAI ban its Codex AI from talking about ‘goblins’ and ‘gremlins’? New guardrails revealed
OpenAI has implemented unusual guardrails in its Codex tool to prevent discussions about goblins, gremlins, racoons and other mythical creatures unless relevant.
- Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.
- Waymo is beginning to map Portland streets ahead of a robotaxi launch
The Alphabet subsidiary says it won't operate driverless taxis in the city until it receives a permit, despite resistance from several city council members
- ‘I had to watch it twice to check it wasn’t me’: Harris a victim of deepfake video scam
Financial crime ‘fundamentally threatens integrity of financial system’, Harris tells European event in Dublin
- Taylor Swift deepfakes are pushing scams on TikTok
Copyleaks says scammers are using AI to impersonate celebrities like Taylor Swift and Rihanna to collect personal data.
- Amazon’s OpenAI gambit signals a new phase in the cloud wars — one where exclusivity no longer applies
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched one of the most consequential enterprise AI plays in the company's 20-year history, simultaneously bringing OpenAI's most powerful models to its Bedrock platform , unveiling a new agentic developer framework, releasing a desktop AI productivity tool called Amazon Quick , and expanding its Amazon Connect service from a single contact-center product into a family of four agentic AI solutions targeting supply chains, hiring, healthcare, and customer experience. The announcements, made at a live event in San Francisco titled " What's Next with AWS ," landed just 24 hours after OpenAI and Microsoft publicly restructured their exclusive cloud partnership — a move that, for the first time, freed OpenAI to distribute all of its products across rival cloud providers. AWS CEO Matt Garman called it "a huge partnership" and said customers have been asking for OpenAI models inside AWS "from the very early days." The timing was no accident. Amazon CEO Andy Jas
- OpenAI Brings GPT-5.5 & Codex to AWS as Microsoft Exclusivity Ends
OpenAI models will be accessible via Amazon Bedrock, allowing customers to build applications using existing AWS services and governance systems.
- OpenAI, Amazon Announce Multi-Year Strategic Partnership as Microsoft’s Exclusive Deal Ends
Hours after OpenAI and Microsoft revealed the amended non-exclusive partnership, the ChatGPT maker has started forging new partnerships. On Monday, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) giant announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Amazon and its cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The multi-faceted deal brings the latest OpenAI AI mode...
- OpenAI lands on AWS one day after Microsoft deal restructuring
Microsoft and OpenAI dissolve their exclusivity deal. One day later, AWS rolls out three new OpenAI offerings on its Bedrock platform, including a jointly built agent service. The article OpenAI lands on AWS one day after Microsoft deal restructuring appeared first on The Decoder .
- AWS Launches Managed Agents with OpenAI Partnership
The service eliminates the need for customers to choose underlying models when building agents.
- AWS and OpenAI confirm cloud partnership — a day after ChatGPT maker ended its Microsoft exclusivity
AWS is already a big investor in OpenAI – Amazon Bedrock now gets access to more models after Microsoft loses exclusivity.
- AWS to Resell OpenAI Products After Microsoft Loses Exclusive License
Amazon is bringing OpenAI's models and Codex to AWS after Microsoft’s shift away from exclusivity, giving cloud customers more ways to use AI tools. The post AWS to Resell OpenAI Products After Microsoft Loses Exclusive License appeared first on TechRepublic .
- Quantum computing is coming to a data center near you
Quantum computers can solve problems that that classical machines can't. Companies like Nvidia and Microsoft have already built its infrastructure
- MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab
MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab MIT News
- HSBC collaborates on noisy qubit real-world application
HSBC has collaborated with quantum middleware developer Haiqu and a team of academic researchers on an efficient way to run financial models on commercially available quantum computing hardware. The publication of joint research in Physical Review Research discussed an approach to encoding real-world probability distributions into quantum circuits. HSBC is among the financial institutes looking at how to secure financial transactions as quantum computing evolves into commercially viable products, such as protecting financial systems using post quantum cryptography. Quantum computers also offer banks such as HSBC a way to run more powerful financial market simulations. The research team – which included experts from HSBC, Haiku, Czech Technical University, University of Zurich, the Akhiezer Institute for Theoretical Physics and Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine, and Greece’s Athena Research Center – looked at Lévy distributions, which are used when modelling extreme variati
- How everyday devices could train AI faster while keeping personal data on-device
A new method developed by MIT researchers can accelerate a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence training method by about 81%. This advance could enable a wider array of resource-constrained edge devices, like sensors and smartwatches, to deploy more accurate AI models while keeping user data secure.
- Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices
Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices EurekAlert!
- Semiconductor Market to Surge Past the Trillion-Dollar Threshold: AI Infrastructure Drives Market Growth
The global semiconductor market is undergoing a seismic transformation. IDC’s latest forecast projects the industry will surge past the $1 trillion revenue threshold in 2026, significantly ahead of prior expectations. The growth will be driven overwhelmingly by AI infrastructure investment, which is reshaping the entire market. Total semiconductor revenues are forecast to reach $1.29 trillion […] The post Semiconductor Market to Surge Past the Trillion-Dollar Threshold: AI Infrastructure Drives Market Growth appeared first on IDC .
- AI chip boom drives Samsung to historic $38B quarterly profit
Samsung Electronics flag at the company’s Seocho office in southern Seoul [YONHAP] Samsung Electronics reported its strongest quarterly results in its corporate history for the January-March period, with operating profit hitting 57.2 trillion won ($38.4 billion), more than eightfold surge year-on-year that beat market expectations by a wide margin. That marks a 755 jump compared to the same period a year earlier driven by robust memory demand and escalating chip prices, far exceeding the market consensus of 40.2 trillion won compiled by market tracker FnGuide. The figure surpasses Samsung’s entire annual operating profit of 43.6 trillion won in 2025. Revenue for the quarter came in at 133.9 trillion won, up 69 percent year-on-year. It was also above the forecast of 119 trillion won. Nearly 94 percent of the company's profits were attributed to its semiconductor chip division, driven by robust sales of high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI data centers. BY LEE JAE-LIM [lee.jaelim@joong
- Samsung Electronics Posts Record Quarterly Profit On AI Boom
Samsung Electronics Posts Record Quarterly Profit On AI Boom Barron's
- SoftBank Plots IPO for New Robotics Venture
Roze AI plans to focus on AI and robotics, an area CEO Masayoshi Son sees as the “next frontier” for SoftBank.
- Google parent Alphabet's cloud unit beats quarterly revenue estimates on strong AI demand
Alphabet's cloud unit revenue surged 63% to $20 billion, exceeding estimates and driven by strong enterprise spending on AI infrastructure. The company's overall revenue also beat expectations, with its cloud backlog nearly doubling. This performance highlights Alphabet's significant gains in the competitive AI market, bolstered by its Gemini models and a key partnership with Apple.
- Alphabet’s cloud unit beats quarterly revenue estimates thanks to strong AI demand
Results underscore company’s position as key beneficiary of global surge in AI spending
- Alphabet sales beat estimates on Google Cloud, AI customers
Alphabet sales beat estimates on Google Cloud, AI customers The Mercury News
- Alphabet sales beat estimates on Google Cloud, AI customers
Alphabet sales beat estimates on Google Cloud, AI customers East Bay Times
- Meta Shares Plunge on Rising Concerns Over AI Spending Spree
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg reignited fears that the historic levels of investment he’s making to catch up in the artificial intelligence race won’t pay off, a prospect that sent shares sliding after the company raised its spending outlook for the year.
- Meta Shares Plunge as AI Investments Raise Spending Outlook
Meta Platforms Inc. shares slid after the company raised its spending outlook for the year, reigniting fears that the historic levels of investment it’s making to build artificial intelligence models won’t pay off. The social-media giant projected full-year capital expenditures between $125 billion and $145 billion, far exceeding analysts’ estimates and marking a roughly 7.4% increase from what the company had previously projected. The company is dealing with “higher component pricing” and additional data center costs, Chief Financial Officer Susan Li said in a statement. Bloomberg's Kurt Wagner joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)
- Meta shares drop as Zuckerberg plans $145bn AI spending spree
Meta shares drop as Zuckerberg plans $145bn AI spending spree The Telegraph
- Meta raises 2026 capex to $145 billion amid AI spending boost
Meta raises 2026 capex to $145 billion amid AI spending boost Nikkei Asia
- Meta beats revenue expectations, boosts capital spending forecast for 2026
Meta beats revenue expectations, boosts capital spending forecast for 2026 Toronto Star
- Meta raises capital expenditure forecast, doubling down on AI investment
Facebook-parent expects 2026 capital expenditure between $125-billion and $145-billion, compared with prior forecast of $115-billion to $135-billion
- Meta beats revenue expectations, boosts capital spending forecast for 2026
Meta Platforms Inc. reports strong first-quarter results, surpassing expectations with significant earnings growth, but the stock slipped in after-hours trading
- Meta beats revenue expectations, boosts capital spending forecast for 2026
Meta Platforms Inc. reports strong first-quarter results, surpassing expectations with significant earnings growth, but the stock slipped in after-hours trading.