A Tokyo based firm, Integral AI claims to have built what it calls the first AGI

According to the article, the model exhibits reasoning capabilities that go beyond typical narrow AI, potentially enabling broader general problem solving, understanding and adaptation.

Apple’s biggest leadership reset since Steve Jobs!

Apple is undergoing a rare top-tier shake-up: more than half a dozen senior executives are exiting, from COO Jeff Williams to CFO Luca Maestri, AI chief John Giannandrea, policy head Lisa Jackson, and legal chief Kate Adams.

Google reportedly told advertisers it plans to introduce ads into its Gemini AI chatbot starting in 2026.

This moves Gemini closer to becoming a monetizable front end for Google’s entire AI ecosystem.

Google says 'AI Glasses' powered by Gemini are coming in 2026.

Over the last 72 hours:

1. Apple's AI Chief steps down
2. Apple's Head of UI Design leaves to Meta
3. Apple's Policy Chief steps down
4. Apple's Head of General Counsel steps down

What is happening at Apple?

Sam Altman explored acquiring or partnering with Stoke Space - a rocket company as part of plans to compete with SpaceX.
The idea was to invest billions for a controlling stake but negotiations have reportedly been dropped. Apparently OpenAI also plans to create a data center in space.

US court forces OpenAI to hand over 20M anonymised ChatGPT logs

A federal magistrate has ordered OpenAI to produce 20 million anonymised ChatGPT user logs to the New York Times and other publishers as part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit.

Grok literally reads everything that's posted to the platform. There's about 100 million posts per day. So it's 100 million pieces of content per day. Grok is going to read through 100 million things and promote the best ones to users

— Elon Musk

IBM CEO says that at today’s costs it takes about $80B to build & fill a 1 GW AI data center, so the ~100 GW of announced capacity implies roughly $8T of capex & “no way you’re going to get a return on that,” since you’d need “about $800B of profit just to pay for the interest”

Andrew Ng, a global expert in artificial intelligence, explains that one of the most important future skills will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what we want and understand programming.

He adds that society will need software creators and that AI makes programming far more accessible.

Geoffrey Hinton says if you want AI to truly understand the world, give it a robot arm and a camera

Let it pick things up, drop them, run experiments. That's how children learn. But what's amazing: LLMs already grasp spatial concepts from text alone, which puzzles philosophers

Amazon launches new AI chip and it's taking on Nvidia and Google.

Amazon has released its newest in-house AI chips, Trainium 3, now available inside large “UltraServers” with up to 144 chips per system. The company says the setup delivers 4× more compute and similar gains in energy efficiency.

OpenAI declares “code red” pausing ads to upgrade ChatGPT against Google

Sam has reordered priorities, shelving ads and delaying new product lines to focus entirely on upgrading ChatGPT’s core quality,speed,and reasoning, a defensive move mirroring Google’s “code red” after ChatGPT launched in 2022

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt-backed FutureHouse launched four 'superhuman' AI agents for scientific discovery

— Crow for general research
— Falcon for deep literature reviews
— Owl for identifying previous research
— Phoenix for chemistry workflows

Skillvue wants to help you find your next top performer — already hiding in your org chart

AI-powered platform Skillvue just raised $6.3M to help companies move beyond resumes and job titles — and start hiring, promoting, and managing based on actual skills. The future of HR is skills-first.

OpenAI's ChatGPT just surpassed Elon Musk's X in terms of website visits in April

SimilarWeb data shows ChatGPT had 4.786B visits over the last 28 days of April, while X had 4.028B visits

Mach Industries: A bold new force in defense tech at just 21

Founded by MIT dropout Ethan Thornton, Mach Industries is quickly becoming one of the most talked-about players in next-gen military tech. Now it’s reportedly raising $100 million more to push its vision even further.