AI News. April 24, 2026
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, available today in ChatGPT and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users, alongside GPT-5.5 Pro
Alibaba’s Qwen AI app can now book China Eastern Airlines flights via natural language, its first agentic integration with a major commercial partner
Meta to lay off 8,000 employees, about 10% of workforce, on May 20 as it pushes efficiency and ramps up AI investment
NVIDIA and OpenAI partnership using GB200 NVL72 delivers 35x reduction in token costs; GPT-5.5 trained and served on the same systems
Anthropic launched Memory for Claude Managed Agents in public beta, with memories stored as files that devs can export and manage via API
Trust Wallet launched API Gateway MCP, giving AI agents one endpoint for token research, market data, risk signals, and swap routing across 100+ chains
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, free for verified US physicians, NPs, PAs, and pharmacists
Anthropic released Claude Code v2.1.116+ fixing three quality issues from the past month and reset usage limits for all subscribers
Succinct launched ZCAM, an iPhone camera app that cryptographically signs photos and videos at capture using Apple’s Secure Enclave and C2PA manifests
Microsoft’s venture arm M12 backed the public rollout of Dreamspace, an AI app builder for Coinbase’s Base, with data layer secured by Microsoft-backed Space and Time
Anthropic accused of installing a native messaging bridge into multiple browsers during Claude Desktop installation without clear user disclosure
Manus opened applications for its Summer 2026 Fellow Program
OpenAI and Microsoft expanded partnership, with OpenAI giving Microsoft access to its most cyber-capable models via its Trusted Access for Cyber program
Minara launched closed beta of Strategy Studio, a natural-language quant trading platform for backtesting and deploying strategies
NanoClaw v2 launched in partnership with Vercel, adding agent-to-agent communication, human-in-the-loop approvals, and support for 15 messaging platforms
Tencent unveiled a major upgrade to its foundational AI model
Canva launched Canva AI 2.0 with direct connectors to Zoom, Slack and email, background scheduling, and editable layered design outputs
DeepSeek released and open-sourced DeepSeek-V4, with V4-Pro at 1.6T total/49B active params and V4-Flash at 284B total/13B active params, now default 1M context across all services
xAI launched Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, topping the Tau Voice Bench
