AI News. April 30, 2026
OpenAI to roll out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a frontier cybersecurity model, to critical cyber defenders
OpenAI announces GPT-5.5 launch event on May 5 at 5:55 PM, with Codex picking attendees from replies
White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand access to Mythos, citing security concerns over a tool capable of carrying out cyberattacks, per WSJ
Anthropic weighing new funding round at $900B+ valuation, potentially overtaking OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI startup
Gemini now lets users generate PDFs, Word docs, Google Docs, Excel and Google Sheets directly from chat, available on web and mobile
Anthropic shipped a Claude Platform skill in Claude Code for model migrations, prompt caching, and Managed Agents onboarding
Microsoft Q3 FY26 revenue hit $82.9B, AI annual run rate crossed $37B, Azure grew 40% YoY, and Microsoft 365 Copilot paid seats topped 20M
Tencent open-sourced Hy-MT1.5, a 440MB 1.25-bit on-device translation model covering 33 languages that beats Google Translate on benchmarks
Meta launched stablecoin payouts for creators on Polygon, live in Colombia and the Philippines with 160+ markets to follow
Mistral released Mistral Medium 3.5, a 128B dense open-weights model with 256k context window, available on Le Chat at $1.5/M input and $7.5/M output
Baidu released ERNIE 5.1 Preview, ranked #13 globally and #1 among Chinese labs on LMArena’s Text Arena
Alibaba Qwen released FlashQLA, linear attention kernels on TileLang with 2-3x forward and 2x backward speedup
ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic, a discovery, remix, and creation platform with 4,000+ artists; over $11M already paid out via the voice library
OKX published the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), an open standard for agent commerce with launch partners including Ethereum Foundation, Solana, Uniswap, AWS, and Paxos
DeepSeek launched Vision in beta, enabling image upload and analysis in DeepSeek Chat
SenseTime open-sourced SenseNova-U1 Lite, a multimodal image generation model on the NEO-Unify architecture
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