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Saturday, May 2, 2026

OpenAI Says GPT-5.5 Is Its Fastest-Growing Launch Ever as Codex Revenue Doubles in a Week

One week after launch, GPT-5.5 is generating API revenue at more than double the pace of any prior OpenAI release, while Codex — its agentic coding product — doubled its own revenue in under seven days. The numbers signal that enterprise demand for AI-native developer tools may be entering a new phase.

xAI Ships Voice Cloning API and Grok Imagine Agent Mode in a Single Day

xAI launched voice cloning via API — 80+ voices across 28 languages, custom clones in under two minutes — while simultaneously pushing its Grok Imagine agent mode into beta. The twin releases mark xAI's most aggressive push yet into multimodal infrastructure.

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Microsoft's Agent 365 Goes Generally Available as Agentic Tooling Hits an Inflection Point

Satya Nadella announced general availability of Agent 365, Microsoft's enterprise agent framework, the same week an open-source Obsidian agent integration crossed 27,000 GitHub stars. The enterprise and open-source agent ecosystems are converging fast.

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OpenAI Says GPT-5.5 Is Its Fastest-Growing Launch Ever as Codex Revenue Doubles in a Week

xAI Ships Voice Cloning API and Grok Imagine Agent Mode in a Single Day

Microsoft's Agent 365 Goes Generally Available as Agentic Tooling Hits an Inflection Point

A Chinese Court Rules It Illegal to Replace Workers with AI Purely to Cut Costs

Marines Outsmart DARPA AI With Somersaults, a Cardboard Box, and a Tree Costume

The Academy Bans AI From Ever Winning an Oscar

'AI Slop' Backlash Goes Viral as Creators Push Back on Generated Content

Pentagon Declares 'AI-First' Military Posture, Awards Eight New Contracts

Nebius Acquires Eigen AI for $643M as AI Infrastructure M&A Heats Up

Jensen Huang Says AI Will Create More Millionaires in Five Years Than the Internet Did in Twenty

AI Startup Listed for Sale at $259K on Five-Figure Revenue