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OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 on April 23 as what it calls “a new class of intelligence for real work and powering agents,” and the framing is deliberate. OpenAI says it’s the most capable agentic AI model to date, built from the ground up to plan, use tools, check its own output, and work through tasks independently.GPT-5.5 is the first retrained base model since GPT-4.5, co-designed with NVIDIA’s GB200 and GB300 NVL72 rack-scale systems. The company says the practical difference is that when using GPT5.5, tasks that previously required multiple prompts and human ‘course-correction’ can now be handed off more completely. The…

Senator ​Tim Kaine says if anyone did to the US ‘what we are doing to Cuba’, it would be considered ‘an act of war’.Published On 29 Apr 202629 Apr 2026The United States Senate has blocked a resolution that would have prevented President Donald Trump from ordering ⁠military action against Cuba without congressional approval.The Republican-led Senate voted 51 to 47 on Tuesday, almost entirely along party lines, on a procedural measure that blocked a Democratic-led war powers resolution, ⁠as members of Trump’s party argued that there are no active US hostilities against Cuba and curbing the president’s powers was not necessary.Recommended…

To regulate software delivery costs and SDLC governance, IBM is launching Bob, an AI platform built to anchor enterprise engineering.Accumulated technical debt, hybrid cloud structures, and rigid compliance requirements clash with the raw speed of coding assistants. Without boundaries, they generate unmanaged liabilities rather than functional progress.Dinesh Nirmal, SVP at IBM Software, explained: “Every business is racing to modernize. But speed without control and transparency is a liability. IBM Bob is how enterprises can move at AI speed without sacrificing the governance and security needs their businesses require.”Bob is an AI-first development partner engineered to embed directly within the full…

As the Strait of Hormuz stays largely shut and Washington sends mixed signals, talks run through Islamabad and Moscow.The Strait of Hormuz remains in effect closed with a US naval blockade still in place. About 3,000 Iran-bound containers are stranded in Pakistan as costs rise and Washington’s signals shift. Iran is pushing diplomacy from Moscow to Islamabad. Can talks to end the US-Israel war still move forward?In this episode: Episode credits:This episode was produced by David Enders and Chloe K Li with Catherine Nouhan, Tuleen Barakat, Sari el-Khalili and our guest host Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Tamara Khandaker and…

When a company with US$15.5 million in annual revenue debuts on a stock exchange and its market capitalisation briefly hits US$10 billion, the obvious question is: what do investors know that the financials don’t show yet?In Lightelligence’s case, the answer is optical interconnect and the growing conviction that conventional copper wiring between AI chips is about to become a serious constraint.Lightelligence, the first mainland Chinese photonics chipmaker to go public in Hong Kong, saw its share price surge by nearly 400% in its trading debut on Tuesday. The Shanghai-based company opened at HK$880, against an offer price of HK$183.2–the top of its marketed…

Brent crude rises more than 1 percent despite Tehran’s offer to reopen waterway in exchange for deferral of nuclear talks.Published On 28 Apr 202628 Apr 2026Oil prices are continuing to climb despite Iran’s proposal to end its effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for deferring nuclear negotiations with the United States.Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose more than 1 percent on Tuesday as Tehran’s offer failed to assuage traders’ concerns about the blockade of the waterway critical for global fuel supplies.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBrent stood at $109.42 per barrel as of 03:30 GMT, up 11…

The reinstated map, backed by President Donald Trump, could flip key districts to Republicans.Published On 27 Apr 202627 Apr 2026The US Supreme Court has formally reinstated a redrawn Texas electoral map expected to boost Republican representation in the US House of Representatives, as President Donald Trump’s party seeks to maintain control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.The ruling, issued on Monday, split along ideological lines, with the court’s six conservative justices in the majority and the three liberal justices dissenting.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe map – sought by Trump, approved by the Republican-led state legislature in…

Mass kidnappings are a common way for gangs and armed groups to make quick money in Nigeria.By AFP and The Associated PressPublished On 27 Apr 202627 Apr 2026Gunmen have raided an orphanage and kidnapped at least 23 children, authorities in Nigeria report.The gang took the children late on Sunday from an unregistered facility called the Dahallukitab Group of Schools, located in an “isolated area” in Kogi State’s capital, Lokoja, Kogi Information Commissioner Kingsley Fanwo said in a statement on Monday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listMass kidnappings have become a common way for gangs and armed groups to make…

Public web pages are actively hijacking enterprise AI agents via indirect prompt injections, Google researchers warn.Security teams scanning the Common Crawl repository (a massive database of billions of public web pages) have uncovered a growing trend of digital booby traps. Website administrators and malicious actors are embedding hidden instructions within standard HTML. These invisible commands lie dormant until an AI assistant scrapes the page for information, at which point the system ingests the text and executes the hidden instructions.Understanding indirect prompt injectionsA standard user interacting with a chatbot might try to manipulate it directly by typing “ignore previous instructions.” Security…

Sydney, Australia – Until recently, Rosco Jewell sold about one used electric vehicle every two months on his online marketplace, Amazing EV.But in the weeks since the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran, Jewell has been shifting a second-hand EV roughly every two weeks.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“It is now getting very hard to find used EVs to buy in the $20,000 to $50,000 range. And we’ve also seen prices increase by 10 to 15 percent – in some cases, 20 percent as well,” the Sydney-based businessman told Al Jazeera.As conflict in the Middle…