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OpenAI has acquired Odessia, an AI travel agent founded by Sonder co-founder Francis Davidson, and shut down the service on the same day. Davidson announced the deal in a post on X on Tuesday, saying he would join OpenAI “to focus on the future of travel”.
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Apple chip supplier TSMC has announced board approval to invest up to $1 billion in AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic. The decision allows TSMC to buy up to $500 million of shares in each company.
The Tamil Nadu government has ordered an internal audit of library collections across the state.
ByteDance plans to release an AI assistant similar to Meta’s Muse in the coming weeks, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with a recent all-hands meeting of the company’s AI team. At that meeting, co-founder Zhang Yiming laid out a sober timeline.
Newly open sourced XSE handles six million queries a second across services including Search, Ads, and YouTube Shorts
Adobe is adding even more editing tools into Firefly for an easier, lower-skilled editing experience without the headaches of a generic AI chatbot.
QCon AI New York has published its full program for December 15–16, 2026. Engineers from LinkedIn, Netflix, DoorDash, Figma, Pinterest, Honeycomb, Harvey, Google DeepMind and OpenAI describe AI systems they run in production.
Revolut Pay is now available as a payment option on Uber, bringing the fintech’s checkout service into one of the world’s most widely used consumer apps. The integration also links rides and deliveries paid through Revolut Pay to the company’s rewards scheme.
Anthropic has set the terms for the most closely watched listing of the AI era. The Claude maker and some existing shareholders will sell 825 million shares at $70 to $78 each, raising up to $64.4B, with trading due to start on the Nasdaq on November 19 under the ticker ANT.
Some neurons in large language models are rarely activated. Microsoft researchers have found a way to turn fewer than 10 of these dormant neurons into a hidden backdoor, making an otherwise normal AI model behave as expected until it encounters a specific trigger.
With what he counts as more than 250 client engagements across agency and embedded in-house roles, Vitalii Khomenko has seen product teams from the inside.
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