SOTA perf from GPT-5.5 for long-running tasks:
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Enterprise AI Strategy: Google Cloud and IBM Infrastructure Partnership
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Is your enterprise AI strategy sitting on a broken foundation? At #GoogleCloudNext, I spoke with Alan Bivens, VP of Strategic Partnership at @IBM about their partnership with @GoogleCloudTech
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Top 5 AI News: GPT-5.5 and ChatGPT Images 2.0 Released
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These are the top 5 AI news stories from the past week that you should actually care about: – @OpenAI dropped GPT-5.5 that’s supposed to need less prompting for better answers
– OpenAI also released ChatGPT Images 2.0 with people saying it beats Nano Banana
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Tech Companies Replace Non-AI Staff With AI Experts
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TL;DR: Tech companies aren't shrinking, just replacing staff who don't know AI with staff who do.
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Alphabet invests $40B in Anthropic AI development
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Intelligence is too important not to win. That's why Alphabet (Google's parent co) will invest an additional $40 billion in @AnthropicAI
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AI Agent Markets: Promises and Regulatory Challenges Ahead
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Markets of AI agents could provide value, but there are plenty of rough edges. Access to higher-quality models conferred a real advantage—and participants didn't notice. There are plenty of other ways they can go wrong. Policy and legal frameworks will need to adapt to keep up.
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Claude agents negotiate in parallel market experiments
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Claude interviewed 69 of our colleagues about what they wanted to buy and sell. Each Claude asked for any custom instructions, then went off to haggle. We ran 4 markets in parallel, to find out what would happen if we varied the models doing the negotiating.
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AI Agents in Markets: Economic Exchange Simulation Study
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We’re interested in how AI models could affect commercial exchange. (You might recall Project Vend, in which Claude ran a small business.)
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) 24 avril 2026
Economists have theorized about what markets with AI “agents” on both sides might look like. So we created one.https://t.co/7jU3hFO63RWe’re interested in how AI models could affect commercial exchange. (You might recall Project Vend, in which Claude ran a small business.) Economists have theorized about what markets with AI “agents” on both sides might look like. So we created one.