April 2026

OpenAI and Microsoft have significantly reworked their longstanding partnership agreement. This ends Microsoft’s previous exclusivity over OpenAI’s intellectual property rights. The deal also eliminates the controversial AGI clause that once defined key obligations. These changes mark a shift from a tightly controlled alliance to a more flexible arrangement. OpenAI can now freely utilize rival cloud

Big Tech companies spend massive sums on federal lobbying, dropping $20 million in Q1 2026 alone—about $226,000 daily across 11 major players like Meta, Alphabet, and AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI. Meta led with $7.1 million, while AI outfits hit records amid regulatory fights. This surge builds on 2025’s $109 million peak, fueling armies of

OpenAI has struck back in the AI race, launching GPT-5.5 ‘Spud’—a powerhouse model topping benchmarks in reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and computer use. It outpaces rivals like Anthropic’s Claude, matching even elite scores while keeping the speed of GPT-5.4 and slashing costs to $5/$30 per million tokens. Self-optimizing its own GPU code, ‘Spud’ signals a