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15 May 2026

Infoblox and GoDaddy Back Open Standards for AI Agent Discovery and Verification

Infoblox and GoDaddy announced support for complementary open standards designed to help AI agents identify and verify one another across the internet. Infoblox is advancing DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID) while GoDaddy develops Agent Name Service (ANS), both built on existing DNS infrastructure to enable interoperability and prevent single-vendor control.

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Fiserv partners with OpenAI to deploy AI agents across banking workflows with agentOS

Fiserv has teamed up with OpenAI to bring frontier AI directly into banking platforms through a new operating system called agentOS. The collaboration aims to help financial institutions deploy and manage AI agents across their workflows while modernizing operations and strengthening cybersecurity without disrupting day-to-day activities.

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Freshworks launches AI Agent Studio in Freshservice with no-code deployment and MCP Gateway

Freshworks unveiled Freddy AI Agent Studio at its annual Refresh conference, introducing a no-code environment for building custom AI agents in Freshservice. The platform includes Model Context Protocol Gateway for third-party integrations and AI Insights with Experience Level Agreements to measure service performance against employee sentiment.

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Indian AI warfare firm to manufacture Kaal Bhairava drone in Europe under Operation 777

Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace announces its first international manufacturing facility in Portugal for the Kaal Bhairava autonomous combat aircraft. The Bengaluru-based AI warfare company partners with SKETCHPIXEL LDA to produce India's first AI combat aircraft in a NATO member state, marking a shift in India's defence technology exports under the ambitious Operation 777 initiative.

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14 May 2026

OpenAI Codex arrives on ChatGPT mobile app to let developers manage coding tasks remotely

OpenAI rolled out Codex access through the ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android, enabling developers to remotely control coding sessions running on their computers. The move comes as OpenAI intensifies competition with Anthropic's Claude Code, with over four million developers now using Codex weekly. Users can review outputs, approve commands, and manage workflows from their phones while files stay secure on their desktop machines.

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Graphon AI raises $8.3M to build pre-model intelligence layer solving enterprise data limits

Graphon AI emerged from stealth with $8.3 million in seed funding led by Novera Ventures to commercialize a mathematical framework that addresses how large language models struggle with enterprise-scale data. The startup's platform uses graphon functions to create persistent relational memory, allowing AI models to understand relationships across trillions of tokens without hitting context window limits.

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Netflix launches INKubator studio to produce animated shorts with generative AI

Netflix is building INKubator, a new internal studio dedicated to creating short-form animated content using generative AI. The streamer is hiring producers, software engineers, and CG artists for what job listings describe as a next-generation animation studio. While starting with shorts and specials, the studio has ambitions to expand into longer-form content, potentially feeding Netflix's TikTok-style Clips feature and kids' programming.

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Sony's AI Camera Assistant for Xperia 1 VIII draws backlash as promotional images look worse

Sony sparked widespread criticism after promotional materials for the Xperia 1 VIII showed its AI Camera Assistant making photos look dramatically worse than originals. The images, which exhibited overexposure, washed-out colors, and loss of detail, went viral with over 13 million views on X. Even Nothing CEO Carl Pei questioned whether Sony was engagement farming with the disastrous showcase.

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Security researchers use Anthropic Mythos to expose macOS vulnerabilities on Apple M5 chips

Security firm Calif used Anthropic Mythos to create a privilege escalation exploit for macOS, bypassing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement on M5 silicon in just five days. The discovery marks the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on M5 chips and highlights AI's growing role in cybersecurity research, though experts say fears of AI-enabled hacking may be overstated.

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AMD FSR 4.1 AI upscaling expands to older Radeon RX GPUs, bringing ML-powered visuals to 300+ games

AMD confirms FSR 4.1 AI upscaling will arrive on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs this July, followed by RX 6000 series in early 2027. The machine learning-powered technology, previously exclusive to RX 9000 cards, will support over 300 games and deliver sharper visuals without hardware upgrades. AMD optimized the model for INT8 processing on older architectures.

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HMRC awards £175M AI contract to British firm Quantexa to tackle £46.8B tax gap

The UK tax authority HMRC has signed a 10-year, £175 million deal with London-based AI firm Quantexa to modernize data infrastructure and deploy AI for fraud detection. The contract aims to help close the £46.8 billion tax gap and represents a strategic shift toward digital sovereignty, keeping sensitive government data with a British company rather than US tech giants.

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Apple's Siri overhaul and AI agents hit roadblocks as developers worry about future fees

Apple is pushing developers to integrate with the overhauled Siri coming in iOS 27, but major companies like Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are hesitant. The tech giant won't commit to avoiding future commission fees, creating uncertainty. Meanwhile, Apple struggles with how to safely host AI agents on the App Store without compromising its tightly controlled ecosystem.

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Dell launches 14S and 16S AI PCs with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and up to 26-hour battery life

Dell introduces the 14S and 16S laptops to replace its Plus line, featuring Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors and AMD Ryzen AI 400 Series options. The AI PCs deliver up to 50 TOPS NPU performance for on-device AI processing, with the 14S offering 24 hours of productivity battery life and the 16S providing 26 hours of streaming. Starting at $1,270 and $1,320 respectively, both Copilot+ PCs target mid-range productivity users seeking AI acceleration without cloud dependency.

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Anthropic splits Claude billing into separate pools as AI agents strain subscription model

Anthropic is overhauling how Claude subscriptions handle AI agents, introducing dedicated monthly credits for programmatic usage starting June 15. Pro subscribers get $20 in credits for tools like OpenClaw, while the change signals the end of unlimited AI agent usage. The shift comes as autonomous agents consume far more tokens than human users, forcing the industry to rethink flat-rate pricing.

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Figure AI's humanoid robots sort packages for 48 hours straight, then face off against human intern

Figure AI turned heads with a viral livestream showing humanoid robots autonomously sorting thousands of packages for days without human intervention. The demonstration culminated in a 10-hour Man vs. Machine challenge where intern Aimé Gérard narrowly defeated Bob the Bot by just 192 packages, highlighting both the impressive progress and remaining limitations of robotic autonomy in real-world factory work.

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