Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal
Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal

Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits double across Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans from Tuesday, with peak-hours throttling removed for Pro and Max. The capacity behind the change is a new Anthropic agreement to take all of SpaceX’s Colo…

Fervo Energy launches $1.33bn IPO, the largest climate-tech listing of 2026
Fervo Energy launches $1.33bn IPO, the largest climate-tech listing of 2026

On Monday, Fervo Energy formally launched its IPO roadshow, offering 55,555,555 shares of Class A common stock at an indicated range of $21 to $24 each. At the high end of the range, the geothermal-energy developer would raise as much as $1.33bn and be…

Spotify launches a verified badge for artists, and AI-persona accounts won’t qualify
Spotify launches a verified badge for artists, and AI-persona accounts won’t qualify

The green checkmark, rolling out over the coming weeks, requires consistent listener engagement, platform policy compliance, and a real-world, identifiable presence. Content farms and AI-generated artist profiles are explicitly excluded at launch. Spot…

Uber expands to hotel bookings, AI voice assistant, and more, thanks to AI
Uber expands to hotel bookings, AI voice assistant, and more, thanks to AI

Uber announced the launch of a hotel-booking, AI voice assistant, among other new features, on Wednesday, April 29th, during its annual Go-Get event in New York City. The new service comes as a partnership with Expedia Group, expanding the capabilities…

GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet
GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet

The over-the-air update replaces Google Assistant across model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles, but arrives under the shadow of GM’s data-sharing controversy and a looming FTC consent order. General Motors has announced…

Spotify expands from soundtrack to sweat session: Peloton partnership puts 1,400 classes inside the app
Spotify expands from soundtrack to sweat session: Peloton partnership puts 1,400 classes inside the app

Available from today in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Austria, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, and Spain.Peloton bike workouts are not included, the classes cover strength, cardio, yoga, meditation, pilates, and outdoor runs, requiring no specialist equipmen…

DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’
DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’

The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls “marginally short” of GPT-5.4 and Ge…

OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5

The model, codenamed “Spud,” is designed to complete complex multi-step tasks with minimal human direction. It sets new benchmarks in agentic coding, computer use, and knowledge work, while matching GPT-5.4’s per-token latency. API access is delayed pe…

OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws
OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws

The new model reasons about composition, searches the web for context, generates up to eight coherent images from one prompt, and renders text in non-Latin scripts with near-flawless accuracy. It also took the number one spot on the Image Arena leaderb…

Samsung and IKEA just made the $6 smart home real, and your TV is already the hub
Samsung and IKEA just made the $6 smart home real, and your TV is already the hub

In short: Samsung SmartThings and IKEA announced that 25 new IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices can now connect directly to a SmartThings hub without requiring IKEA’s own DIRIGERA hub, with smart bulbs starting at $5.99 that undercut competitors by half. …