today's ai news covers legal disputes, big funding rounds, and new tools. openai may sue apple over a chatgpt deal that fell short. recursive superintelligence raised $650 million for self-improving ai. cerebras had a strong ipo, and ibm released compact multilingual embedding models. other stories include benchmark audits, hardware gadgets, and job cuts at cisco.
- openai considers legal action against apple over chatgpt deal - this shows the high stakes and tensions in big tech ai partnerships when subscriber and revenue goals are missed.
- ai that builds itself gets $650m - recursive superintelligence's funding signals investor belief in ai that can find and fix its own flaws without human help.
- cerebras raises $5.5b in ipo - the chipmaker's ipo at a $56.4 billion valuation marks a strong start for tech listings in 2026.
- granite multilingual r2: compact 97m model tops sub-100m retrieval - ibm's open-source embedding models cover over 200 languages and code, making multilingual ai more accessible.
- benchjack audits ai agent benchmarks for reward hacking flaws - automated detection of reward hacking in benchmarks reveals widespread vulnerabilities that could mislead ai progress.
- cisco cuts 4,000 jobs to fund ai and security - even with record revenue, cisco is shifting resources toward ai and cybersecurity, reflecting industry-wide reprioritization.
other notable updates include a tiny desktop gadget for tracking claude token usage, a study on aligning ai confidence with human self-confidence to speed up learning, and a $23 million raise for wirestock's pivot to ai data supply. legal tech also saw movement with clio hitting $500 million in annual recurring revenue.