AI News from April 22, 2026

AI research startup NeoCognition has raised a $40 million seed round to develop AI agents capable of becoming experts in any domain through human-like learning.

Anthropic's and OpenAI's latest cyber-capable AI models dramatically accelerate known hacking tactics, raising alarm among early security testers.

Anthropic is investigating reports that its restricted Mythos AI cybersecurity model was accessed by unauthorized users using basic internet tools.

Prestigious law firm Sullivan & Cromwell apologized after a court filing was found to contain AI-generated hallucinations, highlighting legal AI risks.

YouTube is rolling out its AI-powered likeness detection technology to celebrities and their representatives to identify and remove deepfake content.

OpenAI is partnering with major global consultancies to accelerate enterprise adoption of its Codex AI coding assistant across large organizations.

Google's new Deep Research and Deep Research Max AI agents can search both the public web and users' private data, expanding agentic AI capabilities.

President Trump told CNBC an Anthropic deal with the Department of Defense is 'possible,' reversing earlier moves to cut the AI firm from government contracts.

Jeff Bezos' stealth AI startup, Project Prometheus, is close to raising $10 billion in a new funding round at a $38 billion valuation, per the Financial Times.

SpaceX has an agreement to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, signaling Elon Musk's deepening push into artificial intelligence tools.

Meta is deploying tracking software on U.S. employee computers to collect mouse clicks, keystrokes, and screen activity to train its AI models.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 supports multilingual text, infographics, and web-informed image generation, marking a major leap in AI image capabilities.