🖼️ OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with reasoning built in

🤝 SpaceX strikes $60B deal to acquire AI coding tool Cursor

🕵️ Meta is watching its employees train its AI

🏗️ Google is spending $750M to make startups build on its cloud

⚖️ Amazon told rivals to charge more so it could look cheapest

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OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0, a new image generation model that thinks before it renders, including planning, web searching, and self-checking outputs before delivery.

The model tops Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard by a wide margin, supports 2K resolution, up to 8 images per generation, and renders multilingual text accurately across aspect ratios.

Sam Altman compared the jump to going from GPT-3 to GPT-5 at once, and if the leaderboard gap holds, competitors have a serious benchmark to chase.

SpaceX announced a partnership with Cursor that gives it the option to acquire the AI coding platform for $60 billion later this year, or pay a $10 billion fee for the collaboration instead.

SpaceX plans to pair Cursor's distribution among expert engineers with its Colossus supercomputer, in a move that puts xAI more directly in competition with Anthropic and OpenAI's Codex.

Cursor was reportedly raising $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation just days before this announcement, making that $60 billion price tag either a premium or a very well-timed negotiation.

Meta launched its Model Capability Initiative, recording screenshots, keystrokes, and mouse activity on U.S. employees' work laptops with no opt-out option to generate real-world AI training data.

The program targets developer workflows in apps like VSCode and Gmail, and CTO Andrew Bosworth confirmed there is no way to opt out, per an internal memo published by Business Insider.

The timing sharpens the edge: roughly 8,000 employees set to leave on May 20 are being logged for a full month before their exit date.

Google announced a $750 million budget at Cloud Next to help cloud partners, from startups to consulting firms, sell more AI agents to enterprises, covering costs like Gemini pilots, cloud credits, and deployment rebates.

Standout names expanding on Google Cloud include Lovable, on a $400 million ARR track, Notion at an $11 billion valuation, and Gamma, the AI presentation tool valued at $2.1 billion, all tapping Gemini or Google's image models.

Google named over 20 startup partners in total, a roster broad enough to read less like a highlight reel and more like a cloud migration sales pitch.

California released unredacted lawsuit filings showing Amazon allegedly contacted brands directly, asking them to raise prices on competitor sites or remove listings entirely, using its market leverage as the threat.

The filings include specific exchanges with Arlo, Levi's, and Hanes, where Amazon flagged lower prices on Walmart and Target and pushed brands to correct them by end of day. In one case, a $549 Arlo camera jumped to $649 on Walmart after Amazon's nudge.

Amazon's defense is that it's America's lowest-priced retailer, which lands differently when the accusation is that it achieves that by forcing competitors to charge more.

A) Yes, "free forever" was the whole point - 80% 🏆

B) No, it's optional and the app stays free - 20%