AI News This Week (May 2, 2026): GPT‑5.5 Lands, Claude Opus 4.7 Climbs, xAI Debuts Canvas, and the Pentagon Doubles Down
The pace picked up again. In the six weeks since the last wave of frontier releases, we’ve seen a flurry of model updates, new tooling for persistent multimodal workflows, fresh voice cloning capabilities, and—crucially—signals that AI is now treated as core infrastructure by the U.S. government and Big Tech alike. AI news this week isn’t…