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For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% for users who "contribute" to the development of future models by sharing their prompts and model outputs.

Ugreen has three new hubs that run your smart home with local AI rather than the cloud. The top model runs on Nvidia's Jetson Thor platform and costs $20,000.

WeatherNext 3 is also supposed to be much better at predicting precipitation.

Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.

Amazon is trying to combat impersonation scams with a new feature that allows you to use its AI assistant to determine whether an email, text message, or phone call actually came from the company. With the update, you can ask Alexa for Shopping about a message you received, and i

Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.

Security companies are scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but also the tools and add-ons they use.

The latest release from Meta Superintelligence Lab is a powerful transcription model.

Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and u

AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behavior.

OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.

Blue Voice is trained on department-specific laws, local ordinances, protocols, and guidelines that general-purpose AI tools can't access on the public internet.

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.

From scanning Gmail to catching ugly loan terms, ChatGPT Work has become my practical small-business assistant. Here's how agentic AI delivers real productivity gains for me.

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thi

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.

The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process.

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.

Runable says 60% to 70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.

Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

The Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra will feature up to a whopping 512GB of unified memory, and drive up to eight external displays.

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.

Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI—this refresh keeps that in mind.

Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.

Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.

Only 15% of US-based organizations have reached scaled, orchestrated, multi-agent adoption, according to the latest Deloitte research.

Curious about ChatGPT Work? Here's how the agentic AI handles research, files, and multistep projects, plus its risks and limits.

Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.

The class action suit claims that Amazon never obtained consent from Twitch streamers to be used to train its AI models.

In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior.

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.

AI-enabled identity theft is getting too sophisticated to have predictable tells anymore, so experts recommend answering with a seemingly old-fashioned approach.

A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.

ChatGPT can now analyze text messages on your Mac to reveal how you interact with others.

Increasingly, AI agents are handling the nitty-gritty admin and due diligence tasks, but agent-powered marketplaces won't replace live human sales reps or engineers anytime soon.

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.

Binance's Agent OS works with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

Three-quarters of organizations have found AI layoffs cost more than they saved, and as many as nine in 10 companies would rethink them given the chance.

Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t&#160

TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.

Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot, which can provide suggestions, answer questions, or create content based on what's on your screen. Meta AI on the Mac also suppor

Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.

Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.

Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.

On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

The latest kernel also brings filesystem and I/O improvements and substantial new support across AMD, Intel, Apple, Nvidia, USB4, and laptop hardware.

In Google Workspace, Gemini has access to Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Chat, and more by default. Here's why it matters, and how administrators can disable it today.

Industries are finding the strategies that work best for their business needs, according to Salesforce's latest Agentic Enterprise Index.

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hac

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can r

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."

Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there's a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

Need a custom Linux distribution, but don't have time to learn how to build one? OpenFactory can help you.

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

Google's Gemini-driven meeting software can now save a transcript, send it to Google Drive, and email you a copy.

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements."

IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.

Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."

Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.

The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.

But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.

OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.

River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.

Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.

I used Claude Cowork to automate a workflow, and the result was remarkably effective, but it exposed four drawbacks.

Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.

Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.

TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.

Hackers employing AI in their tactics are finding ways to exploit vulnerabilities that didn't even exist before.

Kimi K3 also found loopholes in its sandbox environment that allowed it to access the internet.

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

In a practical breakdown of how Claude and ChatGPT AI models differ, one tends to fall short when it comes to quality responses and overall user experience.

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focus

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign o

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthro

Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.

Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.

Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday. Hassabis will continue to l

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. During T

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.

June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children, and despite advances are still worse at using their hands th

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make mone

Eighty-six percent of commerce leaders believe AI is raising the bar for customer expectations.

The same AI tools triggering suspicious alerts are being attacked by cybercriminals in droves.

$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.

The European Union has ushered in some additional rules that aim to make it easier for people to identify chatbots and AI deepfakes online. The new transparency obligations under the bloc's landmark AI Act came into effect on August 2nd, requiring companies to disclose when peopl

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in&#160

A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

Illustrators have spent years sounding the alarm about generative artificial intelligence startups training their models on artists' work without permission. They've pointed out how the practice is tantamount to theft, and in response, many gen AI boosters have argued that it's n

Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started making the rounds recently, pouring more fuel on an already raging fire of bad PR f

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."

Plus, a new policy for the AI protocol ensures features aren't removed suddenly.

It's not your imagination. Windows installation files have been creeping up in size. It might even be fair to call them bloated. And you'll never guess where the problem comes from.

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.

Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.

LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.

Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.

Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "Rubberz," which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were raised about the song's origin

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.

Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.

“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.

Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.

Several record labels, including the big three - Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group - have proposed rules regarding chart eligibility for AI songs. In short, they wouldn't be. The proposal goes quite a bit further than a labeling proposal put forth by the R

A text prompt was all it took to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery with a now-rolled back AI feature, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess that show "refugees near the Mexican border" and a bomb crater

No other gadget knows as much about your home as a robot vacuum. They map your space, learn your routines, and many now carry a camera and microphone into every room in your house. As AI gives them a better understanding of what they see, the privacy and security risks these auto

Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for example, intentional

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in&#160

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face

OpenAI has integrated its Codex code‑generation capabilities into a revamped ChatGPT desktop application, offering separate Chat, Work, and Codex modes to streamline software development and productivity workflows in a single client.

ByteDance has launched paid subscriptions for its AI chatbot Doubao. The move is aimed at monetizing the chatbot’s large user base.

Anthropic said the federal government lifted restrictions on its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, ending a weekslong dispute. The announcement affects the company’s access to the models in the U.S. policy environment.

AI startup Prime Intellect closed a $130 million Series A round led by Radical Ventures at a $1 billion valuation, funding its platform that lets enterprises design and deploy customized AI agents for internal workflows and customer-facing tasks.

Mistral AI has launched OCR 4, a document‑intelligence model that provides multilingual optical character recognition with bounding boxes, block classification, and confidence scores in a single self‑hosted container.

Intel introduced new Xeon 6 E-core server CPUs optimized for high-density, cloud-native AI inference, targeting enterprises that run large fleets of lightweight AI services in their data centers.

Meta launched Muse, its image generation model, and integrated it into Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp. AIBase reported that Muse supports tasks such as photo restoration, style transformations, room restyling, product photography, and surreal scene edits.

OpenAI released GPT‑Live, a voice AI system that can listen, reason, and speak simultaneously using a full‑duplex architecture, enabling natural back‑and‑forth conversations more like human speech. The assistant supports real‑time translation, web search during conversations, and

Google DeepMind has introduced three new Gemini Flash models, led by Gemini 3.6 Flash, which improves coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance while cutting output token usage by about 17% compared to Gemini 3.5 Flash for production‑scale AI agents.

Thinking Machines, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight AI model that positions the company in the top tier of frontier model developers and reportedly coincided with a $2 billion seed round. The model is framed as part o

Anthropic has partnered with private equity giants Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman to launch Ode, a company that embeds Anthropic’s Claude engineers inside client organizations to build customized Claude-powered systems for enterprise workflows.[1]

Pfizer announced that its AI-driven drug discovery platform has successfully identified a novel cancer treatment candidate that is now entering Phase II clinical trials, highlighting the growing use of AI in pharmaceutical R&D and oncology drug development.[2]

GitHub Copilot integrated Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K2.7 Code model into its model picker, making Kimi K2.7 the first open-weight model available inside the widely used AI coding assistant. Enterprise administrators can enable Kimi K2.7 Code so developers can select it along

NHS England published results from its AI diagnostic pilot showing that AI-assisted radiology review reduced missed diagnoses by 23% in a six-hospital cohort study, highlighting the impact of medical imaging AI tools in clinical workflows.

OpenAI publicly released its GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models across ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and Codex on July 9, 2026, following a 13-day government-coordinated preview period.

Anthropic announced a $1.5 billion funding round led by Microsoft and Google Ventures to accelerate development of safe, interpretable AI models and expand its AI research teams by 50%. The capital will be used to deepen foundation model research and grow enterprise deployments o

Build Fast with AI reports that OpenAI launched its GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models on July 9, 2026, making them publicly available across ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and Codex for developers and paid users.

UNESCO, the International Telecommunication Union and UN partners convened the Global Dialogue on AI Governance at the Palexpo centre in Geneva on 6–7 July, coinciding with the WSIS Forum 2026 and the AI for Good Summit. The event brought governments, industry and civil society t

Synopsys announced its participation in MACHINA and RAISE Summit 2026 in Paris, highlighting work on physical and agentic AI, digital twins, simulation, and synthetic data for continuous AI deployment.[8] The company is using the events to present research and tools that connect

Meta launched Muse Image, its first major in-house image model from Superintelligence Labs, and the model reached No. 2 on major image-generation and editing leaderboards. The same report says Meta also teased Muse Video, which was already ranking near the top.

Meta confirmed a new "Meta Compute" initiative to lease its idle data-center capacity, including AI infrastructure, to outside customers, putting the company into more direct competition with Amazon Web Services and independent "neocloud" providers. The strategy is intended to mo

The Biden administration has issued updated guidance for U.S. federal agencies on procuring and using generative AI, emphasizing privacy safeguards, human oversight, and prohibitions on fully automated decisions in sensitive contexts. The memo also requires agencies to inventory

The UK government has expanded the remit of its AI Safety Institute to cover systemic risks from advanced models and announced new partnerships with major AI labs to share model evaluations and safety data. Officials say the move is intended to strengthen pre‑deployment testing a

Toyota Motor Corporation has begun using Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to simulate and optimize assembly‑line layouts at its Motomachi factory in Japan, cutting configuration time and improving energy efficiency. Engineers feed plant data into generative AI models to generate an

India’s Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has announced a national AI skilling program in partnership with Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to provide foundational and advanced AI training to 10 million workers over three years. The initiative targets

Nvidia and Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) have expanded their partnership to build so‑called ‘AI factories’ that use Nvidia Blackwell‑based GPU servers to power industrial automation, smart manufacturing, and software‑defined vehicle platforms for global automakers. The col

Siemens AG has begun rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot and its own Siemens Industrial Copilot to more than 300,000 employees worldwide, aiming to automate documentation, code generation for industrial control systems, and factory maintenance tasks. The initiative is part of Sieme

Meta has released Llama‑Guard 3, an open‑source multilingual safety classifier that can be used to detect and filter toxic, violent, or otherwise unsafe content generated by large language models. The company says the model is intended to support open‑source AI ecosystems by prov

The Council of the European Union has formally adopted the EU AI Act, completing the legislative process and setting phased compliance deadlines starting in 2026 for providers and deployers of AI systems in the EU. The law introduces strict rules for high‑risk AI, bans certain pr

The Linux Foundation has launched the Open Safety Benchmarking Initiative, a collaborative project to create shared, open benchmarks and evaluation suites for measuring safety properties of open‑source AI models. Initial participants include major cloud providers, academic labs,

OpenAI released an updated public policy agenda outlining its positions on AI safety evaluations, youth protection, labor market impacts, and international standards for frontier models, calling for stronger global coordination on AI governance.

The Biden administration announced the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium, bringing together more than 200 organizations including OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon, and Intel to develop guidelines for red‑teaming, capability evaluations, risk management,

Google DeepMind has launched Deep Research Max, an autonomous research agent designed to perform complex literature reviews, data analysis, and report drafting across scientific and business domains. The tool targets enterprise and research customers who need AI systems that can

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.6, an open‑source coding model optimized for long‑horizon software projects, complex web front‑ends, and large agent swarms. Kimi K2.6 can coordinate hundreds of parallel sub‑agents for tasks like building WebGL shaders and mult

Alibaba Cloud has introduced two new large language models, Qwen 3.6 Max Preview and Qwen 3.6 Claim, with improved agentic coding, stronger world knowledge, and enhanced reasoning across text and multimodal tasks. Qwen 3.6 Claim is released as a fully open-source model aimed at d

OpenAI and Microsoft have expanded their long‑term partnership with a new multibillion‑dollar Azure compute commitment, deepening integration of OpenAI models into Microsoft products and cloud services. The agreement reinforces Azure as OpenAI’s primary cloud provider while givin

The Indian government has launched a national program to train hundreds of thousands of public-sector employees on generative AI tools, automation platforms, and data literacy. Officials say the initiative is designed to improve service delivery while mitigating displacement risk

Accenture released a new report outlining how large clients in insurance, consumer goods, and public sector are using generative AI for claim processing, marketing content, and citizen services. The documented programs include quantified productivity gains and lessons on governan

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and Equality and Human Rights Commission have jointly opened a review into how banks and insurers deploy AI in recruitment, promotion, and performance evaluation. Regulators aim to assess risks of algorithmic bias and potential discriminatory

A new briefing from members of the European Parliament highlights concerns that widespread AI deployment is enabling covert workforce reductions, especially in customer service and back-office roles. Lawmakers are calling for stronger transparency rules and worker consultation wh

Google has unveiled Gemini for Science, a suite of AI tools aimed at helping researchers with literature review, code generation for simulations, and automated data analysis. Early pilots in universities and pharma R&D labs suggest productivity gains in experimental planning and

Anthropic has open‑sourced a suite of interpretability and mechanistic analysis tools designed for large transformer language models similar to Claude. The release includes code, example notebooks, and documentation aimed at helping researchers study internal representations and

Anthropic has released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, an updated version of its mid‑tier model that shows higher scores on reasoning, coding, and multilingual benchmarks compared with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, while incorporating refined safety guardrails.

Malaysia has approved and launched Ryt Bank, billed as the country’s first AI-driven digital bank, using AI for credit scoring, fraud detection, and personalized financial products. Regulators say the move is part of a broader strategy to expand financial inclusion through automa

Klarna has integrated with Google’s new Unified Commerce Platform (UCP) to support payments made by AI agents, allowing autonomous shopping and subscription bots to initiate and complete transactions. The collaboration targets retailers and marketplaces preparing for agent-driven

Thailand has been selected as one of the first countries in Asia where OpenAI’s Sora video-generation app is officially launching, reflecting the country’s fast-growing creator economy and digital policy push. The rollout is expected to spur AI use in local media, advertising, an

Microsoft’s AI leader Mustafa Suleyman predicts that routine computer-based tasks in fields such as accounting, legal, and marketing will soon be fully automated, attributing the trend to rapid AI advances.

OpenAI has officially launched ChatGPT for Microsoft Excel, integrating advanced AI capabilities directly into the spreadsheet program. This new feature aims to significantly enhance data analysis, formula generation, and overall productivity for users.

NVIDIA achieved a new record in large language model inference benchmarks, highlighting ongoing hardware performance leadership for AI deployment.

Anthropic opened its Claude Marketplace, providing enterprise customers access to Claude-powered apps and services developed by third parties, including Replit and GitLab.

A protest occurred at OpenAI headquarters as public concern grows over the company’s involvement in military artificial intelligence projects.

OpenAI has officially unveiled GPT-5.4, their latest foundational large language model, promising significant advancements in reasoning, context understanding, and multimodal capabilities. This release marks a new era in AI performance and application potential.

Nvidia committed $100 billion to supply GPUs for OpenAI’s developing data centers, signaling sustained investment in AI infrastructure.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.3 Instant, an upgrade to its most-utilized ChatGPT model, offering more consistently helpful conversational flow and improved response accuracy. The update is now available to ChatGPT users and via API.

OpenAI closed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to supply AI technology for classified environments, sparking a backlash around AI safety and ethical usage; CEO Sam Altman issued statements promising safeguards.

Chinese developer MiniMax released the M2.5 large language model, achieving performance comparable to Claude Opus 4.6 at one-tenth the price. The launch has drawn significant developer interest and global investment attention.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected a Pentagon ultimatum to provide guardrail-free access to Claude models for all lawful government purposes, citing safety and accountability concerns.

On February 26, 2026, tensions between AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic continue over strategic directions, including the dropping of Anthropic’s vow to avoid releasing risky AI models amid Pentagon contract pressures.

Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 4.6, its most capable Sonnet model yet, featuring a 1 million token context window and enhanced coding, reasoning, and agent planning capabilities.

Led by Yoshua Bengio, the February 2026 report assesses general-purpose AI capabilities, risks, and management approaches including Frontier AI Safety Frameworks adopted by leading AI companies, noting imperfect technical safeguards.

Recent state legislation includes Florida’s AI Bill of Rights legislation and Nebraska’s Conversational AI Safety Act, focusing on AI safety protocols, privacy protections, and banning certain AI uses like legal personhood and deepfakes.

OpenAI began rolling out advertisements on ChatGPT, impacting the service’s free usage model and changing the economics of free AI access for its large user base.

Nvidia and Meta formalized a multi-year partnership to create the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure, signaling a massive strategic move in the AI technology sector.

HUMAIN injected $3 billion in xAI’s Series E round just before xAI’s acquisition by SpaceX, converting its investment into SpaceX shares and becoming a major minority stakeholder.

Meta committed to a $135 billion AI investment mostly focused on infrastructure, securing millions of NVIDIA Blackwell AI chips and pledging tens of gigawatts of computing power through 2028.

Alphabet’s Waymo launched its autonomous robotaxi service in Miami, its sixth U.S. city, starting with a 60-square-mile area with plans to expand coverage and add highway and airport routes in 2026.

Google announced the launch of Gemini 3.1 Pro, an upgraded model with over double the reasoning performance of its predecessor Gemini 3 Pro, available in preview via Google AI Studio and Gemini API.

Alibaba introduced Qwen 3.5 on February 16, 2026, a 397 billion parameter hybrid vision-language model supporting 201 languages, emphasizing multilingual capabilities and efficient sparse compute.

Zipline raised $600 million in a recent funding round, highlighting investor interest in AI-powered platforms with applications in physical-world logistics and delivery.

Tech stocks saw a major correction as investors recalibrated expectations on AI disruption’s impact, particularly on software sectors, with Deutsche Bank calling it a market readjustment from overly optimistic valuations.

Amazon announced additional layoffs reallocating workforce towards AI-focused positions amid broader industry shifts in work processes as emphasized by Meta CEO Zuckerberg.

A global survey showed companies expect to spend 1.7% of revenue on AI in 2026, up from 0.8% in 2025. 72% of CEOs now lead AI decisions, signaling deep enterprise adoption.

Meta finalized its acquisition of Manus, valued at over $2 billion, and plans to integrate Manus’s autonomous agents into its advertising and shopping platforms to offer enhanced agentic tools.

Meta and OpenAI are in acquisition talks for OpenClaw, a top autonomous AI agent GitHub project used for automating email, browsing, and file management tasks.