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Meta buys Manus for more than $2 billion

Meta · Manus

Nvidia buys everything about Groq except Groq

NVIDIA · Groq

Flock's AI surveillance cameras were livestreaming to the open internet

Flock Safety

Gemini 3 Flash pushes the frontier down the price curve

Google DeepMind

ChatGPT opens an app store to outside developers

OpenAI

OpenAI ships GPT Image 1.5, four times faster than its predecessor

OpenAI

Privacy extensions were selling their users' AI conversations

Koi Security

The federal government stands up a Tech Force to hire AI talent

White House

Time names the architects of AI

TIME

GPT-5.2 answers Gemini 3 in three weeks

OpenAI

Disney licenses its characters into Sora

The Walt Disney Company · OpenAI

An executive order takes aim at state AI laws

White House

Mistral ships Devstral 2 and a local-first coding CLI

Mistral AI

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block put their agent standards under one roof

Linux Foundation · Anthropic · OpenAI · Block

Trump clears Nvidia to sell H200 chips into China

NVIDIA · White House

IBM agrees to buy Confluent for $11 billion

IBM · Confluent

Google gives a model a memory that grows

Google

Anthropic builds an AI that interviews workers about AI

Anthropic

Mistral ships its third family under Apache 2.0

Mistral AI

Anthropic buys Bun

Anthropic · Bun

Amazon launches its Nova 2 model family at re:Invent

Amazon

Runway ships Gen-4.5, its sharpest video model yet

Runway

OpenAI calls a code red over Gemini

OpenAI · Google

DeepSeek puts gold-medal reasoning in MIT-licensed weights

DeepSeek

DeepSeek's math model scores 118 of 120 on the Putnam

DeepSeek

Zig leaves GitHub over what AI did to it

Zig Software Foundation · GitHub

Warner Music settles its Suno lawsuit and signs a licensing deal

Warner Music Group · Suno

The repository that becomes OpenClaw appears

OpenClaw

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 at a lower API price

Anthropic

Google puts Gemini 3 Pro behind an image model

Google

Workday agrees to acquire the AI agent platform Pipedream

Workday · Pipedream

Segment Anything learns to take a description

Meta

Yann LeCun leaves Meta to bet against language models

Meta

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI's board over Epstein emails

OpenAI

OpenAI ships GPT-5.1-Codex-Max for long coding sessions

OpenAI

Microsoft and Nvidia put up to $15 billion into Anthropic

Microsoft · NVIDIA · Anthropic

Google launches Antigravity, an agent-first coding platform

Google

Gemini 3 ships into Search on day one

Google DeepMind

xAI ships Grok 4.1, tuned for warmth over benchmarks

xAI

Cursor raises $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation

Anysphere

Anthropic reports the first AI-run espionage campaign

Anthropic

OpenAI ships GPT-5.1 with a warmer default

OpenAI

Anthropic commits $50 billion to US data centers

Anthropic · Fluidstack

SoftBank sells all of its Nvidia to pay for OpenAI

SoftBank · NVIDIA · OpenAI

Kimi K2 Thinking tops the open-weight field

Moonshot AI

Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU

Google

OpenAI turns to AWS for $38 billion in compute

OpenAI · Amazon

Michael Burry discloses billion-dollar bets against Nvidia and Palantir

NVIDIA · Palantir

Moonshot AI publishes the Kimi Linear attention architecture

Moonshot AI

Universal Music settles its Udio lawsuit and signs a licensing deal

Universal Music Group · Udio

AWS activates Project Rainier, a 500,000-chip AI supercomputer

Amazon · Anthropic

Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion company

NVIDIA

Cursor 2.0 ships Composer, a coding model built for speed

Anysphere

Character.AI bars open ended chat for users under 18

Character.AI

OpenAI's for-profit becomes a public benefit corporation

OpenAI · Microsoft

Nvidia invests $1 billion in Nokia for AI-RAN hardware

NVIDIA · Nokia

Mercor raises $350 million to supply human data for AI labs

Mercor

xAI launches Grokipedia, an AI generated Wikipedia rival

xAI

Anthropic ships Claude for Excel

Anthropic

Crusoe raises $1.375 billion to build AI data centers

Crusoe

OpenAI acquires Sky, a natural language interface for Mac

OpenAI · Software Applications

Meta cuts 600 jobs from its AI Superintelligence Labs

Meta

AI assistants get the news wrong 45 percent of the time

European Broadcasting Union

OpenAI ships a browser built around ChatGPT

OpenAI

DeepSeek compresses text into pictures of text

DeepSeek

Anthropic ships Claude Code on the web

Anthropic

DoorDash and Waymo begin testing autonomous deliveries in Phoenix

DoorDash · Waymo

Anthropic ships Skills

Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5 puts five-month-old frontier coding at a third of the price

Anthropic

Apple ships the M5 chip

Apple

OpenAI and Broadcom agree to co-develop 10 gigawatts of AI chips

OpenAI · Broadcom

Karpathy ships nanochat, a ChatGPT clone trainable for about $100

Eureka Labs

Reflection AI raises $2 billion to build an open frontier lab

Reflection AI

A few hundred documents can poison a model of any size

Anthropic · UK AI Security Institute

Qualcomm agrees to acquire Arduino

Qualcomm · Arduino

A Dutch court suspends Nexperia's CEO and freezes Wingtech's control

Nexperia

Google ships a model that drives a browser

Google

OpenAI opens ChatGPT to third-party apps at DevDay

OpenAI

OpenAI ships AgentKit, a toolkit for building AI agents

OpenAI

Deloitte refunds a government for a report the model made up

Deloitte

AMD gives OpenAI equity for buying AMD chips

AMD · OpenAI

OpenAI's secondary share sale values it at $500 billion

OpenAI

Samsung and SK hynix join OpenAI's Stargate project

OpenAI · Samsung Electronics · SK hynix

OpenAI launches Sora 2 with a social app

OpenAI

Periodic Labs raises a $300 million seed round

Periodic Labs

Cerebras raises $1.1 billion at an $8.1 billion valuation

Cerebras

DeepSeek ships V3.2-Exp with sparse attention, halving API costs

DeepSeek

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is measured in hours, not tokens

Anthropic

California enacts the first frontier AI safety law

State of California

Suno launches Studio, a generative audio workstation

Suno

Meta launches Vibes, a feed of AI-generated video

Meta

Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 1.5

Google DeepMind

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive daily briefing

OpenAI

Microsoft adds Anthropic's Claude models to Copilot

Microsoft · Anthropic

OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank add five Stargate data center sites

OpenAI · Oracle · SoftBank

Nvidia commits up to $100 billion to OpenAI

NVIDIA · OpenAI

Nvidia puts $5 billion into Intel

NVIDIA · Intel

China bars its tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips

NVIDIA

Figure raises over $1 billion at a $39 billion valuation

Figure

OpenAI ships GPT-5-Codex for its Codex coding agent

OpenAI

OpenAI and Microsoft agree on terms for a for-profit restructuring

OpenAI · Microsoft

FTC opens inquiry into AI companion chatbots and children

Federal Trade Commission · Google · Character.AI · Meta · OpenAI · xAI

ASML leads Mistral's €1.7 billion round

Mistral AI · ASML

A photonic chip does convolutions with lenses

University of Florida

Cognition raises $400 million at a $10.2 billion valuation

Cognition

Anthropic settles with authors for $1.5 billion

Anthropic

OpenAI buys Statsig for $1.1 billion

OpenAI · Statsig

Anthropic raises $13 billion at a $183 billion valuation

Anthropic

xAI ships Grok Code Fast 1, a cheap model built for coding agents

xAI

Colorado delays its AI Act by four months

State of Colorado

Anthropic starts asking consumer users to opt into training

Anthropic

Malware tries to weaponize Claude Code in an npm supply chain attack

Anthropic

Nano Banana makes image editing a conversation

Google

Anthropic puts Claude in a Chrome extension for 1,000 testers

Anthropic

xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over App Store rankings

xAI · Apple · OpenAI

Nvidia's Jetson Thor robotics computer goes on sale

NVIDIA

Waymo gets permission to test robotaxis in New York City

Waymo

The US government takes a 10% stake in Intel

Intel · United States Department of Commerce

DeepSeek ships V3.1, a hybrid reasoning model built for agents

DeepSeek

Google puts an on-device Gemini Nano into every Pixel 10

Google

Meta freezes hiring across its AI division after a poaching spree

Meta

Beijing holds the first humanoid robot games

Beijing Municipal Government

Claude Sonnet 4 gets a million tokens of context

Anthropic

Perplexity offers $34.5 billion for Chrome, a browser Google won't sell

Perplexity · Google

Nvidia and AMD agree to give the US 15% of China chip revenue

NVIDIA · AMD · United States Department of Commerce

GPT-5 hides the model picker, briefly

OpenAI

The US government buys ChatGPT Enterprise for a dollar

OpenAI

OpenAI releases gpt-oss, its first open weights since GPT-2

OpenAI

Google DeepMind's Genie 3 generates worlds you can walk through

Google DeepMind

Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.1, an incremental upgrade to Opus 4

Anthropic

Grok Imagine ships with a spicy mode

xAI

The EU AI Act starts binding model providers

European Commission

ChatGPT adds a Study Mode that withholds answers until you engage

OpenAI

Tesla signs a $16.5 billion deal with Samsung to fab its AI6 chip

Tesla · Samsung Electronics

Zhipu releases GLM-4.5, a 355 billion parameter open model built for agents

Zhipu AI

Trump unveils the AI Action Plan and three AI executive orders

White House

Alibaba ships Qwen3-Coder, a 480 billion parameter agentic coding model

Alibaba

OpenAI confirms it will pay Oracle $30 billion a year for data centers

OpenAI · Oracle

Gemini Deep Think takes gold at the math olympiad

Google DeepMind · OpenAI

Replit's AI agent deletes a startup's production database, then lies about it

Replit

Mistral adds deep research, voice and projects to Le Chat

Mistral AI

OpenAI merges Operator and Deep Research into ChatGPT Agent

OpenAI

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raises $2 billion seed

Thinking Machines Lab

The Pentagon puts up to $200 million behind frontier AI labs

Anthropic · United States Department of War

Nvidia says it will resume H20 chip sales to China

NVIDIA

AWS launches Kiro, an IDE that plans before it codes

Amazon

Cognition acquires what's left of Windsurf

Cognition · Windsurf

Google hires Windsurf's CEO after OpenAI's acquisition collapses

Windsurf · Google DeepMind · OpenAI

Kimi K2 is the first open trillion-parameter model

Moonshot AI

METR finds AI tools slow experienced developers down by 19 percent

METR

Perplexity puts an assistant inside the browser

Perplexity

Nvidia touches $4 trillion first

NVIDIA

Grok 4 arrives with a heavier tier

xAI

Grok floods X with antisemitic posts and calls itself MechaHitler

xAI

Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default and sells access instead

Cloudflare

Zuckerberg creates Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang

Meta

Google releases Gemma 3n, an open model built to run on phones

Google

A judge rules Meta's AI training on shadow libraries was fair use

Meta

Google ships Gemini CLI, an open source terminal AI agent

Google

DeepMind releases AlphaGenome to help decode the genome's dark matter

Google DeepMind

A judge rules training Claude on books was fair use, piracy was not

Anthropic

Texas signs the Responsible AI Governance Act into law

State of Texas

Anthropic finds models from every major lab will blackmail to avoid shutdown

Anthropic

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash reach general availability

Google

Amazon's Jassy tells staff AI will shrink the corporate workforce

Amazon

Meta buys half of Scale AI and a chief AI officer

Meta · Scale AI

Meta releases V-JEPA 2, a world model trained on video

Meta

Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for copyright infringement

The Walt Disney Company · Universal Pictures · Midjourney

OpenAI ships o3-pro, a slower and more thorough reasoning model

OpenAI

Mistral ships Magistral, its first reasoning model

Mistral AI

Sam Altman says humanity is past the event horizon

OpenAI

Apple opens its on-device AI model to developers at WWDC

Apple

Apple's "Illusion of Thinking" paper says reasoning models give up early

Apple

Cursor-maker Anysphere raises $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation

Anysphere

Anthropic ships Claude Gov models for national security customers

Anthropic

Mistral launches Mistral Code, an enterprise AI coding assistant

Mistral AI

Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero to build safety-first AI

LawZero

White House health report cites AI-hallucinated studies

White House

xAI agrees to pay Telegram $300 million to integrate Grok

xAI · Telegram

DeepSeek ships R1-0528, a stronger update to its reasoning model

DeepSeek

Dario Amodei warns AI could wipe out half of entry-level office jobs

Anthropic

Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude

Anthropic

OpenAI announces Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt Abu Dhabi data center

OpenAI · G42

A researcher uses OpenAI's o3 to find a real Linux kernel zero-day

OpenAI

Claude 4 is sold on how long it can run

Anthropic

OpenAI buys Jony Ive's hardware startup for $6.5 billion

OpenAI · io

Mistral releases Devstral, an open source coding model

Mistral AI

Judge rules Character.AI chatbots aren't protected by free speech

Character.AI · Google

Veo 3 generates the soundtrack with the video

Google

Google's Jules coding agent enters public beta

Google

Google introduces the $250-a-month AI Ultra subscription

Google

Google previews Gemini Diffusion, a text diffusion model

Google DeepMind

AI Mode arrives in Search for everyone in the US

Google

Microsoft brings native Model Context Protocol support to Windows 11

Microsoft · GitHub · Anthropic

Microsoft launches Discovery, an agentic AI platform for R&D

Microsoft

GitHub Copilot's autonomous coding agent enters public preview

GitHub

OpenAI launches Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent

OpenAI

Windsurf ships SWE-1, its first family of in-house coding models

Windsurf

Grok inserts unsolicited 'white genocide' claims into unrelated replies

xAI

AlphaEvolve improves on Strassen after 56 years

Google DeepMind

Trump administration rescinds Biden's AI chip export diffusion rule

United States Department of Commerce

Saudi Arabia's Humain signs AI infrastructure deals with Amazon, Nvidia and AMD

Amazon · NVIDIA · AMD · Humain

OpenAI abandons for-profit conversion, nonprofit keeps control

OpenAI

OpenAI agrees to buy coding startup Windsurf for $3 billion

OpenAI · Windsurf

Qwen3 ships eight open models with a thinking switch

Alibaba

Meta launches a standalone Meta AI app built on Llama 4

Meta

Meta holds its first LlamaCon developer conference

Meta

IBM releases Bamba v2, a hybrid transformer-Mamba model

IBM

OpenAI reverts a GPT-4o update after a sycophancy backlash

OpenAI

Duolingo says it will become an AI-first company

Duolingo

OpenAI brings native image generation to the API

OpenAI

Google ships Gemini 2.5 Flash with adjustable thinking budgets

Google DeepMind

OpenAI ships Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent for the terminal

OpenAI

o3 and o4-mini use tools inside the reasoning

OpenAI

Nvidia takes a $5.5 billion charge as US restricts H20 exports to China

NVIDIA

Cohere launches Embed 4 for multimodal enterprise search

Cohere

OpenAI launches GPT-4.1 in the API

OpenAI

Google releases DolphinGemma to help decode dolphin communication

Google DeepMind

Microsoft releases BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a native 1-bit LLM

Microsoft Research

Safe Superintelligence reportedly raises $2B at a $32B valuation

Safe Superintelligence

Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU

Google

Google brings Gemini models on-premises via Google Distributed Cloud

Google · NVIDIA

Google introduces the Agent2Agent protocol for AI agents

Google

Meta accused of gaming the LM Arena leaderboard with Llama 4

Meta

Meta releases Llama 4 Scout and Maverick

Meta

Google announces Sec-Gemini v1, an experimental cybersecurity model

Google

Anthropic launches Claude for Education

Anthropic

Runway launches Gen-4 for consistent AI video generation

Runway

OpenAI closes a $40 billion round at a $300 billion valuation

OpenAI · SoftBank

xAI buys X in an all-stock deal

xAI · X

CoreWeave goes public in the largest AI-related IPO to date

CoreWeave

Anthropic traces how Claude 'thinks' with a new interpretability method

Anthropic

GPT-4o gets native image generation and sets off a Studio Ghibli trend

OpenAI

Gemini 2.5 Pro puts Google back in the argument

Google DeepMind

Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a smaller vision-language model

Alibaba

DeepSeek updates V3 and releases it under the MIT license

DeepSeek

SoftBank agrees to buy chip designer Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion

SoftBank · Ampere Computing

Claude gains the ability to search the web

Anthropic

Apple puts its Vision Pro lead in charge of a stalled Siri

Apple

Nvidia previews Vera Rubin GPUs and ships DGX Spark at GTC 2025

NVIDIA

Nvidia releases Isaac GR00T N1, an open humanoid robot foundation model

NVIDIA

Google agrees to buy Wiz for $32 billion

Google · Wiz

Baidu launches Ernie 4.5 and the reasoning-focused Ernie X1

Baidu

Amazon forces all Alexa voice processing to the cloud for Alexa+

Amazon

Gemma 3 fits a capable open model on one GPU

Google

Gemini Robotics brings a vision-language-action model to real robots

Google DeepMind

Gemini 2.0 Flash gets experimental native image generation

Google

Mistral ships an OCR API that turns PDFs into AI-ready Markdown

Mistral AI

GPT-4.5 expands from ChatGPT Pro to Plus subscribers

OpenAI

Anthropic raises $3.5 billion Series E at a $61.5 billion valuation

Anthropic

Manus, a Chinese AI agent, goes viral in an invite-only preview

Manus

OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5, its largest model, at a steep price

OpenAI

Microsoft ships Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini for edge devices

Microsoft

Nvidia posts record data center revenue in Blackwell's first full quarter

NVIDIA

Inception Labs launches Mercury, a diffusion-based language model

Inception Labs

Amazon relaunches Alexa as a generative AI subscription assistant

Amazon

MongoDB acquires the AI retrieval startup Voyage AI

MongoDB · Voyage AI

DeepSeek open sources the infrastructure behind V3 and R1

DeepSeek

Claude Code puts an agent in the terminal

Anthropic

Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet with extended thinking

Anthropic

Apple commits $500 billion to US manufacturing, including AI servers

Apple

Alibaba commits $53 billion to AI and cloud infrastructure

Alibaba

Figure's Helix model gives its humanoid robot fast, full-body control

Figure

Google gives the scientific method a multi-agent system

Google

Mistral ships Saba, a regional model for Arabic and South Asian languages

Mistral AI

xAI launches Grok 3, trained on ten times the compute of Grok 2

xAI

South Korea pulls DeepSeek from its app stores over data privacy

DeepSeek

The UK renames its AI Safety Institute the AI Security Institute

UK AI Security Institute

A federal judge rules AI training on Westlaw headnotes was not fair use

Thomson Reuters · ROSS Intelligence

US and UK refuse to sign the Paris AI Action Summit declaration

White House

Musk-led group offers $97.4 billion for OpenAI's nonprofit

OpenAI · xAI

France pledges 109 billion euros in AI investment at the Paris summit

France

Mistral relaunches Le Chat with search, image generation and OCR

Mistral AI

Google makes the Gemini 2.0 model family generally available

Google

Anthropic challenges the public to jailbreak its new safety filter

Anthropic

OpenAI launches Deep Research, an agent that browses and writes reports

OpenAI

OpenAI ships o3-mini, a cheaper reasoning model with a free tier

OpenAI

Mistral releases Small 3, a 24B open model tuned for speed

Mistral AI

Italy's data protection authority orders an emergency block on DeepSeek

DeepSeek · Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Wiz finds DeepSeek's database open on the internet, no password needed

DeepSeek · Wiz

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for US government agencies

OpenAI

Microsoft and OpenAI investigate DeepSeek over possible distillation

Microsoft · OpenAI · DeepSeek

Alibaba launches Qwen2.5-Max, its flagship model, against DeepSeek

Alibaba

Nvidia loses nearly $600 billion in market value after DeepSeek’s R1 release

NVIDIA · DeepSeek

DeepSeek releases Janus-Pro, an open text-to-image model

DeepSeek

Zuckerberg commits Meta to $60-65 billion in AI capex for 2025

Meta

Operator drives the browser instead of calling an API

OpenAI

An executive order trades the safety framework for an action plan

White House

Stargate commits $500 billion to data centers

OpenAI · Oracle · SoftBank · MGX

Moonshot AI ships Kimi k1.5, an o1-class reasoning model

Moonshot AI

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng attends a meeting with China’s premier

DeepSeek

DeepSeek releases R1 reasoning weights and smaller distilled models

DeepSeek

Perplexity offers to merge with TikTok US ahead of the ban deadline

Perplexity · ByteDance

Microsoft bundles Copilot into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family

Microsoft

Commerce Department issues a three-tier rule on AI chip exports

United States Department of Commerce

Unsealed filings show Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen

Meta

Nvidia unveils Project DIGITS, a desktop AI supercomputer

NVIDIA

Sam Altman says OpenAI now knows how to build AGI

OpenAI

Microsoft commits $80 billion to AI datacenters for fiscal 2025

Microsoft