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After the Pentagon banned Anthropic for refusing to allow Claude to be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, users responded by making Claude the #1 app on the US App Store, overtaking ChatGPT for the first time.
OpenAI published excerpts of its agreement with the Department of Defense on Saturday morning. The language is more detailed than expected, yet more ambiguous than it first appears.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a deal to deploy AI on the Pentagon's classified network just hours after the administration blacklisted Anthropic for requesting the same restrictions OpenAI says it secured.
OpenAI announced $110 billion in new investment at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, anchored by $50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion from SoftBank, and $30 billion from NVIDIA. The Amazon commitment comes with a broad strategic partnership covering cloud infrastructure, custom silicon, and enterprise AI distribution.
The U.S. Department of War gave Anthropic a Friday deadline to remove AI safety guardrails from Claude or face contract cancellation, a supply chain risk designation, and invocation of the Defense Production Act. Anthropic refused.
Anthropic has rolled out an automatic memory feature for Claude Code that writes persistent notes about project patterns, debugging discoveries, and user preferences to a MEMORY.md file, carrying context between sessions without manual effort.
Meta and AMD announced a five-year, approximately $60 billion agreement to deploy up to six gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs, with Meta gaining the option to acquire roughly 10% of AMD through performance-based warrants.
NVIDIA reported record quarterly revenue of $68.1 billion, up 73% year-over-year, but shares fell 5.5% as investors questioned the sustainability of the AI infrastructure cycle.
Google DeepMind releases Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), delivering Pro-tier image generation quality at Flash speeds. The model rolls out across the Gemini app, Google Search, Flow, and Google Ads with advanced world knowledge, subject consistency, and improved text rendering.
Claude Code's new 'Remote Control' feature, launched February 24, 2026, allows devs to continue local terminal sessions from their phone, tablet, or any web browser.
Anthropic announced Claude Code Security on February 20, 2026, a tool that scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests patches for human review.
Google has released Gemini 3.1 Pro, a new version of its Pro model line that it says upgrades the core reasoning capabilities behind recent Gemini 3 advances.
Google has begun rolling out Lyria 3 in the Gemini app, adding a built-in tool for generating short 30-second music tracks.
Meta and NVIDIA announced a multiyear strategic partnership deploying millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, standalone Grace CPUs, and Spectrum-X networking across Meta's hyperscale data centers.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6, upgrading its mid-tier AI model with improved coding, computer use, and long-context reasoning capabilities.
OpenAI introduced Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT and added “Elevated Risk” labels to reduce prompt injection data exfiltration risk.
Manus has launched “Manus Agents,” a way to use its AI agent directly inside messaging apps, starting with Telegram.
The Vatican is rolling out an AI-assisted live translation service intended to help attendees follow principal celebrations at St. Peter’s Basilica in their preferred language.
Peter Steinberger, the developer behind OpenClaw, announced in a blog post that he is joining OpenAI to work on “brin...
Developments in early 2026 show a change in how AI companies compete. Response speed appears to be moving from a background engineering concern to a visible product differentiator.
Manus has introduced a feature called Project Skills that lets teams curate and lock sets of reusable AI workflows at the project level.
Google is rolling out a new Gemini feature in Google Docs that lets you listen to a short audio summary of a document.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company’s AI agent is now handling nearly 30% of English-language customer support t...
OpenAI has launched a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a new version of its Codex coding model designed to respond quickly enough for real-time software work.
Gemini Deep Think is being used to assist with research-level problems in mathematics, computer science, physics, and economics.
OpenAI has rolled out a set of upgrades to Deep Research in ChatGPT, including a new backend model a...
Alibaba’s Qwen team has launched Qwen-Image-2.0, a new image generation model positioned as a single system for both text-to-image generation and image editing.
A new study from MIT researchers argues that some popular platforms used to rank large language models can be far mor...
OpenAI said on Feb. 9, 2026 that it is beginning a U.S. test of ads in ChatGPT, positioning ads as a way to support broader access while keeping answers independent.
A new "fast mode" for Claude Opus delivers up to 2.5 times higher output token generation speed at a significant premium: six times the standard.
A product update billed as a modest expansion triggered the worst week for enterprise software in years, then markets snapped back. Here's what actually happened, and what it means.
Goldman Sachs has been working with Anthropic for the past six months to co-develop autonomous AI agents for back-off...
OpenAI on Feb. 5, 2026, released GPT-5.3-Codex<sup referenceindex="1" refer...
Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4.6, the latest...
A major international report released this week finds that artificial intelligence systems are advancing faster than the methods used to test, monitor, and govern them.
Roblox has launched the beta release of 4D generation, a new AI system that allows creators to generate functional, interactive 3D objects from text prompts inside Roblox experiences.
On January 15, 2026, OpenAI removed the Voice feature from the ChatGPT macOS desktop app. While voice remains available on the web, mobile, and Windows, its absence on macOS has changed how the tool fits into daily academic and professional work.
OpenAI released a dedicated macOS application for Codex, its AI-powered coding assistant. The app is designed to serve as a "command center" that makes it easy for software developers to manage multiple AI agents at once.
A look at OpenAI’s in-house data agent, including how it uses context, access controls, and evals to support internal analytics.
Microsoft’s Maia 200 is not trying to be the fastest chip on paper. It is trying to be the cheapest place to run AI at scale. That distinction matters. While most attention still goes to training massive models, the real cost of AI now sits in inference, the endless stream of everyday queries powering copilots, chatbots, and search tools. Maia 200 is Microsoft’s attempt to own that layer of the stack, quietly reducing dependence on Nvidia while reshaping how Azure prices and delivers AI. If it works, the biggest shift will not be technical, it will be economic.