Microsoft and OpenAI amended their 2019 partnership on April 27. OpenAI can now serve products through any cloud provider while Microsoft remains the primary partner; the IP license becomes non-exclusive through 2032, AGI is detached from revenue share, and AWS Bedrock signals it will host OpenAI models within weeks.
DeepSeek shipped its V4 series on April 24 — a 1.6-trillion-parameter MIT-licensed MoE flagship and a 284-billion-parameter sibling, both with 1M-token context. A permanent 10× cut to cached-input prices puts V4-Pro at roughly 139× cheaper than GPT-5.5 on the same workload. The line on page 16 is still the bigger news.
Alphabet will put $10 billion into Anthropic now at a $350 billion valuation, with another $30 billion tied to performance milestones — and Google Cloud will deliver five gigawatts of TPU capacity over five years.
Google's expansion of Search Live to more than 200 countries this week is easy to frame as a product update. A voice feature got wider availability. But zoom out and the move looks more significant: it is the first time any company has deployed conversational, multimodal search at truly global scale.
Reflection AI, a startup backed by Nvidia that is building freely available AI models, is in talks to raise $2.5 billion at a pre-money valuation of $25 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on March 25.
OpenAI is discontinuing Sora, its AI video generation platform, just six months after the standalone app launched.
Cursor released a technical report on March 24 detailing how Composer 2 was trained, formally crediting Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 as the base model for the first time in an official document.
A developer discovered that Cursor's Composer 2 model was built on top of Kimi K2.5, an open-source model from Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a detail Cursor had not mentioned anywhere in its announcement.
Elon Musk set a March 21 date for what may well be one of the most ambitious semiconductor ventures ever attempted by a company outside the established chipmaking industry
Anthropic announced on March 12 that it is investing $100 million in 2026 to launch the Claude Partner Network, a program designed to help consulting firms, professional services companies, and AI specialists deploy Claude across enterprise customers.
After the Pentagon banned Anthropic for refusing to allow Claude to be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, Claude climbed to #1 on the U.S. iPhone App Store, overtaking ChatGPT on Apple's top free apps chart.
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.
Meta and AMD announced a five-year agreement to deploy up to six gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs, alongside a performance-based warrant that could let Meta acquire up to 160 million AMD shares as deployment milestones are met.
Anthropic announced Claude Code Security on February 20, 2026, a tool that scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests patches for human review.
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.
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.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company’s AI agent is now handling nearly 30% of English-language customer support t...
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 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...
A look at OpenAI’s in-house data agent, including how it uses context, access controls, and evals to support internal analytics.