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.
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.
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.
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A look at OpenAI’s in-house data agent, including how it uses context, access controls, and evals to support internal analytics.