AIOct 30, 2026
Big Tech's AI Spending Is Heading for $800 Billion-Plus in 2026
Three quarters in, the largest cloud and AI spenders have already put $556 billion into data centers, and next year's budgets point higher still.
AIOct 12, 2026
Meta's Muse Wonder Is Its First Frontier Model, and It Is Closed and Priced Like the Leaders
Six months after Muse Spark, Meta Superintelligence Labs ships bigger models built around long-term memory, sold at $4 and $20 per million tokens.
AIAug 26, 2026
Nvidia Posts a $96 Billion Quarter and Says Vera Rubin Is Already Ramping
Revenue more than doubled year over year, data center is now 93% of sales, and the next generation of racks is arriving before the current one peaks.
AIAug 6, 2026
AI Is Now the Top Reason Employers Give for US Layoffs, Challenger Data Shows
Announced cuts blamed on AI reached 112,713 through July, more than double all of 2025, though the label depends on what employers choose to say.
AIJul 20, 2026
Judge Signs Off on Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Authors Settlement
The largest copyright class settlement on record is final, but the fair-use ruling behind it and the claims it leaves out still shape the next round of AI lawsuits.
AIJul 7, 2026
An AI-Discovered Pulmonary Fibrosis Drug Enters Phase III, the Field's Biggest Test Yet
Insilico Medicine's rentosertib is in a 320-patient pivotal trial, but no AI-designed drug has yet won FDA approval.
AIMay 7, 2026
EU Agrees to Push AI Act's High-Risk Rules Back to 2027 and 2028
The Digital Omnibus deal buys companies 12 to 16 extra months for high-risk systems while keeping watermarking and a new nudification ban on a December 2026 clock.
AIApr 24, 2026
DeepSeek V4 Brings a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Open Model and a Price That Undercuts GPT-5.5 by 9x
The MIT-licensed V4-Pro and V4-Flash carry million-token context and trail the best closed models by only a few months, DeepSeek says.
AIApr 17, 2026
Stargate's Reality Check: Abilene Is Running, the Other Sites Are Still Foundations
Epoch AI's tracker shows about 0.3 GW live at the flagship Texas campus and six more US sites that are not due until late 2028.
AIApr 7, 2026
Anthropic Builds Its Strongest Model, Then Gives It Only to Defenders: Inside Project Glasswing
Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, so Anthropic is limiting it to security partners with $100 million in credits.
AIMar 24, 2026
OpenAI Pulls the Plug on Sora, Ending Its Disney Deal and Narrowing Its Bets
The consumer video app and API are being discontinued as OpenAI, fresh off a $122 billion raise, refocuses on enterprise tools and coding.
AIFeb 12, 2026
Anthropic Raises $30 Billion at a $380 Billion Valuation as Claude Code Passes $2.5B Run Rate
The Series G is among the largest private rounds ever, and it values Anthropic at more than ten times where it stood a year earlier.
AIFeb 5, 2026
Claude Opus 4.6 Adds Agent Teams and a 1M-Token Window, Doubling Down on ARC-AGI-2
Anthropic's February flagship lets Claude Code spin up parallel sub-agents and scores 68.8% on a reasoning test its predecessor managed 37.6% on.
AIDec 11, 2025
Disney Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI and Licenses 200 Characters to Sora
Hollywood's most litigious studio picked a licensing deal with one AI lab while warning another; the Sora tie-up was later unwound.
AIDec 11, 2025
OpenAI Fires Back With GPT-5.2, Tripling Its ARC-AGI-2 Score in Four Weeks
The December release targets professional knowledge work, posts 70.9% on GDPval and costs more than GPT-5.1.
AIDec 11, 2025
Trump Signs Order to Fight State AI Laws, but Leaves the Statutes Standing
The December executive order sets up lawsuits, funding pressure and a federal disclosure standard rather than overturning any state law outright.
AIDec 8, 2025
Washington Lets Nvidia Sell H200 Chips to China, Taking a 25% Cut
The December decision reopened the China AI chip market on new terms, but Blackwell stays banned and by August Nvidia was guiding as if China did not exist.
AINov 24, 2025
Claude Opus 4.5 Clears 80% on SWE-bench Verified and Cuts Opus Pricing by Two-Thirds
Anthropic's new flagship leads coding benchmarks over Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max while dropping to $5 and $25 per million tokens.
AINov 18, 2025
Gemini 3 Pro Grabs the LMArena Lead and a New Humanity's Last Exam High
Google's new flagship ships on day one across Search, the Gemini app and the API, alongside an agentic coding tool called Antigravity.
AINov 6, 2025
Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking Puts an Open-Weight Model at the Top of the Agent Charts
A trillion-parameter model you can download beat GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on web-research benchmarks, at a fraction of the API price.