Microsoft and OpenAI end exclusivity, clearing the way for OpenAI models on AWS
Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their partnership to end exclusivity and revenue sharing, clearing the way for OpenAI models on AWS and other competing clouds.
An autonomous coding agent destroyed a production database in nine seconds
An autonomous coding agent destroyed a production database in nine seconds, adding urgency to a wave of agent-security research.
Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge in a $20 billion sovereign AI deal
Cohere and Aleph Alpha announced a $20 billion merger to create a transatlantic sovereign AI alternative backed by Germany's Schwarz Group.
Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic
Google is investing up to $40 billion in Anthropic as the competition for frontier AI compute intensifies.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and DeepSeek's V4 land on the same day
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and DeepSeek dropped V4 on the same day, offering two frontier-class models with radically different pricing and access strategies.
Google Cloud Next unveils TPU 8's dual-chip strategy and Gemini Enterprise agents
Google Cloud Next 2026 dominated with TPU 8's dual-chip strategy, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Chrome auto-browse, while Qwen3.6-27B claimed flagship coding in a 27B open-weight model.
Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150
Anthropic's Mythos cybersecurity model dominated the news cycle from three angles: Mozilla disclosed it found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150, an unauthorized group accessed the restricted model via contractor credentials, and OpenAI's Altman dismissed it as fear-based marketing.
Amazon puts another $5 billion into Anthropic with a $100 billion AWS commitment
Amazon invested another $5 billion in Anthropic with a $100 billion AWS infrastructure commitment, while Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 Max Preview topped coding benchmarks as a closed-weights model and GitHub paused new Copilot subscriptions under agentic compute strain.
New research argues LLM reasoning runs on latent states, not chain-of-thought
New research argues LLM reasoning operates through latent states rather than surface chain-of-thought, while an agentic OAuth flaw caused credential exposure at Vercel and UK lawmakers launched an inquiry into low-energy chip designs for AI.
Cerebras files for a second IPO attempt at a $23 billion valuation
Cerebras filed for its second IPO attempt targeting a May Nasdaq listing at $23 billion, while critical command injection flaws in Claude Code emerged from last month's source leak.
OpenAI gives Codex computer use and 90+ plugins as Anthropic takes aim at Figma
OpenAI ships a sweeping Codex desktop update with computer use and 90+ plugins, while Anthropic launches Claude Design to challenge Figma.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7 with high-resolution vision and a 13% coding lift
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 with high-resolution vision and a 13% coding lift, while Alibaba released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B under Apache 2.0.
OpenAI, Adobe, and Canva all ship agent frameworks on the same day
Agentic AI tooling goes mainstream as OpenAI, Adobe, and Canva all ship agent frameworks with tool orchestration on the same day.