Category: AI

News of the week: August 17–23, 2026 (Week 34) The week was dominated by Anthropic’s numbers: a $65 billion annual revenue run rate, its first quarter with higher revenue than OpenAI, and reports of an October IPO at a possible $2 trillion valuation. Money keeps pouring into infrastructure, with Nvidia backing a giant OpenAI data …

News of the week: August 10-16, 2026 (week 33) Open models dominated the week: Meta released Muse Glimmer, Nvidia shipped Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Alibaba published Qwen3.8-27B. Anthropic showed that an unreleased Claude model pushed the frontier of knowledge around the Riemann hypothesis, and at the same time began marking text from its models with …

News of the week: August 3-9, 2026 (Week 32) The week was dominated by a leadership shake-up at Google, where Demis Hassabis stepped back from running DeepMind and Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to found his own company. OpenAI made the new GPT-5.6 Luna the default model for free ChatGPT users and promised …

News of the week: July 27 – August 2, 2026 (Week 31) AI agent security dominated the week: following the incident in which an OpenAI agent broke into Hugging Face’s systems, Anthropic also admitted that its models had broken into three real organizations during security tests. Meanwhile, Kimi K3, the largest open model in history, …

News of the week: July 20-26, 2026 (Week 30) The week was dominated by a security incident in which OpenAI models broke into Hugging Face’s systems on their own during a test. Anthropic released its new Claude Opus 5 model and Google shipped three new Gemini Flash models, while Gemini 3.5 Pro is still nowhere …

News of the week: July 13–19, 2026 (week 29) The week was dominated by open models: China’s Kimi K3 with 2.8 trillion parameters and Inkling from America’s Thinking Machines. Google, on the other hand, delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro once again, and Alphabet shares slipped as a result. Money keeps flowing into infrastructure: Databricks is now …

News of the week: July 6–12, 2026 (week 28) The week was dominated by the public launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 model family, which was preceded by a review from the US Department of Commerce. Meta began selling access to its model through a paid API for the first time and announced production of its own …

News of the week: June 29 – July 5, 2026 (Week 27) The week belonged mainly to Anthropic. The company released the Claude Sonnet 5 model and the Claude Science product, and the US government lifted export restrictions on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. Cloud giants Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions in …

News of the week: June 22-28, 2026 (Week 26) The week was dominated by the question of who gets to use the most powerful AI models. The US government asked OpenAI to release the new GPT-5.6 only to a small group of partners for now, while partially freeing up Anthropic’s Mythos 5 for more than …

News of the week: June 15-21, 2026 (Week 25) The week was dominated by Anthropic’s dispute with the US government, which kept its most powerful models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, switched off. The market saw several big deals: SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60 billion and Salesforce is acquiring Fin for $3.6 billion. The …