AI news, programming and apps by Radek Jančík
This week’s news: January 19-25, 2026 (Week 4) The week was dominated by the World Economic Forum in Davos, where AI company leaders clashed over chips for China and ads in chatbots. Anthropic published a new “constitution” for its Claude model, and OpenAI began estimating users’ ages in ChatGPT. Apple is reportedly preparing to turn …
Read More The Week in AI: January 19-25, 2026 (Week 4)News of the week: January 12–18, 2026 (Week 3) The week opened with big news: Apple confirmed that it will build the new Siri on Google’s Gemini models. Anthropic introduced Cowork, an agent for everyday office work, and OpenAI announced ads in ChatGPT along with the low-cost Go plan. In the chip world, a decision …
Read More Week in AI: January 12–18, 2026 (Week 3)This week’s news: January 5-11, 2026 (Week 2) The first working week of January was dominated by CES in Las Vegas, where Nvidia and AMD unveiled new data center chips, and Nvidia and Boston Dynamics showed that artificial intelligence is heading into cars and robots. Within just a few days, OpenAI and Anthropic moved into …
Read More The Week in AI: January 5-11, 2026 (Week 2)News for the week: December 29, 2025 – January 4, 2026 (Week 1) The turn of the year brought no break in artificial intelligence. Meta bought the startup Manus to strengthen its AI agents, and SoftBank completed its multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI while also buying the data center investor DigitalBridge. Chinese companies are ordering millions …
Read More This Week in AI: December 29, 2025 – January 4, 2026 (Week 1)This week’s news: December 22-28, 2025 (Week 52) Christmas week brought the biggest deal in Nvidia’s history: a license to Groq’s chip technology and the move of its top people, worth roughly 20 billion dollars according to CNBC. Chinese companies Z.ai and MiniMax released new open models focused on coding. OpenAI openly admitted that prompt …
Read More The Week in AI: December 22-28, 2025 (Week 52)News of the week: December 15-21, 2025 (Week 51) The week before Christmas brought a dense flurry of news. Google rolled out its fast Gemini 3 Flash model as the default in the Gemini app and in Search, and OpenAI answered with a new image generator, the GPT-5.2-Codex model for programmers, and an app directory …
Read More This Week in AI: December 15-21, 2025 (Week 51)News of the week: December 8-14, 2025 (Week 50) The week was dominated by OpenAI’s response to pressure from Google: the company released its GPT-5.2 model and landed a billion-dollar investment from Disney. Washington cleared exports of Nvidia H200 chips to China, and President Trump signed an order meant to curb AI regulation at the …
Read More The Week in AI: December 8-14, 2025 (Week 50)News of the week: December 1-7, 2025 (Week 49) The week was dominated by pressure on OpenAI: Sam Altman declared an internal “code red” so that ChatGPT can hold its ground against the fast-rising Google Gemini 3. Open models got stronger thanks to DeepSeek V3.2 and Mistral 3, and at re:Invent Amazon unveiled its own …
Read More This Week in AI: December 1-7, 2025 (Week 49)News of the week: November 24-30, 2025 (Week 48) The week opened with Anthropic releasing Claude Opus 4.5, a model that raised the bar for coding while also getting much cheaper. The chip market was stirred by a report that Meta is in talks to buy TPU chips from Google, prompting a public response from …
Read More This Week in AI: November 24-30, 2025 (Week 48)News of the week: November 17-23, 2025 (Week 47) The week was dominated by Google, which released the Gemini 3 model, the Antigravity development environment and the Nano Banana Pro image generator. Anthropic secured commitments of up to $15 billion in investment from Microsoft and Nvidia, and its Claude models arrived on Azure. Nvidia reported …
Read More The Week in AI: November 17-23, 2025 (Week 47)