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This week’s news: March 30 – April 5, 2026 (Week 14) Money dominated the week: OpenAI closed a record $122 billion funding round and bought the tech talk show TBPN, Microsoft announced $10 billion for Japan, and Mistral took out a loan for its own data center. Google released the open Gemma 4 models under …

This week’s news: March 23-29, 2026 (Week 13) The thirteenth week of the year showed how quickly AI is turning from a chat window into an agent that operates a computer on its own: Anthropic gave Claude control of the mouse and keyboard on the Mac and added an automatic approval mode for programmers. OpenAI, …

News of the week: March 16–22, 2026 (Week 12) The week was dominated by Nvidia’s GTC conference, where Jensen Huang unveiled the Vera Rubin platform and estimated chip orders at a trillion dollars. OpenAI released the smaller GPT-5.4 mini and nano models, announced the acquisition of Astral, and, according to media reports, is preparing a …

News of the week: March 9-15, 2026 (Week 11) A lawsuit dominated the week: Anthropic sued the US government over being labeled a “supply chain risk” while continuing to expand its enterprise business, including through Microsoft and a new partner network. Billions flowed into AI infrastructure: Nscale and Nebius each landed two billion dollars, and …

News of the week: March 2–8, 2026 (Week 10) The week was dominated by the dispute between Anthropic and the US Department of Defense, which on March 5 formally designated the company a “supply chain risk”. Meanwhile, OpenAI released two new models, GPT-5.3 Instant and GPT-5.4, the latter able to operate a computer on its …

This week’s news: February 23 – March 1, 2026 (Week 9) The week was dominated by the dispute between Anthropic and the US Department of Defense, which ended with a presidential ban on Claude in federal agencies and a Pentagon deal with OpenAI. OpenAI also raised a record 110 billion dollars, and ChatGPT moved closer …

This week’s news: February 16-22, 2026 (Week 8) The week was dominated by the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, where tech companies announced investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars and 88 countries signed the non-binding New Delhi Declaration. On the model front, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6, Google shipped Gemini 3.1 Pro and Alibaba …

News of the week: February 9-15, 2026 (Week 7) The week was dominated by money, speed and copyright battles. Anthropic raised 30 billion dollars at a 380 billion valuation, while OpenAI launched a lightning-fast coding model running on Cerebras chips and started testing ads in ChatGPT. China delivered a wave of new models from Zhipu, …

News of the week: February 2-8, 2026 (Week 6) The week was dominated by the rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI: on February 5, both companies released new models for coding and agentic work within almost the same hour. Anthropic’s tools also triggered a sell-off in software stocks as investors began to fear that AI agents …

News of the week: January 26 – February 1, 2026 (Week 5) The week was dominated by money and infrastructure: OpenAI is in talks over investments from Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, Anthropic is enlarging its funding round, and Musk is considering merging SpaceX with xAI. Big tech companies reported quarterly results with record spending on …