AWS activates Project Rainier, a Trainium2 cluster for Anthropic
In 2025 AWS brought Project Rainier online, a cluster of nearly half a million Trainium2 chips built with Anthropic to train and serve Claude.
Getty Images v Stability AI: the UK High Court's first AI-training copyright trial
In November 2025 the UK High Court largely rejected Getty's copyright case against Stability AI after Getty dropped its main training claims.
Anthropic commits $50 billion to US data centers
In November 2025 Anthropic announced a $50 billion US data center buildout with Fluidstack, starting in Texas and New York, with first sites live in 2026.
Anthropic discloses the first AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign (2025)
Anthropic reported a Chinese state-linked group manipulated Claude Code to run most of a cyberattack on roughly 30 global targets.
Canaries in the Coal Mine: a Stanford study of AI and entry-level jobs
A 2025 Stanford study of US payroll data found a 13% relative employment decline for workers aged 22-25 in the most AI-exposed jobs.
Google releases Gemini 3
Google releases Gemini 3, its most capable model, launched across all its products on day one and topping major reasoning and multimodal benchmarks.
US Executive Order 14365: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for AI (2025)
Trump's 2025 Executive Order 14365 directs the federal government to challenge state AI laws and creates a DOJ AI Litigation Task Force to bring the cases.
Meta lines up up to 6.6 GW of nuclear for Prometheus
In January 2026 Meta announced deals with Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo for up to 6.6 GW of nuclear power to feed its Prometheus AI supercluster in Ohio.
SpaceX acquires xAI
SpaceX announced an all-stock acquisition of Elon Musk xAI on Feb 2, 2026, folding the maker of Grok into the rocket firm to pursue space-based data centers.
The EU defers AI Act high-risk rules in the Digital Omnibus (2026)
The EU Digital Omnibus amended the AI Act in 2026 to defer high-risk obligations to December 2027 and August 2028, leaving GPAI rules and prohibitions in force.
EU Publishes Draft Article 50 Transparency Guidelines for AI
The European Commission released draft guidelines on the AI Act's Article 50 transparency rules, covering chatbots, deepfakes, and AI-content labeling.
EU Drafts Guidelines on Classifying High-Risk AI Systems
The European Commission published draft guidelines interpreting Article 6, the AI Act's rules for deciding when an AI system counts as high-risk.
AI systems resolve open mathematical conjectures
In May 2026 an OpenAI model disproved the Erdos unit distance conjecture, and a DeepMind system resolved nine open Erdos problems and dozens of OEIS ones.
Anthropic raises $65B Series H at $965B valuation
Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation, becoming the most valuable AI startup.
Waymo opens first public rides in the Ojai robotaxi
Waymo began offering its first public rider trips in the Ojai, a vehicle built for ride-hailing and running the 6th-gen Waymo Driver.
Anthropic confidentially files draft S-1 for IPO
Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft Form S-1 to the SEC, the first formal step toward a public offering.
MiniMax releases M3 open-weight frontier model
MiniMax launched M3, an open-weight model pairing frontier coding, a 1M-token context window, and native multimodality in one system.
NVIDIA unveils RTX Spark superchip for personal AI PCs
NVIDIA and Microsoft unveiled RTX Spark, a superchip for Windows PCs that runs up to 120-billion-parameter LLMs locally.
Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to ~150 organizations
Anthropic widened Project Glasswing to about 150 organizations in 15-plus countries to find security flaws in critical software with Claude.
Microsoft launches Work IQ and Web IQ agent platform at Build 2026
At Build 2026 Microsoft launched its IQ agent-grounding layer, including Work IQ, Web IQ, and the Microsoft Scout work agent.
Microsoft unveils seven MAI models at Build 2026
At Build 2026 Microsoft launched seven in-house MAI models, including a reasoning model and a coding model, to cut its reliance on OpenAI.
Trump EO on Advanced AI Innovation and Security
A White House executive order set up a voluntary federal review track for frontier AI models and ordered AI-enabled hardening of government cyber defenses.
WeRide and Uber Announce Spain's First Commercial Robotaxi Pilot in Madrid (2026)
WeRide, Uber, and AVOMO announce a robotaxi pilot in the Madrid region, the partnership's first joint entry into the European market.
AlphaSense raises $350M at $7.5B valuation
AI market intelligence firm AlphaSense raised $350M at a $7.5B valuation and passed $600M in ARR.
Coralogix raises $200M Series F
Observability platform Coralogix raised a $200M Series F, bringing total funding to $550M.
Suno raises $400M+ Series D at $5.4B valuation
AI music generator Suno raised over $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation to fund a fully licensed music model.
AI Lab CEOs Urge Mandatory Synthetic DNA Screening
CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI signed an open letter asking Congress to mandate biosecurity screening of synthetic DNA orders.
Generalist AI raises $400 million for physical AI robot models
Robotics startup Generalist AI raises $400 million led by Radical Ventures to build embodied foundation models for general-purpose robots.
Supabase raises $500M Series F at $10.5B valuation
Developer database platform Supabase raised $500 million at a $10.5 billion valuation as AI agents drove growth.
Google signs ~$920M-per-month compute deal with SpaceX
Google agreed to pay SpaceX about 920 million dollars a month through June 2029 for roughly 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs of compute capacity.
NVIDIA and SK hynix sign multiyear AI memory partnership
NVIDIA and SK hynix announced a multiyear deal to co-develop next-generation memory across NVIDIA's full AI hardware roadmap.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, its most capable public model yet, alongside the access-restricted Claude Mythos 5.
KPMG deploys Copilot and Agent 365 across 276,000 staff
KPMG and Microsoft expanded their alliance to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agent 365 across KPMG's 276,000-person global workforce.
Meta and Reliance partner on Meta's first AI data center in India
Meta partners with Reliance on a 168 MW AI-enabled data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat - Meta's first built-to-suit capacity in India.
Anthropic proposes Advanced AI Framework with government power to block dangerous deployments
Anthropic published a policy framework urging mandatory testing of frontier models and government authority to block catastrophic-risk deployments.
Anthropic proposes an Advanced AI Framework for government oversight
Anthropic published a framework asking governments for legal authority to block deployment of frontier models that pose catastrophic risk.
EU Publishes Code of Practice on Labelling AI-Generated Content
The European Commission published a voluntary Code of Practice to help meet AI Act Article 50 rules on marking and labeling AI-generated content.
Visa partners with OpenAI to power AI agent commerce
Visa partners with OpenAI to enable secure payments by AI agents, bringing Visa's network and tokenized credentials to agentic commerce.
Waymo launches Premier robotaxi membership
Waymo introduced Premier, a 29.99-dollar-a-month invite-only membership for frequent robotaxi riders in three US cities.
US export-control directive forces Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5
A US export-control directive forced Anthropic to suspend all foreign-national access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, including its own staff.
US Orders Anthropic to Cut Foreign Access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Citing national security, the US issued an export control directive forcing Anthropic to suspend all foreign-national access to its top two models.
Salesforce to acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for ~$3.6B
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI customer-service company Fin, formerly Intercom, for about 3.6 billion dollars.
AMD and Rackspace sign deal for phased 30 MW AMD AI compute deployment
AMD and Rackspace signed an agreement to deploy 30 MW of AMD Instinct GPU and EPYC CPU compute for regulated enterprise AI through 2028.
Databricks agrees to acquire AI security platform Panther
Databricks agreed to buy Panther, an AI-powered security operations platform, to build out its security lakehouse and challenge legacy SIEM tools.
Mobileye to launch its own vertically integrated robotaxi business
Mobileye moves from supplier to operator, planning a US robotaxi service in 2027 starting with about 100 vehicles, scaling to 17,000.
Stellantis, Wayve, and Uber partner to scale Level 4 robotaxis globally
Three-way MoU to build and deploy driverless L4 robotaxis worldwide, pairing Stellantis vehicles, Wayve AI, and Uber's network.
WeRide and Uber plan commercial robotaxi service in Greater Zurich
WeRide and Uber announced plans to launch commercial robotaxis in Greater Zurich, their second European deployment after Madrid.
FDA clears GuideAI Health's VascularAssist Occlusion Triage for peripheral vascular disease
FDA grants 510(k) clearance to GuideAI Health's VAOT, an AI triage device that flags suspected lower-extremity vascular occlusions on CT scans.