The latest AI news in plain words: new models, AI tools, research, cloud and policy updates, plus picks from people learning AI. Updated every day, every story linked to its source.
Models ·
GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro rolled out to paid ChatGPT plans and to Codex with a 400K context window, with API pricing announced at $5 input and $30 output per million tokens. OpenAI…
OpenAI
Cloud ·
At Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google Cloud introduced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for building, governing and monitoring agents, including agent identity, gateway and…
Google Cloud
Models ·
Meta introduced Muse Spark, the first model in its new Muse series, powering the Meta AI app and website with a planned rollout to WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and…
Meta
Research ·
Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, giving 11 partners including AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation access to an unreleased model, Claude Mythos Preview…
Anthropic
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 in four sizes (effective 2B and 4B edge models, a 26B mixture-of-experts and a 31B dense model) under the Apache 2.0 license. The models support…
Business ·
OpenAI announced $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation, with Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank among the leads, plus a $4.7 billion revolving credit…
OpenAI
Policy ·
Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction halting both the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic and the directive…
NPR
Cloud ·
At GTC in San Jose, Jensen Huang presented the full Vera Rubin system lineup, previewed the next Feynman generation, and launched the DGX Station GB300 deskside machine. NVIDIA…
NVIDIA
Mistral Small 4 is a 119B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with about 6B active parameters per token, a 256k context window and image input, released under Apache 2.0. It…
Mistral AI
Models ·
GPT-5.4 arrived in ChatGPT (as GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro) and the API, adding native computer-use abilities, up to 1M tokens of context and a tool search feature that OpenAI says…
OpenAI
Policy ·
President Trump directed federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's technology, with a six-month phase-out for the Pentagon, and Defense Secretary Hegseth designated the company…
PBS NewsHour
Models ·
Google rolled out Gemini 3.1 Pro in preview across AI Studio, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Vertex AI and the Gemini app. Google reported a verified 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, more than…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, a mixture-of-experts model with 17B active parameters, a 1M-token context window and native vision-language support, alongside a…
Alibaba Qwen
Z.ai launched GLM-5, a 744B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with about 40B active parameters, released with open weights under the MIT license. It targets complex systems…
Z.ai
Models ·
Claude Opus 4.6 became the first Opus-class model with a 1M-token context window (API beta) and 128k output tokens, at unchanged pricing of $5/$25 per million tokens. The launch…
Anthropic
Tools ·
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, which it describes as its most capable agentic coding model, running about 25% faster than its predecessor and supporting mid-task steering. It…
OpenAI
Business ·
xAI announced that SpaceX had acquired the company, bringing Grok and the Colossus supercomputers under SpaceX ownership; the lab now operates under the SpaceXAI name. The deal…
xAI
Research ·
Anthropic released a rewritten constitution that guides Claude's training, ranking priorities as broadly safe, broadly ethical, compliant with Anthropic's guidelines, and…
Anthropic
Business ·
In a joint statement, Apple and Google said the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be built on Gemini models and Google cloud technology under a multi-year deal. The…
Tools ·
OpenAI introduced a dedicated Health space in ChatGPT where users can connect medical records (US only) and apps such as Apple Health and MyFitnessPal, with health chats kept…
OpenAI
Business ·
NVIDIA introduced the Rubin platform, built from six co-designed chips including the Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 and BlueField-4, and offered as the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack and…
NVIDIA
Models ·
OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 in three variants, Instant, Thinking and Pro, positioned for professional knowledge work, coding and long-context analysis. It reported gains on SWE-Bench…
OpenAI
Policy ·
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at a single national AI policy framework, directing the Justice Department to set up a task force to challenge state AI laws it…
The White House
Tools ·
The Linux Foundation formed the Agentic AI Foundation, with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, Block's goose and OpenAI's AGENTS.md as its founding projects. Anthropic donated…
Model Context Protocol Blog
