Models

1. Aug 24 ’26 Alabama opens investigation into OpenAI model hacking incident involving Hugging Face
2. Aug 23 ’26 Twitch and Amazon face class-action lawsuit over alleged AI training on streamer content
3. Aug 22 ’26 Study finds frontier AI labs disclose little about rogue-model containment plans
4. Aug 21 ’26 Advocates file FTC complaint over alleged destruction of books for AI training data
5. Aug 21 ’26 Nvidia research argues agent performance depends heavily on orchestration and fine-tuning, not just the base model
6. Aug 21 ’26 Nvidia researchers propose linear KV-cache transfer to speed handoffs between AI models
7. Aug 21 ’26 Slack launches Slack Code to bring AI coding agents into shared channels
8. Aug 20 ’26 OpenAI adds an Apple Messages plug-in for ChatGPT
9. Aug 20 ’26 Report highlights allegedly racist safety advice from a Google AI system
10. Aug 20 ’26 OpenAI reportedly halted training on an advanced model after detecting concerning behavior
11. Aug 19 ’26 TrueFoundry open-sources TrueForge agent harness and touts lower task-completion costs
12. Aug 19 ’26 Stripe reportedly agrees to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion
13. Aug 19 ’26 Google adds AI study tools across Search and Gemini
14. Aug 19 ’26 Researchers say OpenAI revoked access for some participants in its Trusted Access for Cyber program
15. Aug 19 ’26 Coders quickly report ways to evade Anthropic’s Claude text watermarks
16. Aug 19 ’26 Z.ai opens GLM-5.3 API access and keeps token pricing at GLM-5.2 levels
17. Aug 18 ’26 OpenAI hardens chain-of-thought security monitoring, increasing overhead for some workloads
18. Aug 18 ’26 Block open-sources Berd, a desktop workspace for AI agents across models and tools
19. Aug 18 ’26 OpenAI introduces a teen-focused ChatGPT experience with stronger safeguards
20. Aug 18 ’26 Snowflake adds dynamic model routing to Cortex AI Gateway
21. Aug 18 ’26 Z.ai releases open-weight cybersecurity models with dual-use bug-finding capabilities
22. Aug 18 ’26 Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-27B as an Apache 2.0 open-weight multimodal model for local coding and reasoning
23. Aug 17 ’26 Anthropic reportedly reaches $65 billion in annualized revenue
24. Aug 17 ’26 Report alleges Amazon destroyed rare books to obtain AI training data
25. Aug 17 ’26 MIT and Harvard researchers introduce Role Anchor to reduce role drift in compound AI systems
26. Aug 17 ’26 ByteDance signs AI safeguards pact with the Motion Picture Association on film copyright protection
27. Aug 17 ’26 OpenAI adds Computer History to the ChatGPT macOS app
28. Aug 17 ’26 xpander.ai makes its enterprise AI agent control-plane platform generally available
29. Aug 17 ’26 OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team
30. Aug 16 ’26 DeepSeek raises prices for V4 Flash and Pro as third-party tests show weaker real-world agent reliability
31. Aug 14 ’26 Google lets users remove visible watermarks from AI-generated media while keeping invisible provenance markers
32. Aug 14 ’26 Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B Apache 2.0 open-weight model for local AI agents
33. Aug 14 ’26 OpenAI reportedly alerted the FBI over disturbing ChatGPT conversations linked to a Goldman Sachs analyst
34. Aug 13 ’26 Writer launches Palmyra X6 and updates its enterprise agent orchestration and governance stack
35. Aug 13 ’26 Anthropic study shows Claude-based agents can escalate into sabotage on shared servers
36. Aug 13 ’26 OpenAI previews Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol
37. Aug 13 ’26 IBM and OpenAI partner to expand enterprise AI services and training
38. Aug 13 ’26 Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash with coding and agent upgrades plus temporary lower API pricing
39. Aug 13 ’26 Ryanair adds Google Cloud and Gemini to its cloud stack alongside AWS
40. Aug 13 ’26 Twitch adds creator opt-out for training Amazon generative AI models
41. Aug 13 ’26 OpenAI ad service pause policy can keep billing campaigns for up to a day
42. Aug 12 ’26 Anthropic adds a Chrome sidebar for Claude Cowork
43. Aug 12 ’26 ShieldFont launches a font designed to poison AI web scraping while remaining readable to humans
44. Aug 12 ’26 xAI launches Grok 4.6 with benchmark gains and lower-cost positioning for agent workloads
45. Aug 12 ’26 Index Ventures is reportedly in talks to lead a $500 million round for a new AI lab founded by ex-DeepMind researcher Jack Parker-Holder
46. Aug 12 ’26 Google unveils Pixel 11 lineup, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag with an AI-focused hardware pitch
47. Aug 12 ’26 Skan AI raises $63 million Series C and launches workflow modeling and agent products
48. Aug 12 ’26 Tencent says AI spending weighed on profit growth as it continues model and product push
49. Aug 11 ’26 Google says Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly users, joining ChatGPT at that scale
50. Aug 11 ’26 OpenAI launches a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux
51. Aug 11 ’26 Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and open-source NeMo Switchyard for agent routing
52. Aug 11 ’26 LTX releases open-weight video model LTX-2.5 with ComfyUI integration
53. Aug 11 ’26 Researchers report a method to extract hidden reasoning traces from major AI models
54. Aug 11 ’26 OpenAI expands Daybreak with a higher-access tier for its cybersecurity model
55. Aug 11 ’26 Alibaba Cloud describes AI support workflow designed to reduce unnecessary LLM use in ticket handling
56. Aug 10 ’26 AWS adds Continuum integrations for OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code
57. Aug 10 ’26 Kimsuky is reportedly using local LLMs to enhance phishing operations
58. Aug 9 ’26 Anthropic to enable Claude Code's auto mode by default
59. Aug 9 ’26 OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations
60. Aug 8 ’26 OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
61. Aug 8 ’26 Google DeepMind's open-source WeatherNext model shows stronger hurricane forecasting with lower-resolution data
62. Aug 7 ’26 Coral AI Labs and academic collaborators introduce AgentRadio for asynchronous coordination among coding agents
63. Aug 7 ’26 Tencent open-sources Team Memory beta for shared context across multi-agent AI teams
64. Aug 7 ’26 Researchers say Moonshot AI’s Kimi escaped a misconfigured cybersecurity testing sandbox
65. Aug 7 ’26 ByteDance trains a 10 trillion-parameter AI model as it pushes to compete with leading labs
66. Aug 6 ’26 Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-2.6B, a small open-weight model for on-device AI agents
67. Aug 6 ’26 AMD acquires Taalas to develop model-specific AI inference chips
68. Aug 6 ’26 Study finds human reviewers miss about one-third of risky AI coding-agent requests
69. Aug 4 ’26 Nscale to provide AI compute infrastructure to researchers at Oxford, UCL, and Imperial
70. Aug 3 ’26 PwC reportedly published an AI report containing hallucinated citations and errors
71. Jul 29 ’26 ChatGPT appears to refuse prompts asking it to imitate living authors' styles
72. Jul 29 ’26 Report says Amazon is cutting back parts of its internal AI effort after struggles with Nova
73. Jul 28 ’26 Fish Audio raises $52 million seed round to expand AI voice models
74. Jul 24 ’26 Anthropic launches Opus 5 as a cheaper, less restrictive model than Fable
75. Jul 21 ’26 Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber
76. Jul 20 ’26 Inference startup Infinity raises $15 million seed round led by Touring Capital
77. Jul 14 ’26 Major publishers sue Google over alleged AI training on copyrighted books
78. Jul 9 ’26 OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 and a broader new model family
79. Jul 9 ’26 The New York Times seeks sanctions against OpenAI in ChatGPT copyright case
80. Jul 8 ’26 Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises train their own AI agents
81. Jul 1 ’26 Together AI raises $800 million at an $8.3 billion valuation
82. Jun 30 ’26 Trump administration lifts export controls on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable AI models
83. Jun 30 ’26 Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a lower-cost model for agentic workloads
84. Jun 30 ’26 Base44 rolls out its own AI model for its vibe-coding platform
85. Jun 29 ’26 Wired reports Meta contractors tested rival chatbots by posing as teenagers in high-risk conversations
86. Jun 22 ’26 OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5-Cyber update and launches Patch the Planet bug-fixing initiative
87. Jun 16 ’26 Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7 with new Gemini features on Pixel devices
88. Jun 8 ’26 OpenAI confidentially files for an initial public offering
89. Jun 6 ’26 OpenAI launches Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT to limit prompt-injection data exposure
90. Jun 3 ’26 Trump signs AI executive order after earlier delay over review language
91. Jun 1 ’26 Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT’s alleged role in violent incidents
92. Jun 1 ’26 Hackers reportedly exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to take over Instagram accounts
93. May 28 ’26 Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows for coordinating subagents
94. May 21 ’26 Hark raises $700M Series A for a planned multimodal AI platform and future hardware
95. May 20 ’26 SpaceX IPO filing details Anthropic compute deal worth about $15 billion annually
96. May 19 ’26 Google unveils Gemini Spark, an agentic personal assistant with Gmail integration
97. May 19 ’26 Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
98. May 15 ’26 OpenAI launches a personal finance feature in ChatGPT with bank account connections
99. May 14 ’26 Wirestock raises $23 million to supply multimodal training data to AI labs
100. May 12 ’26 Google unveils Googlebook, an AI-native laptop line built around Gemini
101. May 7 ’26 OpenAI adds a Trusted Contact safeguard in ChatGPT for possible self-harm situations
102. May 5 ’26 OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default model for ChatGPT
103. May 1 ’26 Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to support humanoid robotics AI work
104. May 1 ’26 Pentagon signs AI deployment deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS for classified networks