OpenAI reached a rapid agreement with the Department of Defense to deploy its AI models in classified environments, following the breakdown of Anthropic’s negotiations. The move sparked debate over safeguards, deployment, and AI ethics in national security operations.
Despite President Trump’s directive to cease federal use of Anthropic’s Claude AI, U.S. military forces reportedly employed the model for intelligence, target selection, and battlefield simulations in airstrikes on Iran.
Honor confirmed its Robot Phone will launch in the second half of the year, featuring a 200MP camera with a built-in three-axis mechanical gimbal system.
OpenAI secured $110 billion in new funding at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, backed by SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon to expand AI infrastructure and global reach.
A YouTuber built a system that lets his cavapoo trigger AI-generated video games by mashing a keyboard, using Anthropic’s Claude with custom guardrails and automated feedback tools.
Burger King is testing an AI-powered headset system called Patty, designed to monitor operations, assist employees, and track service patterns in real time.
Two more founding members of Thinking Machines Lab have joined Meta, highlighting ongoing talent departures from the $12 billion AI startup.
Nano Banana 2 delivers ultra-fast, photorealistic image generation with improved world knowledge, instruction following, and precision text rendering. Available across Gemini app, Search, AI Studio, Flow, and Google Cloud.
Nvidia reports record Q4 revenue of $68.1B and net income of $43B, driven by strong AI data center demand and continued hyperscale investment.
Researchers report that ChatGPT-5.2 Pro helped simplify and generalize a complex gluon scattering formula, with results presented at the AAAS annual meeting.
Samsung introduces the Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra, featuring advanced Galaxy AI, a new Privacy Display, and upgraded performance powered by Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy.
Perplexity unveils Perplexity Computer, a general-purpose AI system that orchestrates multiple frontier models to run complex workflows autonomously.
Andrej Karpathy argues AI coding agents now fundamentally change programming workflows, enabling long-running autonomous tasks and redefining software engineering.
Anthropic acquires Vercept to enhance Claude’s computer use capabilities, following major benchmark gains with Claude Sonnet 4.6 and continued expansion of its AI research team.
Irina Bodnar says Anthropic’s Claude and Meta-backed Manus introduced features that disrupted her AI ad startup Ryze AI, triggering a pivot and raising questions about startup survival in the age of AI giants.