Z.ai’s open-source GLM-5.1 model has outperformed Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 on the SWE-Bench Pro coding benchmark while running for 8 hours on agentic tasks — and it’s free to use.
OpenAI launched new voice intelligence features in its API, giving developers tools to build apps that listen, understand, and respond to speech with real-time precision.
Microsoft launched three in-house AI models — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — in a direct challenge to OpenAI and Google, its biggest AI rivals and current partners.
The Trump White House, which started its term torching AI safety rules and calling oversight censorship, is now drafting a security framework requiring the Pentagon to test AI models before any government can deploy them.
Colorado lawmakers introduced sweeping new AI legislation targeting automated systems that make consequential decisions about employment, housing, loans, insurance, and health care — requiring companies to notify users and allow them to contest AI rulings.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have quietly inked deals to form AI consulting ventures seeded by private equity giants including Blackstone and Hellman and Friedman, with Anthropic’s entity capitalized at $1.5 billion.
Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are on track to collectively spend $700 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, with projections now showing that number could crack $1 trillion by next year.
Google confirmed it will pump up to $40 billion into Anthropic — $10 billion immediately, with $30 billion more tied to performance milestones, plus 5 gigawatts of computing power thrown in for good measure.
German software giant SAP is acquiring Prior Labs — a startup barely a year and a half old — and committing EUR 1 billion to build it into a world-class AI lab, in what is called one of Germany’s biggest venture outcomes ever.
Sierra, the enterprise AI startup cofounded by OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor, closed a monster $950 million Series E — pushing its valuation from $10 billion to $15.8 billion in under a year.