OpenAI launched the Rosalind Biodefense Program this week, giving select US government agencies and vetted developers direct access to GPT-Rosalind, its frontier reasoning model purpose-built for life sciences research. The program pairs the model with public health missions ranging from pandemic preparedness and early outbreak detection to medical countermeasure development and epidemiological mo
Cognition, the company behind Devin, billed as the world first fully autonomous AI software engineer, has closed a $1 billion funding round at a $26 billion valuation. Ninety percent of Cognition own codebase is now written by Devin, the very product the company sells to enterprises looking to reduce headcount in engineering. That detail is…
Alphabet announced on Monday it intends to raise $80 billion through a combination of stock offerings and private placements, all of it earmarked for the AI infrastructure buildout the company says is already exceeding available supply. The capital stack breaks into three pieces: a $40 billion at-the-market program starting in Q3, $30 billion in concurrent…
At its annual Build conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Microsoft announced Project Polaris, an in-house AI coding model that will replace OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo as the default engine inside GitHub Copilot starting August 2026. The move signals the end of one of the most commercially significant partnerships in tech history. Microsoft invested billions in…
Anthropic dropped a bombshell on Monday, filing a confidential registration statement with the SEC to go public. The Claude maker, valued at $965 billion after closing a $65 billion funding round earlier this year, is moving faster than anyone expected, beating OpenAI in the race to Wall Street by what could be months. The filing…
OpenAI has hired outside legal counsel to explore action against Apple after concluding the ChatGPT integration on iOS failed to deliver the subscriber growth and visibility it was promised. Apple is meanwhile building an Extensions feature that would let users swap OpenAI out for Google or Anthropic entirely.
GitHub moved Copilot to usage-based billing today, replacing flat monthly access with GitHub AI Credits at one cent each. Plan prices stay the same but heavy users running agents and reasoning models will burn through their included credits faster, with Copilot stopping entirely when the balance hits zero.
Google turned on Gemini Spark for US Ultra subscribers on May 29 and it is not a chatbot. It is a background AI agent that monitors your apps all day and takes action without being asked, connecting to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Maps to handle tasks before you think to request them.
OpenAI published its Frontier Governance Framework, aligning its existing safety practices with the EU AI Act and California’s Transparency in Frontier AI Act ahead of August enforcement deadlines. Critics say the document maps old policies onto new legal language without announcing any new commitments.
CNN sued Perplexity AI for scraping over 17,000 stories, images, and videos without permission. The network says it tried to negotiate a license, was rebuffed, and now alleges Perplexity also falsely advertised access to CNN’s premium content. Perplexity’s response: you cannot copyright facts.