CAISI, the federal AI standards body, has signed agreements with Google, Microsoft, and xAI requiring them to submit frontier AI models for government evaluation before deployment — a major step in federal AI oversight.
The Trump administration, which dismantled Biden’s AI safety apparatus, is now considering an executive order requiring safety evaluations of advanced AI models before public release — driven by fears over Anthropic’s Mythos model.
Isomorphic Labs, Google DeepMind’s AI drug discovery spin-off, is raising more than $2 billion in a new round led by Thrive Capital — doubling down on using AI to design the medicines of the future.
Nvidia has committed more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies in 2026 — with $30 billion going to OpenAI alone — raising questions about circular investment flows in the AI ecosystem.
DeepSeek-V4 has arrived with near-state-of-the-art intelligence matching Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 while costing just one-sixth as much to run — reigniting the debate over AI pricing.
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.