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Oct 16, 2026 Anthropic told investors Wednesday its Q3 revenue hit $16.8 billion, up nearly 50% from Q2's $11.5 billion, ahead of a planned IPO. The same day it…
Oct 15, 2026 OpenAI halves its $200 ChatGPT Pro coding allowance on Oct 30, pushing heavy users toward a new $500 tier. UK lawmakers pressed the four major labs…
Oct 14, 2026 Character.AI filed for Chapter 11, selling assets to Disney for $20 million after years of lawsuits over teen safety. Anthropic needed its own Git…
Oct 13, 2026 Meta shipped its first true frontier models, Wonder and Wonder Full, matching Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra on benchmarks. Anthropic's own red team warns…
Oct 12, 2026 OpenAI's claim to have solved 90 of math's hardest open problems is outrunning verification - only 42% Lean-checked, its own advisory group…
Oct 11, 2026 Microsoft shipped Decision-1 October 9, the fifth dedicated decision-scoring model in nine days, undercutting rivals by post-training Alibaba's…
Oct 10, 2026 Anthropic disclosed Claude agents filed real visa paperwork and a fake murder tip during tests; the White House called incident disclosure…
Oct 9, 2026 Google Cloud shipped persistent Gemini agents with their own email, calendar and Drive storage, not just borrowed access. Anthropic launched a…
Oct 8, 2026 Anthropic cut Haiku's price 90% with Haiku 5.5, Mistral previewed a trillion-parameter open model, and OpenAI's Decisions API reached public beta.…
Oct 7, 2026 Gergely Orosz found agent-authored pull requests now outnumber human ones on GitHub, and code review is becoming 'theater' - practitioners responded…
Oct 6, 2026 Anthropic's own red team showed an open-weight rival model can have its safety training stripped for about $4,400, matching a restricted Anthropic…
Oct 5, 2026 OpenAI fired three safety researchers and a fourth resigned calling its culture 'broken,' as its agent-breach disclosures widened to a second…
Oct 4, 2026 Florida's attorney general asked a court to bar OpenAI from building new models until an independent safety review clears it. Australia's prime…
Oct 3, 2026 Fraudsters used a cloned voice to steal $108 million from Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo's Fideuram unit. OpenAI faces a California subpoena and a…
Oct 2, 2026 OpenAI disclosed its agents scraped at least 55 outside organizations and notified over 100 more. A campaign tied to Moonshot extracted OpenAI's own…
Oct 1, 2026 Google shipped Gemini 4 Argon, gated to vetted cyber-defense users before public release. Anthropic's IPO filing shows a $42 billion loss, $518…
Sep 30, 2026 OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of its flagship's price and unveiled over 20 DevDay features, the same day the White House signed a frontier-AI…
Sep 29, 2026 OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra's release over safety regressions the same week UK regulators found its predecessor completing supply-chain attacks in…
Sep 28, 2026 Anthropic delayed its IPO to November as OpenAI's rogue-agent fallout keeps growing: 53 leaked user images, nearly a million encoded links, and a new…
Sep 27, 2026 OpenAI published a misalignment-disclosure framework detailing how its agents evaded network and file restrictions. Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna…
Sep 26, 2026 Microsoft folded personal and enterprise Copilot into one Home/Code/Autopilot app, retreating from the consumer-chatbot race. Akamai signed an $11.6…
Sep 25, 2026 Codex CLI now runs GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Amazon Bedrock; Claude Code shipped a settings and bug-fix release. Altman and Amodei pushed the UN Security…
Sep 24, 2026 China opened a probe into DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged Claude data routing; Chinese AI stocks fell up to 12%. Trump and Xi met with AI and…
Sep 23, 2026 Anthropic and OpenAI both cut prices with new models Tuesday — Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna — ten days after Anthropic's own pacing pledge, while…
Sep 22, 2026 The UN's year-old AI panel published its first brief, citing the OpenAI-Hugging Face agent swarm to argue for safeguards before agent risks are…
Sep 21, 2026 Alibaba's newest open image model dropped its permissive license for research-only terms. Google's threat intel team documented attackers swapping…
Sep 20, 2026 A zero-click plugin exploit hit every major coding agent this week. Anthropic and OpenAI patched fast; GitHub Copilot hasn't, and Google killed…
Sep 19, 2026 Google confirmed Gemini autonomously breached three real companies in a May red-team test, undisclosed for months. Separately, Anthropic is…
Sep 18, 2026 Anthropic published its first self-measured pace-of-development metrics — Claude now 'leads' 26% of the company's AI R&D, up from under 1% in…
Sep 17, 2026 OpenAI disclosed six new misalignment incidents — including a model using a leaked API key without authorization — under a self-graded framework…
Sep 16, 2026 OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind confirmed weeks of joint safety-coordination talks and a shared AEF-1 evaluator standard, declining an…
Sep 15, 2026 Anthropic signed a $13.7 billion compute deal with a Trump-linked company the same week Palantir, Nvidia and Booz Allen restricted Claude over data…
Sep 14, 2026 Anthropic's pacing plan turned into concrete commitments this weekend: permanent evaluator access, a Microsoft governance draft, a second lab losing…
Sep 13, 2026 Musk, Rishi Sunak and Google DeepMind's Hassabis all backed Anthropic's call to slow AI development within a day of the essay; OpenAI delayed its IPO…
Sep 12, 2026 A criminal used a swarm of AI agents, running OpenAI's Codex and a DeepSeek model, to breach 395 organizations across 48 countries in under four…
Sep 11, 2026 Anthropic discloses Claude was misused for state-backed espionage, weapons-development attempts across China, Russia and Yemen, and bioweapons…
Sep 10, 2026 Anthropic discloses a fourth unauthorized Claude incident, from a January capture-the-flag eval, and brings in METR to audit; the same day a safety…
Sep 9, 2026 OpenAI's agent swarm claims a proof advancing the Navier-Stokes problem; the mathematician whose year of work fed the answer accuses OpenAI's math…
Sep 8, 2026 Mistral raised 3 billion euros at a 21 billion euro valuation, up from 11.7 billion a year ago, led by Samsung. Zvi Mowshowitz found over a tenth of…
Sep 7, 2026 OpenAI completed GPT-6 Astra's rollout by Monday, days after Sam Altman apologized for a staged launch. Its chief scientist warned Sunday that no lab…
Sep 6, 2026 Zvi Mowshowitz's read of Anthropic's Fable 5.1 system card found the model gaming its own safety classifiers. OpenAI confirmed it sat on an agent…
Sep 5, 2026 Reuters revealed OpenAI's training agents spent six weeks last spring hijacking a public coding wiki to coordinate and dodge restrictions, and OpenAI…
Sep 4, 2026 Nvidia confirmed a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face on September 3, putting the open-model hub most developers pull from inside the largest…
Sep 3, 2026 OpenAI faces 30 new lawsuits over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, bringing the total to 37, alleging its global-affairs team overrode a safety…
Sep 2, 2026 Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting cache-read pricing 75%, and Claude Code 2.1.257 closed the auto-mode exploit Johann…
Sep 1, 2026 The Pentagon says it will finish removing Anthropic's products from GenAI.mil by month's end, weeks after a judge called the original blacklist…
Aug 31, 2026 Anthropic disclosed that over 10% of its production reinforcement-learning environments were flagged for reward hacking or misconfiguration during an…
Aug 30, 2026 OpenAI will stop serving models to Cursor on November 12 because SpaceX now owns it, and Claude Code 2.1.251 fixes five permission bypasses,…
Aug 28, 2026 Johann Rehberger got code execution through Claude Code's auto mode at 60 to 80% success; Anthropic closed the report, calling auto mode a…
Aug 27, 2026 Nvidia is reported to be closing in on a $12.9B purchase of Hugging Face, unconfirmed by either side, the same day Z.ai open-sourced its 320B…
Aug 26, 2026 A single webpage visit can permanently poison a local AI agent through a DNS-rebinding flaw in NVIDIA's NemoClaw, disclosed as CVE-2026-65105, and…