OpenAI is closing in on a record-breaking $100 billion+ funding round that could push its valuation beyond $850 billion, cementing its status as one of the most valuable AI companies in history.
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro, claiming top AI benchmark performance over rivals Claude and GPT while offering dramatically lower pricing at $2 per million input tokens, making it available now to both consumers and developers across multiple platforms.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urgently calls for global AI regulation and an international oversight body at New Delhi's AI Impact Summit, warning that open-source biomodels pose serious bioweapon risks, while announcing a major partnership with TCS to expand AI infrastructure in India, where ChatGPT now serves 100 million weekly users.
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro today, an upgraded AI model that more than doubles its predecessor's reasoning power with a 77.1% score on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, rolling out now across the Gemini app, NotebookLM, Vertex AI, and the Gemini API for Pro and Ultra plan subscribers.
Mukesh Ambani unveils a massive $110 billion plan to build gigawatt-scale AI data centers and edge computing infrastructure across India over seven years, aiming to slash AI costs, boost local-language AI, and position India as a global compute powerhouse amid a broader national AI investment surge exceeding $200 billion.
Nvidia-backed Emerald AI raises $25M in seed extension funding at a $250M valuation, bringing total funding to $42.5M, as its software helps data centers slash energy costs and ease grid strain during peak demand.
Meta signs a massive multiyear deal with Nvidia for millions of CPUs and GPUs to supercharge its AI infrastructure, marking the first large-scale Grace-only deployment, as Big Tech's combined AI spending in 2026 is projected to surpass the total cost of the Apollo space program.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 AI coding model launches across GitHub Copilot platforms including Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and mobile apps, bringing advanced agentic coding capabilities to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users with gradual rollout now underway.
Meta strikes massive multibillion-dollar deal with Nvidia to deploy millions of AI chips across data centers, becoming first company to use Nvidia's standalone Grace CPUs as part of ambitious $600 billion infrastructure expansion through 2028.
Cursor launches AI agent plugin support with major partnerships including Amplitude, AWS, Figma, Linear, and Stripe, enabling developers to connect AI agents to external tools across the full development lifecycle while building custom plugins through a new marketplace.