Microsoft is ditching OpenAI and Anthropic AI models in favor of its own proprietary MAI models inside Excel and Outlook, completing tens of thousands of prompts weekly as the tech giant slashes costs and bets big on in-house artificial intelligence.
OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 dominates the Text-to-Image Arena leaderboard with a record Elo score of 1385, defeating 71 rival models across 5.6 million community votes, with Meta and Reve claiming second and third place respectively.
The US lifts export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models, Google DeepMind partners with A24 in a landmark filmmaking-AI collaboration, and Tencent unleashes a massive 295-billion-parameter open-source model as US-China AI rivalry intensifies.
Broadcom shares surge over 6% after Apple extends their chip partnership through 2031, with Broadcom set to supply custom AI-focused ASIC chips across multiple Apple product generations, including advanced AI servers planned for 2027.
TeraWulf shares surge 13% after signing a landmark 20-year, $19 billion AI infrastructure lease with Anthropic at its Kentucky data campus, while also selling a major joint venture stake for $450 million to focus on wholly owned AI projects.
Anthropic rolls out spend alerts, cost analytics, and model defaults for Claude Enterprise as a 'tokenmaxxing' crisis sends AI costs spiraling out of control, with companies like Uber burning through entire annual AI budgets in just four months.
Tencent launches Hy3, a massive 295-billion-parameter open-weight AI model under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, eliminating regional restrictions that previously blocked enterprise deployments across the EU, UK, and South Korea, while boasting a dramatically reduced hallucination rate of 5.4%.
A GitHub repository by David Ondrej, featuring reusable AI agent skills for coding, research, and workflow automation, is rapidly gaining popularity with 1.6K stars and 221 forks, offering organized skill sets spanning agent orchestration, web research, and machine operations.
Uber burns through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in just four months, with COO Andrew Macdonald openly questioning whether the skyrocketing spending is actually delivering value, admitting a clear link between AI tool usage and meaningful consumer features has yet to be established.
TeraWulf secures a landmark 20-year, $19 billion lease deal with Anthropic at its Kentucky data campus while simultaneously selling its Bitcoin mining stake for $450 million, signaling a bold and decisive pivot toward AI infrastructure dominance.