GitHub Copilot is shifting to an AI Credits billing system on June 1, 2026, replacing premium request units with token-based credits while keeping all base plan prices unchanged, and offering Business and Enterprise users bonus credits, pooled usage, and new admin budget controls through August 2026.
A new open-source Chrome extension brings Google's Gemma 4 AI entirely on-device using WebGPU, enabling powerful browser automation, semantic web search, and tab management with zero data sent to external servers.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 with record-breaking agentic performance and free healthcare access, Google unveils a full enterprise AI stack with $750M in startup funding, and Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 challenges top models at a fraction of the cost, signaling an intensifying race to dominate the AI industry.
China's government blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus, even as roughly 100 employees already operate from Meta's Singapore offices and two founders face exit bans in mainland China, creating a tense standoff between the tech giant and Beijing regulators.
DeepSeek ignites a global AI pricing war by slashing its new V4-Pro model costs by 75% for developers, dropping input token prices to just $0.036 per million — undercutting OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic — as geopolitical tensions over Chinese AI development escalate.
Canva's Magic Layers AI feature is caught automatically replacing the word 'Palestine' with 'Ukraine' in user designs, sparking widespread outrage before the company issues an apology and deploys a fix.
China orders Meta to unwind its $2.5 billion acquisition of Manus AI, escalating AI tensions between Beijing and Washington while signaling a crackdown on 'Singapore washing,' a tactic Chinese tech firms use to attract foreign investment by relocating staff abroad.
Former Google DeepMind researcher David Silver's new AI startup, Ineffable Intelligence, raises a record-breaking $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion valuation, marking the largest seed round in European history as it pursues superintelligence through reinforcement learning, backed by Sequoia, Nvidia, Google, and others.
Redis releases a new framework targeting the root cause of most AI agent failures in production — broken context architecture — offering a reference design, 12-question self-audit, and RedisVL-powered semantic search to replace fragile, stitched-together context systems.
OpenAI and Microsoft restructure their partnership, ending exclusive ties and allowing OpenAI to work with rival cloud providers like AWS, while Microsoft retains first-ship priority on Azure through a non-exclusive IP license until 2032, clearing the path for OpenAI's IPO.