Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveils SPECS augmented reality glasses at Augmented World Expo, positioning the device as a full spatial computer backed by 12 years of development that could replace smartphones by bringing technology into the real world rather than away from it.
Tech giants and world leaders clash at the G7 Summit in France over who controls AI's future, as US export restrictions spark geopolitical tensions and a fierce debate erupts over whether a small elite or the global public should decide the fate of transformative artificial intelligence.
Shopify launches five AI-powered shopping apps built on its new Catalog API and Universal Commerce Protocol, giving developers access to billions of standardized products to embed commerce into any digital experience — with monetization opportunities coming soon.
The Trump administration forces Anthropic's Claude offline after a trust-shattering dispute over the AI company allegedly sharing technology with a suspected China-linked firm, with sanctions and export controls having been under consideration for weeks prior.
The Trump administration is demanding Anthropic make its AI models completely jailbreak-proof, a condition security experts say is technically impossible, escalating tensions between the White House and the AI company.
Tech CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind join world leaders at the G7 summit in France, marking a historic power shift as governments now depend on private AI executives to shape credible global policy on frontier AI risks, child safety, and cybersecurity.
The US government threatens Anthropic with criminal and civil penalties for exporting its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models without authorization, forcing the company to disable both models worldwide as it scrambles to negotiate a resolution with the Trump administration.
Microsoft is expanding its Phi Silica AI model to Nvidia RTX 30-series and newer GPUs with at least 6GB of VRAM in an early developer preview, bringing local AI capabilities to more Windows users beyond Copilot+ PCs, though GPU-based execution lacks some NPU-exclusive features like prompt compression and speculative decoding.
Sina Weibo's tiny 3-billion-parameter AI model, VibeThinker-3B, is shaking up the industry by claiming to rival Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic on key reasoning benchmarks, but skeptics warn the results may reflect 'benchmaxxing' rather than real-world capability.
ChatGPT's global market share falls below 50% for the first time, dropping to 46.4% as Google's Gemini surges to 27.7% and Anthropic's Claude hits 10.3%, while the booming AI app economy races toward $4.2 billion in consumer spending in the first half of 2026 alone.