Anthropic secures up to $15 billion in funding at a staggering $350 billion valuation, with Coatue and Singapore's GIC leading the oversubscribed round as Microsoft and Nvidia consider additional investments in the Claude AI developer.
Google launches 'Just Ask Anything' feature and deploys Gemini 3 AI globally as the company battles declining usage, with 37% of consumers now abandoning traditional search engines for AI tools instead.
Cloudflare stock rockets 10% to $193.68 as investors pile into the cybersecurity giant amid explosive social media buzz around AI agents, with CEO revealing 80% of top AI companies already depend on their network infrastructure.
Common Sense Media declares Grok AI chatbot unsafe for teenagers after finding it generates sexual and violent content despite weak safety controls, fails to verify user ages, and produces explicit deepfakes even in Kids Mode while operating on X platform where harmful AI content spreads virally.
OpenAI launches Prism, a free GPT-5.2-powered LaTeX editor designed specifically for scientists to streamline research paper writing, responding to 1.3 million researchers submitting over 8 million weekly science queries to ChatGPT.
Groundbreaking AI-animated short film 'Dear Upstairs Neighbors' premieres at Sundance, utilizing custom Google DeepMind technology that transforms rough animator sketches into polished painterly scenes through fine-tuned Veo and Imagen models, marking a revolutionary collaboration between human creativity and artificial intelligence in filmmaking.
Chinese tech giant Kuaishou's Kling AI video platform explodes to 12 million users in just six months, generating $240 million in revenue while directly challenging Google's Veo and OpenAI's Sora in the rapidly expanding artificial intelligence video generation market.
Chinese AI giants including Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and Baidu launch rapid-fire model releases using open-source and low-cost strategies to challenge OpenAI and Google's dominance, with DeepSeek seeing usage in Africa two to four times higher than other regions as companies prioritize ecosystem integration over benchmark performance.
Tech blogger successfully clones his own voice using AI to create interactive audio versions of blog posts, implementing an automated system that generates clickable subtitles and allows readers to jump between text and corresponding audio segments.
A massive shift rocks the advertising industry in 2026 as 90% of brands embrace AI-generated commercials that cost just $2,000 to produce, while a growing resistance movement of companies like Aerie and Polaroid capitalizes on consumer demand for authentic human-made content.