Perplexity scraps its advertising plans and pivots to premium users, signaling a major strategic shift as the AI search startup battles Google and fights to find a sustainable, trust-preserving business model.
Zenity Labs develops groundbreaking AI security system that reads language models' internal thoughts to detect malicious prompts, outperforming existing guards like Prompt-Guard-2 in stopping jailbreaks and prompt injections despite higher false positive rates.
OpenAI launches massive partnership with six major Indian institutions including IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad to integrate ChatGPT Edu into academic workflows for over 100,000 students, faculty, and staff while expanding collaboration with ed-tech platforms like Physics Wallah to deliver structured AI courses across India's education sector.
Apple rushes three AI devices into development for 2026-2027 launch including smart glasses, camera-equipped AirPods, and AI pendant, despite major doubts about the company's AI execution capabilities following disappointing Apple Intelligence rollout.
Microsoft 365 Copilot bug exposes confidential emails by bypassing security protections, allowing the AI assistant to incorrectly summarize sensitive messages from users' Sent Items and Drafts folders since late January, with Microsoft now deploying fixes.
Google launches Lyria 3 AI music generator in Gemini app, enabling users to create 30-second custom songs from text prompts or photos with automatic lyrics, style control, and watermarked identification.
OpenAI acquires the entire Nerve AI team to develop large-scale search capabilities for ChatGPT as the enterprise workplace automation startup shuts down operations within 30 days, suspending customer billing immediately while promising secure data deletion after the transition period.
Perplexity is dropping ads from its AI search platform, warning that advertising erodes user trust by making people 'doubt everything,' as the company pivots to paid subscriptions targeting high-value professionals like lawyers, doctors, and CEOs — drawing a sharp contrast with OpenAI's pro-advertising stance.
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.
OpenAI acquires OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger as the AI industry pivots from chatbots to autonomous agents capable of browsing, clicking, and executing code to complete real tasks, while Anthropic's cease-and-desist letter backfires by pushing the viral project to their competitor.