India launches urgent $1.25 billion AI mission securing 19,000 GPUs to build six large-scale models by 2025, selecting Sarvam AI for a 70-billion-parameter model optimized for the country's 22 official languages after DeepSeek's breakthrough sparks global AI competition.
OpenAI acquires AI training startup Neptune for under $400 million in stock as the ChatGPT maker prepares for a potential trillion-dollar IPO that could rank among the largest public offerings in history.
Wiz releases comprehensive security guide as Model Context Protocol becomes the dominant standard for connecting AI language models to tools and data, addressing growing organizational concerns about securing LLM integrations while maintaining innovation capabilities.
Meta secretly develops 'Avocado' AI model to replace Llama while spending $14.3 billion to hire Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer, abandoning open-source strategy after Llama 4's failure and implementing grueling 70-hour workweeks to compete with OpenAI and Google by 2026.
The Pentagon launches GenAI.mil platform powered by Google's Gemini AI, delivering secure artificial intelligence capabilities to all military personnel, contractors, and civilians worldwide as part of President Trump's push for AI technological superiority.
Anthropic launches Claude Code Beta for Slack, transforming the AI assistant into an autonomous coding partner that maintains codebase awareness, creates files, refactors code, runs tests, and provides progress updates directly within workplace messaging channels like a junior engineer.
OpenAI disables ChatGPT promotional messages after users revolt against irrelevant ads from companies like Peloton and Target interrupting conversations, as the AI giant struggles with massive projected losses of $115 billion through 2029 while only 5% of its 800 million users pay for service.
OpenAI launches grocery shopping directly within ChatGPT through Instacart partnership, allowing users to brainstorm meals, create lists, and purchase items without leaving the chat interface while generating new revenue streams for the AI company.
Google announces $150 million partnership with Samsung to launch AI-powered glasses in 2026, featuring Gemini assistant and in-lens displays for navigation and translation, directly challenging Meta's dominance in the smart eyewear market.
Google unveils Gemini 3 Pro, a breakthrough multimodal AI model that delivers state-of-the-art visual reasoning capabilities including complex document processing, pixel-precise spatial understanding, computer screen automation, and high-speed video analysis at 10+ FPS, promising major advances in education, medical imaging, and legal applications.