Meta unveils closed-source AI model Muse Spark, thrilling Wall Street while simultaneously cutting 10% of its workforce and planning up to $135 billion in AI infrastructure spending, marking a bold shift to compete directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
GPT-5-powered agentic search systems are crushing baseline scores with an NDCG of 0.453 versus a 0.289 BM25 baseline on Amazon ESCI, but hit a hard wall when facing knowledge-gap tasks where LLMs cannot evaluate information they don't already know.
Poolside launches two powerful agentic coding models — Laguna M.1 (225B) and open-weight Laguna XS.2 (33B) — both free via API for a limited time, delivering top-tier SWE-bench Pro scores and built for complex, long-horizon coding tasks using reinforcement learning trained on 30 trillion tokens.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 quietly raises real-world costs up to 27% through a new tokenizer that generates 32–45% more tokens than its predecessor, despite keeping prices unchanged at $5/M input and $25/M output — though short prompts under 2K tokens actually see a slight cost decrease.
Google launches 'Ask YouTube,' an AI-powered conversational search feature exclusively for US YouTube Premium subscribers that combines video recommendations, Shorts, and AI-generated text summaries into structured, topic-organized results pages.
AWS and OpenAI are expanding their partnership, bringing frontier AI models, the Codex coding agent, and a new Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents service to enterprise customers through Amazon Bedrock's secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
OpenAI and AWS are expanding their strategic partnership, bringing GPT-5.5 and Codex to Amazon Bedrock in limited preview, enabling enterprises to deploy advanced AI models and agents within AWS security frameworks while counting usage toward cloud commitments.
Anthropic integrates Claude with major creative platforms including Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Ableton, and Autodesk, enabling AI-powered assistance directly within these tools while also joining Blender's Development Fund as a Corporate Patron alongside Netflix and Epic Games.
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.