Google upgrades NotebookLM with Gemini 2.5, introducing web search integration that suggests relevant sources and agentic coding capabilities powered by the Antigravity platform, enabling notebooks to write and run code and export results in multiple formats.
Researchers from UIUC, UC Berkeley, and Chroma unveil Harness-1, a 20-billion parameter open-source AI search agent that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recall benchmarks while training on a fraction of rival data, achieving 73% recall by offloading memory management to a structured external environment.
OpenAI confidentially files IPO paperwork with the SEC in a landmark move toward going public, but internal tensions emerge as CFO Sarah Friar pushes back on CEO Sam Altman's aggressive timeline amid missed revenue targets and billions in compute spending commitments.
A new open-source AI agent called Harness-1 outperforms GPT-5.4 with 73% accuracy using minimal training data, while Microsoft launches its own MAI model family, Apple offers free cloud AI access to indie developers, and OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO at a staggering $852 billion valuation.
Anthropic's Claude, with zero chemistry-specific training, now rivals dedicated tools like ChemDraw on NMR prediction tasks, proving AI model capability is no longer science's bottleneck — the real frontier is building the workflow infrastructure that connects frontier models to real data, enabling reproducible, auditable scientific research.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas confirms a firm 2028 IPO target as the AI industry braces for a wave of major public listings, with Anthropic valued near $1 trillion and OpenAI also filing confidentially, while enterprise AI spending shifts toward cost-efficient models.
OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange to study AI's impact on workers and the economy, but the move comes under scrutiny as both OpenAI and Anthropic have quietly filed for IPOs, sparking serious questions about whether profit-driven shareholder pressures will ultimately override their proclaimed commitments to the public good.
OpenAI confidentially files an S-1 with the SEC, valued at over $850 billion, potentially setting the stage for one of the largest IPOs in history, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the charge amid a historic wave of AI company public market debuts.
OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange, giving selected researchers access to AI tools and datasets to study how artificial intelligence impacts workers, businesses, and economic inequality, with proposals open now through July 5, 2026.
Anthropic files confidential IPO paperwork with the SEC, eyeing a staggering $1 trillion valuation that could make it one of the largest public offerings in history, following a $65 billion funding round that already crowns it the world's most valuable startup.