Wayve raised 1.2B dollars at an 8.6B valuation, with Uber adding up to 300M milestone-based capital, ahead of planned London robotaxi trials in 2026.

A complete summary of the India AI Impact Summit 2026: The New Delhi Declaration, Reliance’s $120B pledge, and the robotic dog controversy.

Infosys and Anthropic launch telecom-first enterprise AI deal as AI services reach 5.5% of revenue amid $44.46B Indian IT selloff.

SpaceX acquires xAI in February 2026, with valuations reported around $1.125tn to $1.25tn, creating the world’s most valuable private company.

IBM and Anthropic form a strategic partnership to integrate Claude AI models into its enterprise software suite, starting with an IDE tested by 6,000 staff and reporting 45% productivity gains.

OpenAI and AMD agreed a 6GW AI chip deal starting 2026, with OpenAI gaining option for ~10% AMD stake; AMD shares surged over 34%.

Emerging economies drove significant ChatGPT traffic in August, highlighting the technology’s accelerating global reach.

OpenAI surpasses SpaceX as the world’s most valuable private company after a $6.6B secondary share sale at a $500B valuation.

Microsoft Adds Anthropic for Researcher and Copilot Studio, integrating Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1 while OpenAI remains default in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Elon Musk’s xAI accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets through employee poaching and code transfers. OpenAI denies claims, calling it harassment.

Alibaba and Nvidia integrate Physical AI into Cloud PAI, expand data centers worldwide, and grow AI spending despite China’s chip restrictions.

Oracle and OpenAI ink a record $300B cloud contract, reshaping enterprise infrastructure and raising new questions about AI compute and energy.

Microsoft and OpenAI signed a non-binding MOU while OpenAI’s nonprofit parent gains a $100B equity stake. Regulators are reviewing restructuring and access terms.

Albania launches AI bot Diella as symbolic minister for public procurement, aiming to eliminate corruption and support EU accession goals.

OpenAI is building the OpenAI Jobs Platform, an AI-driven hiring service set to launch by mid-2026, directly challenging LinkedIn

Anthropic will pay $1.5B for pirated books used to train Claude AI, in the largest copyright recovery ever, pending U.S. court approval.

Switzerland launches Apertus—open weights, open data, and full training docs, in 8B and 70B sizes, via Swisscom, Hugging Face, and Public AI.

NotebookLM’ Video Overviews expand to 80+ languages, offering native-language video and audio overviews with cultural adaptation and Gemini-powered accuracy.

Microsoft launched MAI Models: MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, a MoE model trained on ~15k H100s, as reliance on OpenAI eases.

OpenAI and Anthropic cross-tested GPT and Claude models, detailing sycophancy, misuse cooperation, jailbreaks, and refusal–accuracy trade-offs.

Google releases Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with multi-image fusion, sequential storytelling, style transfer, real-world reasoning, and SynthID watermarking.

Google introduces Flight Deals, an AI-powered tool in Google Flights that helps flexible travelers find real-time airfare bargains using natural language.

Google launches Guided Learning with free AI Pro for students, invests $1B in training, but early tests show ChatGPT delivers stronger study results.

Eleven Music by ElevenLabs creates studio-quality tracks from text prompts in minutes. Discover its features, pricing, and why it’s perfect for beginners.

Google DeepMind positions its Genie 3 world model as a step toward AGI, but with consistency limited to "a few minutes," its practical use is debated.

Microsoft integrates GPT-5 into Windows, 365 Copilot, GitHub, and Azure AI, adding Smart Mode, multiple model variants, and enterprise-grade governance.