OpenAI and Anthropic opened APIs for cross-lab audits, reporting sycophancy, misuse cooperation, jailbreak resistance differences, and refusal–helpfulness trade-offs.
Meta Partners with Midjourney to expand its creative AI portfolio, licensing V7 and V1 models while pursuing superintelligence ambitions.
Elon Musk’s accusation that Apple favors OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its App Store rankings has triggered a public battle with Sam Altman, set against intensifying legal pressure on Apple.
Perplexity AI’s $34.5B all-cash bid for Chrome comes as the DOJ weighs forcing Google to sell, potentially reshaping the browser, search, and AI markets.
Nvidia and AMD will pay 15% of China AI chip revenues to the US government in a first-of-its-kind deal, drawing bipartisan opposition over legality and national security.
Microsoft has deployed GPT-5 across Windows Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry, introducing Smart Mode, advanced reasoning, code improvements, and unified governance.
Nvidia Reaches $4 Trillion Milestone on July 9, 2025, becoming the most valuable public company in history. Fueled by AI chip demand and global tech leadership.
Meta’s $14.8B Scale AI stake gives it deep access to labeled data pipelines and AI talent while regulators raise alarms about acquihire-style tech consolidation.
Meta unveils V-JEPA 2, a world model trained on over 1 million hours of video that enables zero-shot robot planning and introduces new benchmarks for intuitive physics.
