Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 (keeping Sonnet pricing) while adding Agent SDK, VS Code support, checkpoints, code execution, and Chrome automation to push AI into production coding.
OpenAI’s Instant Checkout brings in-chat purchasing to U.S. users via ACP with Stripe. Etsy is live at launch; >1M Shopify merchants are slated to follow.
Elon Musk’s xAI accuses OpenAI of trade secret theft, alleging stolen source code and data center strategies via employee poaching. OpenAI rejects the charges.
Meta has unveiled Vibes, a short-form video feed of AI-generated clips available in over 40 countries through its Meta AI app and website.
The Alibaba and Nvidia deal integrates Physical AI into PAI, expands data centers across eight countries, and boosts AI spending while China curbs Nvidia chip sales.
Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max with trillion-parameter scale and adds open-source Qwen3-Omni, a real-time multimodal model with competitive benchmarks and clear API pricing.
Microsoft added Anthropic’s Claude models to Microsoft 365 Copilot—starting with Researcher and Copilot Studio—broadening model choice beyond OpenAI
Google has introduced Mixboard, an AI-powered mood board app available in U.S. beta, designed to rival Pinterest and Canva with AI-driven creativity.
Stargate expands with five new U.S. data centers to serve 700M weekly users, lifting capacity near 7 GW and $400B investment, on track for 10 GW by 2025.
