OpenAI’s internal reasoning model produced a counterexample to Paul Erdős’s 1946 conjecture about the unit distance problem, marking a major AI-assisted mathematics result.
Google I/O 2026 focused on Gemini as an agentic AI layer across Search, Chrome, Android, Workspace, YouTube, shopping, developer tools, cars, science and smart glasses.
Alibaba has introduced Qwen3.7-Max, the Zhenwu M890 AI chip, and the Panjiu AL128 server as part of its push to build a full-stack AI infrastructure platform for agentic workloads.
Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic’s pretraining team, where he will work on Claude and help build a group focused on AI-assisted model research.
A federal court dismissed the Elon Musk lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Microsoft after finding the case was filed too late.
Google search is being rebuilt around an Intelligent Search box, AI Mode, background agents, personalized results, shopping tools, booking support, generative interfaces, and custom mini apps.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, will address artificial intelligence, human dignity, workers’ rights, warfare, and Vatican AI policy.
ChatGPT can now connect to financial accounts through Plaid, giving Pro users a personal finance dashboard with read-only access to balances, transactions, investments, subscriptions, upcoming bills and savings goals.
The Anthropic funding round could raise roughly $30 billion and value the Claude maker at about $900 billion, nearly tripling its February valuation.
