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Anthropic Opens Milan Office: Italy Becomes 6th European Market
Anthropic opens its Milan office on May 28, marking the sixth European city in under a year as EMEA revenue jumps 9x year-over-year.
ChatGPT Voice Mode Runs Old GPT-4o Model, Devs Flag Capability Gap
Simon Willison and other developers highlight that ChatGPT voice mode still runs on a GPT-4o-era model — a 13-month capability gap from the text interface.
Cisco: Frontier AI Models Fail Multi-Turn Attacks, Benchmarks Miss It
Cisco's new study finds attack success rates jump from 3% to 88% across 15 frontier AI models when attackers use multi-turn conversations.
AI-Drafted Lawsuits Are Swamping Federal Courts, MIT Study Finds
Pro se filings have nearly doubled since ChatGPT launched, with 18% of 2026 federal complaints showing AI-generated text, an MIT-USC study found.
China Restricts Overseas Travel for AI Researchers at DeepSeek, Alibaba
Beijing is now requiring government approval before top AI talent at private firms can travel abroad — a sharp escalation in the US-China AI race.
Cognition Raises $1B at $26B Valuation, Doubling in 8 Months
Devin maker Cognition closed a $1B round at a $26B valuation on $492M ARR — proof that independent AI coding startups can still win against frontier labs.
ElevenLabs Music v2 Can Switch Genres Mid-Track, Built on Licensed Data
ElevenLabs launched Music v2 — a generative AI music model that jumps from opera to metal mid-song, with full commercial clearance on the output.
Generative AI Beats Average Human Creativity in 100,000-Person Study
A Université de Montréal study of 100,000 people finds generative AI tops average human creativity scores — but the top 10% of humans still win.
Claude Plugs Into 28 Security Tools With New Compliance API
Anthropic shipped a Compliance API and 28 enterprise integrations — Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Okta — putting Claude under Microsoft 365-grade governance.
Anthropic in Talks to Run Claude on Microsoft's Maia 200 Chip
Anthropic could become the first external customer of Microsoft's Maia 200 AI chip — a deal that could cut Claude's Azure inference costs by double digits.
ChatGPT Adds Trusted Contact, Fast Answers, and Memory Sources
OpenAI rolled out a Trusted Contact safety feature, a 'Fast answers' mode, and editable memory sources — its biggest ChatGPT consumer update since GPT-5.5.
Chinese AI Models Cross 60% Market Share on OpenRouter
Kimi, DeepSeek, GLM, and Qwen now serve over 60% of tokens on OpenRouter — a 50x jump in 18 months that's reshaping the open-weights tier.
UPDATE: Anthropic Closes $30B Round at $900B, Tops OpenAI
Anthropic's $30 billion raise at a $900B+ valuation is set to close this week, making it the world's most valuable private AI company.
Cursor Composer 2.5 Matches Opus 4.7 at One-Tenth the Cost
Cursor's new Composer 2.5 coding agent hits Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 benchmarks at roughly 10% of the cost, built on Moonshot's Kimi K2.5.
Anthropic and Gates Foundation Commit $200M to AI for Health, Education
A four-year, $200M Anthropic-Gates Foundation partnership puts Claude behind global health, education, and economic mobility programs.
EY and Microsoft Commit $1B to Scale Enterprise AI to 400K
EY and Microsoft pledge over $1B over five years to scale Copilot from 150K to 400K users, citing a 15% productivity boost from initial rollout.
GitHub Copilot Moves to Usage-Based Billing on June 1, 2026
GitHub is replacing Copilot's flat-rate plans with metered AI Credits on June 1. Here's what changes for Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise users.
Anthropic Acquires Stainless: The SDK Engine Behind OpenAI, Google APIs
Anthropic buys Stainless — the auto-SDK startup powering OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare APIs — and shuts down hosted products to focus on Claude.
Google AI Overviews Hits 2.5B Users, AI Mode Crosses 1B in a Year
Google's AI Overviews now reaches 2.5B monthly users and AI Mode hit 1B in just 12 months — the fastest scale ramp in Search history.
Google Launches Antigravity 2.0: Agent-First Dev Platform at I/O
Google's Antigravity 2.0 ships a desktop app, CLI, SDK, and Managed Agents API to let devs orchestrate teams of coding agents on Gemini 3.5.
Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic to Lead Pre-Training Acceleration
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic, starting a team focused on using Claude to speed up pre-training research itself.
Anthropic Eyes First Profit on $10.9B Q2 Revenue, Two Years Early
Anthropic told investors it expects $10.9B in Q2 revenue and a $559M operating profit — its first profitable quarter, arriving two years ahead of plan.
Anthropic Heads for First Profitable Quarter on $10.9B in Q2 Revenue
Anthropic is on track for its first operating profit — $559M on $10.9B Q2 revenue — two years ahead of internal projections.
Google Cuts AI Ultra to $100, Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash at Half the Price of Frontier Rivals
Google's I/O 2026 pricing reset drops AI Ultra to $100 and ships Gemini 3.5 Flash at $1.50 input per 1M tokens — a direct shot at OpenAI and Anthropic.