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AI tool launches, product updates and industry moves.
From 'tracing thoughts' interpretability work to the Responsible Scaling Policy, Anthropic has turned safety research into an enterprise selling point — we map its public research threads.
At WWDC26 Apple previewed the next generation of Apple Intelligence and introduced Siri AI; the press release is explicit that this is still a preview — developer testing starts now, users wait for a beta later this year, and the EU and China get it later or not at all.
On June 4, 2026, bipartisan House members released a discussion draft to build a federal AI framework, freeze state laws on AI model development for three years, and require large developers to publish catastrophic-risk frameworks.
On May 13, 2026, NVIDIA's market cap passed $5.5 trillion for the first time, making it the first company ever to reach that level; the stock peaked at $227.84 intraday and closed at $225.83.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026 for coding, research and data analysis; GPT-5.5 Instant became ChatGPT's default in May.
Crunchbase data: $300 billion flowed into roughly 6,000 startups in Q1 2026, up more than 150% both quarter over quarter and year over year.
Crunchbase data: startups raised a record $189 billion in February 2026, with AI-related companies capturing $171 billion — 90% of the total.
EssilorLuxottica reports Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sold over 7 million units in 2025 — more than triple the prior pace — as Meta eyes 20M annual capacity.
Moonshot AI released and open-sourced Kimi K2.5 on January 27, 2026, adding large-scale visual data atop the K2 trillion-parameter base.
Audio and podcast recording tool Podcastle announced on 19 January 2026 that it is rebranding wholesale to Async, describing continuity rather than a shutdown. We updated the directory entry to the new brand and kept the old name searchable.
Suno V5 (Sept 2025) and Udio 2.0 (Dec 2025) arrived in turn — the latter amid the fallout of a UMG settlement and a controversial download shutdown.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2 in November 2025 with multi-reference editing; FLUX.2-dev open weights landed on Hugging Face.
Anthropic released Opus 4.5 on November 24, 2025, completing the 4.5 family and retaking the coding crown.
Google released Gemini 3 on November 18, 2025, calling it its most intelligent model — and for the first time embedded it in Search on launch day.
OpenAI released GPT-5.1 on November 12, 2025, adding adaptive reasoning, a warmer conversational style and eight personality presets.
AI presentation tool Gamma announced $100M+ ARR with profitability and a $68M Series B led by a16z at a $2.1B valuation; the user base it publicly cites is about 70 million.
In November 2025 Bloomberg revealed Apple's plan to pay about $1 billion a year for a custom 1.2T-parameter Gemini to power the new Siri; a multi-year deal was later confirmed.
On October 29, 2025, Character.AI banned users under 18 from free-form chatbot conversations, responding to teen-suicide lawsuits and regulatory pressure.
Cursor released 2.0 on October 29, 2025, debuting Composer — its first frontier model, 4x faster than similarly intelligent models.
On October 28, 2025, OpenAI completed its historic restructure into OpenAI Group PBC, clearing its fundraising constraints.
OpenAI released Atlas, a browser with ChatGPT built in, on October 21, 2025 — joining Perplexity's Comet in making the browser the new AI-entry battleground.
Figure AI unveiled Figure 03 in October 2025 — designed for Helix, the home and scale — now deployed at BMW's Spartanburg plant.
Tesla began rolling out FSD (Supervised) V14 in October 2025, adding Speed Profiles and Arrival Options — but a driver must still supervise.
At DevDay on October 6, 2025, OpenAI shipped AgentKit and the Apps SDK, and opened Sora 2 and GPT-5 Pro via API — a full platform play.