THURSDAY 08 OCT
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic’s most capable small model yet, and its far cheaper than predecessor
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 is 90% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 for most requests, scores 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 against GPT-6 Luna's 48.9%, and is designed as a subagent for high-volume agentic pipelines.
MONDAY 28 SEP
Instinct, known for its viral AI agent, raises another $1Bn at a $10Bn valuation
2 MIN READFRIDAY 25 SEP
Meta’s Muse has crossed 3.4 million downloads in under three weeks — and it’s still accelerating
Meta's Muse is the fastest-growing consumer AI app launch on record, crossing 3.4 million downloads in three weeks. Amazon has already blocked it. Here's the full picture.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar — lip-synced AI across 97 languages
Google's Gemini 3.8 Live now has an animated visual presence — lip-synced, multilingual across 97 languages, and capable of running background tasks without pausing the conversation. Available in Gemini Enterprise today.
TUESDAY 22 SEP
Andreessen Horowitz launches AI academy as an alternative to college degree
Andreessen Horowitz has launched the Horowitz Andreessen Academy — a highly selective San Francisco school positioned as a college alternative. No grades, no tuition for the founding class, and Sam Altman on the faculty.
THURSDAY 17 SEP
Huawei moves up AI chip upgrade to Q1 2027 in Nvidia challenge
Huawei says its next Ascend AI chip will ship nine months earlier than planned, as it builds giant interconnected chip clusters to compete with Nvidia.
Global chipmakers commit billions as Modi pushes to accelerate Indian chip-making
PM Narendra Modi is using the Semicon India 2026 conference to pitch the country as a semiconductor manufacturing base, building on earlier incentives that drew Apple to India.
WEDNESDAY 16 SEP
Vishal Sikka’s Hang Ten Systems raises another $53Mn in seed from Aramco, Mayfield, others
Hang Ten Systems runs an advisory, transformation, and applied-AI practice for large enterprises — not through the traditional…
Zuckerberg says third-party evaluations enough to prevent AI from going rogue
Adding on to the ongoing debate around AI safety that Anthropic’s Amodei sparked, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has presented…
SUNDAY 13 SEP
Sam Altman, Elon Musk back Anthropic’s Dario Amodei on need to slow down AI development
Dario Amodei calls for slowing AI development. Sam Altman and Elon Musk agree. But with fierce rivalry and a China challenge, how would that pacing actually work?
Anthropic says Claude was misused for extensive weapons research by potential state-backed actors
In one of the most comprehensive reports from Anthropic’s threat intelligence team yet, the Claude-maker has said that multiple state-backed actors used its AI model to do weapons…
SATURDAY 05 SEP
FRIDAY 04 SEP
OpenAI’s ‘GPT-6 Astra’ can do anything your computer can, and more
Let’s start with what Greg Brockman actually said at the end of Thursday’s press briefing. “Welcome to the AGI era.” Three words. No caveats. No footnotes. Just a…
THURSDAY 06 AUG
SpaceX and Tesla to build $16.8Bn advanced chip factory ‘Terafab’ in Texas
Elon Musk, the joint CEO for both Tesla and SpaceX, announced on X today that both his listed companies would join hands to invest $16.8Bn in building an…
THURSDAY 30 JUL
OpenAI is offering significant discounts on smaller models in bid to boost enterprise sales
ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has announced some of the most significant price cuts in the company’s history, as it looks to pounce on the more larger market share acquired…
WEDNESDAY 22 JUL
OpenAI says its AI models went rogue, escaped containment, causing major breach at Hugging Face
In a classic case of ‘AI going rogue’, OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday, that an autonomous agent powered by one of its advanced AI models, went rogue while testing…
SATURDAY 11 JUL
OpenAI to shut down ‘ChatGPT Atlas’ browser less than a year after its launch
OpenAI has announced that it is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone AI-powered web browser, less than a year after launching it in October 2025. The browser will…
FRIDAY 10 JUL
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-powered ‘ChatGPT Work’ to automate complex workplace tasks
OpenAI has introduced ‘ChatGPT Work’, a new AI agent that is designed to do much more than answer questions. Announced along with the company’s latest GPT-5.6 model family,…
