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May 1, 2026

Pentagon awards classified-network AI contracts to seven vendors, excludes Anthropic over usage-policy stand-off

On May 1, the Department of Defense announced agreements with seven AI vendors — OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, AWS, SpaceX and Reflection — to deploy AI on classified networks under the GenAI.mil platform, while continuing to exclude Anthropic over its refusal to remove usage-policy clauses against mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

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2026
DeepSeek releases V4 with 1.6T parameters and 1M-token context, sustains MIT-licensed open weights
DeepSeek released its V4 model series on April 24, with the flagship V4-Pro at 1.6 trillion total parameters (49 billion active), a 1-million-token context window and an MIT-licensed open-weights distribution, sharpening the U.S.-China open-source AI race.
Apr 24, 2026Industry News

SoftBank, NEC, Sony, and Honda set up Japan's "Physical AI" foundation-model joint venture

Four of Japan's largest companies — SoftBank, NEC, Sony Group, and Honda Motor — have established a joint venture to develop a domestic, trillion-parameter "Physical AI" foundation model intended to control robots, vehicles, and factory automation. The venture plans to apply for a NEDO program backed by roughly ¥1 trillion over five years.

Apr 12, 2026Industry News

The shift toward on-device AI in 2026 — observations

A few patterns we are seeing in how AI workloads are moving from the cloud onto the device — and what it changes for tool builders.

Apr 12, 2026Industry News

Local-first inference is rewriting the desktop tool stack

A second observation, looking at how the architecture of desktop AI tooling has actually changed in the last twelve months.

Apr 8, 2026Industry News

Thinking Machines and NVIDIA strike multi-year, 1 GW Vera Rubin compute partnership

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab and NVIDIA announced a multi-year strategic partnership on March 10 to deploy at least one gigawatt of NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems, with NVIDIA also making an undisclosed strategic investment in the lab.

Mar 10, 2026Industry News

Japan unveils "third pole" AI strategy, targets 30% of global AI robotics market by 2040

On March 10, the Council for Japan's Growth Strategy, chaired by Japan's Prime Minister and convened by the cabinet, adopted a "winning strategy" framework that names AI robotics as a top priority and sets a target for Japan to become the "third pole" in AI alongside the United States and China, with over 30% of the global AI robot market and 40 trillion yen in domestic semiconductor sales by 2040.

Mar 10, 2026Industry News

OpenAI signs deal with US Department of War to deploy AI on classified networks

OpenAI announced on the evening of February 27 a deployment agreement with the US Department of War — the renamed Department of Defense — to run its models inside classified IL5 and IL6 network environments, after the Pentagon's parallel negotiations with rival Anthropic broke down over autonomous-weapons and surveillance language.

Feb 28, 2026Industry News

Sakana AI partners with Google, sets finance and government as core targets

Tokyo-based Sakana AI announced a strategic partnership and undisclosed investment from Google on January 23, 2026, building on a $135 million Series B at a $2.65 billion valuation closed in November 2025 and signalling a focus on financial institutions, government agencies and defense in Japan.

Jan 23, 2026Industry News

NVIDIA unveils Vera Rubin platform at CES 2026 keynote, says next-gen chips in full production

At his CES 2026 keynote on January 5 in Las Vegas, NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang unveiled the Vera Rubin platform — the successor to Blackwell — declaring next-generation chips in full production, with broad availability targeted for the second half of 2026.

Jan 6, 2026Industry News

2025

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, claims state of the art for coding and agents

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 on November 24, 2025 at $5/$25 per million tokens with a 200k-token context window, claiming the first SWE-bench Verified score above 80% and a roughly two-thirds price reduction versus the previous Opus generation.

Nov 24, 2025Industry News

Japan designates AI and semiconductors as 'national strategic technologies'

Japan's Prime Minister's cabinet has placed artificial intelligence and semiconductors at the top of a new "national strategic technologies" framework, building on a 21.3 trillion yen comprehensive economic package approved on November 21, 2025 and Japan's first AI promotion law that took full effect in September.

Nov 24, 2025Industry News

Google launches Gemini 3 and embeds it directly into Search

Google released Gemini 3 on November 18 and integrated it into Search the same day. CEO Sundar Pichai called it "our most intelligent model" as Gemini 3 set a new high score on Humanity's Last Exam and topped LMArena.

Nov 18, 2025Industry News

Anysphere closes $2.3B Series D for Cursor IDE at $29.3B valuation

Anysphere, the maker of AI-native code editor Cursor, closed a $2.3 billion Series D at a $29.3 billion post-money valuation co-led by Coatue and Accel, with the company crossing $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue at the close.

Nov 13, 2025Industry News

1X Technologies opens consumer pre-orders for NEO humanoid robot at $20,000

Norwegian-founded 1X Technologies opened consumer pre-orders for NEO, a 5'6" household humanoid robot priced at $20,000 outright (or via monthly subscription), with first US deliveries scheduled for 2026.

Oct 28, 2025Industry News

NVIDIA signs LOI to invest up to $100B in OpenAI for 10 GW of compute

NVIDIA and OpenAI announced a letter of intent for a strategic partnership under which NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the lab deploys at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for next-generation AI infrastructure, with the first gigawatt targeted for the second half of 2026 on the Vera Rubin platform.

Sep 22, 2025Industry News

Mistral AI closes €1.7B Series C at €11.7B valuation, ASML takes lead position

Paris-based Mistral AI raised €1.7 billion in a Series C round at a €11.7 billion post-money valuation, with Dutch lithography giant ASML investing €1.3 billion to become the company's largest single shareholder.

Sep 9, 2025Industry News

OpenAI launches GPT-5 with router-based reasoning system

OpenAI launched GPT-5 in a livestream led by Sam Altman, introducing a unified model family with a real-time router that selects between a base model and a longer-reasoning "GPT-5 thinking" variant, alongside smaller GPT-5 mini and GPT-5 nano models for the API.

Aug 7, 2025Industry News

Google DeepMind unveils Genie 3, a real-time interactive world model

DeepMind announced Genie 3, a foundation world model that generates interactive 3D environments from text prompts at 720p and 24 fps, sustaining a few minutes of continuous interaction per episode and pitched as training infrastructure for embodied AI agents.

Aug 5, 2025Industry News

EU AI Act's general-purpose AI obligations enter into force

On August 2, the European Union's AI Act began applying transparency, copyright, and technical-documentation duties to providers of general-purpose AI (GPAI) models, with additional obligations for systems trained above 10^25 FLOPs and an EU AI Office now in place to coordinate enforcement.

Aug 2, 2025Industry News

Thinking Machines Lab closes $2B seed round at $12B valuation

Mira Murati's six-month-old AI lab raised $2 billion in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Nvidia and AMD also participating, at a $12 billion post-money valuation.

Jul 15, 2025Industry News

SoftBank to lead $40 billion OpenAI funding round at $300 billion valuation

SoftBank Group will lead a funding round of up to $40 billion in OpenAI at a $300 billion post-money valuation, structured in two tranches and gated on OpenAI's restructuring into a for-profit entity.

Apr 1, 2025Industry News