OpenAI is opening a platform for external research on the economic effects of AI. Selected researchers get privacy-protected access to data. Sounds like transparency — and it's still a clever move.
China is preparing to spend 2 trillion yuan on nationwide AI data centers over five years. Huawei gets 80% of the tech contracts. Nvidia and AMD are locked out.
Anthropic released a Swift package that integrates Claude directly into Apple's Foundation Models framework. Developers can now swap between on-device AI and Claude with zero code changes.
Anthropic expanded Managed Agents with three key features: cron-based scheduling, secure environment variable vaults, and browser capabilities via Browserbase.
Google Gemini suffered a multi-hour outage today. Error codes 1076 and 1099, no workarounds, over 1,400 users affected. Google confirmed the issue.
At Build 2026, Microsoft made Claude a selectable AI in Excel Agent Mode — right inside the spreadsheet some 750 million people use. Several Claude models also landed in Microsoft Foundry.
In his final keynote as CEO, Tim Cook announced an Extensions system — making Claude directly selectable on the iPhone for the first time. It could be Anthropic's biggest consumer expansion yet.
ChatGPT leads at 54.7 percent, Gemini is catching up — but the most striking growth belongs to Claude: up 306 percent in a single quarter. A look at the numbers and their traps.