Latest news from the AI world
Anthropic is launching a monthly credit dedicated to programmatic usage (Agent SDK, claude -p, GitHub Actions) starting June 15. OpenAI is refining Codex with customizable shortcuts and performance gains of up to 50x. GitHub is rolling out stateless installation tokens.
Week of May 13-15, 2026: Runway Agent reinvents video production, xAI launches Grok Build CLI, ChatGPT adds personal finance, GitHub ships Copilot App in technical preview, and Anthropic publishes its 2028 AI scenarios.
Week of May 11-12, 2026: Google unveils Gemini Intelligence on Android and the Googlebook, OpenAI launches Daybreak to automate cyber defense, GitHub improves Copilot code review and Dependabot.
OpenAI creates a deployment subsidiary with 19 partners, Anthropic opens Claude Platform on AWS to all AWS customers, xAI launches a real-time voice agent for customer support — plus GitHub Copilot, Gemini Personal Intelligence, and NVIDIA OpenShell.
OpenAI releases Codex CLI v0.130.0 with a headless app-server mode, Genspark reaches $250 million ARR in 12 months, and GitHub opens zero-downtime Enterprise migrations in public preview.
GitHub Copilot CLI moves into public preview with centralized enterprise plugin distribution, VS Code gets BYOK and broad semantic search, and Claude Code ships 60+ reliability fixes this week.
May 8, 2026: Anthropic publishes its paper on eliminating blackmail in Claude 4, DeepMind reaches 48% on FrontierMath Tier 4, OpenAI launches GPT-5.5-Cyber in limited preview. Plus 19 other announcements (Claude Code 2.1.136, Gemini CLI 0.41, Grok Connectors, NVIDIA Dynamo, ElevenLabs Studio Agent...).
Week of May 5 to 7, 2026: Anthropic leases Colossus 1 from xAI (220,000 GPUs), Claude for M365 goes GA, GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5 reasoning, Perplexity Personal Computer for Mac, Finance Search API, and ElevenLabs at $500M ARR.
Week of May 3 to 6, 2026: OpenAI replaces the ChatGPT default model with GPT-5.5 Instant (-52.5% hallucinations), xAI launches Grok 4.3 (1M tokens, #1 agentic), Anthropic and major funds create an enterprise AI services company.
Week of April 29 to May 2, 2026: Claude Security moves into enterprise public beta, Manus launches a persistent cloud machine, NVIDIA opens OpenShell to AI agents, and xAI clones voices in 2 minutes.
Week of April 27 to 29, 2026: Mistral releases Medium 3.5 and Vibe remote agents, Google unveils its 8th-generation TPUs at Cloud Next 26, Anthropic launches 8+ MCP connectors for creative professionals, NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, and ElevenLabs creates an AI music platform.
Week of April 27, 2026: OpenAI and Microsoft revise their partnership through 2032, GitHub Copilot switches to GitHub AI Credits starting June 1, and DeepMind launches an AI campus in Seoul.