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Google Gemini API adds hybrid tool calling combining custom functions and built-in search

18 Mar 2026

AI

Runway Unveils Real-Time Video Generation Model on NVIDIA Vera Rubin at GTC

18 Mar 2026

AI

Baidu Launches Qianfan-OCR 4B End-to-End Document Intelligence Model

18 Mar 2026

AI

Midjourney launches V8 model testing with 5x speed boost and native 2K support

17 Mar 2026

AI

Mistral AI Launches Forge, Platform for Enterprises to Build Custom AI Models

17 Mar 2026

AI

Cursor Launches Composer 1.5 with RL-Trained Self-Summarization

17 Mar 2026

AI

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano Models for Coding and Agents

17 Mar 2026

AI

Perplexity Launches Comet Enterprise for Secure Team AI Browsing

17 Mar 2026

AI

Snap Achieves 4x Faster Spark Processing and 76% Cost Savings with NVIDIA cuDF on Google Cloud

17 Mar 2026

AI

Anduril Secures $87M Contract for Lattice as US Preferred Counter-Drone C2 Software

16 Mar 2026

AI

Mistral AI Partners with NVIDIA as Founding Nemotron Coalition Member to Co-Develop Frontier Open-Source Models

16 Mar 2026

AI

Google launches A2UI specification for standardized agent-generated interfaces

16 Mar 2026

AI

Google Releases Android Bench LLM Leaderboard for Android Development

12 Mar 2026

AI

Perplexity launches full-stack API platform with Agent, Search, Embeddings, and Sandbox APIs

11 Mar 2026

AI

Perplexity Launches Computer for Enterprise with Slack Integration and Premium Research

11 Mar 2026

AI

NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Super: 120B Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE Model

11 Mar 2026

AI

Hugging Face launches Storage Buckets, S3-like mutable storage for AI workflows

10 Mar 2026

AI

Google Launches Gemini Embedding 2 Multimodal Model in Preview

10 Mar 2026

AI

Google Launches Gemini Embedding 2, First Fully Multimodal Embedding Model

10 Mar 2026

AI

Google enhances Gemini integration across Workspace apps with native formatting support

10 Mar 2026

AI

OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo to Bolster AI Agent Security in Frontier Platform

09 Mar 2026

AI

Andrew Ng Launches Context Hub Open Tool for Coding Agents

09 Mar 2026

AI

TensorFlow 2.21 ships LiteRT to production with 1.4x GPU speedup

06 Mar 2026

AI

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Discovers 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities in Two-Week Security Audit

06 Mar 2026

AI

OpenAI Publishes CoT Controllability Evaluation Suite and Research Paper

05 Mar 2026

AI

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 with Native Computer Use and 1M Token Context

05 Mar 2026

AI

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro Models with Advanced Reasoning and Agentic Capabilities

05 Mar 2026

AI

Google releases Android Bench, specialized LLM leaderboard for Android development

05 Mar 2026

AI

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for Cost-Efficient High-Volume AI Tasks

03 Mar 2026

AI

OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant with improved tone and reduced hallucinations

03 Mar 2026

AI

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview via API

03 Mar 2026

AI

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, fastest cost-efficient model for enterprise scale

03 Mar 2026

AI

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview in Gemini API

03 Mar 2026

AI

Google DeepMind Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview

03 Mar 2026

AI

OpenAI secures Pentagon deal with ethical safeguards, criticizes Anthropic supply chain ban

28 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Secures Department of War Deal for Classified AI Deployment

27 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Strikes Pentagon Deal to Deploy AI Models on Classified Networks After Trump Bans Anthropic

27 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Strikes Pentagon Deal for Classified AI Deployment Amid Anthropic Ban

27 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank

27 Feb 2026

AI

Perplexity Releases pplx-embed-v1 and pplx-embed-context-v1 Embedding Model Families

26 Feb 2026

AI

Perplexity Partners with Samsung for System-Level Galaxy S26 Integration

26 Feb 2026

AI

Google Launches Nano Banana 2 Image Model with Pro Capabilities at Flash Speeds

26 Feb 2026

AI

Google Launches Nano Banana 2 Image Model with Faster Speed and Pro Features

26 Feb 2026

AI

Google DeepMind Launches Nano Banana 2 Image Model on Gemini Flash

26 Feb 2026

AI

Perplexity Launches Computer, AI Agent Platform Unifying Research, Coding, and Project Management

25 Feb 2026

AI

Qwen Releases Qwen3.5 Series with Ultra-Efficient Long-Context Quantization

24 Feb 2026

AI

Qwen Launches Qwen3.5 Medium Model Series with MoE Efficiency Gains

24 Feb 2026

AI

Google Launches Hooks Feature in Gemini CLI for Agent Loop Customization

24 Feb 2026

AI

Google Launches Multimodal Function Calling in Gemini Interactions API

23 Feb 2026

AI

Qwen Launches Qwen3-Coder-Next API on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

20 Feb 2026

AI

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Pro with Major Reasoning Breakthrough

19 Feb 2026

AI

Anthropic Releases Research on Real-World AI Agent Autonomy Trends

18 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Launches EVMbench Benchmark with Paradigm for AI Smart Contract Security

18 Feb 2026

AI

Latitude Cuts AI Dungeon MoE Inference Costs 75% via DeepInfra on NVIDIA Blackwell

18 Feb 2026

AI

Google Gemini 3.0 Flash enables video-to-action conversion for robotics control

17 Feb 2026

AI

Anthropic Signs Three-Year MOU with Rwanda for AI in Health, Education, and Public Sectors

17 Feb 2026

AI

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.5-397B-A17B as First Open-Weight Multimodal Model

16 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Hires OpenClaw Creator Peter Steinberger to Lead Personal Agents

15 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Uncovers Non-Zero Gluon Interaction in Physics Preprint

13 Feb 2026

AI

Anthropic Raises $30B Series G at $380B Valuation

12 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark Research Preview for Real-Time Coding

12 Feb 2026

AI

Google Upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for Science and Engineering Applications

12 Feb 2026

AI

Google DeepMind Upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for Science and Engineering Challenges

12 Feb 2026

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Google DeepMind publishes research on Gemini Deep Think as scientific collaborator

11 Feb 2026

AI

Anthropic Releases Sabotage Risk Report for Claude Opus 4.6 Ahead of ASL-4 Threshold

10 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2-Powered Deep Research in ChatGPT

10 Feb 2026

AI

Google Rolls Out Agentic Vision for Gemini 3 Flash with Think-Act-Observe Loop

10 Feb 2026

AI

Runway Raises $315M Series E at $5.3B Valuation to Advance World Models

10 Feb 2026

AI

Qwen Launches Qwen-Image-2.0 with Professional Infographics and 2K Photorealism

10 Feb 2026

AI

Google DeepMind's Perch 2.0 AI model excels at whale vocalization classification despite no underwater training

09 Feb 2026

AI

Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.0 Technical Report on Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model

09 Feb 2026

AI

Anthropic Publishes Research on Infrastructure Noise in Agentic Coding Benchmarks

05 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks Launch GPT-5 Autonomous Lab Cutting Protein Costs 40%

05 Feb 2026

AI

Anthropic Opus 4.6 Agent Teams Build Working C Compiler for Linux Kernel in Two Weeks

05 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.3-Codex with Record Coding Benchmarks

05 Feb 2026

AI

Cursor Shares Long-Running Coding Agents Preview Achieving 1000+ Commits Per Hour

05 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Launches Frontier Platform for Enterprise AI Agents

05 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Launches Frontier Platform for Enterprise AI Agents

05 Feb 2026

AI

Perplexity Upgrades Deep Research with Opus 4.5 and Releases Open-Source DRACO Benchmark

04 Feb 2026

AI

Mistral AI Launches Voxtral Transcribe 2 Speech-to-Text Models with Sub-200ms Latency

04 Feb 2026

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Anthropic Launches Claude Agent SDK Integration in Apple's Xcode

03 Feb 2026

AI

Qwen Launches Qwen3-Coder-Next Open-Weight Model for Coding Agents

03 Feb 2026

AI

Anthropic Fellows Publish Research on AI Misalignment Scaling with Intelligence and Complexity

02 Feb 2026

AI

OpenAI Launches Codex App for macOS Agentic Coding

02 Feb 2026

AI

xAI Launches Grok Imagine 1.0 with 10-Second 720p Videos and Enhanced Audio

01 Feb 2026

AI

Anthropic Releases Petri 2.0 Open-Source Tool for Automated AI Alignment Audits

22 Jan 2026

AI

OpenAI API business adds $1 billion ARR in one month

22 Jan 2026

AI

Google DeepMind launches D4RT for real-time 4D scene reconstruction and tracking

22 Jan 2026

AI

NVIDIA Report: 65% of Financial Firms Actively Deploy AI, See Clear ROI

22 Jan 2026

AI

Alibaba Open-Sources Full Qwen3-TTS Family with Voice Cloning and Design Tools

22 Jan 2026

AI

Qwen3-TTS Full Family Open-Sourced with Voice Design and Cloning

22 Jan 2026

AI

Baidu Launches ERNIE 5.0 with 2.4T-Parameter Native Multimodal Architecture

22 Jan 2026

AI

Anthropic publishes new constitution for Claude emphasizing values-based reasoning

21 Jan 2026

AI

Anthropic Fellows Unveil Assistant Axis Research on AI Persona Mapping

19 Jan 2026

AI

OpenAI Tests Ads in ChatGPT Free and Go Tiers with New Principles

16 Jan 2026

AI

Google Releases MedGemma 1.5 4B and TranslateGemma Models for Healthcare and Translation

16 Jan 2026

AI

Anthropic Publishes Fourth Economic Index Report Introducing Economic Primitives

15 Jan 2026

AI

Anthropic unveils next-generation Constitutional Classifiers to harden Claude against jailbreak attacks

09 Jan 2026

AI

OpenAI launches HIPAA-ready OpenAI for Healthcare with major US hospital partners

08 Jan 2026

AI

Google launches Gemini-powered AI Overviews to turn Gmail into proactive inbox assistant

08 Jan 2026

AI

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