Plus: YouTube starts automatically labeling AI videos, OpenAI builds self-improving tax agents, and DuckDuckGo gets a boost from Google’s AI Search backlash.
Plus: xAI launches Grok Build, a terminal coding agent built to challenge Claude Code and Codex.
Plus: ChatGPT can now read your bank statements, Anthropic buys Stainless for $300M and Cursor's Composer 2.5 ships at one-tenth the cost of GPT-5.5.
Plus: Google puts up to $40B behind Anthropic. SpaceX gets a $60B option on Cursor.
Plus: OpenAI fires back with GPT-5.4-Cyber. GLM-5.1 breaks Code Arena top 3.
The largest private funding round ever and a safety company's embarrassing leak
PLUS: Meta kills the $80B metaverse. Google launches a free AI design tool. And Gemini is coming to Mac.
PLUS: Anthropic is suing the government And GPT-5.4 just dropped.
OpenAI got the contract. Anthropic got the public. Only one of them came out on top.
PLUS: Claude Sonnet 4.6 drops with major upgrades, Grok 4.2 beta launches with rapid learning and OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI
PLUS: Perplexity introduces Model Council, a multi-model answer engine
PLUS: Google Genie 3 creates playable 3D worlds, viral AI assistant forced to rebrand & AI discovers 800+ cosmic anomalies in Hubble archive
PLUS: Data centers to consume 70% of memory chips, KREA AI launches Realtime Edit & OpenAI rolls out age prediction
PLUS: Meta cuts Reality Labs, DeepSeek V4 launches & Higgsfield hits unicorn status
From Claude building products in days, to Gemini powering Siri and syncing your apps, while Grok moves toward Pentagon networks.
What’s new, how it works, and who gets access until Jan 15
More hits this week - smarter humanoids, Rubin’s six-chip AI platform, AMD’s Helios challenge, and SleepFM predicting disease from one night of sleep.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.1, DeepMind’s SIMA 2 game-learning agent and more
The global AI race heats up as Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Moonshot push the limits of intelligence. from trillion-parameter models to open-source breakthroughs.
Space data centers, efficient chips and a new generation of intelligent systems.
From Google’s next-gen Veo 3.1 video model and MIT’s self-evolving AI to new medical breakthroughs powered by Cell2Sentence 27B. this week marks another leap forward for artificial intelligence.
Plus: OpenAI’s $500B Stargate, Trump + Musk’s AI alliance and ChatGPT Pulse.
OpenAI launches autonomous agents, DeepMind achieves mathematical excellence, and Nvidia reaches unprecedented market valuation.
