Anthropic projects $10.9B in Q2 revenue and its first-ever $559M operating profit, two years ahead of its own 2028 guidance - but the xAI compute bill arrives in full next quarter.

An internal OpenAI reasoning model produced an original proof disproving the Erdős unit distance conjecture, the first time AI autonomously solved a major open problem in mathematics.

Google's AI Mode reached 1 billion monthly users at I/O 2026, as the company announced information agents, agentic booking, and generative UI set to transform Search this summer.

Google shipped WebMCP as an early preview at I/O 2026, a proposed open web standard that lets websites expose structured tools to browser-based AI agents without DOM scraping or fragile visual automation.

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, joins Anthropic's pre-training team to build a research program that uses Claude to accelerate its own training.

Google unveiled three Android XR smart glasses form factors at I/O 2026, backed by Samsung, XREAL, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster as launch partners.

Seven Devin alternatives compared on autonomy, pricing, and workflow fit - from Claude Code and GitHub Copilot Agent to open-source options like OpenHands and SWE-agent.

IBM Research tests 25 agent configurations across 6 real-world benchmarks and finds backbone model choice matters 58x more than agent framework design.

OpenAI's Codex coding agent arrives on iPhone and Android as a remote control for desktop sessions, with QR code pairing and live terminal output for its 4 million weekly users.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Personal Finance on May 15, giving Pro users read access to 12,000+ banks via Plaid - one day after a class action alleged OpenAI shared user conversations with Meta and Google.