Meta releases SAM 3.1 with Object Multiplex, processing all tracked objects in one shared pass for 7x faster inference at 128 objects and improvements on 6 of 7 VOS benchmarks.

Shopify activated Agentic Storefronts by default on March 24, making products from millions of merchants discoverable and purchasable inside ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google's AI channels.

Google launched two new tools on March 26 that let users transfer memories and full chat logs from ChatGPT or Claude into Gemini - 24 days after Anthropic launched the same concept first.

Anthropic confirmed paid Claude subscriptions more than doubled in 2026 while annualized revenue climbed from $1B to $19B in roughly 15 months.

OpenAI ships a plugin marketplace for Codex CLI v0.117.0, bundling skills, app integrations, and MCP server configs behind an enterprise governance layer.

Mistral releases Voxtral, a pair of open-weights models covering speech recognition and text-to-speech that undercut OpenAI and ElevenLabs on price.

Three new arXiv papers show how to build more reliable planning agents, cut benchmark costs by 70%, and why LLMs fail at long-horizon financial decision-making.

Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.

Shield AI closed a $2B raise at a $12.7B valuation, more than doubling from $5.3B a year ago, to fund its Hivemind autonomous pilot software and acquire Pentagon simulation vendor Aechelon Technology.

ARC Prize Foundation launched ARC-AGI-3 today with a fully open-source agent toolkit. The best AI in the preview phase scored 12.58% against a human baseline of 100%.