OpenAI announced Friday (Feb 27) a historic agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (now called the Department of War by the Trump administration) to deploy its AI models in classified government networks, just hours after President Donald Trump banned federal use of rival Anthropic’s technology. The Agreement …

Amazon and OpenAI today announced a multi-year strategic partnership that includes a massive $50 billion investment by Amazon in OpenAI, cementing one of the largest alliances in the artificial intelligence industry to date. Investment Details The investment will be made in two phases: $15 billion initial investment …

Anthropic has formally rejected the Pentagon’s ultimatum for unrestricted military use of its Claude AI model. CEO Dario Amodei stated that the company “cannot in good conscience” accede to the Department of Defense’s demands. The Rejection In a statement issued on the evening of February 26, 2026, Anthropic declared …

Google has launched Nano Banana 2, its latest image generation model that combines the advanced features of Nano Banana Pro with the speed of Gemini Flash. Technically known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, the model is available starting today across a variety of Google products. What’s New Nano Banana 2 brings the …

Perplexity Computer: The AI That Works Like a Personal Computer Perplexity announced this Tuesday (02/25) the launch of Perplexity Computer, a new AI system that represents a significant evolution beyond traditional chatbots. It’s a multi-model orchestration platform capable of executing complex projects from start to …

Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen 3.5 Medium Model Series: A Production Powerhouse Proving that Smaller AI Models are Smarter The Alibaba Qwen team has announced the release of the Qwen 3.5 Medium Model Series, marking a significant shift in the approach to developing large language models (LLMs). Rather than chasing raw …

University of Montreal Study Shows AI Beats Average Humans on Creativity Tests The largest human-AI comparison ever conducted provides objective evidence that half of humanity is now less creative than language models, but the top 10% of humans operate in territory no AI can reach. The Research: 100,000 Humans vs. Four …

Meta and AMD Close Historic $100 Billion AI Chip Partnership Meta Platforms has finalized a historic deal with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) valued at more than $100 billion, a strategic move to diversify its AI infrastructure and challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the artificial intelligence chip market. Deal Details The …

Google Restricts Antigravity Access for OpenClaw Users Google has restricted access to its AI coding platform Antigravity for users who were routing Gemini tokens through OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent framework, citing “malicious usage” that degraded the service for other customers. The crackdown, which began over …

Anthropic Launches Cowork & Plugins for Enterprise: Claude Now Lives Inside Excel, PowerPoint and Slack Anthropic announced the launch of Cowork & Plugins for the Enterprise, a suite of AI tools that integrates Claude directly into the productivity tools employees use every day, including Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint …