Cognition's $25B Valuation & China's AI Talent Lockdown

Anthropic's AI Building AI & Airbnb Enters the Arena

Anthropic reveals AI is already accelerating its own development with 80%+ of code now written by Claude. Plus: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky launches AI lab, Apple approves first Messages AI agent, Meta builds data centers in tents, and new image models focus on user control.

Google's Laptop-Ready Gemma 4 & Meta's Global AI Agent

Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an open-weights multimodal model running locally on laptops. Meta launches Business Agent globally on WhatsApp. Plus: Coralogix raises $200M, GitLab cuts 14% of staff, DeepSeek slashes prices, mathematicians issue AI warning, and Anthropic shares agent security details.

Anthropic's IPO Filing & Microsoft's Break from OpenAI

Anthropic beats OpenAI to the IPO filing while Microsoft launches its first in-house coding model for GitHub Copilot. Plus: Uber's AI spending crisis, a Stanford study showing AI outperforming law professors, and Google's new fake call detection for AI voice scams.

Alphabet's $80B AI Raise & Florida Sues OpenAI

Alphabet raises $80 billion for AI infrastructure with a landmark investment from Berkshire Hathaway. Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI over AI safety concerns. Plus NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip, OpenAI on AWS, and an AI weather startup out-forecasting government agencies.

China's AI Unicorn & GitHub's Pricing Shake-Up

Today's AI news: Chinese 3D startup Vast hits unicorn status, GitHub Copilot switches to token billing, a serious ChatGPT for Google Sheets vulnerability, Erin Brockovich's data center transparency map, and a new image model that runs on iPhones.