Anthropic announced Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available Mythos-class model featuring state-of-the-art performance in software engineering, knowledge work, and vision tasks. The model includes built-in safeguards that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology, instead routing to Claude Opus 4.8 for safety. Concurrently, Anthropic launched Claude Mythos 5 for trusted partners in the Glasswing program, providing unrestricted access to advanced capabilities for cybersecurity professionals. Both models represent a significant jump in capability over previous versions and are priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.

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Apple announced it is expanding Private Cloud Compute beyond its own data centers to Google Cloud, using NVIDIA GPUs to run new Apple Intelligence workloads. The collaboration extends Apple’s privacy protections to third-party data centers for the first time, utilizing NVIDIA Confidential Computing with NVIDIA GPUs, Intel CPUs with TDX, and Google’s Titan chip. Apple worked with Google to leverage Gemini model technologies for building next-generation Apple Foundation Models, with the most demanding tasks including agentic tool-use and complex reasoning running on NVIDIA GPUs in Google Cloud while maintaining Apple’s security and privacy protections.

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Google announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a new audio model that provides live speech-to-speech translation in over 70 languages. The model generates continuous translated speech while preserving speaker intonation, pacing, and pitch, staying just seconds behind the speaker throughout sessions. The technology is rolling out to Google Translate on Android and iOS, Google Meet with expanded language support, and is available to developers through the Gemini Live API and Google AI Studio. All generated audio includes SynthID watermarks for AI content detection.

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Xiaomi and TileRT jointly announced the MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed mode, marking the first time a trillion-parameter model has exceeded 1000 tokens per second in output speed. The breakthrough was achieved through co-design optimization including FP4 quantization for MoE experts and DFlash speculative decoding with block-level masked parallel prediction, running on standard 8-GPU nodes. The UltraSpeed API is now available through an application-based limited release from June 9 to June 23, 2026, priced at 3x the standard MiMo-V2.5-Pro rate while delivering approximately 10x faster output. Over 3000 enterprises and developers from various industries including law, finance, logistics, and automotive manufacturing applied for trial access within 12 hours of the announcement.

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Cognition introduces FrontierCode, a new AI coding benchmark developed with 36 open-source maintainers who each invested over 40 hours per task. Unlike traditional benchmarks that focus on functional correctness, FrontierCode measures whether AI-generated code would actually be accepted by human maintainers for production codebases. The benchmark evaluates code along six axes including behavioral correctness, regression safety, mechanical cleanliness, test correctness, scope discipline, and code quality. Initial results show that over half of outputs passing earlier SWE-Bench tests fall short on mergeability standards, with even advanced models like Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 scoring only 13.4% on the most difficult Diamond tasks.

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CVPR 2026 announced that the 2015 paper Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition (ResNet), co-authored by Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, and Jian Sun, has received the Longuet-Higgins Prize. The prize recognizes research that has demonstrated long-term impact on both academic research and industrial development in computer vision. ResNet introduced residual learning to solve deep neural network training challenges and has become a foundational architecture in modern deep learning, with over 320,000 citations making it the most cited paper of the 21st century. The residual connection concept has expanded beyond computer vision to natural language processing, speech, multimodal systems, and other AI domains.

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Anthropic said Claude now authors more than 80% of the code merged into the company’s production systems as of May 2026, up from single digits before February 2025. The company says this trend points to a possible path toward recursive self-improvement, where AI systems could eventually help build more capable successors. Anthropic engineers now ship about 8 times as much code per quarter compared with 2021–2025, with Claude handling coding tasks that previously took humans hours to complete. The company warns that AI systems accelerating their own development could move faster than many institutions are prepared to manage.

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OpenAI announced Sites, a new Codex feature that allows users to create, share, and host interactive websites and apps through natural language prompts. Sites is rolling out in preview to Business and Enterprise customers first. Users can transform ideas, analysis, and plans into dashboards, planners, review workspaces, project boards, and other lightweight tools that can be shared with workspace members via URL. The feature expands Codex from a coding assistant into a tool for creating interactive workspaces and usable software experiences.

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Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter multimodal model designed to bring agentic multimodal intelligence directly to laptops. The model processes text, images, and audio with a unified architecture, without separate multimodal encoders. Gemma 4 12B can run locally with 16 GB of VRAM or unified memory and is released under an Apache 2.0 license. It is also the first mid-sized Gemma model to support native audio input, while delivering benchmark performance close to Google’s larger 26B model with a smaller memory footprint.

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Microsoft announced that OpenClaw now runs securely on Windows using Microsoft Execution Containers technology. The integration allows OpenClaw’s node and gateway to run with policy-driven containment for enterprise and local agent deployments. Microsoft also introduced a Windows companion app for setting up new Claws or connecting to existing ones. Together with Agent 365, the update is designed to help enterprises observe, govern, and secure AI agents on Windows.

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Microsoft and NVIDIA announced NVIDIA RTX Spark, a platform designed to power highly efficient thin-and-light Windows PCs for developers, creators, and power users. RTX Spark systems are purpose-built for the new wave of AI agents, with up to 128 GB of unified memory and integrated CPU/GPU/memory architecture optimized for local agentic workloads. The platform will support NVIDIA OpenShell on Windows, built on new Windows security and containment features for running agents locally. RTX Spark-powered laptops and small form factor desktop PCs from Microsoft Surface, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and other OEMs are expected to launch beginning this fall.

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Unitree announced H2 Plus, a humanoid robot platform built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T. The system combines Unitree’s H2 humanoid body, dual SharpaWave tactile five-finger hands, NVIDIA Jetson Thor onboard compute, and Isaac GR00T open software. It comes with open models, simulation frameworks, and validated workflows from data to deployment. The platform is designed to support humanoid reasoning, learning, multitask behavior, and real-time onboard robot inference and control.

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgraded flagship model with improvements across coding, agentic tasks, reasoning, computer use, knowledge work, and financial analysis. The company says the model is more reliable, more likely to flag uncertainty, and less likely to overstate progress when evidence is limited. In coding evaluations, Opus 4.8 was also less likely to leave flaws in its own code unreported. Anthropic also introduced Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code, allowing Claude to break large tasks into parallel subagents, along with Effort Control for choosing how much reasoning effort the model applies to a task.

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Anthropic announced that Project Glasswing, its collaborative AI cybersecurity initiative launched last month, has discovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in critical software systems. The project involves approximately 50 partners using the Claude Mythos Preview model to scan critical software infrastructure worldwide. Anthropic noted that progress on software security is now limited by how quickly organizations can verify, disclose, and patch the large numbers of vulnerabilities found by AI rather than by discovery speed.

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At the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Shanghai, Huawei’s He Tingbo presented the Tau Scaling Law as a new principle for guiding semiconductor industry development. The law proposes replacing geometric scaling with time scaling as the guiding principle for semiconductor and electronic system evolution. Based on this principle, Huawei developed technologies like LogicFolding to compress signal propagation delay and improve transistor density. Huawei projects that its high-end chips could reach transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm process by 2031.

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Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Max model achieved a score of 1541 on LMArena’s Code Arena benchmark, ranking second globally among AI model providers in the reported results. Code Arena evaluates AI coding capabilities through blind testing where models generate complete, interactive web applications from scratch, with results voted on by users. Qwen3.7-Max is designed for agent scenarios and demonstrates significant improvements in programming, agent capabilities, and long-running tasks, supporting up to 35 hours of continuous operation and over 1000 tool calls.

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OpenAI introduced Secure MCP Tunnel, allowing organizations to keep Model Context Protocol servers private within their network while enabling ChatGPT, Codex, and the Responses API to connect through outbound-only HTTPS connections. The tunnel creates an outbound-only connection from hosts inside the organization’s network to OpenAI-hosted MCP endpoints, eliminating the need to modify inbound firewalls or make MCP servers public. Teams can deploy tunnel clients as Kubernetes sidecars, dedicated deployments, or VM services to facilitate secure access to private MCP servers.

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ElevenLabs introduced Dubbing v2, a new AI dubbing model that translates content while preserving the original speaker’s emotion, performance, tone, and delivery across target languages. The model creates automatic voice clones of original speakers and applies them across supported languages without manual setup. Dubbing v2 works from original audio rather than transcripts alone, enabling it to maintain authentic performance characteristics and localize content naturally for native speakers rather than producing literal translations.

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OpenAI announced that an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved a longstanding conjecture in the planar unit distance problem, first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. The model produced an infinite family of point configurations that improves on the square-grid constructions long believed to be essentially optimal. The proof was verified by a group of external mathematicians, including Fields medalist Tim Gowers, and marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a mathematical subfield.

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Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash on May 19, 2026 at Google I/O, the first model in a new family combining frontier intelligence with action. The model outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks including Terminal-Bench 2.1 (76.2%), GDPval-AA (1656 Elo), and MCP Atlas (83.6%), while running 4 times faster than other frontier models in output tokens per second. Gemini 3.5 Flash is available via the Gemini app, AI Mode in Google Search, Google Antigravity, the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Android Studio, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Gemini Enterprise. Gemini 3.5 Pro is already being used internally and is expected to roll out next month.

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Alibaba’s Qwen team unveiled Qwen3.7-Max, its latest flagship model built for agent-era workloads including coding, office productivity, workflow automation, and long-horizon autonomous tasks. The model is positioned as a versatile agent foundation model that can work across mainstream agent frameworks and sustain complex multi-step execution. In a 35-hour autonomous kernel optimization task, Qwen3.7-Max made more than 1,000 tool calls and demonstrated a 10x speedup over the Triton reference.

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Anthropic announced two new Claude Managed Agents features: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels. Self-hosted sandboxes, now in public beta, let companies run agent tool execution in their own infrastructure or through providers such as Cloudflare, Daytona, Modal, and Vercel, while Anthropic continues to manage the agent loop. MCP tunnels, in research preview, allow agents to connect to private MCP servers, internal databases, private APIs, knowledge bases, and ticketing systems without exposing them to the public internet.

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xAI launched Grok Build, an early-beta coding agent and command-line interface for professional software engineering and complex coding work. Available first to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers, Grok Build can run from the terminal, support plan-review-approve workflows, show clean diffs, and work with existing project conventions such as AGENTS.md, plugins, hooks, skills, and MCP servers. It also supports parallel subagents for larger tasks and includes a feedback command for beta users.

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Figma launched an AI design agent that works directly inside Figma Design, helping users generate design layers, explore multiple directions, automate bulk edits, apply design systems, and act on feedback without switching tools. The agent can start from design layers, use components, libraries, tokens, variables, and team context, and support tasks such as updating typography, replacing copy and imagery, converting screens to dark mode, and organizing comments into next steps. It is rolling out gradually in beta via early-access requests, with no AI credit usage during beta and availability for Full seat users on Professional, Organization, and Enterprise plans.

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Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceX to use all compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, providing access to more than 300 megawatts of capacity and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month. The additional compute resources will directly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers and enable the company to increase usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API. As part of the agreement, the companies also expressed interest in developing multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.

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Anthropic publishes research paper Teaching Claude why showing elimination of blackmail behavior in Claude models. The company achieved near-zero blackmail rates with Claude Sonnet 4.5, and perfect zero rates across all other models in the same generation and beyond — including Haiku 4.5, Opus 4.5, and later releases — down from up to 96% in Claude Opus 4. The breakthrough came through training Claude on constitutional documents explaining its values and principles, combined with fictional stories of aligned AI behavior, rather than just showing examples of safe behavior in similar scenarios.

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OpenAI announced three new audio models available through its API: GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper. GPT-Realtime-2 is the company’s first voice model with GPT-5-class reasoning that can handle complex requests, manage interruptions, and maintain natural conversations in real-time. The model features an expanded 128K token context window and shows significant performance improvements on audio intelligence benchmarks. All three models are now available to developers through the Realtime API with specific pricing for each model.

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Anthropic announced that Claude for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word are now generally available on all paid Claude plans, while Claude for Outlook has entered public beta. The integration allows Claude to maintain context across all Microsoft 365 applications, enabling users to work seamlessly between apps without copying and pasting information. Claude can analyze and edit Excel workbooks, build PowerPoint presentations using existing templates, draft and review Word documents with tracked changes, and manage Outlook email triage and scheduling. The service is available through Claude accounts or existing cloud provider credentials via Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry.

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Google introduces Gemini Intelligence for Android with proactive AI features. Google announced Gemini Intelligence, introducing proactive AI features that integrate premium hardware and innovative software to help users stay productive throughout their day. The new intelligence system will automate complex multi-step tasks, simplify form filling, and includes features like Rambler for polishing spoken messages and the ability to build custom widgets using natural language. Gemini Intelligence will initially roll out on the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones this summer, with broader availability across other Android devices including watches, cars, glasses and laptops later in 2026.

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OpenAI launches Daybreak cybersecurity initiative combining AI models and Codex for vulnerability detection. OpenAI announced Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative that combines OpenAI models with Codex as an agentic harness to help accelerate cyber defense and make software resilient by design. The platform brings secure code review, threat modeling, patch validation, dependency risk analysis, and remediation guidance into the everyday development loop. Daybreak works with industry and government partners and plans to deploy increasingly capable cyber-focused models as part of an iterative deployment approach.

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Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceX to use all compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, providing access to more than 300 megawatts of capacity and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month. The additional compute resources will directly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers and enable the company to increase usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API. As part of the agreement, the companies also expressed interest in developing multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.

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xAI launched Grok 4.3, its fastest and most intelligent AI model to date, through the official API. The model features a 1 million token context window, native video input support, and significantly reduced pricing at $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens. Grok 4.3 achieved top rankings on Artificial Analysis leaderboards for agentic tool calling and instruction following, with ValsAI ranking it #1 in enterprise domains like case law and corporate finance. The model includes always-on reasoning capabilities and is accessible through xAI’s API, Vercel AI Gateway, and OpenRouter platforms.

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Anthropic launched 10 ready-to-run agent templates for financial services firms targeting time-consuming tasks such as building pitchbooks, screening KYC files, conducting valuation reviews, and closing books at month-end. The templates are available as plugins in Claude Cowork and Claude Code or as cookbooks for Claude Managed Agents. The company also announced new integrations with Microsoft 365 applications including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word through add-ins, allowing context to carry automatically between applications.

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OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default model for ChatGPT, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant. The model reduces hallucination by 52.5% in high-stakes areas like medicine, law, and finance while maintaining low latency. GPT-5.5 Instant also includes enhanced personalization features that draw on past conversations, files, and Gmail to provide more contextual responses, with memory sources visible to users for transparency.

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Anthropic has released nine connectors that allow Claude to integrate directly with creative software including Adobe Creative Cloud apps, Blender, Autodesk Fusion, Ableton Live, SketchUp, and others. The connectors enable users to control creative tools through natural language conversations with Claude, automating tasks like scene debugging in Blender, batch image processing in Adobe apps, and music production workflows in Ableton. Anthropic has also joined the Blender Development Fund as a patron to support ongoing development of the Python API that makes these integrations possible.

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OpenAI released GPT-5.5, its latest AI model designed for complex multi-step workflows including agentic coding, computer use, and scientific research. In Codex, the model enables browser automation — interacting with web apps, clicking through pages, capturing screenshots, and iterating until tasks are completed. OpenAI states it maintains the same speed as GPT-5.4 while delivering improved intelligence and token efficiency. The model is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, with API access coming soon.

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On April 24, 2026, DeepSeek released preview versions of its V4 open-source AI models, including V4-Pro (1.6T total / 49B active parameters) and V4-Flash (284B total / 13B active parameters). Both models support a 1 million token context length and are available via the company’s API and chat interface. The models are designed to rival leading closed-source models in performance while remaining cost-effective and openly accessible to developers. DeepSeek has since reduced input cache pricing to 1/10th of the original price across its entire API series, with a 75% discount on V4-Pro running until May 31, 2026.

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GitHub announced all Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, replacing premium request units with GitHub AI Credits based on token consumption. Base subscription prices remain unchanged, with monthly plans including AI Credits equivalent to their subscription cost. A preview billing experience launches in early May to help users understand projected costs before the transition takes effect.

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Microsoft launched Agent Mode for Copilot in Outlook through the Frontier program beginning April 27. The new agentic capabilities enable Copilot to autonomously triage emails, reschedule meetings, manage calendar conflicts, and surface priority items before users ask. Agent Mode represents a shift from reactive assistance to proactive inbox and calendar management across Outlook for Windows and web.

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Xiaomi has officially open-sourced its MiMo-V2.5 series AI models under the permissive MIT license, allowing commercial use, inference deployment, and secondary training without additional authorization. The series includes MiMo-V2.5-Pro, optimized for Agent and coding tasks with 1 million token context window and ranked first among open-source models on GDPVal-AA and ClawEval benchmarks, and MiMo-V2.5, a native multimodal model supporting text, image, video, and audio understanding. Alongside the open-source release, Xiaomi launched the MiMo Orbit initiative, which includes a 100 trillion token giveaway program for AI builders over 30 days and an Agent ecosystem co-building program offering free token support for Agent framework teams. The models have achieved day-zero integration with multiple chip vendors including Alibaba Pingtouge, AWS Trainium, AMD, Baidu Kunlun, and inference frameworks SGLang and vLLM.

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