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The most important AI stories — model releases, product launches, funding and research — updated weekly.
OpenAI officially unveils GPT-6 Astra, featuring breakthrough multi-step reasoning, autonomous coding capabilities, native website generation, and agentic workflow execution.
OpenAI has made its agent-building platform generally available, giving developers hosted tools, memory and evaluation out of the box rather than as bespoke infrastructure.
A new multi-country survey finds that more than half of small businesses now use at least one AI tool weekly, with customer support and content creation leading adoption.
India's national AI programme adds compute capacity and a large-scale skilling push aimed at students and small businesses across tier-2 and tier-3 cities.
Midjourney's web editor brings layered edits, region-level control and reference consistency to a product previously driven almost entirely by prompting.
Multiple publishers report falling click-through from search as AI answers absorb informational queries, while branded and direct traffic grows for trusted sources.
Large organisations are moving agentic workflows out of pilots and into production, with procurement, IT support and finance operations named as the first live deployments.
OpenAI's latest release focuses on better coding, longer context and enterprise reliability. Early benchmarks show a meaningful jump on SWE-bench and MMLU-Pro.
Claude's new release adds richer tool use, faster streaming and improved coding — closing the gap with GPT on agentic tasks.
Gemini 2 Pro is now the default across Google Workspace, with improved reasoning and Veo 3 integration for enterprise customers.
Perplexity has raised a mega-round led by top-tier investors, doubling its valuation. Deep Research and Spaces are cited as key growth drivers.
Mistral's new open-weight release outperforms comparable-size models on reasoning and multilingual benchmarks.
Meta previews an agent stack built on Llama, targeting enterprise workflows and on-device inference.
The European Commission has published enforcement guidance for foundation model providers under the AI Act.
AI-first IDE Cursor has crossed a major ARR milestone, becoming one of the fastest-growing developer tools ever.
ElevenLabs' new Realtime API brings latency competitive with OpenAI's voice offering while retaining voice cloning quality.
Veo 3's latest update improves synchronized dialogue and ambient sound generation for creators.