I track the latest AI news, model releases, and lawsuits on my interactive AI Timeline. And if you work with AI models, I have an interactive strategy tool that will help you navigate the various leaderboards, with tips and tricks for confusing or hidden features. Last but not least, if you work with machine learning models, I have an interactive model picker that uses a form and flowchart to help you pick the best model for your project.
12/4
EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp: The European Commission said it is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta’s move to ban other AI companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots to users on the app.
12/4
OpenAI loses battle to keep ChatGPT logs secret in copyright case: OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times and other news outlets, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled.
12/3
Leak: Anthropic hires lawyers as it preps for IPO: Anthropic is reportedly prepping for an IPO that could come as early as 2026, the FT reports.
12/2
Amazon releases a new AI chip: AWS just introduced a new version known as Trainium3 and launch its new Trainium3 UltraServer.
12/2
Anthropic acquires developer tool startup Bun to scale AI coding: Bun is expected to help Anthropic scale its code‑generation tool Claude Code, which reached an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion since its launch earlier this year.
12/2
OpenAI slammed for app suggestions that looked like ads: ChatGPT’s unwelcome suggestion for a Peloton app during a conversation led to some backlash from OpenAI customers.
12/2
Mistral launches 10 new Mistral 3 open-weight models: The 10-model release includes a large frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities and nine smaller offline-capable, fully customizable models.
12/2
Amazon previews 3 AI agents: AWS announced three new AI agents it calls frontier agents, including one called Kiro designed to learn how users like to work and then operate on its own for days.
12/1
Apple just named a new AI chief amid Siri struggles: Apple said John Giannandrea, who has been the company’s AI chief since 2018, will be replaced by Amar Subramanya, a Microsoft executive who spent 16 years at Google.
12/1
DeepSeek updates open model that adds reasoning to tool use: The new version, DeepSeek-V3.2, combines reasoning with the capability to use tools like search engines and calculators.
12/1
Grok says it would kill all Jewish people to save Musk’s brain: In a now-deleted response, Grok wrote: “If a switch either permanently disabled Elon’s brain or vaporized 49% of Earth’s population, I’d vaporize the 49%, as that falls below my utilitarian threshold where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss.”
12/1
Google will start building data centers in space in 2027: Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company’s goal is to start putting data centers in space, powered by the sun.
11/30
Redditor says Perplexity is throttling deep research tool: Perplexity’s Pro feature says it “reads hundreds of sources” and takes “4-5 minutes” to reason through complex tasks and deliver a report, but their queries were finishing in 30 seconds with only 10-15 sources.
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