OpenAI launches Premium ChatGPT Business seats offering 5x more usage for $125/month per user, with a limited-time deal giving the first 10,000 eligible customers up to $500 in workspace credits.
Bain & Company joins Anthropic's Claude Partner Network as a Global Premier partner, deploying Claude AI to all 19,000 employees and reporting productivity gains of 30% to 50%, with over 7,000 staff actively using the platform within weeks of launch.
Nvidia strikes a $6 billion licensing deal with AI startup Poolside, gaining access to cutting-edge coding models and over 100 researchers, as AI model prices plummet industry-wide with OpenAI slashing costs by 20% and competitors like DeepSeek charging as little as $0.66 per million tokens.
China's Z AI unveils the record-breaking GLM-5.3-Flash, built entirely on domestic chips, as OpenAI's Sam Altman claims AGI is months away and small businesses gain a surprising edge over enterprises through deeply discounted AI pricing.
Anthropic signs a massive $45 billion, six-year compute deal with British firm Nscale, powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips, as the AI giant accelerates an aggressive infrastructure expansion spree totaling tens of billions of dollars to keep pace with rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Meta.
OpenAI unveils its first custom AI inference chip, 'Jalapeño,' built with Broadcom, delivering up to 4x better performance-per-watt than Nvidia's Blackwell across key benchmarks, with plans to scale production into 2027 to cut compute costs and broaden AI access.
Waymo is making its first move into the European Union, announcing plans to launch driverless ride-hailing services in Munich, Germany by the end of 2027, with mapping and testing operations set to begin in the coming weeks.
OpenAI loses a key infrastructure executive as head of data centers Chris Malone departs the AI giant, with no reason given for his exit amid the company's massive data center expansion efforts.
Hugging Face is in acquisition talks at a $13 billion valuation, with banks evaluating bids for the AI infrastructure giant, though questions remain about whether CEO Clem Delangue is truly open to selling given his commitment to long-term community responsibility.
Anthropic hires Amir Salek, founder of Google's TPU program and former Nvidia chip leader, to build a custom in-house AI silicon operation designed specifically for Claude's workloads, while maintaining existing hardware partnerships with Nvidia, Google, and Amazon.