Alphabet crushes Q1 2026 expectations as Google Cloud surpasses $20 billion in revenue for the first time, AI-powered cloud revenue skyrockets 800% year-over-year, Waymo hits 500,000 weekly autonomous rides across 11 U.S. cities, and paid subscriptions across YouTube and Google One reach 350 million.
Meta unveils closed-source AI model Muse Spark, thrilling Wall Street while simultaneously cutting 10% of its workforce and planning up to $135 billion in AI infrastructure spending, marking a bold shift to compete directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 quietly raises real-world costs up to 27% through a new tokenizer that generates 32–45% more tokens than its predecessor, despite keeping prices unchanged at $5/M input and $25/M output — though short prompts under 2K tokens actually see a slight cost decrease.
Elon Musk takes the stand in federal court, accusing OpenAI co-founders of 'looting' a charity through its for-profit conversion, while OpenAI's attorneys strike back with Musk's own emails showing he once supported the very restructuring he now seeks to unwind in court.
Hundreds of Google employees are demanding CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using the company's AI for classified military work, igniting a fierce public debate over the ethics of military AI contracts just months after rival Anthropic was dropped by the Defense Department for making a similar request.
Elon Musk takes the stand in a landmark $130 billion trial against OpenAI, demanding the company revert to nonprofit status and remove CEO Sam Altman, while OpenAI fires back claiming Musk's lawsuit is fueled by jealousy and competitive motives tied to his rival xAI venture — with the outcome potentially …
OpenAI strikes a landmark Pentagon deal deploying advanced AI in classified environments, banning autonomous weapons, mass domestic surveillance, and high-stakes automated decisions, while retaining full safety control and the right to terminate the contract if violations occur.
GitHub Copilot is shifting to an AI Credits billing system on June 1, 2026, replacing premium request units with token-based credits while keeping all base plan prices unchanged, and offering Business and Enterprise users bonus credits, pooled usage, and new admin budget controls through August 2026.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 with record-breaking agentic performance and free healthcare access, Google unveils a full enterprise AI stack with $750M in startup funding, and Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 challenges top models at a fraction of the cost, signaling an intensifying race to dominate the AI industry.
China's government blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus, even as roughly 100 employees already operate from Meta's Singapore offices and two founders face exit bans in mainland China, creating a tense standoff between the tech giant and Beijing regulators.