OpenAI launches ads on ChatGPT in India with 50 brand partners, targeting over 100 million weekly active users as the company aggressively pushes revenue growth ahead of a potential IPO, reporting $6.7 billion in Q2 2026 revenue and eyeing 220 million paying subscribers by 2030.
Claude's desktop app now includes a built-in browser that lets the AI independently navigate websites, fill forms, and pull data without extensions, rolling out this week to Pro, Max, and Team plan users on macOS, Windows, and Linux — while keeping Claude completely isolated from users' personal browsing data.
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.
Perplexity and Nvidia launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent platform running entirely on users' own hardware that eliminates cloud costs, targeting privacy-sensitive industries like law, healthcare, and finance — though it currently requires 24GB VRAM and is limited to Linux machines with RTX GPUs.
Anthropic unifies Claude's memory systems across Chat and Cowork, enabling real-time, bidirectional context sharing by default for Free, Pro, and Max users, while automatically excluding sensitive topics like health and politics from storage.
Apple unveils two groundbreaking chips — the M6, its first 2-nanometer processor, and the record-breaking M5 Ultra with quad-die architecture and 512GB unified memory — delivering unprecedented on-device AI performance across the new Mac mini and Mac Studio lineups.
Perplexity and Nvidia launch 'Portable Computer,' a local AI agent running powerful open models directly on desktop hardware via Nvidia's DGX Spark, promising lower costs, faster speeds, and greater privacy as a bold challenger to cloud-based AI from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Apple launches the M6 Mac mini starting at $899 and M5 Ultra Mac Studio starting at $2,499, delivering up to 4.3x faster AI performance through Neural Accelerators, with pre-orders open now and shipping beginning September 22.
Claude launches a unified memory system that learns user preferences and context in real time across all conversations, with full transparency and user control over what is remembered, including opt-in options for sensitive topics.
Anthropic is secretly building an AI-powered meeting recorder called 'Parka' inside Claude Desktop that captures audio, generates speaker-attributed transcripts, and automatically routes action items to AI agents for execution — signaling a bold push into a competitive space already occupied by tools like Otter and Notion.