Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI begins this week in Oakland, California. A nine-person jury will hear claims that Altman betrayed the company’s founding mission by transforming OpenAI from a nonprofit into a for-profit enterprise. Dara Kerr and Nick Robins-Early report for The Guardian. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 alongside Altman and others. …
China’s top economic planning body, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), has ordered Meta to reverse its acquisition of AI startup Manus. The deal was valued at over $2 billion when Meta completed it in late 2025. The NDRC said it would “prohibit foreign investment in Manus in accordance with laws and regulations” and …
Chinese AI company DeepSeek has released two new open-source language models under the name DeepSeek-V4. The models, called V4-Pro and V4-Flash, are available for download and via API. Both support a context window of one million tokens, meaning they can process roughly eight times the length of a long novel in a single interaction. DeepSeek’s …
Anthropic’s valuation has surged to $1 trillion on secondary markets, overtaking rival OpenAI in investor demand despite being valued at less than half of OpenAI’s $852 billion in their most recent funding rounds. Business Insider reports that the AI company’s shares are now trading above $1 trillion on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange. …
Microsoft has expanded its artificial intelligence assistant Copilot with new capabilities that allow it to take direct, multi-step actions inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Sumit Chauhan, President of the Office Product Group, writes that these so-called agentic features are now generally available and the default experience for subscribers. Previously, Copilot could answer questions but struggled …
Tencent has opened an international beta for QClaw, an artificial intelligence agent product built by its PC Manager team. T. K. Lin reports for KrASIA that the tool is designed for non-technical users and allows them to deploy and operate AI agents through messaging apps such as WhatsApp or Telegram, without any terminal commands or …
OpenAI has introduced workspace agents in ChatGPT, a new product that lets business teams build and share AI agents capable of handling complex, multi-step tasks across workplace tools like Slack, Google Drive, Salesforce, and Microsoft apps. Workspace agents are powered by Codex, OpenAI’s cloud-based AI coding platform. Unlike previous chat-based interactions, these agents can write …
Canadian AI company Cohere has agreed to acquire German AI firm Aleph Alpha. The deal values the combined company at around $20 billion. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, and the deal remains subject to regulatory approval. Cohere will retain its name and operate with dual headquarters in Canada and Germany. Aleph …
OpenAI has announced GPT-5.5, its latest large language model, positioned as a significant step forward in handling complex, multi-step tasks on a computer. The model is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.5 is designed to handle “agentic” work: tasks where an AI model operates …
European governments are racing to reduce their reliance on American technology companies, driven by fears that Washington could use digital services as political leverage. Mathieu Pollet and Anouk Schlung report for Politico that the effort is proving far more difficult and expensive than officials had anticipated. The urgency stems from a stark imbalance. Amazon, Microsoft …