Latest news from the AI world
On June 3, 2026, Google launches Gemma 4 12B (multimodal, edge, Apache 2.0) and the multi-agent Co-Scientist. Ideogram releases its weights as open-weights. Perplexity Computer arrives on Windows. Stargate Michigan inaugurates a 1 GW datacenter. GitHub Copilot rolls out a wave of VS Code, JetBrains, and billing updates.
On June 2, 2026, Microsoft Build focuses on the headline announcements: expanded GitHub Copilot App with Canvases, GA SDK in 6 languages, agentic NVIDIA stack (RTX Spark, DGX Station, OpenShell). OpenAI extends Codex to all roles with 6 plugins. Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 organizations and launches Claude Security.
June 1, 2026 concentrates the essentials: Anthropic's confidential S-1 filing with the SEC, the launch of Cosmos 3 and the NVIDIA+Runway Cosmos Coalition, MiniMax M3 open-weight, Luma OPAL Lab, Qwen3.7-Plus, and OpenAI's Rosalind Biodefense.
Anthropic raises $65 billion (Series H, $965B valuation) and launches Claude Opus 4.8 (SWE-bench Pro 69.2%). Mistral rebrands Le Chat to Vibe. Perplexity Computer integrates Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Runway launches an MCP server to generate videos and images from Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor. Claude Code v2.1.152 adds /code-review --fix. OpenAI secures private MCP servers. Roundup for May 27, 2026.
Week of May 25–26, 2026: xAI launches Grok Build (a CLI agent competitor to Claude Code), Chris Olah speaks at the Vatican for the new papal encyclical, and ElevenLabs releases Music v2 with API pricing cut in half.
Week of May 23-25, 2026: Google DeepMind releases AlphaProof Nexus, Anthropic extends Claude Code auto mode to the Pro plan with Sonnet 4.6, GitHub open sources Copilot for Eclipse, and Qwen3.7-Max enables implicit caching.
Week of May 22-23, 2026: Anthropic detects 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities via Project Glasswing, GitHub Copilot retains its Gartner Leader title for the 3rd year, Mistral acquires Emmi AI for industrial AI, and Perplexity releases Bumblebee open source.
Week of May 19-21, 2026: Alibaba launches Qwen3.7-Max for autonomous agents, GitHub reveals a compromise via a malicious VS Code extension, NVIDIA publishes an open governance standard for AI skills, and Runway unveils Aleph 2.0 with Edit Studio.
May 20, 2026: an OpenAI model solves an open discrete geometry problem from 1946, Cohere releases Command A+ under Apache 2.0, NVIDIA launches a token-diffusion LLM, Gemini for Science, and Stable Audio 3.0.
May 19, 2026: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic, Google I/O 2026 launches Gemini 3.5 Flash, Omni, Spark and Managed Agents, xAI launches Grok Skills, Cohere acquires Reliant AI for biopharma.
On May 18, 2026, Anthropic acquires Stainless to strengthen its SDK and MCP ecosystem. GitHub moves Copilot Business/Enterprise to GPT-5.3-Codex in a guaranteed 12-month LTS mode, and remote control of CLI sessions reaches general availability on mobile, web, VS Code, and JetBrains.