Releases

Lovable partnered with Cerebras to pursue substantially lower response times for its software-building experience.

Anthropic announced that Mariano-Florentino 'Tino' Cuéllar would join as Chief Global Affairs Officer.

Third-party estimate of Midjourney registered users in 2026.

Microsoft reported that Microsoft 365 Copilot surpassed 30 million paid seats.

Scale’s board appointed former Google Cloud and Illumina executive Francis deSouza as chief executive officer, effective August 10, 2026.

Grok 4.5 became available to developers through GitHub Copilot.

Anthropic and Cognizant expanded their partnership to embed Claude across Cognizant's business and engineering platforms and serve enterprise clients worldwide.

Microsoft's legal and compliance organization expanded its collaboration with and use of Harvey.

SambaNova joined the U.S. Department of Energy-led Genesis Mission Consortium, contributing its RDU hardware, full-stack software and inference expertise to national science, security and energy challenges.

Shield AI and GE Aerospace completed engine and thrust-vectoring integration testing for X-BAT.

A federal court granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated copies of books held in its training library.

argenx gained early access to Chai's AI platform for de novo antibody discovery in immunology.

Lovable added support for publishing Lovable-built applications for use inside ChatGPT, Claude, and compatible AI tools.

Cognition reported that its combined team grew from 44 to 350 people in the year after joining with Windsurf.

Nebius agreed to supply approximately $1 billion of AI compute capacity to Reflection.

Novartis gained access to Chai's AI design models and platform for therapeutic antibody discovery across multiple targets.

Mercor reported that its expert network had grown to more than five million domain experts as it announced the Deeptune acquisition.

SambaNova disclosed that JPMorganChase selected its reconfigurable dataflow units for enterprise AI inference.

ElevenLabs reported 30,000 users in Canada; this is a country-specific subset, not a global total.

Third-party estimate of Runway app monthly active users in June 2026.

Third-party QuestMobile estimate of Kimi monthly active users in the first half of 2026.

Microsoft employee count reported for fiscal year-end 2026.

Apollo Go began London road tests through mobility-platform partnerships.

HeyGen reported a community of more than 30 million users across 196 countries.

Reflection agreed to obtain NVIDIA GB300 compute capacity from SpaceXAI's Colossus 2 infrastructure under a contract reported to be worth up to $6.3 billion through 2029.

Chai Discovery made its miniprotein design suite available on a free-trial basis to selected biotech companies participating in Lilly TuneLab, extending its earlier collaboration with Eli Lilly.

CEO Robin Rombach described Black Forest Labs as a 90-person frontier AI lab across Germany and the United States.

SpaceXAI made Grok models available through Databricks Agent Bricks for enterprise agent development.

Databricks announced native Grok model availability in Agent Bricks through a partnership with SpaceXAI.

Abridge reported that it was live at more than 300 health systems and expected to support over 100 million patient-clinician conversations annually.

Lionsgate made a strategic investment expanding its relationship with Runway.

ElevenLabs partnered with the UK Government to bring voice AI to public services.

Pfizer licensed Chai's platform, including Chai-3, for AI-assisted molecular discovery.

Third-party estimate of Grok monthly active users in Q2 2026.

Third-party estimate of Perplexity monthly active users in Q2 2026.

Third-party estimate of DeepSeek monthly active users in Q2 2026.

Third-party estimate of Claude monthly active users in Q2 2026.

Palantir became available on Google Cloud Marketplace with two-way BigQuery–Foundry integration and deep Gemini–AIP connectivity.

Pinterest committed $4 billion through 2031 for AWS infrastructure including Trainium and Graviton to power AI discovery.

NVIDIA reported a CUDA-X developer ecosystem of more than six million developers.

Alphabet reported 900 million monthly users for Gemini.

Estimated Moonshot AI workforce in 2026.

Oracle employee count reported for fiscal year-end 2026.

Reflection became an AI model provider for the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, supporting customizable models for U.S. national laboratories.

Abridge appointed former Notion and Slack engineering leader San Oo as chief technology officer to help scale its healthcare intelligence platform.

Cohere announced agreements to advance sovereign AI deployments with Indra Group and Multiverse Computing.

Scale partnered with Carahsoft to make its GenAI Platform, test-and-evaluation capabilities, and deployment services available through U.S. government procurement schedules.

Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents integration adopted Modal Sandboxes for secure execution.

Krea reported that its team had grown to 37 people.

Argyll and SambaNova partnered to launch a sovereign AI cloud for UK customers using SambaNova inference systems.