Releases

Google transfers the A2A protocol project to the Linux Foundation to support neutral, industry-wide governance.

Harvey and LexisNexis partnered to integrate primary law, Protégé, and Shepard's citations and co-develop legal workflows.

Founder and CEO Alexandr Wang left day-to-day management to join Meta’s AI efforts while remaining a Scale director; Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege became interim CEO.

Meta made a $14.3 billion non-voting minority investment in Scale AI and expanded the companies' commercial relationship; Scale was valued above $29 billion.

Disney and Universal filed copyright litigation challenging Midjourney's model training and outputs.

Databricks and Microsoft expanded integration across Azure Databricks, Microsoft 365 and governed enterprise agents.

Hugging Face and NVIDIA introduced a managed service for research organizations to access large GPU clusters for foundation-model training.

Perplexity partnered with European model providers to bring additional European AI models to global users.

Cohere announced work with the UK government to support secure AI adoption and public-sector productivity.

Cohere and the Government of Canada agreed to explore secure generative AI for public-sector operations.

Former Meta FAIR head Joelle Pineau joined Cohere as Chief AI Officer to lead research and model development.

Anthropic appointed Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to its board of directors.

SAP partnered with Perplexity to add real-time web answers to the Joule enterprise assistant.

CoreWeave expanded its OpenAI infrastructure agreement by up to $4 billion, increasing the relationship’s contracted value.

The Joint Commission and Palantir announced an AI partnership focused on healthcare quality and safety.

Perplexity partnered with Wiley to make trusted educational content available through AI-powered search.

xAI, TWG Global, and Palantir formed a partnership to deploy AI products and workflows across financial services.

Meta said more than one billion people use its AI products each month.

Perplexity partnered with Motorola to pre-install its app and integrate Perplexity Assistant into Moto AI on new devices.

Anthropic joined Palantir FedStart to accelerate deployment of Claude capabilities to U.S. government customers.

Databricks and Google Cloud expanded joint go-to-market and product integrations for Gemini models and enterprise AI.

Databricks and Anthropic established a partnership to offer Claude models natively through the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Perplexity expanded its SoftBank partnership to launch Enterprise Pro in Japan.

Databricks and Palantir partnered to combine data intelligence, ontology, and AI application capabilities.

CoreWeave entered a long-term agreement to provide AI infrastructure to OpenAI, with a contract value of up to $11.9 billion.

The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit selected Scale to lead Project Thunderforge with Anduril and Microsoft, integrating AI agents into operational military planning.

Scale entered a five-year partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to deploy AI applications, analytics, automation, and workforce programs across government.

Mistral AI reported one million Le Chat mobile app downloads; downloads are an adoption proxy, not unique active users.

Microsoft and OpenAI update their partnership structure while preserving Microsoft rights to OpenAI intellectual property and Azure API exclusivity.

OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX announced Stargate, a new company intended to invest $500 billion in US AI infrastructure over four years.

Cursor stated that the editor was used by millions of programmers; value records a conservative two-million lower bound.

Secondary-source estimate of Runway's 2025 workforce.

The Government of Canada announced up to C$240 million to support Cohere's Canadian AI compute capacity project.

Harvey announced integrations with Microsoft SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Word.

Perplexity expanded its publisher program with 15 additional media organizations.

Amazon committed an additional $4 billion to Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS Anthropic's primary training partner.

Anthropic, AWS, and Palantir announced availability of Claude models for U.S. intelligence and defense agencies through Palantir AI platforms.

Dow Jones and the New York Post sued Perplexity, alleging copyright and trademark violations involving publisher content.

Suno partnered with Audible Magic on content identification and rights-management technology.

Palantir expanded its Maven Smart System work with the U.S. government under a five-year agreement with a potential value up to $100 million.

Meta and EssilorLuxottica extended their long-term partnership to develop multiple generations of smart-eyewear products.

Microsoft, BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners and MGX form an investment partnership to mobilize capital for AI datacenters and supporting energy infrastructure.

Scale and the Center for AI Safety launched an international effort to create a broad expert-written benchmark for frontier AI systems.

Harvey and PwC co-developed jurisdiction-specific tax models for professional-services work.

Amazon hired Covariant's founders and a portion of its team and received a non-exclusive license to its robotic foundation models.

Perplexity partnered with Comcast to provide eligible Xfinity Rewards members a year of Perplexity Pro.

Harvey partnered with Icertis to bring generative AI into enterprise contract workflows.

Microsoft and Palantir partnered to deliver secure cloud, analytics, and AI capabilities to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.

Google enters a non-exclusive technology licensing agreement with Character.AI and brings co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, plus members of their research team, into Google DeepMind.

Perplexity partnered with Uber to offer eligible Uber One members a complimentary year of Perplexity Pro.