Releases

Anthropic agreed to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers over pirated copies of books used in model development.

Warner Bros. Discovery filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney.

The U.S. defense department awarded Scale a five-year production agreement with an initial $100 million ceiling for data operations, computer vision, GenAI, and Donovan capabilities.

xAI and X filed a U.S. federal antitrust suit alleging that Apple and OpenAI conspired to disadvantage rival generative-AI products and Grok in App Store distribution.

Cohere announced former Uber executive Francois Chadwick as chief financial officer alongside its funding round.

Co-founder Igor Babuschkin left xAI to launch an investment firm focused on AI safety research.

AWS added OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b to Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI.

Perplexity integrated OpenTable so users could find and book restaurant reservations from answers.

Palantir and the U.S. Army consolidated contracts into an enterprise agreement with a ceiling of up to $10 billion over ten years.

Gannett joined Perplexity's publisher program, broadening licensed news participation.

OpenAI and Oracle agreed to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional U.S. Stargate data-center capacity.

xAI launched its government suite and announced a U.S. Department of Defense agreement with a $200 million ceiling, plus availability through the GSA schedule.

Meta consolidated its frontier AI efforts into Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang with Nat Friedman overseeing AI products and applied research.

Oracle and xAI made Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini available through OCI Generative AI.

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.

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.

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.

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.