Releases

Palantir employee count reported for year-end 2025.

Meta employee count reported for year-end 2025.

IBM reported 264,300 employees in wholly owned subsidiaries and 8,700 in less-than-wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Alphabet employee count reported for year-end 2025.

CoreWeave employee count reported in its 2025 Form 10-K.

Baidu-reported employee count at year-end 2025.

Amazon reported approximately 1,576,000 full- and part-time employees as of December 31, 2025.

xAI announced selection to deliver frontier AI capabilities for the U.S. Department of War.

Anthropic and the US Department of Energy announced a multi-year partnership supporting energy, life-sciences, and scientific-productivity work across national laboratories.

xAI and El Salvador announced a nationwide AI education program using Grok in the country’s schools.

Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation while retaining its open, community-driven governance model.

The New York Times filed suit alleging copyright infringement involving Perplexity's search and answer products.

Meta announced content partnerships to bring more real-time news and information into Meta AI responses.

AWS and NVIDIA announced infrastructure for deploying integrated AI factories in customers' own data centers.

Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the Arabic-first ALIF AI fluency program with Scale AI for government professionals.

Cohere and SAP expanded collaboration to offer sovereign AI solutions for European customers.

Suno and Warner Music Group partnered on licensed next-generation music models and artist experiences.

Perplexity announced a partnership to provide its services to United States government users.

xAI signed a framework agreement with Saudi Arabia and HUMAIN covering Grok deployment, agent-platform integration and AI infrastructure.

Databricks became an early Microsoft Agent 365 partner, bringing governed Agent Bricks experiences to Teams, Outlook and Excel.

Microsoft and Anthropic expand their partnership, bringing Claude models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Anthropic and Microsoft expanded their partnership, bringing Claude models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

AWS and OpenAI announced a seven-year strategic infrastructure agreement for OpenAI workloads using EC2 UltraServers and NVIDIA GPUs.

OpenAI and AWS announced a multi-year strategic partnership under which OpenAI would access AWS compute infrastructure.

Google Cloud and Anthropic expand their infrastructure partnership, with Anthropic planning access to up to one million TPUs for Claude training and serving.

CoreWeave agreed to provide Poolside with a cluster of more than 40,000 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 GPUs and support its Project Horizon AI campus.

Anthropic and Salesforce expanded their partnership to make Claude a preferred model for regulated Agentforce deployments.

Perplexity announced the initial media partners participating in Comet Plus.

A third OpenAI agreement added up to $6.5 billion, bringing total announced contract value with OpenAI to approximately $22.4 billion.

xAI expanded its government offering through GSA OneGov, making Grok reasoning models available to U.S. federal employees at negotiated pricing.

Cohere expanded work with AMD across model deployment, compute infrastructure and internal use of North.

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced five new US Stargate data-center sites, moving planned capacity toward nearly 7 gigawatts.

The US General Services Administration added Meta's Llama models to OneGov to support federal-agency AI adoption.

OpenAI and NVIDIA signed a letter of intent to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems, with the first Vera Rubin gigawatt targeted for the second half of 2026.

OpenAI and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI infrastructure.

CoreWeave and NVIDIA agreed on a strategic collaboration to scale GPU infrastructure and accelerate AI innovation.

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.