Releases

Mercor released the open APEX-Agents benchmark for long-horizon professional work; frontier agents completed fewer than 25% of tasks on the initial evaluation.

OpenEvidence reported daily active use by more than 40% of U.S. physicians across over 10,000 hospitals and medical centers.

OpenEvidence reported surpassing $100 million in annual revenue.

OpenEvidence raised $250 million in a Series D co-led by Thrive Capital and DST Global.

Accenture and Palantir expanded their partnership around sovereign AI transformation and operating systems.

Black Forest Labs released compact FLUX.2 [klein] models for fast and interactive visual generation.

Skild AI raised $1.4 billion in a Series C led by SoftBank with participation from NVentures, Macquarie Capital, Bezos Expeditions and existing investors.

Deutsche Telekom and ElevenLabs partnered on enterprise voice-AI deployments.

Google releases FunctionGemma, a compact open model specialized for function calling and on-device agent workflows.

Anthropic expanded Labs as a dedicated team for incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities.

Anthropic released Cowork as a research preview, bringing Claude's agentic capabilities to desktop work across files and applications.

Anthropic introduced HIPAA-ready Claude tools and resources for healthcare providers, payers, health-tech companies, and individuals, alongside expanded life-sciences capabilities.

EliseAI highlighted 2025 launches including its Maintenance App, SentimentAI, AI-Guided Tours, Lease Audits, and Fee Transparency Suite.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V7 with improved coherency, line work, and prompt adherence.

ElevenLabs released Scribe v2 with improved multilingual transcription and audio understanding.

Cursor CLI added model selection, MCP management, rules support, and renamed its main command to agent.

Perplexity launched a specialized offering for public-safety organizations.

xAI closed an upsized $20 billion Series E, above its $15 billion target; contemporaneous reporting placed the company’s valuation at more than $230 billion.

CoreWeave announced it would extend its cloud platform with NVIDIA’s Rubin architecture for the next generation of AI training and inference.

NVIDIA released Cosmos Transfer 2.5, Predict 2.5 and Reason 2, updated GR00T N1.6, and introduced Jetson T4000.

Baidu announced a proposed spin-off and separate listing of its Kunlunxin AI-chip business.

Third-party database count of verified companies using IBM watsonx.

Lower-bound adoption proxy based on five major customers publicly named in 2026 reporting: OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral and IBM.

Estimated DeepSeek workforce using its published company-size range; exact headcount is not disclosed.

Secondary-source estimate of Anthropic's 2026 workforce.