Releases

Runway released Gen-4 for coherent and controllable video generation.

Amazon began testing an agentic AI feature that can purchase products from other brands' websites for customers.

Amazon released a browser-use foundation model through the Nova Act research preview.

Amazon introduced Nova Act, a model and SDK for building agents that reliably complete browser-based user-interface tasks.

Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy to version 2.1.

OpenAI announced $40 billion in new funding led by SoftBank at a $300 billion post-money valuation.

CoreWeave’s Class A common stock began public trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker CRWV.

xAI acquired social network X in an all-stock deal valuing X at $33 billion in equity and xAI at $80 billion, combining data, models, compute and distribution.

Upper90 closed a $225 million credit facility to expand Crusoe Cloud infrastructure.

CoreWeave priced 37.5 million Class A shares at $40 each, with trading under CRWV scheduled to begin on Nasdaq the next day.

Anthropic published interpretability research tracing internal mechanisms underlying multilingual reasoning, planning, and unfaithful explanations.

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

Amazon introduced an AI shopping feature that continuously searches for new products matching natural-language interests.

Microsoft announces Analyst, a Microsoft 365 Copilot reasoning agent for data analysis, modeling and report creation.

Microsoft announces Researcher and Analyst as reasoning agents for multistep research and data analysis in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental as a thinking model for complex reasoning and coding tasks.

OpenAI launched native image generation in GPT-4o for precise, context-aware image creation and editing.

DeepSeek upgraded V3 with stronger reasoning, coding, writing, search and function calling.

Perplexity proposed combining with TikTok's US operations to create a new American company and make its recommendation system transparent.

Oracle launched tools to build, extend, test, deploy and manage agents for Fusion Applications.

Oracle disclosed a broad portfolio of embedded role-based agents across Fusion applications.

CoreWeave launched S3-compatible AI Object Storage with LOTA caching, exabyte-scale design, and performance targeted at training and inference.

Anthropic launched web search for Claude, enabling current answers with direct citations.

Perplexity improved Sonar, Sonar Pro and reasoning models while reducing API prices.

xAI made its image-generation model available through the developer API.