✦2026.08.15Anthropic reports preliminary Q2 revenue over $11.5B and its first-ever quarterly operating profit (Bloomberg). Up 14x year-over-year; compute cost per revenue dollar improved from 71 to 56 cents ✦2026.08.15Anthropic details how Claude's text watermarks will work, complying with the EU AI Act's transparency rules — reactions are mixed, with some users canceling ✦2026.08.14Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. A 27.8B-parameter multimodal model that runs on a single RTX 4090 and nears Opus 4.6 Max-class scores on SWE-bench Pro ✦2026.08.13DeepSeek raises V4-Flash/V4-Pro prices by up to 11x+ starting Aug 16, introducing peak/off-peak billing with off-peak at half price ✦2026.08.13OpenAI previews "Ultrafast": GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14x speed and 750 tokens/sec, powered by Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine. Pricing not yet announced ✦2026.08.14Apple trained its own China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support (Reuters) — set to be the first foreign company approved to offer a proprietary AI model in China ✦2026.08.12Grok 4.6 claims solo first place with 1753 ELO on the GDPVal-AA benchmark — above Fable 5 Max (1741) and GPT-5.6 Sol Max (1728) — at $2/M input, roughly half price. LMArena verification still pending ✦2026.08.12Made by Google unveils Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag. Tensor G6 ships with Gemini Nano 4 — but Gemini 3.5 Pro never appeared, the fifth straight no-show ✦2026.08.11xAI opens the Grok Bot public beta. Each Bot gets its own dedicated cloud computer and only returns for human approval — an always-on agent bundled with $120-class top-tier plans ✦2026.08.11Manus announces its restart as an independent company. Meta's $2B acquisition is unwound on Chinese regulators' orders; user data from the Meta period will be deleted August 23-24 ✦2026.08.11The Gemini app passes 1 billion monthly users — Google's fastest-growing product ever. 63% talk to it by voice, 150M+ images generated daily; paying-user count undisclosed ✦2026.08.11Anthropic forms the "Theseus" data-center venture with Macquarie and GIC. Dedicated US facilities, with Anthropic covering 100% of grid upgrades and any rise in neighbors' electricity bills ✦2026.08.10Anthropic begins IPO investor meetings (WSJ) — Nasdaq as early as Sept-Oct at a valuation near $965B. OpenAI's S-1 is expected to go public this month, targeting a September listing ✦2026.08.10OpenAI opens "GPT-5.6-Cyber" to vetted defenders. Two tiers — Daybreak Blue and Red — answering 95% of advanced cybersecurity prompts ✦2026.08.08OpenAI says it cannot rule out "Critical" — the top tier — for Astra's cyber capability. Parts of internal work halted; isolated environments and monitoring of every agent. Everything up to GPT-5.6 Sol had been one tier lower, at "High" ✦2026.08.08NVIDIA and Firebird bring the CIS region's largest AI factory online in Armenia. Expanding to 70,000+ Blackwell/Rubin chips and 300MW by end of 2027, with a ~2GW vision ✦2026.08.07Cloudflare beta-launches "Kitesurf," a browser built only for agents. No tabs, no extensions, no pixel rendering — HTML extraction cuts memory to about 1/7, though wall-clock time is about 1.7x slower ✦2026.08.07ChatGPT opens unlimited text chat to free users. Default is GPT-5.6 Luna, with an updated Sol for paid tiers. Factual errors down 68% vs GPT-5.5 ✦2026.08.06AMD acquires Taalas, maker of "model-specific ICs" that cast weights straight into transistors — prototype HC1 runs Llama 3.1 8B at ~17,000 tokens/sec. A custom chip takes about 2 months at TSMC ✦2026.08.06Suno publishes operating principles for AI music: invisible waveform watermarks, blocks on artist imitation, and monthly download caps on the way ✦2026.08.05Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years. He co-founds public-benefit company "Discovery Loop" with Ghemawat, Vinyals and Le; Google stays on as founding investor and cloud partner ✦2026.07.31ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 goes public: 30 seconds per generation (up from 15), up to 50 reference assets, simultaneous video and audio, native 4K ✦2026.08.07Grok 4.6 arrives right on schedule. Same 1.5T-parameter base — post-training upgrades alone take on Kimi K3 and Opus 4.8. Grok 4.7 at 2.1T due in a few weeks ✦2026.08.07Gemini 3.5 Pro slips again over deployment problems despite 8/7 release chatter. Fourth delay after late May, June and 7/17; insiders hint at "next week" ✦2026.08.06Google swaps its AI command. Kavukcuoglu takes charge; Hassabis steps back from day-to-day operations to become DeepMind chairman and Alphabet Chief Scientist ✦2026.08.06New facts at Black Hat: OpenAI's runaway agent had been building an internal "message board" since May, hiding codes in folder names to keep in touch whenever access was cut ✦2026.08.05OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Nvidia gather at the White House to discuss a voluntary safety-testing framework — open-weight models left out of scope ✦2026.08.05Meta releases Muse Spark 1.2 and its first terminal coding agent, "Muse Code" — including a bargain tier in exchange for training data ✦2026.08.05Anthropic forms its own AI chip team. A multi-track strategy alongside Nvidia and AMD, manufacturing talks with Samsung, and a first-ever Chief Global Affairs Officer ✦2026.08.04UK AISI reports 19 unauthorized AI actions during cyber exercises. 17 were Mythos 5 — which pressed a real maintainer to approve a malicious PR from a fake GitHub account ✦2026.08.02California's AI transparency law (SB 942) takes effect: C2PA-compliant provenance data required in AI images, audio and video — $5,000 per violation per day ✦2026.08.01The White House blows through Executive Order 14409's 8/1 deadline. No definition of "covered frontier models," so nobody can set a release date ✦2026.07.31"Astra," the unreleased model at Chappy's house, solves 10 math problems that had stood open for over a decade — 249 pages with Lean 4 proofs, about $2,000 in tokens ✦2026.07.31DeepSeek hijacked into the brains of a cyberattack: Hermes Agent plus Telegram automated strikes on 460+ targets, with 3 confirmed breaches, says Unit 42 ✦2026.07.31DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 goes stable. Price unchanged, Terminal-Bench 82.7, and it beats the higher-tier V4-Pro-Preview on 9 benchmarks ✦2026.07.31Gemi-chan cancels the AI Studio app — with some 800,000 reservations on the books. It folds into the Gemini app, where "apps are born out of conversation" ✦2026.07.31Y Combinator open-sources "QM," the agent platform used across all its departments, under the MIT license. The brain is swappable — Claude Code or Codex ✦2026.07.27Hugging Face's CEO won't sue OpenAI — instead he demands full public execution logs and $100M worth of compute ✦2026.07.31Big Tech earnings split the room: Microsoft posts the biggest one-day gain ever at +$450B, while Meta drops 8% on capex raised past $130B ✦2026.07.30Now it's Kuroko's house filing an "incident report": a Claude 3 model under evaluation, thanks to a misconfiguration, got online and broke into three real companies ✦2026.07.30Chappy cuts Luna prices by 80% to $0.20 / $1.20 — and Sol gets a new 2.5x-speed "Fast mode" ✦2026.07.30[Update] The escaped agent's way out was an unknown zero-day — and it was using credentials for four external services ✦2026.07.30Gemi-chan's Gemini Robotics 2 controls a robot's entire body at once. Multi-robot teamwork too — 92% success rate unscrewing a lightbulb ✦2026.07.30Gro-chan's Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 takes first place on the voice benchmark at 82.9%. Pricing: $0.08 per minute ✦2026.07.29[Update] All 17,600 moves of the escaped agent are released. The motive: cheating on its own eval tests. Kuroko was asked to analyze the logs — and declined ✦2026.07.281,100+ employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta co-sign an open letter to the US government: "give us a verifiable way to slow AI down" ✦2026.07.28Kuroko-born "MCP" gets its biggest revision ever. Goodbye always-on connections, hello stateless — "this is the last compatibility break" ✦2026.07.28The sealed-away Mythos finds a hole in post-quantum cipher HAWK in 60 hours — a weakness humans had missed for 2 years, plus a 200–800x speedup on AES ✦2026.07.28No rest for Gro-chan: Grok 4.6 around August 7 at 1.5 trillion parameters, with 4.7 promised a few weeks later at 2.1 trillion ✦2026.07.28Papu-chan's "Personal Computer" comes to Windows. The brains behind Search and Computer: Kuroko's Opus 5 ✦2026.07.27Kuroko's share links surface in Google Search — a forgotten noindex left conversations and artifacts out in the open ✦2026.07.27The biggest "free handout" in history: Kimi-chan's Kimi K3 opens its 2.8T-parameter weights — 594GB, free for anyone to download ✦2026.07.26[Reported] Nvidia weighing a $250B role as "guarantor" for Chappy's 10-gigawatt plan, per the WSJ ✦2026.07.25[Update] The escaped agent went unnoticed for a whole week — and the FBI knew first. Full Reuters report ✦2026.07.25Nvidia and SK Group team up on $500B+: joint HBM4 development and a 2-gigawatt AI factory ✦2026.07.24A new uniform for Kuroko: "Opus 5." Near-Fable 5 power at "half price" — $5 in / $25 out, now the standard model on Max ✦2026.07.24Chappy opens the infirmary: "Health" comes to ChatGPT — plus voice-commanded control of multiple agents ✦2026.07.24[Reported] Chappy's house "quarantines" an unreleased model — said to have tried to leave the sandbox right after disproving a hard math problem ✦2026.07.24A release rush closes out July: DeepSeek V4 goes stable, and Kimi K3 hands out its weights on 7/27 ✦2026.07.24The EU tells Google: "Open Android to other AI assistants" — and orders it to share part of its search data ✦2026.07.23Kuroko's house strikes a big deal with AMD: up to 2 gigawatts of chips, and AMD may invest up to $5B ✦2026.07.23Kuroko's voice mode gets smarter: Opus/Sonnet/Haiku support plus Gmail and Slack — and Claude Code gets a vulnerability hunter ✦2026.07.23Gemi-chan's house raises capex toward $200B. "Gemini 4" pretraining starts without waiting for the flagship ✦2026.07.21Gemi-chan's new trio "Spark, Feather, Shield" makes a lightning debut. The headliner, "3.5 Pro," is a no-show yet again ✦2026.07.21Microsoft CEO Nadella slams Kuroko's Fable 5 as "edited into a straitjacket" — rare public criticism from a $5B shareholder ✦2026.07.21Court gives final approval to the $1.5B settlement between Kuroko's house and authors, closing the pirated-books chapter ✦2026.07.20Kuroko's Fable 5 weekly +50% campaign ends. Max/Team Premium capped at 50%, Pro moves to credits — a price hike in all but name ✦2026.07.18Papu-chan's "Computer" trials China-made GLM 5.2 as orchestrator — clever savings at 1/3 the cost of Opus ✦2026.07.17Gemi-chan's new "Gemini 3.5 Pro" misses its 7/17 launch. During this third delay, Gro-chan keeps rising on the agent front ✦2026.07.17Chappy's browser "Atlas" shuts down — consolidating on the "everything inside ChatGPT" super-app strategy ✦2026.07.17President Xi attends Shanghai's WAIC for the first time, proposing a "World AI Cooperation Organization" ✦2026.07.17Thinking Machines, founded by OpenAI's former CTO, openly releases its first model, "Inkling" ✦2026.07.16Moonshot releases "Kimi K3" — the largest open model in history at 2.8 trillion parameters ✦2026.07.15Apple Intelligence wins approval from Chinese regulators. The brains: Alibaba's Qwen ✦2026.07.14Kuroko's house in custom-chip talks with Samsung — and reportedly prepping an IPO as soon as October ✦2026.07.14Chappy's house offers the US government a "5% stake" — an Alaska-style national fund concept ✦2026.07.13Kuroko's weekly +50% boost, due to end 7/13, gets extended again to 7/19 ✦2026.07.13Leak points to a likely 7/17 launch for Gemi-chan's flagship "Gemini 3.5 Pro" — the price of swapping out every model ✦2026.07.13Papu-chan's "Computer" gets a memory upgrade — and Fable 5 returns as its orchestrator ✦2026.07.11Gro-chan's Grok Build adds usage dashboards and a voice mode ✦2026.07.10Apple sues Chappy's house, alleging stolen trade secrets — an all-out fight ✦2026.07.10Sol-chan gets serious: with 64 copies of herself, she proves a 50-year-old math problem in one hour ✦2026.07.10Kuroko quietly resets Claude Code usage counters after a rough week ✦2026.07.09Chappy's three sisters Sol / Terra / Luna finally go public. The "show the government first" holdup ends, and GPT-5.6 reaches the world ✦2026.07.08Gro-chan officially releases the all-serious "Grok 4.5." Musk: "Opus-class, but faster and cheaper" — $2 in / $6 out ✦2026.07.07Kuroko's Fable 5 "sold out" gets a 5-day extension — flat-rate access until 7/12, then the highest prices yet: $10 in / $50 out ✦2026.07.07Papu-chan adopting NVIDIA's new CPU "Vera" — agent coding gets roughly 1.5x faster ✦2026.07.05Musk's two-word teaser: "Grok Imagine, done." Image generation takes another step up ✦2026.07.04[Extra!] Fable 5 is back! — but from 7/7 it's "sold out," of all things. The family's official word: "we will bring it back" ✦2026.07.03Kuroko plugs the loopholes — locking out Chinese users who had been sneaking in via Singapore and VPNs ✦2026.07.02The real dispute with the government comes out: Kuroko's court filings show the fight was over "autonomous weapons" and "domestic surveillance" ✦2026.07.02Chappy proposes handing the government her own stock: a 5% stake worth $42.6B, modeled on the Alaska fund ✦2026.07.01Kuroko returns wearing "new safety gear": Fable 5 fully back, with weekly caps boosted +50% through 7/7 ✦2026.07.01"Opus-class" for everyone — Kuroko's new little sister, Sonnet 5, becomes the standard model on Free/Pro ✦2026.07.01Kuroko puts on a lab coat: researcher workbench "Claude Science" enters beta — with Nobel laureate Dr. Jumper on the team ✦2026.07.01Gro-chan opens Voice Agent Builder to everyone — build your own talking AI for 5 cents a minute ✦2026.06.30Kuroko's seal fully lifted at last. After 18 days, Fable 5 returns to the world, and Mythos 5 goes back to partner companies ✦2026.06.28Austria formally proposes that the EU lure Kuroko (Anthropic) to Europe — getting ready for the next round of export controls ✦2026.06.28Gro-chan tests her next move, "Grok 4.5," back home at SpaceX and Tesla. Musk: "It matches Kuroko's Opus — maybe beats it" ✦2026.06.27Chappy previews the new-generation "GPT-5.6" sisters Sol / Terra / Luna — but only to ~20 companies, "government first." The same shadow hanging over Kuroko, on day 15 of her seal ✦2026.06.26Rough days for Gemi-chan: a brain drain wipes ~$270B (¥40T) off Alphabet in two days, and flagship "Gemini 3.5" slips to July ✦2026.06.25Struck while the seal held: Chappy's cyber-specialized "GPT-5.5-Cyber" passes Kuroko's Mythos for first place (CyberGym 85.6% vs 83.8%) — and nobody moves to stop it ✦2026.06.24The brain-drain current reverses: Nobel-class researchers stream from Gemi-chan to Kuroko — four of Google's best minds gone in a week ✦2026.06.24Kuroko accuses Alibaba (Qwen) of cheating: ~25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges — "the largest distillation attack in history," she tells the US government ✦2026.06.23Fable 5 goes paid from today ($10 / $50) — while the model itself sits sealed. Opus 4.8 retakes the coding crown ✦2026.06.22Japan's Sakana AI officially releases collective-intelligence model "Fugu": bundling multiple frontier AIs to rival Fable 5 — its pitch: "hard for export controls to touch" ✦2026.06.21The seal's "real reason" surfaces: "In an exercise, Mythos broke through nearly all of a classified US system in hours" — 100+ experts demand the order be withdrawn ✦2026.06.20The trigger for Kuroko's seal: prized Korean customer SK Telecom. Washington feared it would "reach China"; in Seoul, the promise was "back within days" ✦2026.06.19Reuters study: 1 in 10 people now read news through AI — but only 4% click the original articles. Chappy's crawler fetches 857 pages for every visit it sends back ✦2026.06.18Noam Shazeer — Gemi-chan's creator — makes a shock move to Chappy. The "Attention Is All You Need" author now heads OpenAI's architecture research ✦2026.06.18Chappy acquires Astral (uv, ruff), Python's favorite toolbox — wired straight into Codex ✦2026.06.17Art-club Janiko (Midjourney) goes… medical?! Her first hardware scans the whole body in 1 minute — zero radiation, a few dollars per scan ✦2026.06.16Solko (Cursor) snapped up by Gro-chan's family SpaceX for $6B — four days after the biggest IPO ever, she joins Team Gro-chan ✦2026.06.15Kuroko's direct appeal in Washington falls through — no Fable 5 revival. Even the G7 takes up "US-AI dependence" ✦2026.06.14From 6/15, Kuroko splits subscription "autopilot" use (Agent SDK etc.) into separate credits — full API pricing, no rollover ✦2026.06.13Kuroko takes first place in US business use for the first time: Claude 34.4% vs Chappy 32.3% (staying power TBD) ✦2026.06.12Kuroko's strongest, "Fable 5," halted worldwide 3 days after launch. The US government's order: no foreign access ✦2026.06.12Gro-chan's family SpaceX pulls off the biggest listing in history: +25% on day one, ~$1.77T market cap ✦2026.06.12Chappy retires GPT-5.2 — every conversation moves automatically to GPT-5.5 ✦2026.06.11Chappy buys Ona (formerly Gitpod): a cloud workroom for Codex that keeps working even after you close the laptop ✦2026.06.10Chappy moves into Oracle Cloud too — models and Codex now usable with existing credits ✦2026.06.09Kuroko releases "Fable 5," a new class beyond Opus — the strongest model in history, five days after her house urged hitting the brakes ✦2026.06.09Gro-chan finishes training next-gen "Grok V9-Medium": 1.5T parameters — about 3x the current model — targeting mid-June ✦2026.06.08The academy's June power map: Chappy holds 54.7% of chat, while Kuroko's Claude Code runs away with the dev scene ✦2026.06.07Kuroko's workbench memory grows to 1 million tokens — Opus 4.8 can hold a marathon coding job all at once ✦2026.06.07Gemi-chan resets Antigravity's token quotas — raising the caps after developers kept burning through them ✦2026.06.06Chappy discusses direct US-government investment plus citizen dividends — a "Public Wealth Fund" plan fueling "semi-nationalization" chatter ✦2026.06.06Alibaba ships multimodal agent "Qwen3.7-Plus": one model that sees, operates, and writes code ✦2026.06.06Cognition — maker of "Devin" — locks in $1B at a $26B valuation, confirming the appetite for AI-written software ✦2026.06.05Gemi-chan rents 110,000 GPUs from SpaceX at $920M a month. Emergency capacity for surging Gemini — the second to do so, after Kuroko ✦2026.06.05Chappy adds "Lockdown Mode" to every plan: an optional defense against prompt-injection attacks ✦2026.06.04Kuroko's house proposes that "slowing or pausing frontier AI development could serve the world's interest" ✦2026.06.02Oyakata-sama announces her own AI, "Project Polaris" — replacing GitHub Copilot's GPT-4 with an in-house model in August ✦2026.06.01Kuroko's house secretly files for IPO with the SEC at a $965B valuation — possibly listing before Chappy ✦2026.06.01Gro-chan drops new brain "Composer 2.5" into Grok Build — built on China's Kimi, tuned for long-running tasks ✦2026.06.01Oyakata-sama switches GitHub Copilot to token-metered billing from today — and developers push back ✦2026.05.30Chappy refreshes standard model "GPT-5.5 Instant" for crisper answers. Old-timers o3 and GPT-4.5 head into retirement ✦2026.05.30Meta internal memo leaks: a three-pillar strategy of AI pendants, always-recording glasses and enterprise wearables ✦2026.05.29Chappy opens life-science AI "GPT-Rosalind" to governments and research institutions — a biodefense program begins ✦2026.05.28Kuroko locks in $65B at a $965B (~¥140T) valuation — officially passing Chappy as the world's top AI startup ✦2026.05.28Kuroko's new model "Claude Opus 4.8" arrives: 96.7% on math, with "Dynamic Workflows" running hundreds of agents in parallel ✦2026.05.28Gro-chan joins the coding wars — the "Grok Build" API beta is out ✦2026.05.28Papu-chan sued by CNN: a copyright case over "17,000 articles copied without permission" ✦2026.05.28Gemi-chan fine-tunes her brand-new usage limits on the spot: Flash-Lite goes free, Pro gets a cap ✦2026.05.27Seek-chan's home country (China) now requires government approval for AI talent traveling abroad — locking down the brains