AI Daily Brief — 9 February 2026
OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT ads for Free and Go users in the US — 24 hours after Anthropic's Super Bowl 'Betrayal' spot mocked exactly this move.…
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AI Daily Brief — 8 February 2026
Super Bowl LX (Seahawks 29 Patriots 13, Bad Bunny halftime): AI dominates with ~25% of 66 commercials. Anthropic runs a four-spot attack on OpenAI's ads-in-ChatGPT plan.…
AI Daily Brief — 7 February 2026
Trillion-dollar selloff hits financial-data incumbents on Anthropic Opus 4.6 read-through — Thomson Reuters -18%, RELX -14%, FactSet -10.5%. Wix unveils Super Bowl LX 'Harmony' teaser. DeepSeek…
AI Daily Brief — 6 February 2026
Midas Project files California SB 53 complaint over GPT-5.3-Codex 'High' cyber rating; OpenAI disputes. Opus 4.6 community digest settles on the 18.5% → 76% long-context-retrieval jump.…
AI Daily Brief — 5 February 2026
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.6 — 1M context, agent teams, 67% price cut, sweeps Terminal-Bench 2.0 / Humanity's Last Exam / Finance Agent / GDPval-AA. OpenAI…
AI Daily Brief — 4 February 2026
ElevenLabs closes $500M Series D at $11B (3x YoY); Bedrock Robotics raises $270M for autonomous construction. OpenAI restores GPT-5.2 Thinking's Extended depth. Claude Opus 4.6 —…
AI Daily Brief — 3 February 2026
International AI Safety Report 2026 publishes (Bengio-led, 100+ experts, 30+ countries). Cerebras closes a $1B Series H at $23B. Anthropic wins GOV.UK pilot + launches Allen…
AI Daily Brief — 2 February 2026
OpenAI × Snowflake $200M partnership puts frontier models inside Cortex AI for 12,600 customers. xAI ships Grok Imagine 1.0 (10s, 720p, native audio). MiniMax open-sources M2.1…
AI Daily Brief — 1 February 2026
Jack Clark's Import AI #443 is explicitly anchored to Sunday February 1st. The Colorado AI Act's original effective date passes without taking effect. The International AI…
AI Daily Brief — 31 January 2026
Quiet Saturday end of month. Themes consolidate: hyperscaler silicon (Maia 200) chipping at NVIDIA dependence; Chinese open-source momentum (Kimi K2.5, Step 3.5 Flash, Qwen 3 Max);…
AI Daily Brief — 30 January 2026
Google makes Gemini 3 the default model powering AI Overviews globally and introduces Personal Intelligence connectors. Reports that Apple is preparing a Gemini-powered Siri overhaul to…
AI Daily Brief — 29 January 2026
StepFun releases Step 3.5 Flash — Apache-2.0 196B/11B-active sparse MoE, 256K context, runs on a Mac Studio, $0.090/$0.300 per M. Amazon announces ~16,000 corporate layoffs in…
AI Daily Brief — 28 January 2026
xAI launches the Grok Imagine API — text-to-image, image editing, image-to-video, text-to-video with audio. Claimed #1 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena for both T2V and I2V,…
AI Daily Brief — 27 January 2026
The Information reports Anthropic raises 2026 revenue forecast 20% to $18B (2027: $55B). Moonshot ships Kimi K2.5 — open 1T-parameter MoE with Agent Swarm of up…
AI Daily Brief — 26 January 2026
Massive Monday: NVIDIA invests $2B in CoreWeave at $87.20/share for 5+ GW of AI factories by 2030. Microsoft unveils Maia 200 inference chip (TSMC 3nm, 216…
AI Daily Brief — 25 January 2026
Quiet Sunday. Crescendo AI's weekly aggregator reports an early OpenAI GPT-5.3-Codex disclosure — to be confirmed by OpenAI release notes.
AI Daily Brief — 24 January 2026
Quiet Saturday — week shaped by Baidu ERNIE 5.0 (Jan 22) and Qwen 3 Max Thinking (Jan 23). Industry attention turns to next-week's Maia 200 /…
AI Daily Brief — 23 January 2026
Alibaba kicks off an unusually fast Qwen cadence with Qwen 3 Max Thinking (snapshot qwen3-max-2026-01-23). Mastercard's Agent Pay integrates with Microsoft Copilot Checkout and OpenAI Instant…
AI Daily Brief — 22 January 2026
Baidu ships ERNIE 5.0 — a 2.4-trillion-parameter ultra-sparse MoE that processes text, image, audio and video. Ranks #1 among Chinese models and #8 globally on LMArena,…
AI Daily Brief — 21 January 2026
Anthropic Engineering publishes 'Designing AI-resistant technical evaluations' — Tristan Hume walks through three iterations of the company's performance-engineering take-home test, each defeated by successive Claude versions.
AI Daily Brief — 20 January 2026
Hugging Face publishes 'One Year Since the DeepSeek Moment' — DeepSeek R1 most-liked model in HF history; Chinese labs now hold ~15% of global model share…
AI Daily Brief — 19 January 2026
Z.ai ships GLM-4.7-Flash — 30B/A3B MoE, MIT-licensed, 59.2% on SWE-Bench Verified (vs Qwen3-30B-A3B's 22.0%). IBM launches Enterprise Advantage for agentic-AI rollout across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure…
AI Daily Brief — 18 January 2026
Reports highlight Anthropic's Claude Code going viral: non-technical users describe being 'Claude-pilled.' Carryover from Wednesday's Labs reorg announcing Claude Code, MCP and Cowork as Labs' core…
AI Daily Brief — 17 January 2026
Quiet Saturday — week shaped by Veo 3.1 (Jan 13), Anthropic Labs reorg (Jan 14) and the Stanford copyrighted-books study.