AI Daily Brief — 5 March 2026
OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 — first general-purpose model with native computer-use (75% OSWorld-Verified vs human 72.4%), 1M-token context, and a 47% tool-search token saving.
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AI Daily Brief — 4 March 2026
Quiet Wednesday in the run-up to GPT-5.4. Coverage absorbs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite preview pricing and benchmark leaks.
AI Daily Brief — 3 March 2026
Google ships Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite preview — pitched as the most cost-effective Gemini model yet, available via API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.
AI Daily Brief — 2 March 2026
Monday opens with build-up coverage ahead of OpenAI's GPT-5.4 launch and NVIDIA GTC (mid-March). No major model drop on the day.
AI Daily Brief — 1 March 2026
Sunday opener: industry watches OpenAI's countdown to GPT-5.4 (expected this week) while Anthropic seeds early Mythos preview signals.
AI Daily Brief — 28 February 2026
Quiet Saturday wrap to a record-setting month. February 2026 closes as the largest startup-funding month in history at $189B globally (~90% AI). Claude Code hits $2.5B…
AI Daily Brief — 27 February 2026
OpenAI closes a $110B raise at $730B pre-money — the largest private financing in history (Amazon $50B, SoftBank $30B, NVIDIA $30B). Trump orders federal agencies to…
AI Daily Brief — 26 February 2026
Google launches Nano Banana 2 — Gemini 3.1 Flash Image — taking #1 on Artificial Analysis Image Arena. Dario Amodei publicly rejects the Pentagon's deadline: 'we…
AI Daily Brief — 25 February 2026
Satya Nadella unveils Microsoft's AI sovereignty package for Germany at the Munich AI Tour, with the Munich Fire Department signing up for an AI voice-bot ambulance-dispatch…
AI Daily Brief — 24 February 2026
A massive Tuesday: Meta + AMD sign a 6 GW / up-to-$60B AI infrastructure pact. SambaNova unveils SN50, raises $350M Series E, names SoftBank as first…
AI Daily Brief — 23 February 2026
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax of industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude — ~24,000 fake accounts, 16M+ exchanges. Bloomberg and VentureBeat file. Chinese labs are silent.…
AI Daily Brief — 22 February 2026
PM Modi dedicates the 131st Mann Ki Baat to the India AI Impact Summit. Anthropic publishes a Sunday blog post that breaks the Chinese-distillation accusations against…
AI Daily Brief — 21 February 2026
India AI Impact Summit closes with the New Delhi Declaration endorsed by 88 countries (rising to 91). CNBC's post-mortem: 'chaos, confusion and $200B dreams' — logistical…
AI Daily Brief — 20 February 2026
Gerganov and ggml.ai team officially join Hugging Face; llama.cpp + ggml stay open-source and Gerganov-led. India AI Impact Summit closes with 88 countries endorsing the New…
AI Daily Brief — 19 February 2026
Google ships Gemini 3.1 Pro in preview — ARC-AGI-2 77.1% (2.5× Gemini 3 Pro), SWE-Bench Verified 80.6%, leads 13/16 benchmarks at $2/$12 per M. PM Modi…
AI Daily Brief — 18 February 2026
OpenAI launches 'OpenAI for India' at the AI Impact Summit — Tata partnership for 100 MW (path to 1 GW), ChatGPT Enterprise across TCS, new Mumbai…
AI Daily Brief — 17 February 2026
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 4.6 — 79.6% SWE-Bench Verified, $3/$15 per M tokens (5× cheaper than Opus), new default for Free and Pro. NIST launches the…
AI Daily Brief — 16 February 2026
Alibaba launches Qwen 3.5 hours before Lunar New Year — 397B/17B-active MoE, 201 languages, natively multimodal, Apache 2.0; Qwen 3.5-Plus prices at ~1/18 of Gemini 3…
AI Daily Brief — 15 February 2026
UK PM Starmer announces a crackdown bringing AI chatbots under the Online Safety Act. China's 'Lunar New Year AI War' peaks with ~10B yuan in combined…
AI Daily Brief — 14 February 2026
ByteDance ships Doubao-Seed-2.0 family (Pro, Lite, Mini, Code) — Pro hits AIME 2025 98.3, Codeforces ~3020, and is 3.7-5.9× cheaper than GPT-5.2. Sandia publishes a neuromorphic-PDE…
AI Daily Brief — 13 February 2026
Anthropic's Super Bowl bump lands: Claude DAU +11% post-game (largest in AI), top-10 App Store free; Sam Altman pushes back. OpenAI retires GPT-4o + GPT-4.1 family…
AI Daily Brief — 12 February 2026
Anthropic closes $30B Series G at $380B post-money — third-largest VC round on record — led by GIC and Coatue. Anthropic discloses $14B run-rate revenue growing…
AI Daily Brief — 11 February 2026
Zhipu launches GLM-5 — 744B/44B-active MoE trained on Huawei Ascend, top of Artificial Analysis open-weights, MIT licensed and 5-8× cheaper than Western frontier. Hong Kong shares…
AI Daily Brief — 10 February 2026
Fortune publishes the Midas Project's first SB 53 complaint against OpenAI over GPT-5.3-Codex; OpenAI disputes. Runway closes $315M Series E at $5.3B and launches a $10M…