DuckDuckGo saw a significant spike in US app installs after Google unveiled a sweeping AI-focused search overhaul at its I/O conference.
By Chris Borden Anthropic has raised $30 billion in a Series G funding round, valuing the AI company at $380 billion post-money.
By Daniel Mercer Google has upgraded its Gemini 3 Deep Think reasoning mode, positioning the tool as a solution for complex problems in science and engineering.
By Daniel Mercer OpenAI will discontinue several older AI models in ChatGPT on February 13, 2026, including GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini. The models will remain available in the API for the time being. The company officially cites declining usage as the reason for the move: only 0.1% of users reportedly select GPT-4o on a daily basis
By Alex Rowland OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller coding model optimized specifically for real-time programming. It runs on Cerebras chips and delivers throughput of more than 1,000 tokens per second.
By Chris Borden With GLM-5, Chinese AI company Zhipu AI has introduced an open-source model designed to compete with Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 in coding and agent-based tasks.
By Daniel Mercer Anthropic has pledged to offset electricity costs for consumers arising from the construction of new data centers. The company says it will fully cover grid expansion expenses, invest in new power generation capacity, and limit energy consumption at its data centers during peak demand periods. CEO Dario Amodei told NBC News that the costs of AI models should be borne by Anthropic, not by the public.
By Daniel Mercer The Pentagon is pressing leading AI companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI — to make their AI tools available on classified military networks without the usual usage restrictions, according to Reuters, citing multiple sources
By Daniel Mercer OpenAI is deploying a specialized version of ChatGPT to detect internal information leaks, according to The Information, citing a source familiar with the matter. When a news article about internal developments at OpenAI is published, security staff reportedly feed the text into this dedicated ChatGPT system, which has access to internal documents as well as employees’ Slack and email communications
By Alex Rowland Former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig has resigned over the introduction of advertising in ChatGPT. In a commentary for The New York Times, she made clear that she no longer trusts her former employer’s direction.
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