Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology
President Trump directed federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology; the GSA then removed the products from USAi.gov and federal procurement catalogs.
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OpenAI open-sources Symphony orchestration specification
Symphony turns project boards such as Linear into a control plane where coding agents claim tasks and deliver work from isolated environments.
Google introduces Nano Banana 2
Google positioned Nano Banana 2 as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, for higher-quality, faster image generation and editing.
Block cuts more than 40% of staff and emphasizes AI workflows
Block announces workforce cuts exceeding 40%, linking the restructuring to organizational simplification and AI- and agent-based workflows.
Anthropic rejects the military's "any lawful use" clause
Anthropic refused to drop two restrictions - on large-scale domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons - causing its contract talks with the U.S. Department of War to break down publicly.
Nous Research releases Hermes Agent
Nous Research listed Hermes Agent as an agent project released on February 25, 2026, positioned as a long-running autonomous agent that runs on a server.
AgentScope team open-sources personal agent CoPaw
CoPaw joins the personal-agent ecosystem with local or cloud deployment, multiple chat integrations and an Apache 2.0 license.
OpenAI releases GPT-Realtime-1.5
OpenAI makes GPT-Realtime-1.5 available through the Realtime API for real-time voice agents and customer support.
OpenAI lists gpt-audio-1.5 as available
OpenAI's model documentation lists gpt-audio-1.5 as the default audio model, supporting bidirectional audio and text input and output.
Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.1 Pro
A Pro-tier update in Google's 3.1 generation, further tuned for long-chain reasoning across modalities.
Google brings Lyria 3 music generation to Gemini
Google rolls Lyria 3 into Gemini, letting users create short songs with vocals from text prompts or uploaded images.
NotebookLM adds slide revision and PowerPoint export
NotebookLM adds per-slide prompt revisions to generated decks and lets users export presentations as PowerPoint files.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6
A Sonnet 4.6 update that raises baseline reasoning performance while keeping response speed.
Alibaba Cloud releases Qwen 3.5
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 base model tunes its active-parameter ratio and further strengthens native any-to-any multimodal fusion.
OpenClaw's creator joins OpenAI as the project moves to foundation governance
Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI to lead next-generation personal agents, while OpenClaw stays an open project and moves to foundation governance.
ByteDance Seed releases Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.0 uses a unified multimodal architecture for joint audio-video generation, available through Jimeng, Doubao, and Volcano Ark.
NetEase Youdao open-sources the LobsterAI desktop agent
NetEase Youdao open-sourced LobsterAI, packaging multi-model access, skills, scheduled tasks, and local desktop interaction into a graphical personal agent.
MiniMax releases MiniMax M2.5
An iterative upgrade to M2 that reworks the mixture-of-experts routing scheduler and improves coherence over very long contexts.
Z.ai releases GLM-5
Z.ai's fifth-generation foundation model, built on a new architecture with broad gains across general benchmarks.
OpenBMB releases MiniCPM-o 4.5
An efficiency-focused, fully multimodal open model tuned for on-device chips and offline inference.