AI News Weekly Summary — April 27 – May 3, 2026 | Big Tech Q1, Manus Blocked, Pentagon
Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Apple reported earnings; combined 2026 CapEx tracking ~$720B. China blocks Meta's Manus acquisition. OpenAI reportedly missed growth targets. Pentagon signs deals with 8 AI firms — Anthropic kept off the list.
AI Monthly Recap April 2026 — Mythos, GPT-5.5, $65B Anthropic, Manus Blocked
Anthropic in 30 days locks Mythos, ships Opus 4.7, secures up to $65B and 10 GW from Google and Amazon, kept out of part of the Pentagon contracts. OpenAI returns with GPT-5.5. Four Chinese frontiers in 14 days. Big Tech 2026 CapEx tracking ~$705–735B.
AI News Weekly Summary — April 20–26, 2026 | GPT-5.5, Google+Anthropic $40B, DeepSeek V4
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 reclaims the top of the leaderboards. Google commits up to $40B and 5 GW of compute to Anthropic. DeepSeek V4 cuts frontier inference cost 6x. Tesla Q1 beats but raises CapEx; Cybercab enters production.
AI News Weekly Summary — April 13–19, 2026 | Opus 4.7 vs Mythos, GPT-5.4-Cyber, NVIDIA Ising
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7 and publicly concedes it trails the locked-down Mythos. OpenAI counters with GPT-5.4-Cyber for vetted defenders. NVIDIA open-sources its first quantum AI models. Microsoft builds its own OpenClaw.
AI News Weekly Summary — April 6–12, 2026 | Mythos, Terafab
OpenAI proposes robot tax and 4-day work weeks. Anthropic restricts Mythos to 40 partners over cyber risks. Intel joins Musk's Terafab chip megaproject. Meta debuts Muse Spark. Zhipu open-sources GLM-5.1.
AI News Weekly Summary — March 30 – April 5, 2026 | Gemma 4, Pentagon Appeal
Pentagon appeals the Anthropic injunction to the Ninth Circuit. Google releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 — ranked #3 globally. Claude Code source leaks via npm error. TurboQuant crashes memory chip stocks.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – March 2026 Recap | Key Events and Updates
Federal court blocks the Pentagon's Anthropic ban in a landmark injunction. NVIDIA unveils Vera Rubin and projects $1T in orders. OpenAI shuts Sora, loses Disney, builds a superapp. Full March 2026 recap.
AI News Weekly Summary — March 23–29, 2026 | Court Blocks Anthropic Ban
Federal judge blocks the Pentagon's Anthropic ban, calling it "Orwellian." OpenAI shuts Sora down — $15M/day costs vs $2.1M revenue. Trump appoints Zuckerberg and Huang to new AI advisory council.
AI News Weekly Summary — March 16 – 22, 2026 | GTC 2026, Meta Cuts 16K
Jensen Huang unveils Vera Rubin and projects $1 trillion in orders. Meta prepares its largest-ever layoff. OpenAI merges ChatGPT, Codex and Atlas into a superapp. Full AI weekly roundup.
AI News Weekly Summary — March 9–15, 2026 | Top Artificial Intelligence Updates This Week
Anthropic sues the Pentagon and risks billions. Google deploys Gemini agents across DoD. Microsoft picks Claude over OpenAI for Copilot Cowork. Full AI weekly roundup.