Funding $5B+ Texas data center for Anthropic with 500MW by 2026

Google's $5B+ Texas data center investment for Anthropic, scheduled for completion by 2026

Speculation builds that Google will unveil its next major AI release at Google I/O in May 2026.

Amap division launched three embodied AI models (ABot-World, ABot-M0, ABot-N0) claiming top benchmarks.

Launched Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a prompt-controlled text-to-speech model supporting 70+ languages.

Identified as part of the 'Big Three' US labs holding a durable lead in frontier AI models in a US-China duopoly.

Hired philosopher Henry Shevlin as a Senior Scientist to lead research into machine consciousness and AI governance.

Published research paper on AI moving beyond text to multi-modal capabilities.

Published VulnSage, a multi-agent LLM framework that generated 146 zero-day exploits.

Launch of Qwen 3.6-Plus AI model