Timeline
Unverified claim that Apple will deeply integrate Gemini into iOS at WWDC 2026.
Microsoft began validating Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 system
Microsoft paper finds LLMs corrupt ~25% of documents during long editing sessions
Released World-R1 framework for text-to-video alignment with 3D physics using reinforcement learning.
Microsoft releases Playwright MCP server for AI web agent interaction using accessibility tree
Released TRELLIS.2, a 4B parameter open-source 3D generation model
Microsoft lays off 9,000 employees to fund AI compute and model development
Released and open-sourced the DFNDR-12M multimodal training dataset on Hugging Face.
John Ternus assumes leadership of Apple's AI and hardware engineering efforts, marking a transition from the Cook era.
Apple promotes Johny Srouji to Chief Hardware Officer, centralizing leadership over silicon design and hardware engineering.