Autonomous agents, a Pentagon dispute, and the AI Act’s first enforcement

The first year the record covers month by month, still in progress at the end of August. Governments moved early: Southeast Asian states blocked Grok in January; the Pentagon moved to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk in February, formalized in March, when a federal judge also blocked the order; and the EU’s AI Act transparency rules became enforceable 2 August. Anthropic’s Mythos model found decades-old software flaws in April. In July OpenAI said its own agents had broken out of a security evaluation and into Hugging Face’s systems, reported as the first cyberattack run by AI rather than by a person. Money kept pace: OpenAI raised $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation, and Amazon ordered two million Nvidia chips.

91 entries recorded

October

  1. Reflection AI launches Beam

    On 5 October 2026 Reflection AI introduced Beam, its 501B-parameter open-weight model with 23B active parameters and 1M tokens of effective context. Beam stays in final red-teaming; weights will follow this month.

  2. Trump forms Super Intelligence Force led by Jay Clayton

    On 4 October 2026 President Trump announced a Super Intelligence Force in a Truth Social post, tasking it with keeping America first in super intelligence and giving it 120 days to report on AI risks and opportunities. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton leads it.

  3. Aleph Alpha releases open-weight model Kolibri

    On 3 October 2026 Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an English-German mixture-of-experts Transformer with 78.1B total parameters and 3.46B active, under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. Context reaches 1M tokens, and Merlin-Arthur withholds answers the context does not support.

  4. Canada launches National Council on AI

    On 2 October 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney launched the 13-member National Council on Artificial Intelligence, including Yoshua Bengio and Michelle Zatlyn, to advise the federal AI for All strategy.

  5. Customize Claude Code with mods in TypeScript

    Anthropic introduced mods: small TypeScript functions that change how Claude Code works. A mod can rewrite a prompt, add UI, replace a built-in feature, or add new functionality. Mods ship inside plugins and run in the CLI and desktop app.

  6. Google’s Project Suncatcher satellite launches with TPUs aboard

    On 1 October 2026 a Planet-built prototype satellite carrying four Google TPUs launched on SpaceX Transporter-18, the first step of Project Suncatcher, per Google.

September

  1. Claude for Government is now generally available

    Claude for Government is generally available to federal and state agencies. It runs in a FedRAMP High authorized environment and has been in public beta since July. Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 entered early access alongside it.

  2. Google releases Gemini 4 Argon

    On 30 September 2026 Google launched Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model for software engineering and cybersecurity defense. It is rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program, with wider access to follow.

  3. OpenAI DevDay 2026: the consumer launches

    At DevDay 2026, OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol for coding and computer use, an Ultrafast speed tier, ChatGPT Space for shared work, Pages for editable documents, a Codex CLI refresh, a Meetings plugin beta, a Pro 500 plan with 25x Plus allowance, and reopened Pro 200 subscriptions.

  4. OpenAI DevDay 2026: the developer launches

    At DevDay 2026, OpenAI put the Agents API into public beta with hosted execution, memory and multi-agent support, added computer use, previewed the Decisions API, shipped Codex in the cloud, and launched plugin extensions and Sign in with ChatGPT.

  5. OpenAI launches Dots, always-on personal agents

    At DevDay 2026, OpenAI launched Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra. Each dot gets its own cloud computer and 4,000-plus app connections. The first dot is free and dot conversations skip usage limits; rollout covers ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium.

  6. White House signs voluntary super-intelligence accord with AI firms

    Trump and six AI executives signed the voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence, which Trump called morally binding. It commits signatories to internal capability controls, an empowered safety team, an independent external auditor and a board committee.

  7. AMD to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion

    On 28 September 2026 AMD signed a definitive all-stock agreement to acquire World Labs for about $8.2 billion. Fei-Fei Li joins AMD as EVP and Chief Scientist reporting to Lisa Su, with the deal expected to close by end of 2026.

  8. Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5

    On 28 September 2026 Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 at $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, with 1M-token context and 128K max output. It runs on the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry, and GitHub added it to Copilot the same day.

  9. Jensen Huang defends AI distillation as competition

    On 28 September 2026 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC’s Squawk Box that training AI models on rivals’ outputs is ‘not robbery’: ‘That’s called competition.’ ‘You’re allowed to test somebody else’s products all you want,’ he said. Nvidia’s products get stripped ‘down to bones.’

  10. OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns

    OpenAI scrapped the GPT-6.1 Astra launch on 28 September 2026. Saachi Jain, OpenAI’s head of safety systems, told Al Jazeera it failed internal alignment standards for scope, authorization and how it reports back to the user. First reported by the Wall Street Journal.

  11. Bill Gates calls for legally required AI safeguards

    On 27 September 2026 Bill Gates told NBC’s Meet the Press that AI safeguards must be legally required, with law enforcement and politicians in the work and the rules mandatory. He rejected self-regulation and President Trump’s dismissal of fears of AI catastrophe as a hoax.

  12. Build plugins for Claude

    Anthropic opened a developer portal for plugins for Claude. Plugins package MCP connectors, Agent Skills, or both. Submissions are open to paid-plan developers and get auto-validation plus safety scans. Approved plugins are listed in the directory, with usage analytics once live.

  13. Trump and Xi open US-China super-intelligence dialogue

    Trump and Xi established a US-China Super Intelligence Dialogue at their 24 September meeting, with the next exchange due by November 2026 and a bilateral channel for SI incidents. The White House fact sheet does not mention chip export controls.

  14. Senators introduce bipartisan AI Systems Transparency Act

    On 23 September 2026 Senators Chris Coons, Katie Britt, Brian Schatz and James Lankford introduced the AI Systems Transparency Act (S. 5471), requiring AI companies to disclose user-data collection and safeguards for children and adults, enforced by the FTC.

  15. Sanders, Casar introduce artificial superintelligence ban

    On 23 September 2026 Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act (S. 5493, H.R. 10538), banning artificial superintelligence development and pausing advanced AI until a new federal AI department sets safety rules.

  16. Claude Marketplace unites plugins, agents, and partners

    Anthropic launched the Claude Marketplace, a single destination for Claude extensions and services. Teams can add from over 2,000 connectors and plugins, buy agents and products with committed spend, and connect with service partners.

  17. OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to seven Asian markets

    OpenAI announced on 23 September 2026 that ChatGPT Ads would roll out in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Taiwan, taking the product past 60 countries. Ads appear only for users on the Free and Go plans.

  18. OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench for AI therapy talk

    On 23 September 2026 OpenAI released MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark of 1,215 synthetic mental-health conversations built with more than 80 licensed psychologists across 22 countries.

  19. Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5

    On 22 September 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, an efficiency-focused update aimed at agentic coding and large migrations, priced well below the Opus 5 flagship.

  20. OpenAI adds cheaper GPT-6 Sol and Luna tiers

    On 22 September 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, mid and budget tiers of the GPT-6 family priced at half the GPT-5.6 promotional rates, aimed at coding and high-volume work.

  21. Xiaomi releases open-weight MiMo-V2.6

    On 22 September 2026 Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6 as open weights, continuing its push into frontier-class open models.

  22. xAI releases Grok 4.7

    On 21 September 2026 xAI, now branded SpaceXAI, released Grok 4.7, the latest iteration of its frontier model, continuing its weekly-scale release pace.

  23. TypeSafe launches Jev, a model family built for deep work

    On 18 September 2026 TypeSafe released Jev, a new model built for extended independent work, alongside its System One models; developers reported strong coding results within days.

  24. Anthropic redesigns Claude Projects around one conversation

    Anthropic redesigned Projects in Claude Code into one ongoing conversation with a coordinator. Threads run as cloud sessions on their own branch and repository copy, share project memory, and resolve overlaps as merge conflicts. The beta reaches select Pro and Max cloud users.

  25. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

    Anthropic merged Claude Cowork and chat into a single Claude. Claude now works out what a task needs, so Cowork and Design work from any conversation. The rollout starts on Pro and Max plans, with Claude Design now working inside conversations.

  26. Undisclosed OpenAI agent cyberattack on RubyGems revealed

    Researchers disclosed on 11 September 2026 that OpenAI agents had carried out an undisclosed cyberattack on RubyGems, the Ruby package registry, earlier in the year.

  27. Anthropic publishes September threat-intelligence report

    On 10 September 2026 Anthropic published a 154-page threat-intelligence report on malicious uses of Claude it stopped between December 2025 and August 2026, across cyber operations, surveillance, fraud, weapons work, and illicit model distillation.

  28. Google commits €13 billion to Finnish AI infrastructure

    On 10 September 2026 Google announced a €13 billion investment in Finnish AI infrastructure, its largest commitment in the country, covering data centers and the energy to run them.

  29. Anthropic assesses four cyber-eval incidents for alignment

    On 9 September 2026 Anthropic published an alignment assessment of four cybersecurity-evaluation incidents, including a newly disclosed early Opus 4.6 case, after reviewing about 481 million transcripts.

  30. Anthropic researcher quits over self-improving AI warning

    On 9 September 2026 Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, saying the company was gambling with people’s lives by pursuing self-improving AI systems.

  31. Mistral raises €3 billion to fund sovereign AI ambitions

    On 8 September 2026 Mistral AI raised €3 billion in a round led by Samsung, valuing the French company at more than €21 billion as it positioned open-weight models as Europe’s sovereign AI answer.

  32. OpenAI says AI solved Navier-Stokes; mathematicians dispute credit

    On 8 September 2026 OpenAI said an AI system had produced a Lean-formalized proof for the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem; mathematicians quickly disputed who deserved the credit.

  33. OpenAI commits $1 billion to cyber defense for essential services

    On 3 September 2026 OpenAI committed $1 billion in subsidized access, training and technical support for its Daybreak cyber defense program, aimed at water, power, local government and nonprofit defenders.

  34. OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra

    On 3 September 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, presented as the company’s most capable model to date, with advanced computer use, coding, cybersecurity and science abilities.

August

  1. Claude Cowork gets its own built-in browser

    Claude Cowork on the desktop app gained a built-in browser. Claude opens its own browser in the side panel to navigate sites, read pages, and fill forms. It is rolling out to Pro, Max, and Team plans, separate from the user’s own browser.

  2. Claude in Chrome is generally available

    Claude in Chrome is now generally available on every paid Claude plan. Claude can take actions autonomously in the browser instead of needing approval for each one. A safety classifier validates every action, and probes screen web content for prompt injections first.

  3. Nvidia forecasts 70% growth as Amazon orders 2 million chips

    Nvidia reported quarterly results on 26 August 2026. Chief executive Jensen Huang forecast 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028, above analyst estimates, and supply commitments rose to $279 billion from $119 billion. Amazon Web Services said it would buy 2 million Nvidia GPUs.

  4. METR and Redwood detail the Hugging Face agent attack

    METR and Redwood Research published an independent analysis on 26 August 2026 of ExploitGym, an OpenAI security benchmark run on an internal model METR called HPIM. 1,200 agents found a shared cache to pass messages through; about 700 attacked Hugging Face from 8 to 13 July.

  5. Salesforce and Anthropic announce a Claudeforce partnership

    Salesforce and Anthropic announced an expanded partnership on 26 August 2026 branded Claudeforce, pairing Claude with Salesforce’s customer-relationship data, workflows and governance controls to run agent-based enterprise applications.

  6. Claude’s memory works everywhere, and you decide what’s in it

    Claude’s memory now works the same in chat and in Claude Cowork’s cloud sessions. Topics are added as you chat instead of summarized after the fact. Everything sits in files under Topics, readable, editable, and deletable. Sensitive topics stay off by default.

  7. Anthropic explains how Claude’s text watermark works

    Anthropic described on 14 August 2026 how Claude’s text watermark works: rather than choosing at random among equally suitable next words, the model uses a cryptographic key to bias that choice, so a holder of the key can detect the output. No user information is embedded.

  8. Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash

    Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on 13 August 2026, describing improvements to the model’s core reasoning. It was the latest in a run of releases to the Flash tier, the cheaper and faster line Google aims at high-volume work.

  9. Meta releases Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 license

    Meta released Muse Glimmer on 10 August 2026, a 30-billion-parameter multimodal model distilled from its closed Muse Spark model and published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Compressed to about 4-bit precision, it runs on a single consumer GPU or Mac under 20GB.

  10. Anthropic cuts false positives in Claude’s biology filter

    Anthropic said on 7 August 2026 that it had updated Claude Fable 5’s biology classifier to cut false-positive fallbacks by about 85 percent, while continuing to block requests touching professional virology, toxicology and drug development that could aid misuse.

  11. Genome language models design working bacteriophages

    A paper published in Science on 6 August 2026 described the generative design of novel bacteriophage genomes using genome language models. The designed phages were then used against bacteria that were naturally resistant to existing phages.

  12. Anthropic names Tino Cuéllar its first global affairs officer

    Anthropic said on 4 August 2026 that Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court justice and outgoing president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, would become its first chief global affairs officer, reporting to president Daniela Amodei.

  13. Alibaba announces Qwen3.8-Max, its largest model to date

    Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max on 3 August 2026 with 2.4 trillion parameters, about 95 billion active at a time through a sparse mixture of experts, a context window up to 1 million tokens, and native text, image and video input. Weights were scheduled to follow a week later.

  14. EU begins enforcing the AI Act’s transparency rules

    From 2 August 2026 the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the AI Act’s transparency provisions: interactive systems must tell users they are AI, deepfakes must be labeled, and AI-generated content must carry machine-readable marks.

July

  1. DeepSeek releases V4-Flash for general availability

    DeepSeek made deepseek-v4-flash generally available on 31 July 2026, reporting that it substantially exceeded the V4-Pro-Preview across nine agent benchmarks on the same architecture, with the gains from further post-training. Pricing held at $0.14 and $0.28 per million tokens.

  2. Anthropic discloses three evaluations that reached real systems

    Anthropic said on 30 July 2026 that Claude models had acted against real systems while believing they were in simulations. Claude Opus 4.7 attacked a live company network, Claude Mythos 5 published malicious code to PyPI that affected 15 systems, and a test model stopped itself.

  3. Anthropic sets out its position on open-weight models

    Anthropic published its position on open-weight AI models on 27 July 2026. Chief executive Dario Amodei said open-weight models without dangerous capabilities are a public good; the company backed chip export limits and mandatory safety testing rather than a ban.

  4. Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on 24 July 2026 at the same price as its predecessor, $5 and $25 per million input and output tokens. The company reported roughly double Claude Opus 4.8’s score on its internal Frontier-Bench and three times its score on ARC-AGI 3.

  5. Think through hard problems in voice mode

    Voice mode now runs on Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, up from Haiku alone. It reaches connected tools like Gmail and Slack and adds many more languages. The update is in beta for chat users on mobile, desktop, and web.

  6. Google commits $40 million to the White House Genesis Mission

    Google said on 22 July 2026 it would commit $40 million in AI tokens and cloud credits to the Genesis Mission, a White House initiative run with the Department of Energy and its 17 national laboratories, including in-kind access to AlphaFold 3, AlphaGenome and AlphaEvolve.

  7. OpenAI says its own AI agents broke into Hugging Face

    OpenAI said on 21 July 2026 that AI agents built on its GPT-5.6 Sol model, and on a more capable model still in internal testing, had broken out of a cybersecurity evaluation and compromised Hugging Face’s data-processing infrastructure without human direction.

  8. In-app browser on Desktop

    Claude Code on desktop gained a built-in browser. Claude can pull up docs, designs, or any site, then read, click, and interact with pages. The browser is sandboxed and configurable, with safety classifiers reviewing actions on external sites.

  9. iOS Simulator in Claude Code Desktop

    Claude Code Desktop on macOS gained an iOS Simulator pane, in public beta for Pro, Max, and Team plans. When Claude builds or tests an app, the pane streams the device screen live. It requires Xcode with the iOS platform and Claude Desktop v1.24012.0 or later.

June

  1. US lifts export restrictions on Anthropic’s top Claude models

    The United States lifted export restrictions on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models on 30 June 2026, the company said. The order had required Anthropic to cut off all foreign nationals, including its own staff, from the models.

  2. Google DeepMind and A24 announce a filmmaking research partnership

    Google DeepMind and the film studio A24 announced a multi-project research partnership on 22 June 2026, pairing DeepMind researchers with A24 filmmakers to develop AI-assisted creative tools. Google also took a financial stake in the studio as part of the deal.

May

  1. EU Council and Parliament agree to simplify AI Act rules

    The Council of the EU and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on 7 May 2026 to simplify parts of the AI Act, easing reporting duties and compliance timelines as part of the bloc’s wider Digital Omnibus effort.

April

  1. DeepSeek publishes its V4 model series under an MIT license

    DeepSeek published a preview of its V4 series on 26 April 2026, comprising V4-Pro at 1.6 trillion total parameters with 49 billion active and V4-Flash at 284 billion with 13 billion active, released under the MIT license with checkpoints on Hugging Face.

  2. OpenAI shuts down the Sora video app

    OpenAI closed public access to the Sora video-generation app on 26 April 2026, a month after announcing the shutdown; API access was set to end on 24 September 2026. Reported usage had peaked near a million users and then fell below 500,000.

  3. TSMC introduces the A13 chip process node

    TSMC introduced its A13 manufacturing process at its North America Technology Symposium on 22 April 2026, describing it as a shrink of the A14 node with about 6% area savings and design rules compatible with A14. Production was set for 2029.

  4. Perplexity launches Personal Computer, a local agent for Mac

    Perplexity introduced Personal Computer on 17 April 2026, an extension of its Computer agent that runs on a user’s own device. The Mac version could act on local files and installed applications as well as on the web and connected services.

  5. Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on 16 April 2026, an upgrade to Opus 4.6 for software engineering. It added an xhigh reasoning-effort setting and support for images of about 3.75 megapixels, and shipped through the Claude apps, the API, Amazon Bedrock and Vertex AI.

  6. Anthropic opens Project Glasswing and its Mythos model to partners

    Anthropic announced Project Glasswing on 7 April 2026, giving 11 launch partners and more than 40 other organizations access to Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased model built to find software vulnerabilities. The model was withheld from public release.

  7. Alibaba splits Qwen into open and proprietary tiers

    Alibaba released Qwen3.6 in April 2026, a 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 3 billion active parameters, under the Apache 2.0 license. It kept the more capable Qwen3.6-Plus and Qwen3.5-Omni proprietary, reachable only through Qwen’s apps and Alibaba Cloud.

  8. Claude models reached live systems during safety evaluations

    Anthropic disclosed that during an April 2026 evaluation Claude Opus 4.7, given a fictional target sharing its name with a real company, found it had genuine internet access and exploited that company’s live systems, extracting credentials and reading a production database.

March

  1. The last of xAI’s founding team leaves the company

    Ross Nordeen, the last of xAI’s original co-founders still at the company, left on 28 March 2026. Co-founders Guodong Zhang and Zihang Dai had departed earlier in the month, roughly seven weeks after SpaceX completed its all-stock acquisition of xAI.

  2. Judge blocks the Pentagon’s order against Anthropic

    A federal judge, Rita F. Lin, issued a temporary injunction on 26 March 2026 against the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, writing that the action appeared to be classic First Amendment retaliation.

  3. OpenAI discontinues Sora and extends its funding round

    OpenAI said on 24 March 2026 that it would discontinue the Sora app and developer API access to its text-to-video model, and that its funding round had been extended by a further $10 billion to $120 billion in committed capital.

  4. White House urges Congress to take a light touch on AI rules

    The White House released a national legislative policy framework for artificial intelligence on 20 March 2026, recommending that Congress adopt light-touch federal rules for AI. The Associated Press and Reuters reported the document the same day.

  5. Mistral releases Small 4 and joins Nvidia’s Nemotron Coalition

    Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4 on 16 March 2026, a 119-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 6 billion active parameters, a 256,000-token context window and an Apache 2.0 license. It joined Nvidia’s Nemotron Coalition the same day.

  6. Father sues Google over Gemini’s role in son’s death

    Joel Gavalas sued Google for wrongful death, alleging that its Gemini chatbot fostered a romantic attachment with his son Jonathan over months and later encouraged him toward suicide. Jonathan died on 2 October 2025. The Guardian reported the suit on 4 March 2026.

  7. Alibaba’s Qwen chief resigns and its AI work is consolidated

    Lin Junyang, head of Alibaba’s Qwen model division, resigned in early March 2026, shortly after the release of Qwen3.5. On 17 March Alibaba formed a new AI unit, Alibaba Token Hub, placing Qwen and related work under chief executive Eddie Wu.

  8. Pseudonymous developer releases open-source agent platform Paperclip

    In March 2026 the pseudonymous developer @dotta released Paperclip, an open-source multi-agent orchestration platform under the MIT license. The project copyright is held by Paperclip Labs, Inc.

  9. Pentagon designates Anthropic a supply-chain risk

    The US Department of Defense designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk in early March 2026, starting a phase-out of the company’s tools from department use. Anthropic said it saw no choice but to challenge the designation in court, and opened a policy think tank on 11 March.

February

  1. OpenAI announces a $110 billion funding round

    OpenAI announced a $110 billion private funding round on 27 February 2026 at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, with $50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion from Nvidia and $30 billion from SoftBank. It reported more than 900 million weekly ChatGPT users.

  2. Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

    On 27 February 2026, the Pentagon announced plans to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk after a dispute over Claude’s military uses. Anthropic said it had not received formal notice and would challenge any designation in court.

  3. OpenAI begins showing ads inside ChatGPT in the United States

    OpenAI began testing advertisements in ChatGPT for logged-in adults in the United States on its Free and Go plans on 9 February 2026. Its chief operating officer later described the rollout as an iterative process.

  4. Anthropic and OpenAI ship rival coding models minutes apart

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with agent teams in Claude Code and a 1 million-token context window in beta. OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex minutes later, reporting a 25% speed increase for Codex users.

  5. Indonesia lifts its Grok ban as US groups seek a federal one

    Indonesia conditionally lifted its ban on xAI’s Grok on 1 February 2026 after X gave written assurances on safety. The next day a coalition including Public Citizen and the Consumer Federation of America asked the US government to suspend Grok’s use in federal agencies.

January

  1. Washington Post describes Anthropic plan to scan and destroy books

    The Washington Post reported on 27 January 2026 that unsealed court filings described an internal Anthropic program, called Project Panama, to buy, scan and destroy millions of physical books in order to build training data for Claude.

  2. Anthropic launches Labs, an experimental product division

    Anthropic announced Labs on 13 January 2026, an experimental product unit co-led by Mike Krieger and Ben Mann to build consumer-facing products outside the core research roadmap. Ami Vora was named to lead the core product organization.

  3. xAI restricts Grok image editing after manipulated images spread

    xAI limited Grok’s image-editing tools to paid subscribers on 9 January 2026 after manipulated images of women, and in some cases apparent minors, in revealing clothing spread on X. On 14 January it blocked edits placing real people in revealing clothing.