Agility Robotics to go public through a SPAC merger
Agility Robotics announced it will go public through a SPAC merger, raising $465 million as it works to commercialize Digit robots and launch the next-generation Digit 5.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Cyber for vulnerability hunting
On 5 November 2026 OpenAI released ChatGPT Cyber, a model for cybersecurity work, limited to the top tier of its Daybreak Red programme. OpenAI says it scanned the Linux kernel and found flaws in Firefox.
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
In early November 2026 Meta acquired Conductor, a startup whose platform runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel workspaces. Conductor's cloud service was set to shut down on 20 November 2026.
Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in a $115B all-stock deal
Marvell agreed on 2 November 2026 to buy optical chip and networking equipment maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at $115 billion including debt, one of the largest technology acquisitions on record.
AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026
AGIBOT's Innovation Day 2026 in Shanghai on 29 October 2026 introduced the Worken output metric, the AHA3 humanoid hardware architecture, the G2 Max industrial robot, Link-U OS 1.0, the GO-3 Preview and the WITA-Omni interaction model.
Meta releases the open-weight Muse Spark Open
On 15 October 2026 Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight, natively multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters, optimised to run on Apple's Mac Studio. Its weights were published on Hugging Face.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5
Released on 28 September 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the second model of the Claude 5.5 family. It kept the price of Sonnet 5 and was the first Sonnet model to ship with cyber safeguards and anti-distillation classifiers.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5
Released on 22 September 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 is the first model of the Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic said it matched Claude Fable 5.1 on most work, at a lower price.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7
On 21 September 2026 xAI released Grok 4.7, with a larger base model and a longer reinforcement-learning run. Its Fast variant was limited to Cursor and Grok Build.
iFlytek releases Spark X2.5
On 7 September 2026 iFlytek released Spark X2.5, a 293B-A30B mixture-of-experts model trained and served on domestic compute, focused on code and agent tasks, with open-source on-device models supporting up to 1 million tokens of context.
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
On 2 September 2026 Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a security-focused variant limited to vetted defenders, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
On 1 September 2026 Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. Prices stayed at $10 and $50 per million tokens, and Mythos 5.1 is offered through verification programmes.
Unitree lists on the STAR Market
Unitree, the Hangzhou robot maker, listed on Shanghai's STAR Market on 19 August 2026 at 150.80 yuan per share, opening its first trading day 629.44% higher and valuing the company at 444.9 billion yuan.
Zhipu releases GLM-5.3, rated the strongest open model in cybersecurity
Zhipu released GLM-5.3 on 14 August 2026, a post-training upgrade built on the same base model as GLM-5.2, with large gains on coding and cybersecurity benchmarks; NIST's CAISI later called it the most advanced open-weight model in cybersecurity.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6 for long-running agents
On 12 August 2026 xAI released Grok 4.6, a month after Grok 4.5, aimed at long-running agents. Pricing stayed the same, and the model launched across Cursor, Grok Build and the API.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5
On 24 July 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at $5 and $25 per million tokens. Anthropic said it came close to Claude Fable 5's frontier intelligence at half the price.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, co-trained with Cursor
On 16 July 2026 xAI released Grok 4.5, co-trained with Cursor, and made it the default model in Grok Build. xAI also published its coding benchmark results.
Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1 and opens the Meta Model API
On 9 July 2026 Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, an upgrade built for agentic tasks, with a 1-million-token context and access for developers through the Meta Model API in public preview.
Council gives final approval to simplified AI Act rules
On 29 June 2026 the Council of the EU gave final approval to a regulation streamlining the bloc's AI rules, carried in the Omnibus VII package; the amendments entered into force on 27 July 2026.
ByteDance releases Seed2.1
On 23 June 2026 ByteDance Seed announced Seed2.1 for Doubao and Volcano Engine users. It has Pro and Turbo models for productivity work and builds on Seed2.0.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5
On 9 June 2026 Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model for general use, and Claude Mythos 5, the same model with some safeguards lifted for vetted partners. Both were priced at $10 and $50 per million tokens.