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On 5 November 2026 Anthropic launched Personal Finance for Claude, a read-only tool that connects bank and credit card accounts through Plaid so users can ask questions about their money in everyday language, with no ads or sponsored recommendations.
A US bankruptcy court approved the bidding procedures for the sale of Character.ai's assets, with a 13 October 2026 agreement with Disney Worldwide Services as the stalking horse and an auction set for 1 December 2026.
On 2 November 2026 Apple told developers that apps with dating or romantic features, including AI companion apps, must carry an 18+ rating, with new content descriptors required from 16 November.
Six AGIBOT G2 wheeled humanoid robots worked a 24-hour shift in an operating Shanghai convenience store, completing 1,730 tasks on a livestream, with four of the six passing the final assessment.
On 21 October 2026 Liquid AI released LFM3-Omni-2B, the first omni-modal model in its LFM3 family, taking text, images, video and audio as input and returning text or speech. At 2.17B parameters it targets phones and laptops.
On 12 October 2026 Character.ai began a voluntary Chapter 11 case in Delaware to carry out a court-supervised sale of the company, warning that the platform will be wound down if no actionable bid emerges.
Waymo said it will launch its autonomous ride service in Toronto, its first Canadian city, with the first passengers planned for 2028.
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.
On 18 September 2026 Character.ai said its CEO Karandeep Anand was joining Disney as its Chief Technology Officer, a newly created role, with members of Character's technical team expected to follow.
Character.ai's CAI-Image family consists of image models post-trained from open-source Qwen-Image and tuned for character-driven storytelling, so the same character stays recognisable across styles, scenes and pages. The company announced the models on 16 September 2026.
On 1 September 2026, Manus announced that it had formally resumed independent operations, with its founding team continuing to lead the company as an independent agent lab advancing general AI agents.
On 11 August 2026 Manus published a note saying it would soon operate as an independent company again, setting out when some users' data would be deleted and when access would return.
Zoox received the first commercial exemption NHTSA has ever granted for a purpose-built robotaxi, letting the company charge fares for driverless rides and start collecting them in Las Vegas.
On 30 July 2026 Moonshot AI closed a round at a US$35 billion valuation, raising about US$3.5 billion two weeks after releasing Kimi K3 — the latest step in a climb from a US$3.8 billion pre-money valuation in October 2025.
On 8 July 2026 OpenAI launched GPT-Live, a generation of full-duplex voice models for ChatGPT that can listen and speak at the same time; the smaller model became ChatGPT's default voice model.
On 30 June 2026 Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic Sonnet model, at an introductory $2 and $10 per million tokens. On 10 August that price became permanent.
On 8 June 2026, at WWDC, Apple introduced AFM 3, its third generation of foundation models, and Siri AI, a more personal assistant for iOS 27. Developer testing began the same day, and the launch was limited in the EU and China.
On 28 May 2026 Mistral merged Le Chat into Vibe: one agent and one licence spanning work and code, adding Work Mode and sandboxed Code Mode, four tiers, and the retirement of the old Chat mode.
At I/O on 19 May 2026 Google announced the Gemini 3.5 family, led by Gemini 3.5 Flash, made it the default in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode, and introduced Gemini Spark and Antigravity 2.0.
At Google I/O on 19 May 2026, Google introduced Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent built on Gemini 3.5 Flash that runs around the clock and acts on the user's behalf under their direction. It launched first with trusted testers and US Google AI Ultra subscribers.
