Muhammad Zeeshan

OpenAI's TikTok-style deepfake app is dead after just six months. Between plunging downloads, moderation nightmares, and a collapsed billion-dollar Disney deal, Sora never found its footing.

OpenAI is scaling back its ambitious plan to turn ChatGPT into an e-commerce hub after its Instant Checkout feature failed to gain traction with users. The company is now pivoting to product discovery, letting merchants handle their own checkout.

Arm Holdings has broken with 35 years of tradition by releasing its first in-house chip, the Arm AGI CPU, built for AI data centre inference. Meta is the launch customer, with OpenAI, Cerebras, and Cloudflare also signed on as partners.

Agile Robots has entered a strategic partnership with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models into its industrial robots. The deal marks the latest in a growing wave of robotics-AI partnerships reshaping the industry in 2026.

Senator Bernie Sanders' viral AI interview backfired when Claude simply agreed with everything he said, exposing AI sycophancy instead of industry secrets. The internet responded with a flood of memes that stole the show.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says the best defense against AI isn't resistance it's investment. In his 2026 letter, he warns AI could deepen inequality unless more people gain access to the markets.

Cursor launched Composer 2 as its own frontier-level coding model, but users quickly discovered it was built on Moonshot AI's open-source Kimi. The revelation sparked a debate about transparency, geopolitics, and what "building" an AI model really means in 2026.

OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 by the end of 2026, with hiring focused on engineering, product, research, and sales. The expansion is aimed at closing the competitive gap with Anthropic and strengthening OpenAI's enterprise presence in an intensifying AI race.