Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.5, which is being hailed as the best model for coding, agents, and computer use, outperforming both Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.1 Pro in recent benchmarks and showing improved resistance to prompt injection attacks.
NSF announces first AI-ENGAGE awards totaling $2.4M for international projects using AI in agriculture, including autonomous robots for disease detection and AI apps for pest management.
University of Pittsburgh expands access to Claude for Education, integrated with AWS, as the first university to do so, supporting writing, analysis, and long documents alongside other vetted AI tools like Gemini and Copilot.
Elon Musk is reorganizing xAI amid a reported talent exodus.
Apple is considering delaying its AI-upgraded Siri release planned for March due to technical issues including slow processing, accuracy problems, and bugs with fast speech; it may roll out features piecemeal in iOS 26.5 and iOS 27.
Barclays is betting on AI to cut costs and boost returns, with higher profit targets linked to tangible AI outcomes.
Red Hat has been selected by the UK Ministry of Defence to architect a unified AI and hybrid cloud backbone across its entire estate, enabling tactical edge deployment.
Chinese hyperscalers are advancing industry-specific agentic AI solutions.
xAI secured a $3.4 billion loan from Apollo for Nvidia chips following its merger with SpaceX.
Alphabet raised $20 billion in bonds to fund its $185 billion AI infrastructure expansion.
University of Michigan researchers developed an AI system that interprets brain MRI scans in seconds, accurately identifying neurological conditions and flagging urgent cases.