Google Gemini has quadrupled its market share in the AI chatbot space, rising from a low base to challenge ChatGPT's dominance which dropped from 86.7% in January 2025 to 64.5% in January 2026.[5]
Elon Musk reorganized xAI amid a talent exodus.
Microsoft AI chief predicts all white-collar work could be automated by AI within 18 months.
Canada and Germany signed a joint AI declaration and launched the Sovereign Technology Alliance to expand secure compute capacity, invest in resilient infrastructure, and collaborate on safe-by-design AI systems including with LawZero.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reiterated opposition to selling advanced AI chips to China, framing them as a national security chokepoint and contradicting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's lobbying efforts.
OpenAI began testing ads in ChatGPT for some U.S. users on free and Go subscription tiers to support broader access to advanced features.
OpenAI's GPT-5.2 achieved a 70.9% win rate against human experts on economically valuable tasks in updated GDPval testing, enabling reliable time and cost savings.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, outperforming Gemini 3 Flash in reliability, reasoning depth, agentic performance, and professional usefulness, making it the top AI for real work.
OpenAI updated ChatGPT Voice on February 12, 2026, improving its ability to follow user instructions and use tools like web search for better responses, primarily for free and Plus users.
ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, a new AI video model going viral in China.
Anthropic announced it will cover electricity price increases caused by its data center expansions, compensating utilities and investing in energy generation and demand-reduction technologies.