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Developments in artificial intelligence, researched by Applied AI at Penn State.
June 2026
ChatGPT Just Dropped Below 50% Market Share for the First Time
ChatGPT once held roughly two-thirds of the AI assistant market. In 2026 it fell below 50% for the first time as Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude closed the gap fast.
June 2026
The First Major U.S. AI Law Was Supposed to Start This Month. It Just Got Delayed.
Colorado passed the country's first comprehensive AI law in 2024. Weeks before its June 30 start date, the state pushed it to 2027 and scaled it back.
June 2026
The Co-Inventor of the Tech Behind Every AI Chatbot Just Left Google for OpenAI
Noam Shazeer helped invent the Transformer that powers ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion to bring him back two years ago. Now he is joining OpenAI.
March 2026
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs Raises $1B to Build AI That Learns From the Physical World
The Turing Award winner left Meta to bet against the technology that powers ChatGPT. His startup just raised the largest seed round ever recorded for a European company.
March 2026
Anthropic Wins Injunction in Court Battle With Trump Administration
A federal judge ruled the government's supply chain risk designation appears designed to punish Anthropic for refusing to allow unrestricted military use of its Claude AI model.
March 2026
OpenClaw: How a Weekend Project Became the Fastest-Growing Open Source AI Agent in History
An Austrian developer built an AI assistant that runs on your own machine. Then China adopted it. Then OpenAI acquired it.