Google launches Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents to automate complex research
Google Deepmind is rolling out Deep Research Max, a new AI agent built on Gemini 3.1 Pro that runs autonomous research across the web and proprietary data sources. For the first time, developers can plug in financial feeds and other specialized sources through the Model Context Protocol. The benchmarks come with the usual lack of transparency.
The flood of AI music is reshaping how streaming platforms handle new uploads
Music streaming service Deezer reports that 44 percent of all songs uploaded to its platform daily are now fully AI-generated. The company uses its own detection technology and plans to license it to the broader music industry.
Corporate communications teams need to sharpen their AI skills. That's the takeaway from a new analysis by Barron's, which shows just how much ChatGPT is already reshaping corporate language. Since 2024, the telltale AI phrase "It's not just a ___, it's a ___" has been showing up everywhere in press releases, shareholder letters, and analyst calls from major US companies.
This analysis is not just a study—it is a wake-up call for corporate communications.
ChatGPT, 2026
Barron's ran its search through AlphaSense's document library, covering press releases, SEC filings, and transcripts of analyst conferences. Starting in 2024, use of the phrase doubled twice in a row, hitting a peak at the end of 2025.
Year
Documents
Change
2022
~46
Baseline
2023
~49
Slight uptick
2024
100
Doubled
2025
208
Doubled again
The trend lines up with broader adoption patterns. According to a survey by Muck Rack, three out of four PR professionals now use AI at work, mostly for writing and editing.
According to job listings spotted by Data Center Dynamics, Anthropic is hiring data center contract specialists in Europe and Australia. It's the first time the AI company is building a dedicated data center team for locations outside the United States. Until now, Anthropic had worked exclusively with cloud providers.
The European position is based in London and covers multiple countries, including the major data center hubs Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin, as well as emerging markets in Northern and Southern Europe. The Australian role is focused on Sydney.
Amazon pours $33B into Anthropic, which promises to spend $100B right back on AWS
Amazon is pouring up to another $25 billion into Anthropic. In return, the AI company has committed to spending more than $100 billion on AWS infrastructure over the next ten years. The deal is meant to ease Anthropic’s acute capacity crunch, but it also has the circular quality that’s become typical of the AI industry.
Jeff Bezos is about to close a $10 billion funding round for his AI lab codenamed "Project Prometheus," the Financial Times reports. The company is valued at $38 billion. JPMorgan and BlackRock are among the investors.
Prometheus, based in San Francisco with offices in London and Zurich, is building AI systems designed to understand the laws of physics for use in industry, engineering, and manufacturing. Bezos and co-CEO Vikram Bajaj are leading the fundraise. It marks Bezos' first operational role since stepping down as Amazon CEO in 2021.
On top of that, Prometheus is planning a holding company to acquire businesses that could be transformed by its AI technology. The lab recently poached Kyle Kosic, co-founder of xAI. The round started in November at $6.2 billion and was expanded due to high demand, according to the FT.
OpenAI rolled out Chronicle for its Codex app. The feature uses screen recordings to build memories Codex taps into as context for future tasks, so it knows what users are referring to, which tools they're using, and what projects they're working on without a fresh explanation each time.
Chronicle runs in the background, with AI agents turning recordings into summaries saved locally as Markdown files. The recordings are kept temporarily and, per OpenAI, deleted after six hours.
It's launching as an opt-in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers on macOS, but isn't available in the EU, UK, or Switzerland. Users enable it in Codex settings under "Personalization" by turning on "Memories" and then "Chronicle," and granting macOS screen recording and accessibility permissions.
Google builds elite team to close the coding gap with Anthropic
Google is doubling down on AI coding and betting on models that can eventually improve themselves. Sergey Brin is once again leading the charge to keep Google’s AI competitive.
