AI inventor Stephen Thaler wanted the US Supreme Court to recognize a machine as the sole author of an image. The court refused, but the ruling only covers this extreme case. It says nothing about whether people can claim copyright for work they create with AI tools.
Meta is building a new applied AI engineering organization, according to an internal memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal. The new teams will be led by Maher Saba, currently a vice president in Meta's Reality Labs division, and will report to CTO Andrew Bosworth.
The structure is designed to be extremely flat, with up to 50 employees per manager. The new division will work alongside Meta's Superintelligence Lab to build the "data engine" that speeds up improvements to Meta's AI models.
According to Saba, the organization consists of two teams: one focused on interfaces and tools, and another on tasks, data collection, and evaluations.
Meta restructured its AI operations last summer, creating the Superintelligence Lab under former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in January that the company would release new models and products in the coming months.
Anthropic is on track to generate nearly $20 billion in annual revenue based on current performance, according to Bloomberg. The company recently surpassed $19 billion in run-rate revenue, more than doubling its $9 billion run rate from the end of 2025. Just a few weeks ago, the figure stood at roughly $14 billion. The growth is driven by strong adoption of Anthropic's AI models and products, particularly its coding tool Claude Code. The company is currently valued at $380 billion.
At the same time, Anthropic is locked in a conflict with the US Department of War. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk, a designation typically reserved for companies from countries the US views as adversaries. The move came after Anthropic pushed for restrictions on the Pentagon's use of its AI for surveillance and autonomous weaponry. Former White House adviser Dean Ball called the designation "attempted corporate murder." Anthropic said the move is "legally unsound" and is prepared to challenge it in court. The company's main app recently topped Apple's download charts, reflecting a surge of support during the Pentagon standoff.
OpenAI is building its own alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's widely used platform for code management and collaboration, according to The Information. The move was triggered by a string of GitHub outages in recent months that directly affected OpenAI's own developers. The project is still in its early stages and likely won't be ready for several months.
Internally, the company is reportedly discussing whether to offer the product to outside customers - a move that would put OpenAI in direct competition with Microsoft, one of its biggest investors. GitHub has attributed some of its outages to problems with Microsoft's Azure cloud, which the service is currently being migrated to. Google and Meta both run their own internal code platforms but don't offer them externally. OpenAI, Microsoft, and GitHub all declined to comment.
Google Deepmind has released a preview of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, the fastest and cheapest model in the Gemini 3 series. It’s significantly more capable than its predecessor, but output costs have more than tripled.
OpenAI has released GPT-5.3 Instant, an update to the standard ChatGPT model. The new version aims to make everyday conversations feel more natural and useful. According to OpenAI, the model delivers more accurate answers, better web search results, and fewer unnecessary warnings and refusals. Hallucination rates drop by up to 26.8 percent for web searches and 19.7 percent for internal knowledge, depending on the scenario. The writing style also feels less robotic and preachy, OpenAI claims.
The system card shows some trade-offs on the safety front. GPT-5.3 Instant beats the older GPT-5.1 Instant on average when it comes to catching unauthorized content, but it actually performs worse than its direct predecessor, GPT-5.2 Instant. The model also takes a small hit on health-related queries (HealthBench) compared to the previous version.
GPT-5.3 Instant is rolling out now to all ChatGPT users and is available to developers via the API as "gpt-5.3-chat-latest." The outgoing GPT-5.2 Instant will stick around for paying users for another three months before OpenAI pulls the plug on June 3, 2026.
Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI chatbot designed to compete with similar tools from OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. According to Bloomberg, the feature lets users ask for product suggestions. The chatbot responds with a carousel of product images that include brand, website, and price details, along with a brief bullet-point explanation of its recommendations.
The feature is currently rolling out to a limited number of US users in the Meta AI web browser. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the test but didn't share any further details.
Several US federal agencies are already dropping Anthropic's AI products and switching to competitors like OpenAI. According to Reuters, the shift currently affects the State Department, Treasury Department, Department of Health and Human Services, the Pentagon, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. President Trump ordered all agencies on Friday to phase out Anthropic products within six months. The Department of Defense had previously classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk and signed a deal with OpenAI.
The switch isn't exactly an upgrade, though - at least not yet. The State Department is replacing Anthropic's Claude models in its internal chatbot with OpenAI's outdated GPT-4.1 model.
