Anthropic's 2026 in business terms: the $65B Series H at a $965B valuation, confidential IPO filing, $47B run-rate, and enterprise adoption of Claude.
Every major ChatGPT update through July 2026: the GPT-5.5/5.6 transition, Dreaming V3 memory, Lockdown Mode, and what free vs paid gets you now.
Every major Claude update through July 2026: the Claude 5 family, Reflect dashboard, MCP upgrade, Claude Code milestones, pricing and access.
Copilot's 2026: Agent Mode general availability, agentic code review that ships fix PRs, the Copilot CLI, desktop app, and much faster indexing.
Every major Gemini update through July 2026: the 3.5/3.6 Flash generation, Gemini Omni multimodal creation, Nano Banana 2, and the agentic-era strategy.
Midjourney's 2026 in full: V8 alpha to the V8.2 default, native 2K without upscaling, 50% faster and 25% cheaper renders, and 21-second video.
Notion's 2026: autonomous Custom Agents, the credit billing switch on May 4, agents that read your files, 35–50% cheaper runs, and what it costs now.
OpenAI's 2026 from the platform side: the GPT-5.x release-and-retire cadence, the Sora shutdown, API changes, and where the company stands mid-year.
Perplexity's browser year: Comet free on every platform since March, iPad and iOS upgrades, Deep Research generating decks, and enterprise controls.
Where Runway stands in 2026: the Gen-4.5 model and its creative-control suite, the production-workspace positioning, and life after OpenAI's Sora exit.
