
ChatGPT Hits 1B Users - Rivals Grow 10x Faster
ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users in May - the fastest app in history to hit the mark. But Meta AI is growing at 973% and Claude at 640%, against ChatGPT's own 62%.
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ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users in May - the fastest app in history to hit the mark. But Meta AI is growing at 973% and Claude at 640%, against ChatGPT's own 62%.

Anthropic commits $150 million to place 1,000 AI-trained fellows inside US nonprofits for a year at $85,000 each, no degree required.

Claude Fable 5 delivers the strongest coding and long-context results Anthropic has ever shipped publicly, but its safety classifiers block enough legitimate work to make that power conditional.

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's first publicly available Mythos-class model, with safety classifiers that fall back to Claude Opus 4.8 for high-risk requests across cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry.

Anthropic opens Mythos-class capabilities to the public with Claude Fable 5 at $10/$50 per million tokens, days after calling for a global AI pause.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 scores 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro and ships hundreds of parallel subagents in Claude Code, with pricing unchanged at $5 per million input tokens.

Anthropic published internal data showing Claude writes 80% of its own codebase - and called for a coordinated global AI pause - four days after filing a $965B IPO.

iOS 27 Beta 1 is live for developers today, shipping Apple's new Extensions framework that lets Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT plug into Siri - plus the Nvidia B200 Confidential Computing architecture that keeps those cloud queries private.

Lovable's multiyear Google Cloud pact quintuples its compute footprint and bundles access to both Claude and Gemini - a bet that enterprise credibility is the next growth act.

Claude Opus 4.8 sets new highs on SWE-bench Pro and long-context tasks while a 4x improvement in code flaw detection may matter more than any benchmark number.

Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 organizations across 15 countries, with Claude Mythos Preview surfacing 10,000 high-severity vulnerabilities since April.

Complete benchmark and pricing comparison of Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.5 for coding, agents, and knowledge work in 2026.