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June 2026 marks a turning point in AI — OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 with full agentic capability, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 now leads all benchmarks, Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro dominates reasoning tasks, and GPT-5.6 plus Claude Mythos are expected before month end.

At Google I/O 2026, Google transformed Gemini from a chatbot into a full AI operating system — with a new autonomous agent, a physics-aware video model, a redesigned app, and Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new default for Search and the Gemini app globally.

Anthropic x Gates Foundation:
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation have committed $200 million over four years to bring AI-powered healthcare, vaccine research, and education tools to the 4.6 billion people in low-income countries who currently have no access to essential services.

OpenAI IPO 2026:
OpenAI confidentially filed its S-1 IPO prospectus with the SEC on May 22, 2026, targeting a September listing at a valuation between $852 billion and $1 trillion. Here is what the biggest tech IPO in history means for investors, ChatGPT users, and the AI industry.

OpenAI GPT-Rosalind Biodefense program offers free access to a biology-focused reasoning model for government agencies, labs, and developers working on pandemic preparedness.