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What shipped this week.

Weekly summaries of frontier AI: model releases, benchmark moves, papers worth reading, infrastructure changes. Auto-drafted from vendor blogs by `App\Editorial\Jobs\ScanReleaseNotesJob`, then edited and published by Kevin.

blog.google

May 6, 2026

Google Gemini App Adds File Generation and New Image Personalization Features

Google's April Gemini Drop update introduces file generation directly within the Gemini app, allowing users to produce downloadable files as outputs rather than only text or inline content. The update also includes new tools for generating personalized images within the app. Goog...

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blog.google

May 6, 2026

Gemini API Gains Multimodal File Search for RAG Workflows

Google's developer blog highlights that the Gemini API's File Search capability is now multimodal, enabling developers to build retrieval-augmented generation pipelines that can retrieve and verify content across file types beyond plain text. The update also introduces Webhooks i...

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www.anthropic.com

May 6, 2026

Anthropic Announces Project Glasswing Security Initiative with Major Tech Partners

Anthropic launched Project Glasswing on April 7, 2026, a multi-organization initiative aimed at securing critical software infrastructure. Partners include Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, an...

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www.anthropic.com

May 6, 2026

Anthropic and Amazon Expand Compute Agreement to 5 Gigawatts of New Capacity

Anthropic announced on April 20, 2026, that it is expanding its collaboration with Amazon to support up to 5 gigawatts of new compute. The announcement follows the earlier multi-billion dollar investment relationship between the two companies and reflects the scale of infrastruct...

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www.anthropic.com

May 6, 2026

Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 with Stronger Coding, Vision, and Agent Performance

Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026, describing it as their latest Opus-tier model with improved performance across coding, agentic tasks, vision, and multi-step workflows. The company emphasizes greater thoroughness and consistency compared to prior Opus releas...

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