Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI and Nobel winner John Jumper joins Anthropic, in the same week Nvidia hires another Transformer co-author from Essential AI.
Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2 coding model lands within a few points of Claude Opus 4.8 and beats GPT-5.5 on long-horizon benchmarks, at one-sixth the API cost.
Apple's third-generation Foundation Models split across five systems, with the heaviest on Google Cloud and NVIDIA chips under Private Cloud Compute.
Eli Lilly's retatrutide cleared phase 3 targets in type 2 diabetes, cutting blood sugar and body weight, but without a head-to-head trial against tirzepatide.