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IBM completed its largest acquisition since Red Hat, buying data streaming company Confluent for $31 per share and delisting it from Nasdaq as it bets on real-time data as the backbone of enterprise AI.

The French AI startup ships its first text-to-speech model under open weights, offering enterprises voice cloning from three seconds of audio and 70-millisecond latency across nine languages.

Mistral releases Small 4, a 119B-parameter open-weight model under Apache 2.0, and Forge, an enterprise platform for training custom models on proprietary data, as open-weight AI closes to within three months of frontier systems.

Perplexity announces Personal Computer at Ask 2026, turning a Mac mini into a persistent AI agent with local file access, 20 orchestrated models, and enterprise integrations.

OpenAI releases its most capable model yet with autonomous computer operation and enterprise integrations, but the launch is overshadowed by Pentagon deal fallout and a reported 1.5 million user exodus.

Anthropic releases its most capable model yet, featuring a 1M-token context window, parallel agent coordination, and security research that uncovered over 500 previously unknown vulnerabilities in open-source software.