The AI news archive for business owners, month by month.
Once a month we write down the AI announcements that change what a small or mid-size team should do, with the date, the primary source and the action. The months before September 2026 were written in September, looking back, and say where something has changed since.
Short answer
The AI news archive for business owners collects every edition of altr's monthly digest, newest first. Each month lists the AI announcements that change what a small or mid-size team should do, with the exact date, a link to the primary source, why it matters and the action to take. Earlier months note what has changed since.
Every month, newest first
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September 2026
Meta Muse brought personal agents to everyone, custom GPTs began retiring, Cowork began merging into Claude, and Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 shipped.
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August 2026
EU AI Act transparency rules took effect, Claude gained memory and a browser, Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, and ChatGPT added Premium seats.
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July 2026
Agents moved into everyday tools: ChatGPT Work, Claude Opus 5, Cowork on web, Zapier Agents inside Zaps, stateless MCP, and CoStar barred AI logins.
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June 2026
Claude Fable 5 launched, paused and returned, Sonnet 5 became the default, Copilot Cowork went GA, Zapier repriced AI steps, and the EU delayed high-risk rules.
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May 2026
Agents got admin controls, Anthropic packaged Claude for small business and finance, Google unveiled Gemini Spark, and the EU and Colorado reworked AI rules.
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April 2026
Claude Cowork went GA, ChatGPT launched workspace agents, Google rebuilt Vertex AI for agents, and GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 shipped.
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