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- 2026-09-30 ARC Prize 2026: ARC-AGI-3 Milestone #2 deadline ARC Prize Foundation · competition · confirmed
- 2026-09-30 California governor's deadline to sign or veto the 2026 AI bills State of California · deadline · confirmed
- 2026-09-30 Huawei Cloud Ascend 950 AI cluster service launches commercially in China Huawei · launch · announced
- Q4 2026 1X NEO first consumer deliveries (promised for 2026) 1X · launch · announced
- 2026-10 Anthropic expected to release Claude Haiku 5.5 ("in the coming weeks") Anthropic · release · announced
- 2026-10-01 Connecticut AI law (SB 5) first provisions take effect State of Connecticut · policy · confirmed
- Q4 2026 GEMA v. Suno: Suno's possible appeal of the Munich ruling Suno, GEMA · court · reported
- Q4 2026 Gemini 3.5 Pro (announced at I/O for June 2026) still unreleased Google DeepMind · release · announced
- Q4 2026 Google expected to ship an early Gemini 4 release "much earlier" than end of 2026 Google DeepMind · release · announced
- Q4 2026 xAI Grok 5 release ("within 2026") xAI, SpaceX · release · rumored
- Q4 2026 NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N2 world action model due by end of 2026 NVIDIA · release · announced
- Q4 2026 OpenAI's first AMD Helios (MI455X) capacity expected online in Q4 2026 OpenAI, AMD · launch · announced
- Q4 2026 OpenAI "Jalapeño" in-house inference chip planned for deployment by end of 2026 OpenAI · launch · reported
- Q4 2026 OpenAI Private Inference preview (confidential computing), promised for fall 2026 OpenAI · launch · announced
- 2026-10 Alibaba expected to release Qwen 4 ("very soon") Alibaba · release · reported
- Q4 2026 Round Hill v. Suno and v. Anthropic: first motions and case schedule (N.D. Cal.) Anthropic, Suno, Round Hill · court · reported
- Q4 2026 Tesla Optimus V3 (Gen 3) public unveil Tesla · launch · rumored
- week of 2026-10-02 GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast (up to 8x faster in Codex) promised 'in the coming days' OpenAI · release · announced
- week of 2026-10-02 OpenAI Decisions API broad release (Luna-based fast decision model) and pricing OpenAI · release · announced
- 2026-10-05 GPT-Rosalind billing starts ($5/$25 per 1M tokens) OpenAI · deadline · reported
- 2026-10-06 2026 Nobel Prizes in Physics (Oct 6) and Chemistry (Oct 7) Nobel Foundation · other · confirmed
- 2026-10-06 OpenAI's Jason Kwon appears before Australia's Joint Select Committee on AI over the Medicare breach OpenAI, Parliament of Australia · policy · reported
- 2026-10-12 ElevenLabs Eleven v4 72% launch discount ends ElevenLabs · deadline · confirmed
- 2026-10 ChatGPT collaborative slides (multi-user and agent editing, PowerPoint/Google Slides export) 'in the coming weeks' OpenAI · launch · announced
- 2026-10-20 Cartesia sunsets sonic-2, sonic-turbo and sonic-3 snapshots Cartesia · deadline · confirmed
- 2026-10-23 OpenAI shuts down legacy API models (o4-mini, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-2024-05-13 and others) OpenAI · deadline · confirmed
- 2026-10-23 "Sanxingdui: Future Past", China's first theatrical film made with AI throughout, opens China film industry · release · reported
- week of 2026-10-26 Big Tech Q3 2026 earnings week (Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon): AI capex and revenue Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon · earnings · reported
- week of 2026-10-26 Higgsfield Global Film Festival winners announced ($1M, 14 winners) Higgsfield · competition · announced
- 2026-10-29 ChatGPT Pro 200 grandfathered allowance ends; existing subscribers move to 10x Plus OpenAI · deadline · confirmed
- 2026-10-30 "Gods Don't Give Gifts" (Gossip Goblin / Fable Studio) reported for US theatrical release Fable Studio · release · reported
- 2026-11 Anthropic IPO: public S-1, roadshow and Nasdaq listing Anthropic · other · reported
- Q4 2026 OpenAI dots expansion: more plans, texting, extra dots and specialist dots OpenAI · launch · announced
- Q4 2026 OpenAI's next Astra-tier model (a fixed GPT-6.1 Astra or successor) after the Sept 28 cancellation OpenAI · release · reported
- 2026-11 Next round of the US–China 'Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue' United States Government, Government of China · policy · announced
- 2026-11-06 NYT v. OpenAI/Microsoft: fair-use summary-judgment replies due; ruling expected in following months OpenAI, Microsoft, The New York Times · court · reported
- 2026-11-09 Anthropic v. Pentagon: deadline to seek D.C. Circuit rehearing en banc (computed) Anthropic, US Department of Defense · court · reported
- week of 2026-11-15 ICPC World Finals 2026 (50th), Dubai, Nov 15–20 ICPC · competition · confirmed
- week of 2026-11-15 SC26 supercomputing conference, Chicago (TOP500 list, Gordon Bell Prize) ACM, IEEE · conference · confirmed
- 2026-11 Arc Institute Virtual Cell Challenge 2026 results (submissions close Nov 5) Arc Institute · competition · announced
- week of 2026-11-17 Microsoft Ignite 2026, San Francisco, Nov 17–20 Microsoft · conference · confirmed
- 2026-11-17 NVIDIA Q3 fiscal 2027 earnings NVIDIA · earnings · reported
- week of 2026-11-30 AWS re:Invent 2026, Las Vegas, Nov 30–Dec 4 (Amazon's new flagship model expected) Amazon · conference · confirmed
- 2026-11-30 Fish Audio s2.1-pro-free API tier ends Fish Audio · deadline · confirmed
- 2026-11-30 Huawei Cloud Ascend 950 AI cluster service launches globally Huawei · launch · announced
- 2026-12-01 OpenAI shuts down older image models (replaced by gpt-image-2.5-sunburst / flare) OpenAI · deadline · confirmed
- 2026-12-02 EU AI Act: watermarking grace period ends and new ban on AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery applies European Union · policy · confirmed
- 2026-12-04 ARC Prize 2026 (ARC-AGI-3) results announced ARC Prize Foundation · competition · confirmed
- week of 2026-12-06 NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney Dec 6–12, Atlanta Dec 8–13, Paris Dec 9–13) NeurIPS · conference · confirmed
- 2026-12-11 OpenAI shuts down o3, o3-pro and several GPT-5 snapshots OpenAI · deadline · confirmed
- Q1 2027 Alibaba Zhenwu V900 AI chip release (Q1 2027) Alibaba · launch · announced
- 2027-01-01 California SB 53: first anonymized critical-incident summaries and AG whistleblower report due State of California · deadline · confirmed
- 2027-01-01 Colorado's rewritten AI Act takes effect State of Colorado · policy · confirmed
- 2027 GEMA v. OpenAI: appeal at the Munich Higher Regional Court OpenAI, GEMA · court · reported
- 2027-01-01 Gemini 3.6/3.7/3.8 Flash introductory prices end (e.g. 3.8 Flash to $1.50/$7.50) Google · deadline · confirmed
- Q1 2027 Huawei Ascend 960DT chip (Q1 2027) Huawei · launch · announced
- 2027-01-01 New York RAISE Act (frontier AI safety law) takes effect State of New York · policy · confirmed
- Q1 2027 NVIDIA's ~$12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face expected to close in H1 2027 NVIDIA, Hugging Face · other · announced
- Q1 2027 OpenAI's first Jony Ive-designed device (smart speaker with camera), not before end of Feb 2027 OpenAI · launch · reported
- Q1 2027 FDA decision on Takeda's zasocitinib (computationally designed TYK2 inhibitor), due Q1 2027 Takeda, FDA · deadline · announced
- week of 2027-01-06 CES 2027, Las Vegas, Jan 6–9 Consumer Technology Association · conference · confirmed
- 2027-01-20 OpenAI shuts down gpt-realtime, gpt-audio and gpt-4o realtime/audio models OpenAI · deadline · confirmed
- 2027-02-26 OpenAI shuts down whisper-1 and gpt-4o-transcribe models in the API OpenAI · deadline · confirmed
- week of 2027-03-01 MWC Barcelona 2027, Mar 1–4 GSMA · conference · reported
- week of 2027-03-15 NVIDIA GTC 2027, San Jose, Mar 15–18 NVIDIA · conference · reported
- Q2 2027 Meta VR Glasses ($1,299.99) ship in spring 2027 Meta · launch · announced
- week of 2027-04-13 Google Cloud Next 2027, Las Vegas, Apr 13–15 Google · conference · reported
- week of 2027-04-26 ICLR 2027, Apr 26–30 ICLR · conference · confirmed
- 2027-05 Google I/O 2027 (expected May) Google · conference · rumored
- 2027-05 Microsoft Build 2027 (expected May) Microsoft · conference · rumored
- 2027-06 Apple WWDC 2027 (expected June) Apple · conference · rumored
- week of 2027-06-20 CVPR 2027, Jun 20–25 CVF, IEEE · conference · confirmed
- 2027-06-21 Geneva AI Summit 2027 (next international AI summit), Jun 21–22 Switzerland · conference · confirmed
- Q3 2027 Huawei Ascend 960PR chip (Q3 2027) Huawei · launch · announced
- 2027-07 ICML 2027 (South America, dates tentative) ICML · conference · rumored
- 2027-07 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2027, Shanghai WAIC · conference · rumored
- week of 2027-07-16 IMO 2027, Budapest, Jul 16–26 (AI results expected) IMO · competition · confirmed
- 2027-08-02 EU AI Act: GPAI models placed on the market before Aug 2025 must comply European Union · deadline · confirmed
- Q4 2027 1X targets 100,000+ NEO units/year capacity by end of 2027 1X · other · announced
- 2027-12-02 EU AI Act: Annex III high-risk obligations apply European Union · policy · confirmed
- 2028-03 OpenAI's self-set goal: an automated AI researcher by March 2028 OpenAI · other · announced
- 2028-08-02 EU AI Act: Annex I (AI in regulated products) high-risk obligations apply European Union · policy · confirmed
Already happened (1)
- 2026-10 OpenAI's next model after cancelling GPT-6.1 Astra (other models "coming soon") OpenAI · release · reported · happened → what happened