Google debuts Nano Banana 2, a faster Gemini Flash Image model with sharper generation, clearer text, and rollout across Gemini, Search, APIs, and Vertex.
Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, but is keeping it available for paid claude.ai subscribers and offering API access by request as it formalizes a model retirement process.
These AI giants have massive backlogs in cloud computing but have seen their share prices drop 20% or more from their highs.