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ChatGPT reached 1 billion monthly active users in May, according to estimates from data analytics firm Sensor Tower.
ChatGPT is the fastest application to reach 1 billion users, achieving the milestone in 3.5 years.
Anthropic's Claude has experienced 640% user growth over the past year, reaching 56 million monthly active users.
Anthropic is reportedly ahead of OpenAI in revenue despite having only 5% of ChatGPT's consumer user base.
According to Cloudflare's data, bots and agents now represent 57.5% of web traffic, surpassing human traffic for the first time.
Meta has launched a new business-focused agent on its messaging platforms to automate tasks like appointment booking and sales.
Meta's new business agent is currently in testing with one million businesses and will shift from a free to a paid subscription model over the coming months.
Meta plans to launch a broader Business Agent platform that will include connectors for non-Meta platforms such as Shopify and Zendesk.
Meta currently has 200 million businesses using WhatsApp globally and has reached $2 billion in annual revenue from paid messaging services on the platform.
OpenAI's Sam Altman stated that AI budgeting has recently become a "huge issue" for some enterprise customers.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas argues that the winner of the AI race will be determined by which company can provide the most token value per watt per user.
According to Artificial Analysis benchmarks, Claude Opus 4.8 uses 80-90% more tokens than GPT-5.5 to achieve a comparable intelligence score, making it significantly less token-efficient.