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The brief: OpenAI reportedly offered Washington a 5% stake worth ~$42.6 billion to ease pressure. It's conceptual, may need Congress, and Sanders wants far more.
The brief: US payrolls rose just 57,000 in June, far below forecast, and the miss is being tied to AI — though the causation is far from settled.
The brief: Anthropic is reportedly exploring a custom AI chip with Samsung, which could become its fourth silicon supplier.
The brief: the UN's first frontier-AI governance body seats the CEOs building the technology.
The brief: after an 18-day standoff and a lawsuit, Washington rescinds the first-ever ban on a commercial AI product.
The brief: Anthropic's cheapest way to run AI agents lands at near-Opus quality — and it deliberately can't hack.
The brief: a food-delivery giant gives away a trillion-parameter AI built entirely on Chinese chips — and the benchmarks are its own.
The brief: xAI's biggest model yet is live for insiders only — with no benchmarks to back Musk's 'beats Opus' claim.
The brief: the flaw that pulled Claude offline was industry-wide, Anthropic's own investigation found.
The brief: OpenAI's new flagship trio is real, priced and gated to about 20 government-approved partners.
The brief: buyers are capping AI budgets and routing spend to cheaper Chinese open-weight models, just as OpenAI and Anthropic head for IPOs.
The brief: four senior Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in a single June 2026 week, led by pre-IPO equity.
The brief: Anthropic told a US Senate committee Alibaba-linked operators ran a record distillation campaign against Claude. Alibaba denies it; the figures are unverified.
Announced at I/O, due 'next month' — and late June arrived without it.
The brief: rare-disease diagnosis, an AI chemist, a hard benchmark, and smarter safety tests — all in the same week.
The voice landscape, mapped fast. The brief.
The year free models caught the frontier. The brief.
Alibaba's open-model juggernaut — what it is, why it dominates, and the 2026 shift.
Launched Tuesday, dark by Friday. The brief on what happened and why it matters.
Another open model from China, and this one's actually downloadable. The brief.
Europe's AI champion, repriced. The brief.
From prototypes to paid pilots. The brief on physical AI.
A serious warning, an awkward week. The brief.
Photorealistic, promptable, via API. The brief on physical AI's new foundation layer.