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Gemini 3.5 Pro still not out as its 'next month' window closes
Announced at I/O, due 'next month' — and late June arrived without it.
OpenAI's AI-for-science week: four results in 48 hours
The brief: rare-disease diagnosis, an AI chemist, a hard benchmark, and smarter safety tests — all in the same week.
AI voice in 2026: who makes what
The voice landscape, mapped fast. The brief.
The 2026 open-weight surge, in brief
The year free models caught the frontier. The brief.
Qwen: the open-source model juggernaut, explained
Alibaba's open-model juggernaut — what it is, why it dominates, and the 2026 shift.
US directive pulls Fable 5 offline three days after launch
Launched Tuesday, dark by Friday. The brief on what happened and why it matters.
Moonshot ships Kimi K2.7-Code — open weights, coding-focused
Another open model from China, and this one's actually downloadable. The brief.
Mistral in talks to raise ~€3bn at a ~€20bn valuation
Europe's AI champion, repriced. The brief.
Where humanoid robots stand in 2026
From prototypes to paid pilots. The brief on physical AI.
Anthropic calls for a coordinated global slowdown on AI
A serious warning, an awkward week. The brief.
Decart launches Oasis 3, a real-time world model for driving
Photorealistic, promptable, via API. The brief on physical AI's new foundation layer.
Anthropic ships Fable 5 — its most powerful public model yet
The frontier just moved. Here's the brief.
Apple unveils 'Siri AI' and next-gen Apple Intelligence at WWDC
The smarter Siri is real, ships this autumn, and reportedly runs on Google's model. The brief.
OpenAI files confidentially for an IPO, a week after Anthropic
Two AI giants, two filings, eight days apart. Here is the brief.
xAI ships Grok Imagine 1.5: a still photo becomes video
One image in, cinematic clip out — and two things to know before you get excited.
US extends AI-chip export controls to Chinese firms' overseas units
The loophole just closed — and it may have been open for hundreds of thousands of chip servers.
Anthropic files confidentially for an IPO at a $965bn valuation
The frontier-AI IPO race just got its first runner.
MiniMax ships M3 — open-weight frontier claims, weights to follow
Cheap, capable, and not quite downloadable yet. The brief on what shipped and what to watch.
GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing
The flat-fee era ends; the meter starts. The brief.
Lamp Dating 2.0: The AI Dating App That Replaces Swiping
Version 2.0 launched June 2026. AI matches you on personality and values, Genie helps you connect, and it is free on iOS.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 with a 1M-token context
Six weeks after 4.7, a faster, longer-memory Claude — and a tease of something bigger.
Sesame launches its iPhone voice-AI app in 39 countries
Natural-sounding voice, four agents, one big open question. The brief.
Anthropic's Mythos finds 6,202 critical software flaws
AI vulnerability-hunting, with independent receipts. The brief.
Musk says Grok V9-Medium has finished training
An announcement, not a release. The brief.