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Claude Sonnet 5 launches at $2 per million tokens
The brief: Anthropic's cheapest way to run AI agents lands at near-Opus quality — and it deliberately can't hack.
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0: 1.6T model, trained without Nvidia
The brief: a food-delivery giant gives away a trillion-parameter AI built entirely on Chinese chips — and the benchmarks are its own.
Grok 4.5 enters private beta at SpaceX and Tesla
The brief: xAI's biggest model yet is live for insiders only — with no benchmarks to back Musk's 'beats Opus' claim.
Fable 5 jailbreak wasn't unique: it worked on eight frontier models
The brief: the flaw that pulled Claude offline was industry-wide, Anthropic's own investigation found.
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, but locks the launch
The brief: OpenAI's new flagship trio is real, priced and gated to about 20 government-approved partners.
The end of 'tokenmaxxing': enterprises ration AI spend
The brief: buyers are capping AI budgets and routing spend to cheaper Chinese open-weight models, just as OpenAI and Anthropic head for IPOs.
DeepMind departures: 4 AI stars leave Google in a week
The brief: four senior Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in a single June 2026 week, led by pre-IPO equity.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of largest known distillation attack on Claude
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.
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.