On June 12, the US ordered Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally under export controls. The alleged jailbreak behind the order is a security technique Anthropic says GPT-5.5 can already do.
Jeff Bezos' Prometheus raised $12B in a second round, valuing it at $41B. Backers include JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock. The goal: AI software that designs and manufactures physical systems.
Coinbase for Agents gives AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude dedicated trading accounts with user-set spending limits — autonomous trades, DCA strategies, and payments for data services included.
Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines, letting AI agents authorize and settle payments across its global network. Over 30 partners joined, including Coinbase, RippleX, Stripe, and Solana Foundation.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 — its most capable widely available model, with Mythos-level power but built-in safeguards. Alongside it comes Claude Mythos 5, unrestricted but only for vetted customers.
An unreleased version of Claude, codenamed Oceanus, reached red-team testers and within hours was being resold through a Chinese proxy. Anthropic has reportedly paused its testing program while it investigates.
At WWDC 2026, Apple unveiled a rebuilt Siri powered by Google Gemini under a multi-year deal worth roughly $1 billion per year. The custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model will handle Siri's cloud AI tasks.
Microsoft researchers caught a prompt injection flaw in Claude Code's GitHub Action — attackers could trick the AI into leaking API keys and CI/CD secrets from any workflow. Patched on May 5.
Travala launched a protocol letting AI agents autonomously search and book hotels — payment goes through in USDC over Base, with humans approving the final transaction.
OpenAI is preparing its biggest ChatGPT overhaul, the Financial Times reports — turning the chatbot into a superapp with agents, coding, and third-party services in one place, ahead of the company's expected listing.
The White House and Sam Altman have been discussing transferring OpenAI equity to the US government, with proceeds potentially flowing to a public fund and directly to citizens.
Six Anthropic engineers are deployed inside the NSA using Mythos for offensive cyber operations — on the same day the company publicly called for a global halt to advanced AI development.
Google struck a deal with SpaceX to rent 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs for $920M per month from October 2026 through June 2029, citing unexpectedly high demand for its recently launched AI products.
OpenAI is turning Codex from a coders' tool into an AI for every job: role plugins, a Sites feature that builds apps from a description, and pinpoint annotations. Non-developers now adopt it three times faster.
At Build 2026, Satya Nadella declared AI agents the new OS for work. Microsoft launched Copilot agents inside Office 365, an autonomous GitHub Copilot coding agent, and on-device Windows Local AI shipping June 9.
OpenAI, together with Oracle and Related Digital, will build a $7 billion data center in Michigan — the largest economic project in the state's history. It is part of the giant Stargate AI-infrastructure program.
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, has filed to go public and could list as early as this fall. Its valuation nears $965 billion and run-rate revenue has topped $47 billion.
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OpenAI built ChatGPT and kicked off the global AI race. Its history runs from a non-profit lab to a five-day drama that fired and rehired its CEO. Here's the full story, in order.
