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This week’s news: June 8–14, 2026 (Week 24) The week opened with Apple’s WWDC conference, where Apple unveiled a new Siri built on Google Gemini models, and continued with the launch of Anthropic’s most powerful publicly available model, Claude Fable 5. Just three days later, Anthropic had to shut the model down worldwide on the …

News of the week: June 1-7, 2026 (Week 23) Money and infrastructure dominated the week: Anthropic confidentially filed to go public, Alphabet raised a record $45 billion through a share sale, and Google is renting compute capacity from SpaceX for $920 million a month. At Computex, Nvidia entered the Windows PC market with its RTX …

News of the week: May 25-31, 2026 (Week 22) The week belonged to Anthropic, which released Claude Opus 4.8, promised to make its more powerful Mythos-class models available soon, and on the same day closed a funding round that made it the most valuable AI startup in the world. OpenAI published a framework that ties …

News of the week: May 18–24, 2026 (Week 21) The week was dominated by the Google I/O conference, where Google unveiled the Gemini 3.5 Flash model, Gemini Spark, an agent that works around the clock, and smart glasses. Anthropic bought Stainless, brought on Andrej Karpathy and faced off against the Department of Defense at an …

This week’s news: May 11-17, 2026 (Week 20) The week was dominated by cybersecurity and big money. OpenAI launched its Daybreak defense platform and set up a $4 billion company to roll out AI directly inside large enterprises. According to Bloomberg, Anthropic is in talks over a $30 billion investment at a valuation above $900 …

News for the week: May 4-10, 2026 (Week 19) The week was mostly about agents and compute. OpenAI swapped the default model in ChatGPT for GPT-5.5 Instant and released GPT-5.5-Cyber for security teams. At its Code with Claude conference, Anthropic showed agents that learn from their own work, and it leased the entire Colossus 1 …

News of the week: April 27 – May 3, 2026 (Week 18) The week was dominated by a reworked relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft, which put OpenAI models on Amazon’s cloud the very next day. Big Tech companies reported quarterly results and raised their data center spending yet again, with combined outlays this year heading …

News of the week: April 20–26, 2026 (Week 17) Money and compute dominated the week: Anthropic secured commitments of up to $25 billion from Amazon and up to $40 billion from Google, and SpaceX locked in an option to buy Cursor for $60 billion. OpenAI released GPT-5.5, new image generation, and team agents in ChatGPT. …

News of the week: April 13-19, 2026 (Week 16) The week belonged mainly to Anthropic, which released the Claude Opus 4.7 model, the Claude Design tool and a redesigned Claude Code app, and which, according to Bloomberg, is receiving investor offers valuing it at around 800 billion dollars. OpenAI responded with specialized models for cybersecurity …

News of the week: April 6-12, 2026 (Week 15) The week was dominated by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, a model that can find security flaws in software on its own, which is why the company has made it available only to a small circle of partners. Its capabilities prompted an emergency meeting between the heads …