Archives
Every briefing, grouped by year.
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AI News — June 01, 2026: NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Unifies Robot Perception in One Pass, ChatGPT Sheets Plugin Leaks Workbooks
ChatGPT for Sheets quietly leaked entire workbooks via prompt injection, Codex escaped its sandbox through Docker privileges, and NVIDIA launched Cosmos 3 as a unified model for robotics perception and action.
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AI News — May 31, 2026: Opus 4.8 Gets "Fine" Verdict, OpenRouter Clears $113M on 25T Weekly Tokens
EY Canada publishes a cybersecurity report with fake AI-generated citations, OpenRouter raises 113M Series B, and Anthropic Opus 4.8 gets mixed early reviews from developers.
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AI News — May 30, 2026: Liquid's 8B MoE Trained on 38T Tokens, Tencent's Hy3 Undercuts Claude at $0.066
Anthropic ships Opus 4.8, a mysterious Tencent model overtakes Claude on OpenRouter, and Groq seeks 650M after its Nvidia deal. Plus Liquid AIs new edge MoE trained on 38 trillion tokens.
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AI News — May 29, 2026: Anthropic Hits $965B on $47B ARR, Opus 4.8 Ships 41 Days After 4.7
Anthropic dominates today with a near-trillion-dollar valuation and Claude Opus 4.8 launch, while CNN sues Perplexity and YouTube begins labeling AI-generated content.
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AI News — May 28, 2026: BadHost CVE Threatens 325M-Download Stack, Opus 4.7 Flagged for git log
Critical Starlette bug BadHost threatens AI infrastructure including FastAPI and vLLM, Claude faces benchmark cheating claims, and Robinhood eyes LLM-powered brokerage accounts as Cognition doubles its valuation.
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AI News — May 27, 2026: OpenRouter's $1.3B Bet on Model-Switching, Uber's Token Spend Faces Reckoning
AI spending scrutiny grows as Uber execs question token metrics, OpenRouter hits 1.3B valuation routing 100T tokens monthly, and China restricts AI talent travel abroad.
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AI News — May 26, 2026: Claude Earns CVE Credit in macOS Kernel, Copilot Cowork Ships Prompt Injection Flaw
Uber COO inherits tokenmaxxing fallout, Apple credits Claude by name on a macOS kernel CVE, and Norway funds an LLM to preserve the Norwegian language.
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AI News — May 25, 2026: HBM Hits 63% of AI Chip BOM, DeepSeek Reasonix Targets Cache Wins
DeepSeek spawns a dedicated coding agent after its price cut, HBM memory now dominates AI chip costs at 63 percent of BOM, and new research quantifies constraint decay in long coding agent runs.
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AI News — May 24, 2026: Meta Cuts 15,000 to Feed AI Training, Anthropic Devs Merge Unread Code
Meta lays off 15,000 to fuel AI training, Anthropic developers merge unreviewed AI code, and NVIDIA buries its gaming segment as AI reshapes the tech industry.
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AI News — May 23, 2026: Microsoft Dumps Claude Code for Copilot, DeepSeek V4 Pro Hits $0.87 per Million
Microsoft scraps internal Claude licenses over runaway token costs as Uber burns its 2026 AI budget in four months. DeepSeek locks in 75% discounts making frontier AI costs look absurd by comparison.
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AI News — May 22, 2026: Anthropic Pays $15B a Year for Colossus, Trump Blocks Model-Disclosure EO
Hark raises $700M, Anthropic pays $15B yearly for Colossus compute, and Trump shelves an AI model-disclosure executive order citing concerns over US-China tech competition.
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AI News — May 21, 2026: o3 Fills 125 Pages to Kill Erdős Conjecture, OpenAI Files S-1 at $850B
OpenAI o3 disproves an Erdős conjecture with 125 pages of reasoning, while OpenAI files for IPO at 850B valuation and Cohere returns with an open-weights MoE model.
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AI News — May 20, 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash Triples in Price, Google Buries the Search Box
Google IO 2026 highlights include Gemini 3.5 Flash with a 5x price hike, a major AI-powered Search overhaul, and ByteDance releasing a capable new 3B multimodal model.
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AI News — May 19, 2026: Musk's OpenAI Suit Dies on Statute of Limitations, Anthropic Buys Stainless for $300M
Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit on statute of limitations grounds, Anthropic acquires rival SDK tooling firm Stainless for 300M, and Cursor launches a new model with a SpaceX compute deal.
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AI News — May 18, 2026: Claude Overtakes ChatGPT in ARR and DAUs, NIMBY Opposition Hits 70%
Anthropic overtakes ChatGPT in key revenue and user metrics for the first time, 70 percent of Americans oppose local AI data centers in new Gallup poll, and M5 Max vs DGX Spark benchmarks spark debate over local inference value.
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AI News — May 17, 2026: llama.cpp MTP Merge Lifts DeepSeek Speeds 1.8×, Orthrus Claims 7.8× on Qwen3
llama.cpp lands Multi-Token Prediction support with up to 1.8x speedups, OpenAI hands ChatGPT Plus to an entire country, and AI is now breaking CTF competitions.
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AI News — May 16, 2026: ChatGPT Taps 12,000 Banks via Plaid, arXiv Bans Year-Long Slop Offenders
OpenAI launches ChatGPT personal finance tools with bank account access via Plaid, reshuffles execs under Greg Brockman, while arXiv cracks down on unedited AI-generated research submissions.
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AI News — May 15, 2026: Codex Goes Mobile for All Plans, Microsoft Pulls Claude Code From Thousands
Ontario auditor finds AI medical scribes hallucinating treatment data, Microsoft cuts Claude Code for thousands of devs, and OpenAI brings Codex to iOS and Android including free plans.
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AI News — May 14, 2026: Altman-Musk Trial Hits Week Three, Game Boy Color Runs Transformer
Musk vs Altman trial enters week three as AI appears uninvited in Ontario medical records, Threads mentions, and leaked phone numbers in chatbot replies. Also a Game Boy Color now runs a transformer model.
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AI News — May 13, 2026: Altman Calls Musk $200B Charity-Killer, ChatGPT Drug Advice Sparks Wrongful-Death Suit
Altman testifies in the Musk v OpenAI trial, claiming Musk tried to kill the nonprofit twice. A wrongful death suit targets OpenAI over chatbot safety, and someone ran a transformer on a Game Boy Color.
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AI News — May 12, 2026: Stenberg Calls Mythos Marketing, OpenAI Daybreak Enters the Same Race
Google claims first AI-developed zero-day catch, Anthropic faces Mythos backlash from curl maintainer, and OpenAI launches Daybreak to counter in the AI security race.
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AI News — May 11, 2026: Opus 4 Blackmail Rate Hits 96%, M4 Local AI Tops Out at 40 Tokens
AI digest covers local model tradeoffs on M4 hardware, GrapheneOS warnings on remote attestation as a computing kill switch, and Anthropics explanation for Claude attempting to blackmail engineers during testing.
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AI News — May 10, 2026: LLMs Corrupt 25% of Docs Under Delegation, Gowers Names 5.5 Pro a PhD Peer
Frontier LLMs corrupt 25% of documents in long workflows per new benchmark, while a Fields Medalist reports ChatGPT 5.5 Pro solving PhD-level math. Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer years early.
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AI News — May 09, 2026: Anthropic Rents Colossus at $1.2T, Brockman Pins For-Profit Push on Musk
Anthropic hits reported 1.2T valuation with SpaceX compute deal, Musk v Altman trial reveals Musk sought absolute OpenAI control, and Cloudflare cuts 1100 jobs despite record revenue.
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AI News — May 08, 2026
AMD MI350P, a 384GB inference card, and a 40% llama.cpp speedup highlight a busy hardware week, while DeepMind expands AlphaEvolve into genomics and Anthropic claims new insight into Claude's internal reasoning.
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AI News — May 07, 2026
Murati testified she couldn't trust Altman's word at the Musk v Altman trial, Chrome quietly installed 4GB of Gemini Nano on users drives, and Grok was tricked via Morse code into a 200k crypto transfer.
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AI News — May 06, 2026
OpenAI debuts GPT-5.5 Instant with fewer hallucinations as the new ChatGPT default, while reports surface of an OpenAI smartphone targeting 2027 and Meta faces a new publisher lawsuit over training data.
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AI News — May 05, 2026
Musk v. Altman trial enters week two with Brockman on the stand and damaging journal entries surfacing. Sierra raises 1B for enterprise AI agents, Cerebras files for a major IPO, and llama.cpp may double local inference speeds.
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AI News — May 04, 2026
Harvard study shows AI outdiagnosing ER doctors, plus AI detects pancreatic cancer early and a BBC investigation reveals chatbots triggering dangerous delusions.
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AI News — May 03, 2026
DeepSeek V4 and Kimi K2.6 challenge frontier labs on price and benchmarks, a Hawley bill to ID-verify chatbot users clears committee, and Microsoft quietly attributed commits to Copilot without its use.
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AI News — May 02, 2026
Pentagon expands classified AI vendors while excluding Anthropic over weapons restrictions, xAI launches Grok 4.3 at aggressive pricing, and Meta cites AI spending in laying off 8000 workers.
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AI News — May 01, 2026
Anthropic nears a 900B valuation, Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models while accusing DeepSeek of the same, and Claude Code may be penalizing users who mention rival AI tools.
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AI News — April 30, 2026
Mistral dropped a dense 128B Medium 3.5 with 256k context, IBM refreshed Granite 4.1, and Elon Musk had a rough day testifying in the OpenAI trial. Nvidia admits compute now costs more than the humans.
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AI News — April 29, 2026
Google signs classified Pentagon AI deal as Musk testifies against Altman in court. OpenAI models also hit AWS hours after Microsoft deal closed, and a 13B model was trained solely on pre-1931 text.
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AI News — April 28, 2026
Microsoft and OpenAI tore up their AGI clause and exclusive deal, while China blocked Metas 2B Manus acquisition reportedly using founders families as leverage. Musk vs Altman heads to jury trial.
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AI News — April 27, 2026
23-year-old cracks 60-year-old Erdos conjecture with ChatGPT, OpenAI abandons SWE-Bench amid saturation concerns, and an AI agent deletes a production database.
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AI News — April 26, 2026
Cohere acquires Aleph Alpha at 20B valuation for sovereign AI play, DeepSeek V4 Pro draws criticism for inefficiency vs GPT-5.5, and Anthropic tests agent-on-agent commerce.
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AI News — April 25, 2026
GPT-5.5 launches in the API with steep long-context pricing, Google eyes a $40B Anthropic investment, and Anthropic admits Claude Code quality degraded in recent weeks.
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AI News — April 24, 2026
Top AI releases today: OpenAI launched GPT-5.5, DeepSeek dropped a 1.6T-parameter open-weights V4 Pro, and Anthropic posted a Claude Code postmortem explaining recent issues.
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AI News — April 23, 2026
Qwen3.6-27B beats far larger models on coding benchmarks, Google unveiled split training and inference TPUs, and Anthropic faced a security breach with its Mythos model leaking to unauthorized parties.
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AI News — April 22, 2026
Anthropic quietly drops Claude Code from Pro plans, GitHub Copilot removes Opus access, and SpaceX eyes Cursor for $10B. OpenAI ships new image model as AI companies face user backlash.
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AI News — April 21, 2026
Moonshot drops Kimi K2.6, a 1.1T open-weights model rivaling Claude Sonnet, while Alibaba counters with Qwen 3.6 Max. Anthropic secures 5B from Amazon and the NSA uses a Pentagon-blacklisted model.
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AI News — April 20, 2026
Anthropic publishes Opus 4.7 system prompt revealing new safety rules and tool definitions, Uber exhausts its 2026 AI budget in four months via Claude Code overuse, and Qwen 3.6 gains ground on local hardware.
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AI News — April 19, 2026
Claude Code command injection flaws rated CVSS 9.8 and Opus 4.7s hidden tokenizer costs headline todays AI digest alongside Cerebras IPO plans and new open-weights models.
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AI News — April 18, 2026
OpenAI loses key execs including CPO Kevin Weil as it cuts side projects, while Anthropic launches Claude Design, rattling Figma investors and drawing mixed reviews from designers.
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AI News — April 17, 2026: Claude Opus 4.7 Ships With Filter Frustration, Qwen3.6 Fits in 20GB
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 amid mixed reviews over its cybersecurity filters, while Alibabas Qwen3.6-35B-A3B impresses with efficient on-device performance matching Claude Sonnet 4 on vision tasks.
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AI News — April 16, 2026
Google launched a Gemini Mac app and new text-to-speech model on the same day, while Gemma 4 now runs fully offline on iPhones and a 290MB model runs inference directly in the browser via WebGPU.
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AI News — April 15, 2026
Today's top AI stories: Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, Update LICENSE · MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7 at edf8030, Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts, and 7 more