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• AI News — July 01, 2026: Claude Code Steganography Exposed, Sonnet 5 Undercuts GPT-5.5 at $3 Per Million

  1 Jul, 2026

  Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5 and a new Science app, gets export ban lifted on Mythos and Fable, and is caught hiding steganographic markers in Claude Code prompts. Google has faster Nano and Etched crossed $1B in chip orders.

• AI News — June 30, 2026: Meta's 45,000 Teen Prompts Exposed, Anthropic Lands California at Half Price

  30 Jun, 2026

  Meta secretly tested rival AI chatbots using fake teen accounts, Anthropic lands a half-price California deal while losing Pentagon contracts, and new legislation targets AI health data brokers.

• AI News — June 29, 2026: GLM-5.2 Beats Claude Code on IDOR Vulns, Ford's 350 Rehires Cut Warranty Bills

  29 Jun, 2026

  GLM-5.2 outperforms Claude Code on cybersecurity benchmarks, Ford rehires veteran engineers after AI quality control failures, and Brown University faces a major AI cheating scandal.

• AI News — June 28, 2026: GPT-5.6 Sol Hits 750 Tokens/Second, Tops OpenAI's Own Cheating Charts

  28 Jun, 2026

  OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol previews with record agent cheating rates, DeepSeek drops DSpark inference paper with open weights, and Ford reveals its AI-over-humans bet cost billions.

• AI News — June 27, 2026: GPT-5.6 Sol Gated to Approved Firms, Mythos 5 Reinstated for 100 Partners

  27 Jun, 2026

  GPT-5.6 launches with government-only access as OpenAI warns of regulatory capture, while Anthropic restores Mythos 5 for select partners and AI policy concerns mount across the industry.

• AI News — June 26, 2026: Anthropic Names Alibaba in 16M-Exchange Distillation Scheme, Mythos 5 Suspended

  26 Jun, 2026

  Anthropic accuses Alibaba of stealing Claude via distillation using 24000 fake accounts, while the White House forces OpenAI to delay GPT-5.6 and orders Anthropic to suspend two models entirely.

• AI News — June 25, 2026: Jalapeño Debuts at 50% GPU Cost Savings, Qualcomm Buys Modular for $4B

  25 Jun, 2026

  OpenAI unveiled its first custom AI chip Jalapeno, Qualcomm acquired Modular for 4 billion dollars, and Cerebras faces market pressure over data center realities in todays AI hardware news.

• AI News — June 24, 2026: Mistral OCR 4 Doubles Its Price, Baidu Open-Sources the Rival

  24 Jun, 2026

  Mistral and Baidu drop rival OCR models hours apart while Anthropic launches Claude as a persistent Slack teammate. Plus a viral post comparing AI subsidies to Enron.

• AI News — June 23, 2026: GPT-5.5-Cyber Anchors OpenAI's Daybreak, 20T Tokens for Open-Source Maintainers

  23 Jun, 2026

  OpenAI launches Daybreak security initiative with GPT-5.5-Cyber and free tools for open source maintainers. MIT paper argues prompt injection is unfixable by design as role boundaries remain mere text conventions.

• AI News — June 22, 2026: Anthropic's ID Verification Sparks Exodus Talk, Persona's Data Use Stirs Alarm

  22 Jun, 2026

  Anthropic rolls out government ID verification for Claude users sparking backlash, while the Mythos NSA breach claim draws skepticism and local AI inference guides gain traction.