1. Amazon engineers named their internal AI coding tool 'Sloppenheimer.' OpenAI was busy publishing the opposite story. OpenAI's pitch lands in the marketing register. In a customer write-up, the company says engineers at Nextdoor use Codex with GPT-5.

2. Free AI Becomes the Distribution Play: Apple Waives Cloud Bills, Google Bundles Live Translation Two platform giants spent this week giving away artificial intelligence that competitors are still trying to sell. The product lines differ. The accounting is the same.

3. Both Sides Filed AI Work. The Judge Canceled the Trial and Removed Every Lawyer. The judge did not lose the case to one bad lawyer. The judge lost it to both of them.

In Brief

• Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, its most powerful widely available model Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, which it calls the strongest model it has put into broad release. The company said Fable 5 leads rivals on software engineering, knowledge work, and vision, with its margin widening on longer, more complex tasks.

• Lovable hits $500M annualized revenue with 1 million weekly projects Lovable reached $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue, with users starting roughly 1 million new projects each week. The company said customers are building businesses and replacing internal software with its app-generation tools.

• Notion builds web Voice Input with OpenAI's Codex Notion used OpenAI's Codex to turn specs into working code in single passes and shipped its web AI Voice Input feature with it. OpenAI's case study describes small engineering teams shipping more per person.

• GM activates vehicle-to-grid to offset AI data center power demand General Motors switched on vehicle-to-grid capabilities for current EV and home energy customers at a San Francisco event. GM pitched EV and sodium-ion batteries as grid storage against rising electricity demand from AI data centers.

• Apple adds generative AI photo editing at WWDC 2026 Apple announced AI photo editing tools in iOS 27, reversing its prior position against generative edits that distort images. The tools let users manipulate photos directly, drawing deepfake concerns.

• Google DeepMind opens a European robotics accelerator Google DeepMind launched a three-month accelerator for early-stage European robotics startups. The cohort gets access to DeepMind's AI stack and Gemini robotics models, spanning logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and navigation.

• Sandstone raises $30M for in-house legal AI Sandstone closed a $30 million Series A to build AI tools for corporate legal departments. The round arrived six months after a Sequoia-led seed.

• Ex-Spin founder raises $5M for space data centers Euwyn Poon, who built 250,000 scooters at Spin, raised $5 million for Orbital to put data centers in space. Poon plans to launch 10,000 orbital data centers.

• DeepMind reports learning gains from Gemini tutoring in Sierra Leone Google DeepMind published randomized controlled trial results for Gemini's Guided Learning feature. The trial found higher student engagement and faster learning in Sierra Leone.

• Claude Fable 5 generates playable games from one prompt Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 produces working video games from a single prompt, TechCrunch reported. The feature targets the web's vibe-coding users.

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