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The White House Dictated GPT-5.6's Launch as Ford Rehired the Engineers It Automated Away

June 25, 2026

1. The White House, not OpenAI, decided when GPT-5.6 ships The Trump administration asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6, its next flagship model,...

OpenAI and Anthropic Burned $27 Million Fighting One Lawmaker and Came Out Even

June 24, 2026

1. OpenAI and Anthropic Spent $27 Million Against One New York Lawmaker. It Ended in a Draw. Alex Bores, a New York state Assemblyman, narrowly lost the...

OpenAI Hands Health Questions to GPT-5.5 Days After a Test Tripled Its Hallucination Rate

June 20, 2026

1. OpenAI Hands Health Questions to GPT-5.5, Days After a Test Pegged Its Hallucination Rate at Triple an Open-Weight Rival ChatGPT now answers health and...

Barret Zoph Exits OpenAI in Five Months as Engineers Say AI Demands More Discipline

June 19, 2026

1. Barret Zoph rejoined OpenAI in January to lead enterprise sales. Five months later he's out. Barret Zoph ran enterprise AI sales at OpenAI. He came back...

The White House Forced Anthropic to Cut Off One of Its Biggest Korean Customers

June 18, 2026

1. Anthropic Spent the Week Courting Seoul. The White House Made It Cut Off One of Its Biggest Korean Customers. Anthropic opened a Seoul office this week...

Leaked Audited Books Show OpenAI Lost $38.5 Billion in 2025

June 17, 2026

1. OpenAI's Audited Books Leaked, Showing a $38.5 Billion Loss for 2025 Ed Zitron saw the documents first. The audited financial statements he describes put...

SpaceX Pours $60 Billion of Fresh Stock Into Cursor Days After Going Public

June 16, 2026

1. Days after going public, SpaceX is spending $60 billion of fresh stock on Cursor SpaceX spent the week selling shares to public investors. Then it agreed...

Meta Feeds Your Facebook Posts to Strangers; Audit Says Rio Copied 60% of Its LLM

June 15, 2026

1. Meta Turns Your Old Facebook Posts Into Search Answers for Strangers When you type a query into Facebook search now, a new option sits next to "People"...

Anthropic Says One Jailbreak Shouldn't Doom a Model as Startups Rush the Reopened IPO Window

June 14, 2026

1. Anthropic Says One Jailbreak Shouldn't Kill a Model. Its Biggest Investor Disagreed First. Anthropic pulled worldwide access to two models on Friday, and...

Anthropic Locks Every Foreign User Out of Its Two Best Models

June 13, 2026

1. The Friday-night order that locked every foreign user out of Anthropic's top two models On Friday evening the US government ordered Anthropic to block...

AI Agent Burns $6,531 on AWS, and a Benchmark Star Flunks 200 Real Bugs

June 12, 2026

1. $6,531.30: the AWS bill one AI agent ran up trying to join a hobbyist network On May 9, a user calling itself "JertLinc3522" filed an issue on the git...

Anthropic Apologizes After Building an AI That Secretly Degraded Its Own Answers

June 11, 2026

1. Anthropic Built a Model That Secretly Degraded Its Own Answers, Then Apologized On one side sit the security researchers and rival labs who started...

Anthropic Built Its Most Capable Model, Then Wired In Three Ways to Make It Work Worse

June 10, 2026

1. Anthropic built its most capable model, then wired in three deliberate ways to make it work worse Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday and called...

Amazon Engineers Mock Their AI Coder as 'Sloppenheimer'; Judge Tosses Lawyers Over AI Filings

June 9, 2026

1. Amazon engineers named their internal AI coding tool 'Sloppenheimer.' OpenAI was busy publishing the opposite story. OpenAI's pitch lands in the marketing...

Apple Hands Siri to Google's Models and OpenAI Guts ChatGPT's Interface for Its IPO

June 8, 2026

1. OpenAI's IPO Prep Has a Body Count, and ChatGPT's Interface Is First OpenAI told the SEC it wants to go public. Inside the company, the consequences are...

AI Token Prices Climb and Hand Developers the Bill for Pricier Models

June 7, 2026

1. The era of the cheaper token is ending, and developers get the bill For three years, the price of running a large model only fell. The direction just...

OpenAI Ships a Prompt-Injection Defense and Admits It Won't Stop the Attacks

June 6, 2026

1. Apple spent two years behind on AI. Its plan is to rebuild Siri from scratch — again Apple walks into WWDC on Monday with the worst AI track record of any...

OpenAI Sharpens Its Biology Model and Publishes a Plan to Contain Biology the Same Week

June 5, 2026

1. In the Same Week, OpenAI Made Its Biology Model Smarter and Published a Plan to Contain Biology OpenAI shipped two posts this week. One teaches its models...

Google's Own Engineers Mock the CEO's Boast That AI Writes Most of Its Code

June 4, 2026

1. The same week Google's CEO said AI writes most of its code, its engineers were trading memes calling it overhyped Google's chief executive says 75% of the...

OpenAI Writes Its Own Frontier-AI Rulebook, Then Drops Four Documents to Sell It

June 3, 2026

1. OpenAI wrote its own federal rulebook for frontier AI, then published four documents in a day to sell it OpenAI released four policy documents at once,...