Regulation 13 min
Japan Bets Claude Mythos Will Shield Its Megabanks
Japan grants its three megabanks and government early access to Anthropic Claude Mythos, then forms a 36-entity panel to police the cyber risk.
Jordan HaleJun 2, 2026
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Big Tech 13 min
Nvidia Vera Chip Wins OpenAI and Anthropic as Buyers
Nvidia named OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX as first buyers of its new Vera CPU, set for full production in Q3 2026 as it locks in AI's largest customers.
Jordan HaleJun 2, 2026
Analysis 13 min
Anthropic Wins Karpathy to Lead Claude Pre-Training
Anthropic hired OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy to start a team using Claude to accelerate its pre-training research, a major talent coup over OpenAI.
Jordan HaleJun 2, 2026
Funding 13 min
Runway Bets $200M on London as Its New AI Europe Hub
Runway will invest $200M in London by 2028 and make it its European HQ, betting world models, not just AI video, are the next platform.
Jordan HaleJun 2, 2026
Funding 12 min
Vast Hits $1B as Tripo AI Wins China's 3D Model Race
Beijing startup Vast raised nearly $200M, crossed a $1B valuation, and now powers 10M users on Tripo AI, China's leading text-to-3D engine.
Jordan HaleJun 2, 2026
Product Launch 12 min
Microsoft Build 2026 Cuts the OpenAI Cord With Polaris
Microsoft used Build 2026 to open-source its Windows Agent Framework and name Project Polaris to replace GPT-4 in GitHub Copilot by August.
Jordan HaleJun 2, 2026
Funding 12 min
Anthropic Files for IPO, Signals a $965B Public AI Race
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC on June 1, days after a $965B raise, launching a three-way IPO race with OpenAI and SpaceX.
Jordan HaleJun 2, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
Google TurboQuant Cuts LLM Memory Cost by 6x at ICLR
Google's TurboQuant compresses LLM key-value caches to 3 bits with 6x less memory and 8x faster attention on H100s, with no training needed.
Jordan HaleJun 2, 2026
Big Tech 13 min
Meta Bets 4 New MTIA Chips Will Cut Its Nvidia Bill
Meta unveiled MTIA 300, 400, 450 and 500 chips on a six-month cadence with Broadcom, aiming to power Meta AI on gigawatts of its own silicon.
Jordan HaleJun 2, 2026
Funding 13 min
Halter Raises 220M to Put AI Collars on a Billion Cows
Halter raised 220M led by Founders Fund at a 2B valuation, with AI collars now on 1 million cattle across New Zealand, Australia and the US.
Jordan HaleJun 2, 2026
Partnership 13 min
Microsoft Bets $10B That Japan Is Its Next AI Powerhouse
Microsoft committed $10B to Japan through 2029 for AI data centers, sovereign cloud, and training 1 million engineers, its largest bet on the country yet.
Jordan HaleJun 1, 2026
Funding 13 min
Rhoda AI Raises $450M to Train Robots From Web Video
Rhoda AI raised $450M at a $1.7B valuation and unveiled FutureVision, a foundation model that learns physics from hundreds of millions of internet videos.
Jordan HaleJun 1, 2026
Funding 13 min
Mind Robotics Raises $400M to Automate Factory Floors
Mind Robotics raised $400M led by Kleiner Perkins, pushing total funding past $1B to scale its industrial robot foundation models inside Rivian factories.
Jordan HaleJun 1, 2026
Big Tech 11 min
Anthropic Bets Maia 200 Chips Can Cut Claude Inference Cost
Anthropic is in talks to run Claude on Microsoft's custom Maia 200 AI chips via Azure, seeking 30% cost efficiency gains over rival silicon.
Jordan HaleJun 1, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
GitHub Copilot Ends Flat Pricing as Agentic Devs Pay More
GitHub Copilot's token-based billing went live June 1, replacing flat-rate plans with per-token costs that could double expenses for developers running agentic coding workflows.
Jordan HaleJun 1, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
Nvidia N1X Launches RTX 5070 Power Into Windows ARM Laptops
Nvidia's N1X pairs 20 ARM cores with RTX 5070-class GPU on TSMC 3nm, giving Windows laptops their first full Blackwell AI platform.
Jordan HaleJun 1, 2026
Product Launch 11 min
Meta One Launches 7.99 AI Plans to Escape Ad Model
Meta One launches 7.99 and 19.99 dollar AI subscriptions in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia, its first real bet on revenue beyond advertising.
Jordan HaleJun 1, 2026
M&A 11 min
Asana Bets 75M on StackAI to Build Agent Workflows
Asana acquires no-code agent builder StackAI for 75 million dollars to turn its work platform into an operating system for human-agent teams.
Jordan HaleJun 1, 2026
Big Tech 11 min
IBM Bets 5 Billion to Secure Open Source Supply Chain
IBM and Red Hat commit 5 billion and 20,000 engineers to Project Lightwell, an AI clearinghouse patching open source flaws for banks like JPMorgan.
Jordan HaleJun 1, 2026
Funding 12 min
SpaceX Wins 6.45B Space Force Deals Before Its IPO
SpaceX won 6.45 billion dollars in US Space Force contracts weeks before its planned June IPO, where it could reach a 1.75 trillion valuation.
Jordan HaleMay 31, 2026
Funding 12 min
Groq Raises 650M to Rebuild After Nvidia's 20B Deal
Groq is raising up to 650 million dollars from existing backers to rebuild as an AI inference neocloud, six months after Nvidia's 20 billion deal.
Jordan HaleMay 31, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
SoftBank Bets 75 Billion Euros on French AI Centers
SoftBank will invest up to 75 billion euros to build 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in France by 2031, its largest European bet yet.
Jordan HaleMay 31, 2026
Big Tech 13 min
AMD Venice Beats Intel to 2nm With 256-Core EPYC Chip
AMD ramps its 256-core EPYC Venice on TSMC 2nm, the first HPC chip in volume production at the node, with a 70 percent performance jump.
Jordan HaleMay 31, 2026
Product Launch 13 min
Mistral Launches Industrial AI With Airbus and BMW
Mistral launches a physics-aware industrial AI stack with Airbus, BMW, EDF and CMA CGM, days after buying Vienna startup Emmi AI to power it.
Jordan HaleMay 31, 2026
Big Tech 13 min
Anthropic Bets 45 Billion on SpaceX Compute by 2029
Anthropic will pay SpaceX 1.25 billion dollars a month for over 220,000 GPUs through May 2029, a 45 billion compute bill that dwarfs its own revenue.
Jordan HaleMay 31, 2026
Big Tech 13 min
Anthropic Leak Reveals Claude Code's Secret Harness
Anthropic leaked 1,900 files and 512,000 lines of Claude Code via an npm packaging error, exposing the harness behind its coding edge.
Jordan HaleMay 31, 2026
Analysis 13 min
GitHub Copilot Kills Unlimited Plans for AI Credits
GitHub Copilot drops unlimited premium requests on June 1, 2026 for metered AI Credits at $0.01 each, charging developers per token consumed.
Jordan HaleMay 31, 2026
Model Release 13 min
Google Gemma 4 31B Beats 400B Rivals at Zero License Cost
Google Gemma 4 31B scores 89.2% on AIME 2026 and beats Llama 4 across math, code, and agentic tasks, all under a free Apache 2.0 open license.
Jordan HaleMay 31, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
Dell Breaks Records as AI Server Revenue Hits $60B
Dell raised its FY27 AI server revenue target to $60 billion on a record $51.3 billion backlog, and the stock spiked nearly 30% after hours.
Jordan HaleMay 30, 2026
Product Launch 12 min
Google Kills the Search Box and Defaults to Gemini AI
Google switched its core search to Gemini 3.5 Flash on May 26 and retired the classic search box by default, and rivals like DuckDuckGo are gaining.
Jordan HaleMay 30, 2026
Model Release 12 min
Claude Opus 4.8 Launches Agent Swarms for Complex Work
Claude Opus 4.8 hits 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified and adds Dynamic Workflows to run hundreds of subagents at once, all at the prior Opus price.
Jordan HaleMay 30, 2026
Big Tech 13 min
ByteDance Bets $70B on AI to Challenge US Tech Giants
ByteDance is weighing up to $70B in 2026 AI capex, funded by $50B in 2025 profit, as it races to lead China's AI market and rival US labs.
Jordan HaleMay 30, 2026
Model Release 12 min
Gemini 3.5 Flash Beats 3.1 Pro and Cuts Cost to $1.50
Gemini 3.5 Flash is now generally available at $1.50 per million input tokens, beating Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding while running 4x faster.
Jordan HaleMay 30, 2026
Funding 13 min
Ineffable Raises $1.1B Seed to Build Superlearner AI
Ineffable Intelligence raised a $1.1B seed at a $5.1B valuation, Europe's largest ever, to build AI that learns without any human data.
Jordan HaleMay 30, 2026
Regulation 13 min
OpenAI Reveals Frontier Governance Rules for AI Risk
OpenAI published its Frontier Governance Framework, mapping its safety practices to California and EU law across cyber, CBRN, and loss-of-control risk.
Jordan HaleMay 30, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
Orbital $50M Round Builds AI That Designs New Materials
Orbital Industries raised a $50 million Series B led by Plural, with Nvidia backing Orb, an AI model that designs new materials atom by atom.
Jordan HaleMay 30, 2026
Funding 12 min
Fireworks AI $15B Round Signals Inference Land Grab
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise at a $15 billion valuation, almost 4x its October price, as enterprise inference gets priced like core infrastructure.
Jordan HaleMay 30, 2026
Model Release 13 min
Google AI Ultra Cuts Price 60% and Undercuts OpenAI
Google cut its AI Ultra plan 60% from $250 to $100 a month and launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier AI pricing.
Jordan HaleMay 29, 2026
Regulation 13 min
White House Kills AI Order Hours Before Trump Signs
The White House scrapped its AI executive order hours before signing after Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and David Sacks lobbied Trump to drop all oversight.
Jordan HaleMay 29, 2026
Regulation 13 min
Pope Leo XIV Encyclical Signals Global AI Reckoning
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical warns AI endangers human dignity and demands robust legal oversight, with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah at the Vatican.
Jordan HaleMay 29, 2026
Product Launch 13 min
Google TPU 8t Cuts AI Training Cost, Beats Nvidia Pod
Google split its eighth-gen TPU into the 8t and 8i on May 28, cutting AI training cost 2.7x and scaling to 1 million chips to challenge Nvidia directly.
Jordan HaleMay 29, 2026
Funding 12 min
Cognition 1B Round at 26B Signals Devin Wins Coding
Cognition raised 1B at a 26B valuation on May 27 as Devin hit 492M ARR and now writes 90% of its own code, signaling AI coding agents have won enterprise.
Jordan HaleMay 29, 2026
Funding 13 min
Anthropic 965B Valuation Surpasses OpenAI in 65B Round
Anthropic raised 65B at a 965B valuation on May 28, eclipsing OpenAI for the first time as a 47B revenue run rate and Claude Opus 4.8 reset the AI race.
Jordan HaleMay 29, 2026
Regulation 12 min
Medicare's AI Payment Model Will Reset Health Tech
Medicare's ACCESS program pays AI health companies for patient outcomes starting July 2026, setting a template the entire US healthcare market will follow.
Jordan HaleMay 16, 2026
Big Tech 11 min
ByteDance Builds a Copyright Shield for AI Video
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 adds an AI-native Content ID system under Hollywood legal pressure, rewriting rules for ownership in generated video.
Jordan HaleMay 16, 2026
Funding 12 min
Recursive Raises $650M to Build AI That Improves Itself
Recursive Superintelligence exits stealth with $650M from NVIDIA and GV to build AI that autonomously redesigns its own training process.
Jordan HaleMay 16, 2026
Big Tech 11 min
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft Bet $725B on AI in 2026
Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft will spend a combined $725 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, up 77% from 2025, straining the global power grid.
Jordan HaleMay 15, 2026
Product Launch 11 min
Google Googlebook Kills Chromebook with Gemini AI Core
Google unveiled Googlebook on May 12, 2026, an Android-based AI-native laptop platform built around Gemini Intelligence to replace Chromebook.
Jordan HaleMay 15, 2026