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The latest developments, breakthroughs, and analysis from the world of artificial intelligence.
Amazon's AI Revenue Hits $15 Billion as Jassy Plans $200B Spend
AWS AI services reach a $15 billion annual run rate, growing 260x faster than AWS did at the same stage, as Amazon plans $200 billion in 2026 capital expenditure.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Days
Project Glasswing gives 50+ organizations access to Anthropic's most powerful model, which autonomously discovered critical vulnerabilities missed for decades.
AI Scribes Are Quietly Driving Up Healthcare Costs
Insurers and hospitals privately agree that AI medical scribes are inflating billing codes and raising costs — but nobody can agree on a fix.
Anthropic Tops OpenAI in Revenue With $30B Run Rate
Claude maker surpasses OpenAI for the first time, seals massive Broadcom-Google compute deal covering gigawatts of TPU capacity.
Tesla Launches Robotaxi in Miami With No Safety Monitor
Tesla rolled out fully driverless Robotaxi rides in Miami — its fifth city and first outside Texas — with no human safety monitor from day one.
UN Opens First Global AI Governance Dialogue in Geneva
The UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance opened in Geneva, with Guterres calling to ban 'killer robots' and protect children from unregulated AI.
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Misses June Deadline, Slips to July
Gemini 3.5 Pro didn't ship by June 30 as expected. Google delayed it over token-efficiency issues — its second straight missed launch window. Here's why.
OpenAI's GeneBench-Pro Tests AI on Real Biology Research
OpenAI's new GeneBench-Pro benchmark grades AI agents on messy, real-world computational biology. Top scores stayed under 32% — a reality check for AI science.
Qualcomm Buys Modular for $3.9B to Take On Nvidia's CUDA
Qualcomm is acquiring AI software startup Modular for about $3.9 billion — a bet that software, not silicon, is the way to break Nvidia's grip on AI.
Trump and Sanders Converge on Government Stakes in AI
Trump says the US could take equity in OpenAI and xAI, echoing Bernie Sanders' push for public ownership of AI giants. Here's what's real.
WeRide and Uber Bring Spain's First Robotaxis to Madrid
WeRide, Uber, and AVOMO will launch Spain's first commercial robotaxi pilot in Madrid, hailed straight from the Uber app later in 2026.
Great American AI Act: Congress Moves to Freeze State AI Laws
A bipartisan 269-page House draft would freeze state AI development laws for three years while imposing new federal rules on big AI firms.
OpenAI's 'Dreaming' Gives ChatGPT a Memory That Updates Itself
OpenAI's Dreaming V3 memory architecture rebuilds ChatGPT's recall in the background and reaches free-tier users for the first time.
NVIDIA Cosmos 3: First Open Physical AI Omnimodel Cuts Training Cycles to Days
NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 launches at Computex 2026 — a fully open foundation model that unifies vision, world generation, and action for robots and autonomous systems.
Mayo Clinic and Microsoft Building a Frontier AI Model for Healthcare
Mayo Clinic owns the model. Microsoft co-develops it. It'll ship to other hospitals through Azure Foundry. A 150-year medical brand meets frontier AI.
Microsoft Scout: An AI Agent That Works Across Every App You Open
Scout reads your email, updates your dashboard, and pings Teams. Microsoft's always-on AI agent for Microsoft 365 and Windows hits developer preview.
Altman at Stargate Michigan: True Cost Is $46B, Coding Drives Demand
Stargate Michigan's listed price is $16B. Inside the building, Oracle says GPUs add another $30-40B. Altman says coding drives the demand.
Trump Signs AI Executive Order: 30-Day Frontier Model Review
Trump's new EO asks AI companies to share frontier models with the government 30 days before release. Voluntary, but signals a big policy shift.
Microsoft Foundry Local Hits GA: On-Device AI Ships to Production
Microsoft made Foundry Local generally available at Build 2026, letting developers ship full AI inference offline on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Microsoft's MAI-Thinking-1 Reasoning Model Tops Claude Sonnet in Tests
Microsoft's first homegrown reasoning model beat Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind human evaluations and matches Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks.
Microsoft Launches MAI-Voice-2, Image-2.5, Transcribe-1.5 at Build
Microsoft's new multimodal MAI models add voice cloning in 15+ languages, image editing, and #1-ranked transcription across 43 languages.
Microsoft's Project Polaris Replaces GPT-4 in GitHub Copilot
At Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled Project Polaris — its own AI coding model that ends Copilot's dependence on OpenAI starting August 2026.
Surface RTX Spark Dev Box: Microsoft's First Local AI Workstation
Microsoft's new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box packs 1 petaflop of AI compute and 128GB of unified memory into a mini-PC built for on-device model development.