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Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, its most capable publicly available model, alongside Claude Mythos 5 — the same underlying model with its security safeguards lifted, available only to vetted partners through Project Glasswing.
China's NDRC ordered Meta to ditch its $2B Manus AI acquisition in April, ruling that the deal violated technology export rules — even though Manus had already relocated to Singapore. The founders are now raising $1B to buy the company back and take it to a Hong Kong IPO.
Mastercard today launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), payment infrastructure designed specifically for autonomous AI agents to transact with each other at machine speed. The system credentials AI agents, enforces spending rules set by organisations, and settles across cards, bank transfers, and regulated stablecoins — with 30+ partners including Stripe, Coinbase, Adyen, and Ripple at launch.
Bloomberg reports that Beijing is finalizing a 2 trillion yuan plan to build a national AI computing network over five years, with a mandate that 80% of chips and core hardware come from domestic suppliers — a direct challenge to Nvidia's dominance in AI infrastructure.
In what is expected to be his last WWDC keynote as CEO, Tim Cook unveiled a Siri powered by a custom Google Gemini model, launched iOS 27, and introduced an Extensions system that lets users swap in any AI they want.
The Defense Department has formally authorized Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, NVIDIA, Reflection AI, and Oracle to deploy their artificial intelligence systems on America's most sensitive classified networks—while a new White House directive mandates all defense agencies adopt multi-vendor AI within 120 days.
OpenAI's ChatGPT crossed 1 billion global monthly active users in May 2026, outpacing TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube to claim the fastest consumer app growth ever recorded. The milestone lands as the AI assistant race intensifies.
A regulatory filing published Friday reveals Google has signed a $920 million per month cloud services agreement with SpaceX, giving it access to 110,000 Nvidia GPUs through June 2029. The deal positions SpaceX as one of the largest AI infrastructure providers in the world — and comes days before its anticipated IPO.
The company behind Claude published a manifesto urging coordinated international restraint on the most powerful AI systems — citing the risk that models may soon be able to improve themselves faster than humans can oversee them.
Representatives Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan released a discussion draft of the 'Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026,' a sweeping federal framework that would preempt state AI legislation and impose mandatory safety obligations on frontier model developers.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has launched Muse Spark, the company's first proprietary frontier model, abandoning the open-source strategy that defined Llama. Built from scratch over nine months, it scores nearly three times higher than Llama 4 on the AI Intelligence Index and sets new records in medical reasoning and visual figure understanding.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an 83-page civil lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on June 1, accusing the company of concealing safety risks, collecting minors data without parental consent, and ignoring expert warnings while marketing ChatGPT to children. Florida is the first state to take such legal action.