Archives - June 2026

A new study of 22,000 US firms found that the heaviest AI spenders grew headcount faster than peers, including entry-level roles, complicating fears of an AI jobs apocalypse.

As Washington limits Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s top models on security grounds, critics warn the restrictions are handing momentum to Chinese open-weight rivals like GLM-5.2.

About $2.3 trillion was wiped from the Magnificent 7 in June as investors questioned Big Tech’s huge AI spending, even as chip and memory stocks kept climbing.

A record European heatwave is highlighting a growing threat to the AI boom: extreme weather that stresses data centers and the power grids they depend on at once.

Microsoft is heading for its worst month since 2008 as investors worry that its heavy AI spending may not pay off and that AI could erode demand for its core software.

South Korea announced about $880 billion in planned investment to expand chipmaking, AI data centers and robotics, aiming to double memory output and revive regions outside Seoul.

HP is scaling a strategic partnership with OpenAI, using the Frontier platform to roll out AI agents across customer support, software development and security after early pilots.

Google has limited Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models after Meta sought more computing capacity than Google could supply, delaying some of Meta’s internal projects.

OpenAI is leaning toward pushing its IPO to 2027 rather than accept less than a $1 trillion valuation, weeks after filing confidentially for a US listing.

Gemini 3.5 Flash computer use folds screen control into one cheap model with prompt-injection safeguards, though it is a preview and the benchmark is self-reported.

GPT-5.6 Sol brings stronger coding and cyber capabilities with OpenAI’s most robust safeguards, but a government-approved rollout echoes the Anthropic model ban.

Anthropic is hiring across Australia and Japan to expand its AI data center capacity in Asia-Pacific, as soaring demand for Claude strains its infrastructure.

OpenAI updated GPT-5.5 Instant, ChatGPT’s default model, to feel more conversational and handle advice, planning and shopping better across longer exchanges.

Anthropic told US senators that Alibaba-linked operators used about 25,000 fake accounts to extract Claude’s capabilities in what it calls its largest known distillation attack.

Cursor unveiled its first from-scratch AI model, an agent-first Git platform called Origin and an iOS app, days after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of its parent.