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Mark Zuckerberg told employees that Meta’s AI agents have progressed slower than expected and its restructuring was “not as clean” as planned, a rare admission amid huge AI spending.

OpenAI teased its first branded hardware, Codex Micro, a programmable macro pad built with Work Louder to give developers physical shortcuts for its Codex coding agent, launching July 15.

Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in Frontier, a new unit that will embed 6,000 engineers with customers to help them adopt AI, joining a wider industry race into hands-on deployment.

Cloudflare opened a waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, which lets sites charge AI agents in stablecoins for any page, dataset, API or tool, with no accounts or API keys.

OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a roughly 5% stake, worth about $43 billion, to seed a public wealth fund and ease mounting political pressure in Washington.

Gamma’s connector lets users generate polished presentations, documents and webpages from inside a ChatGPT or Claude conversation, without copying content into a separate design tool.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic mid-tier model, which it says approaches the pricier Opus 4.8 on many tasks at a lower per-token cost.

The US Commerce Department lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an 18-day standoff and restoring the models globally from July 1.

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.