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AI did not just dominate the product headlines in the first half of 2026. It became the defining force in global stock issuance, and one banker is already invoking the crashes of 2000 and 2021.

An 18-day blackout of Anthropic's most advanced models just ended. The lesson for anyone building on frontier AI is that access is now a policy decision, not only a technical one.

Anthropic just made its most agentic mid-tier model the default for every free Claude user. The pitch is blunt, near-flagship autonomy at roughly a third of the price of its flagship.

Together AI just raised one of 2026's largest AI infrastructure rounds, and the lead investor is a Saudi oil giant betting that open models, not closed APIs, will run enterprise AI.

June 30 marks the close of GitHub Copilot's first full metered billing cycle, and developers running agentic workflows report costs 10x to 50x higher than their old flat-rate plans.

A US export order pulled Anthropic's top models offline worldwide. Austria's answer: invite the company to set up shop inside the European Union.

Big AI labs get cheap compute because they have great credit. An Australian startup just signed a deal with Nvidia to hand that same edge to everyone else.

OpenAI's strongest model yet is here, but you probably cannot use it. The US government asked OpenAI to gate GPT-5.6 to about 20 vetted partners first.

OpenAI just stopped renting all its compute and started building it. Meet Jalapeño, the company's first custom chip, designed from scratch with Broadcom for one job.

Qualcomm is betting nearly $4 billion that the next AI fight is about software, not chips. Its target is Modular, the startup built to break Nvidia's grip on developers.

The free Fable 5 window closed after subscribers got barely four working days of it. Starting today, the most capable Claude costs real money, and at double the price of Opus.

Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro by next month and the clock runs out June 30. The headline number is a 2-million-token context window, the largest in any shipping frontier model.