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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.

The first global, fully independent scientific body on AI has one blunt message for governments. The world cannot govern what it cannot understand, and the evidence often arrives too late to act on.

Six senior Google DeepMind researchers have left for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta in five months, wiping roughly $270 billion from Alphabet's market value.

Most enterprise AI dies in pilot purgatory. HP says it found enough wins to scale its OpenAI Frontier partnership across the whole company, security team first.

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.

Former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb launched RAISE US, a bipartisan nonprofit backed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon seeking $1 billion to retrain American workers displaced by AI.

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom AI inference chip, designed from scratch in nine months with help from OpenAI's own models and showing roughly 50 percent cost savings over conventional GPUs in early testing.

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.

Adobe just turned its Semrush acquisition into a product. Brand Visibility measures whether AI engines name you and then deploys fixes, putting a real number on GEO.

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.