Data Analyst

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.

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.

Samsung and SK Hynix will invest 800 trillion won alongside the South Korean government to build four new chip fabs, expand high-bandwidth memory production, and create a nationwide semiconductor ecosystem for the AI era.

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.

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.

Anthropic told US senators that operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen AI lab ran 28.8 million Claude interactions through 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June 2026.

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.