AI
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 With Three Models - Sol, Terra, and Luna
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 on June 26 with three models - Sol, Terra, and Luna - at different price points and a 1.5 million-token context window.
Startups
OpenAI IPO Delay: SoftBank Falls 12% as $1 Trillion Listing Eyes 2027
OpenAI IPO delay reports sent SoftBank shares down 12% on June 26. CFO Sarah Friar is pushing for 2027 amid $600 billion in spending commitments.
Tech
Anthropic in Talks to Run Claude on Microsoft's Maia 200 Chip
Anthropic is in talks to run Claude on Microsoft's Maia 200. A deal would make it the first major external workload on Microsoft's custom AI chip.
Tech
Figma Code Layers Bring Executable Code to the Design Canvas at Config 2026
Figma code layers, Figma Motion, AI shaders, and generative plugins arrived at Config 2026 on June 24, collapsing the design-to-code handoff.
Tech
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño: First Custom Chip Targets LLM Inference
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom AI inference chip for LLMs, built in nine months with substantially better performance per watt.
AI
Why AI Hallucinations Happen - and What You Can Actually Do About It
AI hallucinations are not glitches. They are what language models do by design. Here is why they happen and what developers can actually do about them.
Tech
Anthropic Launches Claude Tag, a Shared AI Teammate for Slack
Anthropic launched Claude Tag on June 23, bringing @Claude into Slack as a shared team member with memory, tool access, and async task execution.
AI
Claude Fable 5 Free Access Ends Today - Subscribers Got About Half the Window Advertised
Claude Fable 5 free access ends today across all subscription plans. After a six-day suspension, many subscribers received fewer than 10 usable days.
Tech
Microsoft Foundry Build 2026: Hosted Agents, Procedural Memory, and 11,000 Models
Microsoft Foundry shipped hosted agents, procedural memory with 7-14% task gains, Foundry IQ for enterprise knowledge, and four new MAI models at Build 2026.
AI
Noam Shazeer Leaves Google for OpenAI After $2.7 Billion Return
Google's Gemini co-lead and transformer paper co-author Noam Shazeer is joining OpenAI, two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to hire him back.
AI
Apple WWDC 2026: Siri Gets Rebuilt With Google Gemini
Apple rebuilt Siri from scratch with Google Gemini at WWDC 2026. iOS 27 adds a new Siri AI app, Claude support, and AI features across Photos and Safari.
Tech
ChatGPT Hits 1 Billion Monthly Users - Fastest App in History
ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly users in May 2026, faster than TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube ever managed - even as its market share quietly dropped.