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Jul 4, 2026The EU politician investigating Pegasus got hacked with Pegasus8 storiesJul 3, 2026Sam Altman floats handing the US government 5% of OpenAI to fund citizen payouts14 storiesJul 2, 2026Claude Fable 5 is back after a 19-day export-control ban, now with a bouncer that reroutes sketchy requests17 storiesJun 30, 2026SCOTUS rules 6-3 that your phone's location history generally needs a warrant15 storiesJun 29, 2026Rocket Lab is buying Iridium for $8B, and it just bought 66 satellites and 2.5M subscribers15 storiesJun 28, 2026OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 is so capable the White House asked it to wait15 storiesJun 25, 2026OpenAI built its own chip in 9 months and named it Jalapeño10 storiesJun 24, 2026Anthropic put Claude in your Slack, and it already writes 65% of their own code10 storiesJun 23, 2026OpenAI says it scanned 30M+ commits and found 500K+ fixes, and now wants to land them too15 storiesJun 22, 2026The White House just pulled the plug on two Claude models over a one-line jailbreak13 storiesJun 21, 2026Polymarket reportedly paid creators to fake 1,100+ viral betting wins9 storiesJun 20, 2026DeepMind just lost its Nobel laureate to Anthropic, and he's the third top mind out the door7 storiesJun 19, 2026Amazon drops its nearly finished Sam Altman movie, after a $50B OpenAI deal15 storiesJun 18, 2026A 90-minute ultimatum knocked Anthropic's top AI models offline, and 150+ security experts say the ban is bogus12 storiesJun 17, 2026GLM-5.2 trails Claude Opus 4.8 by one point on a coding marathon, and the weights are MIT-licensed17 storiesJun 16, 2026The US government forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide over cyber-risk fears16 storiesJun 15, 2026The UK just kicked everyone under 16 off TikTok, Instagram, and X15 storiesJun 14, 2026FuboTV's $9.99 month is probably the cheapest way to stream the World Cup, trials willing7 storiesJun 13, 2026The US government just yanked Anthropic's two newest models offline, worldwide13 storiesJun 12, 2026SpaceX raises $75B in the biggest IPO ever, and Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire18 storiesJun 6, 2026Claude now writes 80% of Anthropic's code — and Anthropic says that's the scary part18 storiesJun 5, 2026Microsoft drops 7 of its own AI models — and the subtext is 'we don't need OpenAI as much anymore'20 storiesJun 4, 2026OpenAI's Codex hits 5M weekly users and openly stops pretending it's just for coders14 stories