Past issues
- 7 June 2026 OpenAI plans to rebuild ChatGPT into a revenue-focused superapp, folding in coding tools and AI agents ahead of its planned listing. →
- 6 June 2026 AI was the cited reason for 38,579 US job cuts in May – 40% of all layoffs and the highest monthly AI total on record. →
- 5 June 2026 President Trump signs a National Security Presidential Memorandum directing the US defense and intelligence enterprise to accelerate AI adoption, building on May agreements placing eight leading AI firms on classified networks. →
- 4 June 2026 Canada launches "AI for All" strategy targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 jobs by 2031, backed by $700 million in direct SME compute funding. →
- 3 June 2026 President Trump signs an AI executive order setting 30- and 60-day deadlines for federal agencies and creating a voluntary "covered frontier model" pre-release review framework. →
- 2 June 2026 Anthropic confidentially files for an IPO after closing a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI as the most valuable private AI company. →
- 1 June 2026 NVIDIA announces the Vera Rubin platform in full production at Computex 2026, delivering 10x agent throughput over Blackwell across a supply chain spanning 350+ factories in 30 countries. →
- 23 May 2026 OpenAI's reasoning model autonomously disproves the Erdős unit distance conjecture – an 80-year-old open problem in discrete mathematics. →
- 22 May 2026 OpenAI files confidential IPO prospectus, targeting September 2026 listing at $852 billion to $1 trillion valuation, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as underwriters. →
- 21 May 2026 Meta Platforms begins notifying ~8,000 employees of layoffs – 10% of its workforce – while raising its 2026 AI capital expenditure guidance to as much as $145 billion. →
- 20 May 2026 Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at its I/O 2026 developer conference – priced at $1.50 per million input tokens, running four times faster than competing frontier models, and outperforming the previous generation on coding, agentic, and multimodal benchmarks. →
- 19 May 2026 OpenAI launched a personal-finance experience in ChatGPT allowing US Pro subscribers to connect 12,000 or more financial institutions via Plaid, with a planned pipeline from financial questions to product applications inside the same chat interface. →
- 15 May 2026 Closing arguments in Musk v. Altman concluded on May 14, with a nine-person jury beginning deliberations on May 18 over claims that could require OpenAI to unwind its 2025 for-profit restructuring and disgorge up to $134 billion. →
- 14 May 2026 Isomorphic Labs, the Google DeepMind spinout applying AI to drug discovery, raised a $2.1 billion Series B led by Thrive Capital and joined by two sovereign-wealth funds, bringing total capital raised to $2.6 billion despite having no compound yet dosed in a human patient. →
- 13 May 2026 South Korea proposes "national dividend" tax on AI profits as semiconductor boom drives record earnings. →
- 09 May 2026 Anthropic approaches a $900 billion valuation in a new round; Meta closes its frontier model; Five Eyes agencies warn of agentic AI risks inside critical infrastructure. →
- 07 May 2026 Anthropic adds overnight memory review to its AI agents, with one legal technology firm reporting a sixfold improvement in task completion rates. →
- 06 May 2026 Anthropic embeds Claude across Wall Street workflows; $1.5B distribution venture announced. →