OpenAI introduced a new model naming system on June 26, 2026, replacing confusing suffixes with a generation-number-plus-capability-tier format, such as GPT-5.6 Sol. The tiers—Sol, Terra, and Luna—rep…
OpenAI appointed Prabhjeet Singh, former President of Uber India and South Asia, as its Managing Director for India, effective September 2026. Singh will lead OpenAI's expansion in India, its second-l…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google accused Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Alibaba of using distillation to clone their chatbots via millions of fake interactions. The White House confi…
Shares of Lumentum and Coherent fell sharply on June 23-24, 2026, as the AI hardware trade showed signs of exhaustion amid valuation concerns and doubts about AI monetization. The selloff was triggere…
The US government will require federal security reviews before companies can access OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model under Executive Order 14409, which aims to assess national security risks. OpenAI CEO Sam Alt…
OpenClaw's AI agent Fiu blocked all 6,000 prompt injection attempts from over 2,000 attackers during a public test at hackmyclaw.com, demonstrating resilience against AI social engineering. The test, …
OpenAI is limiting access to its GPT-5.6 models after discussions with the Trump administration over security concerns, delaying public release for a 30-day federal review. The restriction applies to …
Retail investors poured a record $22.5 billion into US-listed semiconductor ETFs in the first half of 2026, with inflows surging 1,200% in a single month as AI demand accelerated. The iShares Semicond…
OpenAI has begun a limited rollout of its GPT-5.6 Sol model to government-approved users at the request of the Trump administration, marking a shift from traditional software launches to a defense-con…
Nvidia is leading a transition to 800-volt direct current (800 VDC) power architecture for AI data centers, aiming to reduce energy waste and copper usage. The shift could reshape the energy supply ch…
OpenAI announced a limited preview release of GPT-5.6, claiming it surpasses Anthropic's Claude Mythos. The announcement, reported by @WatcherGuru, aligns with market predictions of an 83-89% probabil…
SpaceX announced Starmind, a project to deploy up to 1 million AI-processing satellites in low Earth orbit, creating a distributed space-based data center. The network, confirmed by Elon Musk on June …
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are on track for weekly losses as a broad semiconductor selloff, led by Nvidia, AMD, and Micron, drags major indices lower. The PHLX Semiconductor Index's weakness has pulled do…
The Department of Homeland Security demonstrated to lawmakers how jailbroken AI models can generate detailed bomb-building and terror attack plans in minutes, bypassing safety guardrails. The closed-d…
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is considering its first stock split in over 25 years as shares near $520, driven by surging demand for AI infrastructure. CFO Jean Hu reportedly indicated a split could b…
Proof launched x401, an open protocol that uses cryptographic credentials to verify human authorization behind AI agents, with contributions from Circle, OpenAI, Google, and Okta. The protocol extends…
METR and Epoch AI released MirrorCode, a benchmark testing AI agents' ability to reimplement entire software programs from source code. Claude Opus 4.6 rebuilt a 16,000-line bioinformatics toolkit in …
More than 60 crypto projects shut down in the first half of 2026, including three backed by Andreessen Horowitz's a16z—Yupp, Syndicate Labs, and Entropy—which collectively burned through $87 million. …
Arcium, a Solana-based confidential computing network, unveiled Blackthorn, an infrastructure layer that encrypts data on standard Nvidia GPUs using multi-party computation. The software-only upgrade …
Singapore's Kuok Group plans a €5.3 billion hyperscale data center campus near Milan, Italy, delivering 300 MW of capacity as part of a broader European AI infrastructure buildout. The project, disclo…