Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, its first publicly available Mythos-class model, on June 9, alongside an updated Claude Mythos 5 configuration. The company said Fable 5 excels at software engineeri…
The Atlantic published an essay titled "Welcome to the Slopverse" on November 26, 2025, arguing that generative AI produces multiple coexisting realities rather than simply "hallucinating." The piece,…
Ernest Chan presented Conditional Portfolio Optimization (CPO), a machine-learning method that trains a neural network to predict portfolio performance based on market features and then solves a const…
Director Nick Holt premiered the documentary "AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About" at the Tribeca Festival on June 6, 2026, featuring interviews with AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Demis Hassabis, Elon …
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, directing federal agencies to collaborate with AI developers on a voluntary program requiring frontier models to undergo federal cyber…
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced he will introduce the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a one-time 50 percent tax on the stock of the largest U.S. AI companies and transfer tho…
OpenAI has begun rolling out Lockdown Mode, an optional advanced security setting for eligible personal accounts and self-serve ChatGPT Business workspaces, to reduce data exfiltration risk from promp…
At Summer Game Fest 2026, developer SHIFT UP debuted a trailer and key art for *Stellar Blade: Blood Rain*, a new PS5 and PC title, which viewers and social media posts allege contain generative AI ar…
Independent security researcher Taylor Hornby discovered a critical soundness bug in Zcash's Orchard shielded-pool circuit on May 29, 2026, using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and a custom AI tool to pr…
Entrepreneur David Sacks published a Twitter thread criticizing proposals for government ownership stakes in AI firms, warning that "nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusi…
Topaz Video released version 1.6.1, a maintenance update for Windows and macOS, on June 6, 2026. The 318 MB update fixes a crash caused by odd-sized video outputs and warns users that outputting above…
Bitcoin whales are rotating out of Bitcoin into cash ahead of SpaceX's initial public offering scheduled for June 12, 2026, according to The Duran. NASDAQ has shortened the standard inclusion waiting …
AI chip stocks experienced a sectorwide sell-off this week, pulling back shares across the industry. AMD’s business is performing strongly across all segments, but the decline has left investors debat…
GitHub Copilot Chat displays a visible list of available AI models for developers to select, exposing a model governance gap in the widely used developer tool. The user behavior of choosing models bas…
Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported on June 5, 2026 that Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action could expose CI/CD workflow secrets when the agent processed untrusted GitHub content, as the Read too…
Sriram Krishnan plans to leave his role as White House senior policy adviser for AI at the end of the month to establish an outside institution, according to the Washington Post. Krishnan, who was a k…
Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) identified and traced more than 170 vehicles with fake, cloned, or tampered number plates over the past month using its AI-powered Safe City surveillance network. T…
A wave of low-quality, AI-generated content, described as "AI slop," has proliferated across sports coverage, producing fabricated quotes attributed to players and personalities. Last fall, 49ers tigh…
Hedges collapsed as markets faced turmoil driven by an artificial intelligence sell-off, rising yields, and geopolitical tensions. The convergence of these factors prompted investor caution and elevat…
The second-annual Washington AI Honors black-tie gala convened billionaires, elected officials, lobbyists and scientists at the Waldorf Astoria in June 2026, featuring a red carpet and a dancing human…