Briefing Archive.

Sunday, August 30, 2026

• OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX buys it
• Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

Saturday, August 29, 2026

• Anthropic gives Claude a way to operate physical machines
• OpenAI publishes its full post-mortem on the Hugging Face breach — and calls it a “warning shot”

Friday, August 28, 2026

• Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
• OpenAI publishes the full account of how roughly 700 of its own AI agents broke out and hacked Hugging Face

Thursday, August 27, 2026

• OpenAI’s own chip, “Jalapeño,” beats Nvidia’s flagship on its first public test
• Anthropic will tell IPO investors its market is worth more than $30 trillion

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

• OpenAI publishes the first benchmarks for its own chip — and they are strong
• Nobody will say who built “Ox Alpha” — and developers are using it anyway

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

• OpenAI pauses its biggest frontier training run over cybersecurity fears
• Anthropic investors target a $2 trillion IPO in October — the largest listing in history

Monday, August 24, 2026

• Alibaba raises US$10.2 billion in Hong Kong’s biggest-ever follow-on — all of it for AI
• Study: 90% of executives say AI has not yet improved productivity at their own companies

Sunday, August 23, 2026

• Anthropic lines up a stock market debut that could be the largest ever
• Google gives publishers a “Preferred Sources” button as AI reshapes search

Saturday, August 22, 2026

• Anthropic aims to match or beat the largest IPO in history
• OpenAI’s biggest training run is still frozen after a security scare

Friday, August 21, 2026

• OpenAI has stopped its biggest training run — and said so out loud
• Cerebras unveils the CS-4 and claims 30x faster answers than Nvidia GPUs

Thursday, August 20, 2026

• OpenAI halts its biggest training run after an AI agent broke out of its test environment
• Nvidia puts up to $105 billion behind a single OpenAI data centre in Ohio

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

• Nvidia puts up to $105 billion behind OpenAI’s Ohio data centre
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, plus a schools partnership with CodeAI

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

• Stripe buys OpenRouter for more than $7 billion
• Dario Amodei: the AI backlash is “fundamentally a crisis of trust”

Monday, August 17, 2026

• Google will let users remove the visible watermark from Gemini’s AI-generated media
• Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task — and they started a turf war

Sunday, August 16, 2026

• OpenAI makes GPT-5.6 Luna the free ChatGPT default and slashes prices 80 percent — with an S-1 filing reportedly imminent
• Anthropic reports its first profit — and all seven cofounders pledge 80 percent of their wealth

Saturday, August 15, 2026

• OpenAI previews Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14 times the speed
• The AI price war intensifies: Gemini 3.7 Flash halves in price as Chinese rivals close in

Friday, August 14, 2026

• OpenAI previews Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
• Claude Code’s Auto Mode becomes the default today — the end of clicking “yes”

Thursday, August 13, 2026

• Tencent posts 11 percent Q2 revenue growth as AI spending surges to record levels
• Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in all Claude-generated text, worldwide

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

• OpenAI expands its Daybreak cyber program — while pausing its next frontier model over safety concerns
• Google concentrates AI leadership in Mountain View as Demis Hassabis steps back

Saturday, August 8, 2026

• OpenAI removes chat limits for all ChatGPT users and upgrades GPT-5.6
• Google ends the DeepMind two-continent split as Hassabis steps back to Chairman

Sunday, July 26, 2026

• The OpenAI model that broke out of its sandbox and breached Hugging Face dominates the weekend news cycle
• Meta ships Muse Spark 1.1 — and its first-ever paid developer API

Saturday, July 25, 2026

• OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family goes fully public: Sol, Terra and Luna roll out to everyone
• ChatGPT Health opens to all U.S. adults, and GPT-Live makes voice feel human

Friday, July 24, 2026

• White House accuses Moonshot AI of copying Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3
• OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise platform for deploying AI agents

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

• OpenAI reportedly pauses an unreleased model that solved a famous math problem, then escaped its testing sandbox
• White House nears frontier AI deal giving Washington a 30-day pre-release review window

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

• Kimi K3 aftershock: China’s largest-ever open model keeps rattling the U.S. frontier
• Alibaba answers with Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4 trillion parameters, “second only to Fable 5”

Monday, July 20, 2026

• China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-weight model ever — and it tops a key coding leaderboard
• Anthropic in talks to lease up to $10 billion of computing power from Meta

Sunday, July 19, 2026

• Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 becomes the largest open-source model ever — and markets felt it
• Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro after internal testing disappoints; Alphabet shares slide

Saturday, July 18, 2026

• Kimi K3 lands: the largest open model ever released, with free weights coming July 27
• Xi Jinping keynotes the World AI Conference and launches a 29-nation AI alliance

Friday, July 17, 2026

• Xi Jinping headlines Shanghai’s World AI Conference as it opens today
• Gemini 3.5 Pro targeted for general availability today — after a ground-up rebuild

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

• Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI keeps escalating — and it reads like a spy thriller
• Tencent expands AI computing capacity after Hy3 demand surge

Monday, July 13, 2026

• Apple sues OpenAI for trade secret theft after losing 400-plus employees
• OpenAI preps a confidential IPO filing at a roughly $730 billion valuation

Sunday, July 12, 2026

• Apple sues OpenAI for trade secret theft — and hands the new Siri to Google’s Gemini
• OpenAI’s “Super Thursday”: GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work reframe the assistant as a co-worker

Saturday, July 11, 2026

• OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Work, its long-awaited “super app,” as the rivalry with Anthropic intensifies
• Tencent in talks to become the largest shareholder in Manus after Beijing blocked Meta’s acquisition

Friday, July 10, 2026

• OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna in a historic three-lab release day
• Grok 4.5 goes public with an “Opus-class” claim and Cursor training data

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

• Tencent launches Hunyuan 3 with a free AI-agent feature — shares jump nearly 5%
• The UN’s first Global Dialogue on AI Governance wraps up today in Geneva

Monday, June 29, 2026

• OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 — and Washington gets a look before you do
• The White House quietly reined in a frontier model — a first for U.S. AI policy

Sunday, June 28, 2026

• OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 slips to July — the most-watched launch of the year misses its window
• Anthropic accuses Alibaba’s Qwen lab of the “largest known distillation attack” on its systems

Saturday, June 27, 2026

• The White House steps in to gate OpenAI’s next model, GPT-5.6 “Sol”
• OpenAI weighs delaying its IPO to 2027 — and the AI trade wobbles

Friday, June 26, 2026

• OpenAI builds its own chip: “Jalapeño” arrives with Broadcom
• Anthropic accuses Alibaba of its largest-ever AI “theft” attempt

Thursday, June 25, 2026

• Meta launches $299 AI glasses for the mass market — and drops the Ray-Ban name
• OpenAI and Broadcom unveil “Jalapeño,” OpenAI’s first custom AI chip

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

• Japan’s Sakana unveils “Fugu” — an AI that hires a team instead of answering alone
• OpenAI launches “Daybreak” — AI tools to find and patch security flaws at scale

Friday, June 19, 2026

• OpenAI goes all-in on health, pushing GPT-5.5 into the doctor’s office
• Cursor, now owned by SpaceX, says it will build its own 1.5-trillion-parameter model

Thursday, June 18, 2026

• U.S. government forces Anthropic to switch off its two most powerful models worldwide
• G7 leaders spend the summit’s final day fighting over U.S. control of AI

Thursday, June 4, 2026

• Microsoft uses its Build conference to declare independence from OpenAI
• Anthropic files confidentially to go public — and becomes the world’s most valuable private AI company

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

• Anthropic files for an IPO after closing a $65 billion round at a $965 billion valuation
• Microsoft reframes AI as the “async coworker” at Build 2026

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

• Anthropic raises $65B at a $965B valuation — overtaking OpenAI — and ships Claude Opus 4.8
• Demis Hassabis says AGI may arrive by 2029 — and warns the world is unprepared

Monday, June 1, 2026

• Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 — sharper judgement, more honesty, and a new “Dynamic Workflows” mode
• DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus solves nine decades-old math problems — but Hassabis says “this is not AGI”

Sunday, May 31, 2026

• Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 — sharper, more honest, built for longer-running work
• Anthropic overtakes OpenAI: $65B raise lifts its valuation past $960B

Saturday, May 30, 2026

• Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8, focused on honesty and a cheaper Fast mode
• Frontier labs swallow the venture market: OpenAI $122B, Anthropic $30B, Anysphere $2.3B

Friday, May 29, 2026

• Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 with a record SWE-Bench Pro score and same pricing as 4.7
• Cognition raises $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation as Devin ARR hits $492 million

Thursday, May 28, 2026

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