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OpenAI will release GPT-5.6 as a limited preview to a small group of enterprise customers at the request of the Trump administration, with the federal government approving access on a customer-by-customer basis during the preview window. A broader release is expected "a couple of weeks" later, contingent on the government-managed approval process. Continue Reading →

The Associated Press reports that Anthropic's Mythos model, running red-team exercises with U.S. intelligence agencies under an Anthropic initiative called Project Glasswing, identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive classified U.S. government computer systems. Continue Reading →

Anthropic has released Claude Tag in beta. Tag @Claude inside a Slack channel and Claude can join the workstream, follow the thread, take assignments, remember relevant channel context, and (with admin-granted access) pull from connected tools, data sources, codebases, and other approved channels. It is available now to Claude Enterprise and Team customers. Continue Reading →

OpenAI signed a multi-year deal with Getty Images, putting Getty's licensed content libraries into ChatGPT and OpenAI search results. Getty Images stock roughly tripled on the news. Continue Reading →

Electricity did not fail. Factories failed to reorganize around it. The same pattern is repeating with AI. Continue Reading →

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spent Wednesday afternoon in a closed-door G7 working lunch in Évian-les-Bains asking President Trump to lead an international AI coalition. Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman were also in the room, along with about a dozen tech executives and the heads of state of the world's wealthiest democracies. OpenAI's global affairs chief Chris Lehane, who also attended Wednesday's meeting, said non-U.S. leaders in the room acknowledged that the U.S. "certainly could play the lead role in working to establish" standards around AI. Continue Reading →

Microsoft made the OpenAI model optional on June 16, announcing it is exploring a fine-tuned version of DeepSeek V4 as a lower-cost alternative to the GPT-5 and Claude models currently powering Copilot Cowork. Continue Reading →

U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that the United Kingdom will ban social media for everyone under sixteen, naming Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X. The British government says it will go further than any other country's ban, with implementation targeted for next spring. Continue Reading →

On Friday at 5:21 p.m. ET, Anthropic says it received a U.S. government directive ordering the company to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, inside or outside the United States, including foreign-national Anthropic employees. Anthropic says the practical effect was that it had to disable both models for all customers to ensure compliance. The era of permissioned intelligence has arrived. Continue Reading →

SpaceX went public this morning at $135 a share, raising $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation. It is the largest IPO in history, more than double Saudi Aramco's $29 billion record from 2019. If the market holds the valuation, it puts Musk on a path to becoming the world’s first trillionaire. Continue Reading →