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SEP 17, 2026
Zuckerberg says no, Microsoft's AI chief accuses Anthropic of building a 'silicon species,' and OpenAI starts publishing its own model's worst moments — while three labs ship new products anyway.
SEP 16, 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind admit to weeks of secret safety talks, Google starts letting engineers run on a rival's model, and Congress still can't agree on a single guardrail.
SEP 8, 2026
A jury decides if AI training is theft, a ransomware crew lets its own agents run the operation, and Meta's assistant changes real passwords — while Mistral raises a record round regardless.
AUG 27, 2026
A blowout earnings report landed the same 48 hours OpenAI published a forensic account of its own agents hacking Hugging Face, and federal investigators opened a new front in the chip-smuggling story.
AUG 19, 2026
OpenAI pauses training over Astra's cyber capabilities and reportedly guts its risk team in the same week, Meta goes to trial over $1.4 trillion in alleged youth harm, and an AI chip startup nobody's heard of doubles its valuation in a month.
AUG 15, 2026
Alibaba gives away a frontier-class model for free and Zuckerberg makes the moral case for openness, while DeepSeek's price hikes and Oracle's layoffs show what the compute underneath it actually costs.
AUG 10, 2026
Meta pitches AI as a free public good the same day Intel raises $15B to build the chips under it, data-center opposition goes national, and Congress demands answers on the industry's hacking spree.
AUG 7, 2026
Four senior researchers quit DeepMind for a startup that bets AI can do science better than a company can, while Anthropic and Meta both admit they lost track of what their systems were doing.
AUG 6, 2026
Meta joined the club of labs whose safety tests hacked a real company, researchers found a way to make agents skip their own model entirely, and Google handed Demis Hassabis's job to someone else.
JUL 31, 2026
Meta, the EU, and Nscale poured tens of billions more into AI infrastructure this week, while Anthropic's own models breached real companies during a routine test and a GPT-5.6 agent lost $447 trying to run a business alone.
JUL 20, 2026
Hugging Face's own defenders had to lean on a Chinese model because the American ones wouldn't help investigate the attack, Brussels forced Google's hand on Android, Wall Street sounded the alarm on Anthropic's still-caged Mythos, and Anthropic went hunting for another $10 billion in compute.
JUL 15, 2026
Albany froze new data centers, Beijing killed AI companions, Nvidia halved its Asia buyer list, and Meta got sued over AI-driven layoffs — all while DeepSeek kept raising money for an IPO.
JUL 11, 2026
Apple sued OpenAI over stolen trade secrets, three labs shipped competing autonomous agents within 48 hours, and the world's chip-export lines moved in opposite directions.
JUL 10, 2026
GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 shipped, Gemini 3.5 Pro slipped again, and a Beijing–Anthropic spat over Claude Code showed how thin AI's trust layer still is.
JUL 9, 2026
Grok 4.5 goes vertical and Meta enters images while Mistral enters robots — as Beijing weighs walling off its own models and a legal-AI startup lays off the analysts who built it.
JUL 3, 2026
Meta's cloud-compute pivot wiped billions off chip stocks for a day, Abu Dhabi closed a record $49B AI fund anyway, and Alibaba banned Claude Code over a hidden tracking marker.
JUN 27, 2026
The Trump administration became the world's first frontier AI model registry — GPT-5.6 Sol to 20 approved companies, Mythos 5 to 100 vetted organizations — the same week Alibaba ran 28.8 million fake-account interactions to get what you can't apply for.
JUN 17, 2026
A three-word prompt triggered an export-control ban, OpenAI built a methodology to avoid exactly that kind of guesswork, and SpaceX paid $60 billion for a code editor without waiting on either.
MAY 21, 2026
Meta laid off 8,000 people to fund AI infrastructure. OpenAI opened ChatGPT to self-serve advertising. Google started a price war. The White House signed its first substantive AI security order.