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GPT-5.6 slips to July as OpenAI goes quiet
GPT-5.6 was expected in late June. Prediction-market odds collapsed from 83% to 18%. The IPO quiet period looks like the reason.
PolicyThe EU moved its biggest AI deadlines and banned nudifier apps
The EU Digital Omnibus package pushes back high-risk AI obligations, widens SME relief, and bans non-consensual image apps. What it means for builders.
PolicySpaceX just paid $60 billion for Cursor, the coding tool your developers cannot quit
SpaceX is buying Anysphere, maker of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock. The biggest startup acquisition on record, four days after the biggest IPO ever.
PolicyThe bosses of Anthropic and Google DeepMind pitched G7 leaders on a shared AI rulebook
At the G7 summit in France, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis pitched a US-led coalition to coordinate AI safety standards and testing.
PolicyOpenAI filed to go public, and now two AI giants are racing to list
OpenAI confirmed a confidential IPO filing with the SEC, with bankers reportedly eyeing a September debut. Anthropic filed weeks earlier. Here is what it means.
PolicyThe US government just pulled Anthropic's most powerful AI. This has never happened before
The Commerce Department issued an export control directive forcing Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer. It's the first time a government has forcibly recalled a live commercial AI model.
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