Google Cuts AI Plus to $4.99 - US Price War Begins
Google drops its entry AI subscription 38% to $4.99, undercutting every US rival and bringing the price war that reshaped India to American consumers.
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OpenCode Hits 8M Users, a Year from a Toronto Meetup
OpenCode reaches 8 million monthly users and 172K GitHub stars in one year, displacing Claude Code as the most-starred open-source coding agent.
Anthropic Releases Fable 5 Despite Its Own AI Safety Warning
Anthropic opens Mythos-class capabilities to the public with Claude Fable 5 at $10/$50 per million tokens, days after calling for a global AI pause.
Miasma Worm Compromises 73 Microsoft GitHub Repos
Miasma worm planted config files that auto-execute credential theft when developers open Microsoft Azure repos in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, or VS Code.
Orbital Plans 10,000 GPU Satellites for AI Inference
a16z-backed Orbital wants to run AI inference from low Earth orbit using NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, targeting 10,000 satellites and 1 GW of compute at full scale.
OpenAI Files for IPO, Eyes $1 Trillion Valuation
OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC on June 8, targeting a public debut above $1 trillion as early as September 2026, following Anthropic by one week.
Canada Launches $2.3B National AI Strategy
PM Mark Carney's AI for All commits $2.3 billion to hit 250,000 new jobs and 60% business adoption by 2034 - but critics call it a wish list without hard delivery mechanisms.
Claude Opus 4.8 Leads SWE-Bench Pro, Adds Parallel Agents
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 scores 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro and ships hundreds of parallel subagents in Claude Code, with pricing unchanged at $5 per million input tokens.
Anthropic Files for $1T IPO, Warns AI May Escape Control
Anthropic published internal data showing Claude writes 80% of its own codebase - and called for a coordinated global AI pause - four days after filing a $965B IPO.
Sanders Targets OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI With 50% Tax
Senator Bernie Sanders proposes seizing 50% of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI stock to fund a federal sovereign wealth fund with government board seats.
Apple's iOS 27 Beta Ships the Multi-Model Extensions API
iOS 27 Beta 1 is live for developers today, shipping Apple's new Extensions framework that lets Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT plug into Siri - plus the Nvidia B200 Confidential Computing architecture that keeps those cloud queries private.
MiniMax M3 Makes 1M Context Viable With Sparse Attention
MiniMax M3 uses sparse attention to cut long-context inference cost 20x, topping GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the price.
