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Commerce Secretary Lutnick ordered Anthropic to disable its two most powerful models worldwide - the first US export control directive ever issued against a commercial LLM.
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Commerce Secretary Lutnick ordered Anthropic to disable its two most powerful models worldwide - the first US export control directive ever issued against a commercial LLM.

KPMG retracted its agentic AI report after GPTZero found that 40 of 45 citations were fabricated and case studies about UBS, the NHS, and Transport for London were invented.

Mistral AI is in talks to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its September 2025 price tag in under a year and cementing its status as Europe's most valuable AI company.

A hands-on review of all seven MAI models - from the April transcription and image launch to Build 2026's MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1-Flash, and the multimodal upgrades.

Microsoft's first in-house reasoning model, a 35B-active sparse MoE with 256K context, 97% on AIME 2025, and no distillation from third-party labs.

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.

OpenAI's life sciences reasoning model gets a June update with global access and new NGS plugins - strong benchmarks, but still locked behind a Trusted Access Program with no public pricing.

OpenAI's Dreaming V3 replaces ChatGPT's flat memory with a hierarchical relational system, kicking off a four-way race for AI personalization dominance.

Lovable's multiyear Google Cloud pact quintuples its compute footprint and bundles access to both Claude and Gemini - a bet that enterprise credibility is the next growth act.

Alphabet priced an $84.75B equity raise on June 2, reversing a decade of share buybacks to fund a $180-190B AI infrastructure buildout - backed by a $10B bet from Berkshire Hathaway.

Cohere Command A+ is a 218B sparse MoE model with Apache 2.0 license, native citations, and a 128K context window that runs on just two H100 GPUs.

GitHub Copilot replaces flat-rate subscriptions with token-based billing on June 1, with some developers reporting costs jumping from $29 to $750 per month as agentic workflows drain credits in a single session.