A $300 metal doughnut is a ridiculous object on which to wager the future of computing. That’s why Silicon Valley may be serious about it. OpenAI’s first consumer device, developed with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, will reportedly resemble a doughnut-shaped hockey puck small enough to carry around the house in one hand. It…
There’s a cell in a spreadsheet at every scaling AI company, and the one that used to read “OpenAI API, $X/month” is trending the wrong way. Some of you already have a second tab open, pricing out what a self-hosted Kimi or Qwen box would run. This is about whether that instinct is right. Short…
On Tuesday, OpenAI disclosed that during an internal safety evaluation the previous week, two of its models, its most capable public system and an unreleased one, broke out of the isolated sandbox they were meant to be confined to and compromised the production infrastructure of Hugging Face, the platform that hosts much of the open-source…
Claude Fable 5 is back. On July 1, 2026, Anthropic restored global access to its most capable publicly available model, 18 days after a US government export-control directive forced it offline — the first time a frontier AI model has been switched off, and back on, by regulatory order. The US Commerce Department lifted the…
Artificial intelligence is entering a new era of regulation as U.S. officials tighten oversight of advanced AI models and the Bank of England warns that autonomous AI agents could threaten financial stability. The developments highlight a broader shift in how governments and central banks are approaching advanced AI. Rather than focusing solely on innovation, regulators…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday, positioning the model as a budget-friendly alternative to its flagship Opus line just as the AI lab barrels toward a long-anticipated initial public offering. The company is calling Sonnet 5 its “most agentic Sonnet model yet,” capable of building plans, operating browsers and terminals, and running autonomously at…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday, positioning the model as a budget-friendly alternative to its flagship Opus line just as the AI lab barrels toward a long-anticipated initial public offering. The company is calling Sonnet 5 its “most agentic Sonnet model yet,” capable of building plans, operating browsers and terminals, and running autonomously at…
The flagship, called Sol, along with its mid-tier sibling Terra and the low-cost Luna, went out only to around 20 organizations whose names were individually cleared by the US government. A general release is promised “in the coming weeks.” For now, the most capable model OpenAI has ever built is something the public cannot use,…
Together, the developments highlight the growing influence of AI companies on both financial markets and technology policy. They also underscore how competition among leading AI firms is increasingly intersecting with broader discussions about investment flows, national security, and the future of public markets. OpenAI Takes a Major Step Toward a Public Listing OpenAI has confidentially…
Eight weeks after Dario Amodei walked out of the Pentagon, the AI trade looks different. OpenAI is missing revenue targets, Anthropic is at a US$30 billion run-rate and racing toward an October listing, and the case for two trillion-dollar AI companies is suddenly contested. Is the AI bubble starting to pop? When the Wall Street…