OpenAI launched its GPT-5.6 model family on June 26 in a restricted preview, gated to approved partners at the Trump administration’s direct request.
Category: Tech
Posted inTech
Anthropic says Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts to run 28.8 million Mythos queries for Qwen training
Anthropic disclosed that operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab ran 28.8 million interactions through 25,000 fraudulent accounts over 45 days, harvesting its Mythos model’s outputs to train rival AI systems.
Posted inTech
Qualcomm closes $3.9 billion Modular deal and advances Tenstorrent talks in $14 billion AI chip push
Qualcomm confirmed the $3.9 billion acquisition of AI software startup Modular on 24 June while continuing talks to buy chip designer Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion.
Posted inTech
Reflection AI takes $6.3bn SpaceX compute deal as AI infrastructure concentrates
Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150 million a month for Nvidia GPU access at Colossus 2, in a contract worth up to $6.3 billion through 2029.
Posted inTech
Forty-two state attorneys general subpoena OpenAI days after its IPO filing
A coalition of 42 states subpoenaed OpenAI just four days after its IPO filing, targeting ChatGPT’s health data practices, treatment of minors, and a design flaw called model sycophancy.
Posted inTech
EU picks Domyn’s EUROPA to build a 400-billion-parameter open-source AI in all 24 EU languages
The EU selected Italian startup Domyn’s EUROPA consortium to build a 400-billion-parameter open-source AI model covering all 24 official EU languages.
Posted inTech
Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI
Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper, left Google on June 18 for OpenAI less than two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back.
Posted inTech
House panel clears bill to subject AI chip exports to weapons-sale review
The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced the AI OVERWATCH Act 42–2–1, a bill that would require congressional review of advanced chip exports to adversaries and ban Nvidia Blackwell sales to China for two years.
Posted inTech
Congress drafts first US federal AI law targeting frontier model developers
A bipartisan June 4 draft would require frontier AI labs to report safety incidents federally and prevent states from regulating how the most powerful models are built.
Posted inTech
Anthropic and DeepMind CEOs call for US-led global AI coalition at G7
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis called for US leadership on global AI standards at the G7 summit in Évian on June 17.