02 Jul 2026
Meta is finally catching up to OpenAI, its AI leader says
Meta's AI chief, Alexandr Wang told employees today. In an internal town hall, Wang said that Meta's upcoming AI model — which is codenamed Watermelon — has caught up with OpenAI's flagship GPT-5.5 model, he said, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
02 Jul 2026
Microsoft faces investor concerns over Copilot’s technological lag
Microsoft built one of the most ambitious AI products in enterprise history, wrapped it inside the world’s most widely used productivity suite, and handed it to 450 million potential customers. Somehow, less than 4.5% of those customers are actually paying for it. That number, current as of May 2026, is the quiet center of a very loud investor concern. And it helps explain why Microsoft shed $357…
02 Jul 2026
OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake, FT reports
OpenAI has discussed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, as AI firms face scrutiny in Washington over the likely misuse of advanced models and whether Americans would benefit from the industry's massive valuations.
02 Jul 2026
Researchers detail attack chain escaping Anthropic’s Claude Cowork sandbox
As reported by Silicon Angle, security researchers at Armadin Inc. have detailed an attack chain that allows arbitrary command execution as root within the sandbox environment of Anthropic PBC’s Claude Cowork.
02 Jul 2026
OpenAI discussed giving 5% stake to Trump administration, media report says
OpenAI has discussed giving the U.S. government a 5-per-cent stake, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, as AI firms face growing scrutiny in Washington over the potential misuse of advanced models and whether Americans will share in the sector’s profits.
02 Jul 2026
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Financial Times.
02 Jul 2026
Sam Altman seeks new world order for AI as OpenAI slowly loses ground to Google and Anthropic
Tech stocks led declines globally overnight. The Nasdaq 100 closed down 1.54% yesterday. By contrast, the equal weight S&P 500 actually hit a record high yesterday—indicating that tech companies are the ones dragging down the broader index. “The main culprit has been another slide in chip stocks, with the Philly semiconductor index down -6.27%,” Henry Allen and his colleagues at Deutsche Bank…
02 Jul 2026
Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models after cybersecurity alarm
FILE - Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York, Feb. 26, 2026. Patrick Sison/AP Photo/Patrick Sison SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's latest versions of its Claude chatbot, ending a weekslong ban tied to cybersecurity concerns.
02 Jul 2026
Anthropic's Fable 5 Pricing Mess Is Handing Chinese Rivals an Opening
Anthropic brought Claude Fable 5 back online on July 1, but the model's return has done more to expose the company's pricing problems than to fix them, and cheaper Chinese and Japanese labs are already cashing in.
