Nine researchers at Sina Weibo released VibeThinker-3B, a 3 billion parameter model small enough to run on a laptop that outscored GPT and Claude on math and coding benchmarks under identical evaluation conditions.
Loop engineering — designing automated systems that prompt AI agents rather than prompting them yourself — is emerging as the defining new skill in AI development, replacing prompt engineering entirely.
AI spending in the 2026 midterms has topped $185 million as OpenAI and Anthropic back rival super PACs fighting over who gets to regulate the technology they built.
Anthropic confirmed its annualized revenue run rate has crossed $30 billion, surpassing OpenAI’s $25 billion while spending four times less on model training — a turnaround from $9 billion at the end of 2025.
iOS 27 ships in September with a version of Siri that can read your Messages, Mail, and Photos simultaneously, take action in background apps, and manage your passwords automatically. Apple’s AI overhaul requires an iPhone 16 or iPhone 15 Pro and will not run on older hardware.
OpenAI launched its Partner Network on June 14 with a $150 million investment and a target of 300,000 certified consultants by year end. Founding partners include Accenture, Bain, BCG, McKinsey, and PwC. The move comes as OpenAI prepares for an IPO targeting a Q4 2026 listing.
Ten percent of global adults now use AI chatbots for news every week, up from seven percent last year, according to the Reuters Institute 2026 Digital News Report. Trust in AI as a news source sits at just 20 percent, and only four percent of users click through to the original article.
xAI’s Grok 4.3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock at $1.25 per million input tokens, making it the most affordable frontier model on the platform. Enterprise teams can now access Grok directly through AWS without a separate xAI account.
General Intuition, a New York startup that spun out of viral gaming clip platform Medal, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $2 billion valuation. The company trains AI world models on two billion first-person gaming clips a year, a dataset OpenAI reportedly tried to buy.
John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in creating AlphaFold, has announced he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years. He is going to Anthropic. This comes days after Noam Shazeer also left DeepMind for OpenAI.