A coalition of state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, demanding internal documents on advertising, user data, treatment of minors, and model sycophancy. New York’s AG led the effort with a formal subpoena.
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to cut off all foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. To comply, Anthropic had to pull the models for all users worldwide.
Anthropic announced a $150 million commitment to train and place 1,000 AI fellows inside 400-plus American nonprofits under the Claude Corps program. Each fellow earns $85,000 for a 12-month placement starting in October, with later cohorts in 2027.
France’s Mistral AI is in talks to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its September 2025 valuation. The round positions Europe’s leading AI lab to compete as Anthropic and OpenAI race toward trillion-dollar IPOs.
Reuters reported that Nvidia has opened orders for its Vera CPU with Chinese cloud providers, targeting August 2026 shipments. With H200 GPU exports frozen, the Arm-based Vera chip exploits a gap in US export controls that targets GPUs but not general-purpose CPUs.
Microsoft unveiled seven in-house AI models at Build 2026, including MAI-Code-1-Flash now rolling into VS Code and GitHub Copilot. The launch signals Microsoft’s strategic move toward AI independence from OpenAI, which is simultaneously racing toward its own IPO.
SpaceX raised $75 billion on June 12, pricing at $135 per share for a $1.77 trillion valuation and eclipsing Saudi Aramco’s 2019 record. Elon Musk kept 82% of voting control. The listing sets the stage for Anthropic and OpenAI to follow with their own trillion-dollar IPOs.
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to shut down Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally on June 12, citing a suspected jailbreak and national security concerns. Anthropic says the vulnerability is minor and already present in competing models, and is fighting to restore access.
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis are all at the G7 summit in France this week — the first time the leaders of all three major AI labs have appeared together before world leaders, while two of them simultaneously race toward historic IPOs.
WeRide, Uber, and AVOMO launched Spain’s first commercial robotaxi pilot in Madrid on June 2, 2026, marking the first autonomous vehicle service of its kind in a major European capital. Rides are bookable via the Uber app, initially with human operators present, with plans to expand to fully driverless operation as performance milestones are met.