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AI & Tech News Roundup: June 27, 2026
Washington gated OpenAI's GPT-5.6 to ~20 government-approved customers, Google keeps losing top researchers to Anthropic, and OpenAI unveiled its first custom chip. The story of AI now is who controls the models, talent, and silicon.
AI & Tech News Roundup: June 23, 2026
The frontier labs are racing to Wall Street: Anthropic filed at ~$965B and OpenAI lined up Goldman and Morgan Stanley for a possible September IPO. Plus a talent war tilting toward Anthropic and AI money pouring into politics.
AI & Tech News Roundup: June 15, 2026
The Fable 5 ban is reshaping AI fast: China's Z.ai shipped a replacement days later, the three top lab CEOs face world leaders at the G7, and SpaceX ripped another 20% on day two of trading.
Run Your Own AI: A Practical Self-Hosting Starter Guide
Odysseus, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, and the local AI stack explained. What to run, what hardware you need, and why owning your model is the AI version of holding your own keys.
AI & Tech News Roundup: June 2, 2026
PewDiePie drops Odysseus, a free self-hosted AI workspace, and tells big tech the war is on. Plus Anthropic nears a $900B valuation that would top OpenAI, Karpathy joins Anthropic, Claude Opus 4.8 ships, and OpenAI answers with an IPO filing and a cybersecurity play.
AI & Tech News Roundup: May 25, 2026
Anthropic's Mythos found tens of thousands of unknown vulnerabilities in the world's banking infrastructure. Google replaced its search box with AI agents. And the US government now pre-screens every major frontier AI model before it ships.
AI & Tech News Roundup: May 22, 2026
OpenAI is going public at an $852 billion valuation. SpaceX filed its S-1 targeting a $1.75-2T valuation. Anthropic eyes a late 2026 IPO. Google debuts Gemini Spark as a persistent background agent, and Trump signs an AI cybersecurity directive.
AI & Tech News Roundup: May 15, 2026
Cerebras goes public in the biggest AI IPO of 2026, NVIDIA commits $40B to equity deals including a $2.1B stake in Bitcoin miner IREN, and OpenAI shuts down Sora after six months.
AI News Roundup: May 7, 2026
Anthropic ARR eclipses OpenAI, Microsoft global AI diffusion hits 17.8%, Google and xAI agree to pre-release government testing, and DeepSeek releases its most efficient model yet.
AI & Tech News Roundup: April 29, 2026
NVIDIA crosses $5 trillion. Big tech commits $660B to infrastructure. Liquid cooling becomes the new baseline. And the grid is the bottleneck nobody budgeted for. Here is what mattered this week in AI and compute.