Grok Build Plugin Marketplace Launches With Six Tools
xAI ships an open plugin marketplace for Grok Build with six launch partners including MongoDB, Vercel, and Sentry, backed by SHA-pinned supply chain security and an open GitHub catalog.
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Anthropic Blackout Forces Europe to Confront AI Reliance
The EU Commission has warned that Washington's Anthropic export ban is discriminatory against allies, as European politicians demand AI sovereignty and Dario Amodei heads to the G7 in France.
Microsoft Drops Claude Code as AI Budgets Run Out
Microsoft's Experiences and Devices division is pulling Claude Code from thousands of engineers by June 30, a move driven by token costs that already burned through Uber's entire 2026 AI budget.
AgentPerf - First Infrastructure Benchmark for Agents
Artificial Analysis released AgentPerf, the first agentic AI infrastructure benchmark, measuring concurrent agents per megawatt. NVIDIA Blackwell leads with 20x gains over Hopper.
42 State AGs Probe OpenAI Days After IPO Filing
A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, served via subpoena just five days after the company filed confidentially for a $1 trillion IPO.
US Export Order Forces Global Fable 5, Mythos 5 Shutdown
Commerce Secretary Lutnick ordered Anthropic to disable its two most powerful models worldwide - the first US export control directive ever issued against a commercial LLM.
Kimi K2.7-Code - Moonshot's Open-Weight Coding Leap
Moonshot AI ships Kimi K2.7-Code with 30% fewer reasoning tokens and a 21.8% gain on its own coding benchmarks, but the model still trails Claude Opus 4.8 on most tests in the same table.
Meta's Applied AI Unit Called a Gulag by Its Staff
Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI team, created in March with a join-or-quit mandate, is in revolt: 1,600+ employees signed a petition against keystroke surveillance, bathroom-stall flyers appeared across US campuses, and UK workers began organizing with UTAW.
KPMG Pulls AI Report After Fake Case Studies Found
KPMG retracted its agentic AI report after GPTZero found that 40 of 45 citations were fabricated and case studies about UBS, the NHS, and Transport for London were invented.
Mistral Seeks €3B Round, Valuation Hits €20B
Mistral AI is in talks to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its September 2025 price tag in under a year and cementing its status as Europe's most valuable AI company.
ChatGPT Hits 1B Users - Rivals Grow 10x Faster
ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users in May - the fastest app in history to hit the mark. But Meta AI is growing at 973% and Claude at 640%, against ChatGPT's own 62%.
Google Sues Phishing Ring That Weaponized Gemini AI
A Chinese cybercrime network sold $88/week phishing kits that used Google's own Gemini AI to generate fake sites impersonating banks, carriers, and government agencies at scale.
