The new Microsoft Frontier Company follows similar ventures from Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic, deepening a bet that enterprise A.I. returns depend on humans on the ground — and drawing a sharper line between the customers who can afford them and those who cannot.
Continue reading →The two-day session at Palexpo opens Monday under the co-chairmanship of Estonia and El Salvador, and follows a preliminary scientific report warning that A.I. is advancing faster than governments can regulate it.
July 5, 2026Sam Altman has taken a sovereign-wealth-fund proposal, modelled on Alaska's, to President Trump and two cabinet secretaries. Rival laboratories have not signed on, and any deal would likely require an act of Congress.
July 4, 2026Sam Altman has proposed that Washington take equity in the country's leading A.I. firms through a sovereign-fund vehicle modeled on Alaska's oil dividend — a structure that would require an act of Congress.
July 4, 2026A 40-expert panel co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa delivered the first global scientific assessment of A.I. on Wednesday, days before member states convene in Geneva under the shadow of Washington's rejection of multilateral oversight.
July 3, 2026In its first preliminary report, a 40-member independent panel convened by the General Assembly told member states that science cannot rule out catastrophic harm from advancing A.I. systems.
July 2, 2026Sam Altman has taken the concept directly to President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and has floated extending the arrangement to Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
July 2, 2026The Commerce Department reversed an 18-day directive that had forced Anthropic to disable its two most advanced models worldwide, ending a standoff with the Trump administration and raising unresolved questions about ad hoc government vetting of frontier A.I.
July 1, 2026After an 18-day, government-forced suspension, the Department of Commerce cleared the company's most powerful models for global redeployment on July 1. Anthropic used the same news cycle to install a cheaper, more agentic mid-tier model as its new default.
July 1, 2026The covert project, code-named 'Cannes' and run through the contractor Covalen, sent more than 45,000 prompts about suicide, sex and drugs to ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI — none of which knew the testing was happening.
June 30, 2026The first state law to regulate algorithmic discrimination was rewritten this spring after a lawsuit by Elon Musk's xAI and an intervention by the Justice Department. The bill that arrives today is not the one passed in 2024.
June 30, 2026In a June 10 letter to the Senate Banking Committee, the company alleged that operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen lab used some 25,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct 28.8 million exchanges with Claude over six weeks.
June 29, 2026In a June 10 letter to Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren, the A.I. lab said operators affiliated with Alibaba's Qwen program conducted 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through thousands of fraudulent accounts. Alibaba's Hong Kong shares fell to a 16-month low.
June 28, 2026The S.B.A. Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act, cleared June 23, would require annual reports to Congress on the agency's machine-learning tools, after years of missed federal deadlines.
June 27, 2026Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick cleared the model for a small set of approved companies and federal agencies after a two-week shutdown, and asked OpenAI to gate its new GPT-5.6 family on the same day.
June 27, 2026The departures of Noam Shazeer, John Jumper, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — all contributors to Google's Gemini model — have wiped hundreds of billions in market value from Alphabet and raised new doubts about the company's grip on top talent.
June 26, 2026The accelerator, co-developed in nine months and bound for initial deployment alongside Microsoft late next year, is the ChatGPT maker's first in-house silicon and a direct bid to loosen its reliance on Nvidia.
June 26, 2026The company moved its cyber-focused model from preview to limited release on June 22, paired with an updated Codex Security plugin, a 30-vendor partner program, and an open-source remediation initiative co-founded with Trail of Bits.
June 25, 2026The ChatGPT maker's first in-house accelerator, developed with Broadcom in nine months and aimed at initial deployment by year's end, is showing roughly 50 percent cost savings over standard GPU infrastructure, Broadcom's chief executive said.
June 25, 2026The bipartisan 'Great American Artificial Intelligence Act,' released two days after President Trump's June 2 executive order and weeks after Colorado repealed its landmark statute, would convert what state legislators have called a floor of accountability into a federal ceiling.
June 24, 2026An immunologist at the Jackson Laboratory used the model to predict a glucose-driven mechanism in T cell specialization — and to anticipate, before publication, the result of an experiment he had already run.
June 24, 2026In a joint statement issued June 22, the cyber security leaders of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand told boards and executives that the window to prepare for A.I.-accelerated attacks has narrowed to a matter of months.
June 23, 2026The company moved its cyber-specialized model out of preview on June 22, expanded its Codex Security plugin and signed a 28-firm partner roster, contending that machine-speed patching, not vulnerability discovery, is now the binding constraint.
June 23, 2026The Commerce Department's June 12 directive barring foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 has forced a worldwide suspension that cybersecurity veterans now call dangerous to defenders.
June 22, 2026The disclosure, made on the floor of the Senate by Mark Warner, reframes the Commerce Department's unprecedented order against Fable 5 and Mythos 5 as a question of autonomous offensive capability rather than a narrow jailbreak.
June 22, 2026The program, anchored by Accenture, McKinsey, BCG and Bain, codifies an industry-wide bet that deployment expertise — not model power — is now the moat. It also widens the gap between Fortune 500 buyers and the country's 33 million small businesses.
June 21, 2026Two days after meeting Dario Amodei at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, the president told Axios he no longer regards the company as a national security threat. The Commerce Department's June 12 order and the Pentagon's March supply-chain designation remain in force.
June 21, 2026An export-control directive from the Commerce Department compelled Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide, setting a precedent for federal control of commercial frontier A.I.
June 20, 2026Polymarket traders price a June 22–28 launch at 83 percent, ChatGPT Pro users report anomalous behavior, and the company's chief scientist has told staff the model is a 'meaningful improvement' over GPT-5.5.
June 20, 2026With negotiations between company engineers and Commerce Department officials continuing daily, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — the first commercial A.I. models ever subjected to U.S. export controls — remain dark for customers worldwide.
June 19, 2026A new study of more than 23,000 American workers identifies a widening fault line inside the technology industry, where infrequent users of artificial intelligence appear markedly more vulnerable to job loss than colleagues who use the tools at least monthly.
June 19, 2026The company's first formal global partner program, announced June 14, sets a target of 300,000 certified consultants by the end of 2026 and opens a direct channel to enterprise customers outside the Microsoft Azure relationship.
June 18, 2026After SpaceX raised $75 billion and its shares surged more than 30 percent on their first day of trading, Wall Street is pricing in a race between Anthropic and OpenAI to follow, with both having confidentially filed S-1s.
June 18, 2026The Commerce Department's export-control directive — invoked retroactively against a deployed model — bars foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's two newest systems, forcing the company to take both offline three days after launch.
June 17, 2026The French president met Dario Amodei and Sam Altman in Évian to advance a 'trusted partners' scheme, after a Trump administration export-control order forced Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide.
June 17, 2026The Commerce Department's export-control directive, issued late Friday, forced the company to disable both models worldwide and has provoked alarm at the G7 summit and an open letter from cybersecurity researchers.
June 16, 2026A Commerce Department directive barring foreign nationals from Fable 5 and Mythos 5 has prompted France to accelerate a pivot to domestic A.I. and pushed the question of American leverage to the center of the Evian summit.
June 16, 2026Anthropic's new package for Main Street arrived the same month two surveys showed why deployment, not awareness, has become the binding constraint on smaller firms.
June 16, 2026The Commerce Department invoked export-control authorities on Friday evening to force the suspension of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide, in what appears to be the first government-compelled takedown of a deployed frontier model.
June 15, 2026An employee hijacked a company livestream to berate a senior executive, as 6,500 engineers — reassigned to generate puzzles for model training — describe their three-month-old unit as a 'gulag.'
June 14, 2026Six months after the president warned legislatures off the field, California, Florida and Utah have become a patchwork test of whether Washington can still claim primacy over artificial intelligence.
June 14, 2026The rocket and satellite company, which absorbed Elon Musk's xAI in February, closed up 19 percent on its Nasdaq debut at a market value above $2 trillion. Anthropic and OpenAI have since filed confidentially to follow.
June 13, 2026The ChatGPT maker disclosed its draft registration on Monday, joining Anthropic and SpaceX in a cluster of A.I.-linked listings — even as new spending data shows its lead in enterprise adoption has slipped for the first time.
June 13, 2026The reinvented assistant, announced Monday in Cupertino, will skip Europe and China at launch. Apple's stock turned negative during the presentation.
June 12, 2026The ChatGPT maker, last valued at $852 billion, said on Monday that any public debut 'may be a while' — even as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley prepare the ground for a possible fall listing.
June 12, 2026The Great American Artificial Intelligence Act, unveiled by Representatives Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan, pairs preemption with new transparency mandates on frontier model developers — and arrives as 45 states have introduced their own bills.
June 11, 2026ChatGPT's maker became the third major artificial-intelligence company to submit a confidential S-1, following Anthropic and Elon Musk's SpaceX, in what could become the largest cluster of public offerings on record.
June 10, 2026National Security Presidential Memorandum 11, signed June 5, directs the Pentagon and intelligence community to rapidly onboard frontier models from multiple vendors and authorizes the termination of contracts with A.I. firms that limit military use of their technology.
June 10, 2026A custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model will power the long-promised Siri overhaul shipping with iOS 27 in September, the company said, in Tim Cook's last keynote as chief executive.
June 9, 2026The ChatGPT maker, valued at $852 billion, said Monday it had submitted a draft registration statement to federal regulators and disclosed the move preemptively in expectation of a leak.
June 9, 2026The 269-page 'Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026,' released by Representatives Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan, would codify a federal standards center and preempt state regulation of model development — drawing immediate condemnation from A.I. safety groups.
June 8, 2026At its developers conference in Cupertino, Apple unveiled an overhauled assistant powered by a custom Gemini-class model, a slate of operating-system updates branded as 'Golden Gate' on the Mac, and a closing valedictory from the chief executive who steps aside in September.
June 8, 2026The order, signed June 2 after a postponed May ceremony, asks developers to voluntarily submit advanced models for up to 30 days of cybersecurity vetting before public release.
June 7, 2026The June 2 directive asks developers to voluntarily submit their most powerful systems for a 30-day national security evaluation before release, a shift from the administration's earlier hands-off posture.
June 7, 2026The 269-page Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026, unveiled Thursday by Reps. Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan, drew immediate condemnation from safety and accountability groups who called the preemption provision a 'generational mistake.'
June 7, 2026At the opening of WWDC 2026 on Monday, the company is expected to unveil a rebuilt assistant running on a custom Google model, a system that breaks OpenAI's exclusive hold on Apple Intelligence, and the last keynote of Tim Cook's tenure.
June 7, 2026The executive order, signed privately on Tuesday after an earlier draft was pulled under industry pressure, gives the government a 30-day prerelease window — a third of what the scrapped version proposed.
June 6, 2026The Japanese conglomerate will build 5 gigawatts of compute capacity across northern France by 2031, anchoring President Macron's Choose France summit and the European Union's sovereign-A.I. ambitions.
June 3, 2026Census Bureau, Federal Reserve, and JPMorganChase Institute releases this spring converge on the same finding: adoption at the smallest U.S. firms has stalled while companies with 250 or more employees approach 40 percent.
June 1, 2026The company said it had made 'swift progress' on safeguards for a model previously deemed too dangerous for general release, even as it closed a $65 billion funding round and pushed an upgraded flagship into wide deployment.
May 31, 2026The 42,300-word document, signed on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, frames A.I. as a new industrial revolution and was presented at the Vatican alongside Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah.
May 29, 2026Data-center revenue nearly doubled from a year earlier, reaching $75.2 billion. Chief executive Jensen Huang called the buildout 'the largest infrastructure expansion in human history.'
May 20, 2026Sundar Pichai used the May 19 keynote to position Gemini 3.5 Flash, the new Omni multimodal model, and the Spark general-purpose agent as Google's coordinated answer to a year of frontier-lab competition.
May 19, 2026The company has raised its 2026 spending guidance to between $125 billion and $145 billion, the largest such commitment in its history, while planning to cut roughly 8,000 jobs.
May 14, 2026The Council and Parliament reached political agreement on May 7 on amendments to the bloc's flagship A.I. legislation, in a package the institutions have branded an 'omnibus' on simplification.
May 7, 2026At an invite-only briefing in New York on May 5, the company disclosed production deployments at five of the largest financial institutions and debuted Claude Opus 4.7, a model tuned for financial work.
May 5, 2026