Two weeks after the US banned Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 globally, Tokyo's Sakana AI and China's 360 Security have moved to fill the vacuum with frontier-class alternatives.

Grok 4.3 slashes prices by up to 83%, adds native video input and voice cloning, and carves out a credible position as the most cost-efficient frontier model - with real caveats on coding and latency.

Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 28.8 million unauthorized exchanges against Claude through 25,000 fake accounts, and urged Congress to tighten export controls on AI model access.

Noam Shazeer, John Jumper, and two more Gemini engineers left Google DeepMind for OpenAI and Anthropic in a single week, sending Alphabet stock tumbling nearly 10% from its May peak.

Anthropic's Claude Tag replaces the old Slack app with a shared @Claude identity that builds channel memory, works asynchronously, and runs on Claude Opus 4.8.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy pledged $48 billion for India through 2030 after meeting PM Modi, outspending Microsoft and Google on AI infrastructure in the world's fastest-growing cloud market.

Agility Robotics merges with Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5B valuation, becoming the first publicly traded pure-play humanoid robot company with robots already earning commercial revenue.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber found CVE-2026-8390 in Firefox's WebAssembly engine before Pwn2Own Berlin - five of six registered exploit entries withdrew.

Google DeepMind's $75M investment in A24 aims to build AI tools shaped by filmmakers rather than imposed on them, as studios race to stake their AI positions across Hollywood.

The AlphaGo co-founder's open-source AI lab will pay SpaceX $150M monthly for Nvidia GB300 chips at Colossus 2, totaling $6.3B before shipping a single public model.