17 Jun 2026
Half of US adults now use AI chatbots, ChatGPT leads by a wide margin, and the people using them most are the most worried about where it's heading.
17 Jun 2026
The US ordered Anthropic to cut foreign access to its top models, so it switched them off for everyone. Two weeks on, the security basis looks far thinner than the shutdown suggests.
16 Jun 2026
New Anthropic research says the skill that decides whether AI coding tools help you is not coding ability but how well you understand your own field. It is an encouraging finding — and one that sits awkwardly beside independent studies showing these tools can quietly slow experts down and degrade code quality. Here is what the evidence actually supports.
15 Jun 2026
A new Cursor case study describes how five Wayfair researchers used AI coding agents to test 110 model variants in four days and slash the running cost of a catalogue-checking model by 94%, then repeated the trick months later. Here is what happened, and the part worth borrowing.
13 Jun 2026
Apple rebuilt Siri on Google's Gemini, ChatGPT crossed a billion monthly users, SpaceX priced the largest IPO in history with xAI inside, and Colorado and the EU moved closer to enforcing AI law. The eight stories that mattered this week, in plain English.
13 Jun 2026
The US government barred foreign nationals from Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, forcing a worldwide shutoff days after launch and weeks after the company filed for a record IPO. With no written rationale yet public, the argument has split along personal and political lines. We map every camp and what each one means.
12 Jun 2026
Microsoft has turned Word, Excel and PowerPoint into autonomous agents and built a new $99 enterprise tier around them. A plain-English guide to the price, the governance bill, and where the agents earn their keep versus where they are still demo-ware.
7 Jun 2026
AI Overviews roughly halve the clicks a search result gets, and the UK has just forced Google to
offer an opt-out. But the opt-out is a trap, and the deeper change matters more: ranking first no
longer means being cited. Here's the data and the practical playbook.
5 Jun 2026
A near-trillion-dollar IPO filing, an €87bn data-centre pledge, a chip that pushes AI onto the PC,
and two fresh lawsuits. The eight AI stories that drove the most discussion this week, summarised.
3 Jun 2026
Perplexity built its name on one promise: every answer comes with a source you can check. That
single feature explains why people love it, why its citations can still mislead, and why it's the
most-sued AI search company around. A research-led breakdown.
3 Jun 2026
Everyone is arguing about whether AI is a bubble. The question that actually affects you is quieter:
if there's a correction, what happens to the tools you've built your work around? Here's what the
price hikes, shutdowns and access cut-offs of 2025–2026 already tell us.
2 Jun 2026
The demos look like magic. The benchmarks tell a quieter story: today's best AI agents finish
only a fraction of real multi-step work, and the reason isn't model intelligence. Here's what the
research and the people deploying them actually say.