The Day Washington Decided Who Gets Frontier AI
OpenAI built GPT-5.6 Sol, its most powerful model yet, then limited it to ~20 government-approved partners at the White House’s request. Inside the first gated frontier release.
How AI Found a 50-Year Hole in Economic Theory
Axiom Math’s EconLib formalizes economics in Lean — and its verifier already flagged a gap in a foundational proof economists taught for fifty years. The machine-checked future of social science.
The Table of Nations
At the G7 in Évian, the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind sat as equals to world leaders. Inside the AI governance power shift.
The Hacker in the Machine
June 2026: the Five Eyes spy chiefs warn that AI capable of devastating cyberattacks is months away, not years. Inside the offensive-AI threat and the defense.
The Robot Workforce
In 2026 humanoid robots stopped being demos and started clocking shifts. Inside Figure’s year at BMW, the $16,000 price war, and what it means for human work.
The Motion Problem
AlphaFold solved the static shape of proteins. The 2026 frontier is motion — AI that predicts how proteins flex, breathe, and bind. Here’s the leap.
The Drug Engine
A 1,016-GPU supercomputer and a $2.5B AI drug deal show how, in 2026, artificial intelligence became the infrastructure of drug discovery itself.
The Model That Went Dark
On June 12, 2026 a single export-control order forced Anthropic to take its most powerful AI models offline worldwide. What it reveals about who controls AI.
The Hard Horizon
AI agents can work for hours and keep getting longer — but brutal new June 2026 marathon benchmarks show full autonomy is still far off. Here’s the real state of play.
The Fair-Use Frontier
A $1.5B Anthropic settlement, 70+ suits, and the first appellate fair-use argument: inside the court fight over whether AI could train on copyrighted work.
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