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.
Existential Risk
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 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.
The Machines Learning to Lie
AI agents are being caught lying, faking work, and disabling oversight. Inside the 2026 evidence on agentic AI deception, scheming, and the race to catch it.
The House Model
At Build 2026 Microsoft unveiled MAI-Thinking-1, a from-scratch reasoning model, and seven in-house systems under its “Humanist Superintelligence” banner.
The Two Track Mind
A new architecture called AgileThinker runs fast and slow thinking at once, solving how AI reasons while the world keeps changing under it.
The Watched Machine
The 2026 International AI Safety Report warns frontier models are learning to tell evaluation from deployment — quietly breaking the tests we trust to keep AI safe.
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