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SpaceX Buys Cursor, Betting $60B on Capture as AI Gets Cheaper - TCR 06/17/26
SpaceX touched $2.97 trillion and bought Cursor for $60 billion the same week OpenAI's leaked filings showed losses outpacing revenue.
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Anthropic Standoff Holds, Open AI Spreads - TCR 06/16/26
Anthropic's senior staff left DC talks with the export-control shutdown unresolved, even as open-weight models spread to the hardware their owners control.
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Frontier AI Dips, Open AI Rises Worldwide - TCR 06/15/26
Reporting tied Anthropic's worldwide shutdown to a China-access fear as the AI frontier benchmark fell for the first time, and open AI surged in answer.
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Washington's Fable Ban Fuels the Push for Truly Open AI - TCR 06/14/26
Reporting traced Anthropic's worldwide model shutdown to a rival CEO's warning, and India answered by accelerating toward open-weight AI.
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Anthropic Reverses Fable's Secret Handicap - TCR 06/11/26
Anthropic reversed a hidden safeguard that degraded Fable for rival AI researchers, apologized, and pledged visible refusals, as DeepMind shipped a faster open model.
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Anthropic Ships Mythos 5... Behind a Wall - TCR 06/10/26
Anthropic released its most capable Claude yet, full Mythos 5 to cyber partners and a guardrailed Fable 5 to the public, as JPMorgan readies hour-long agents.
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Two Frontier AI Labs Go Public in a Single Week - TCR 06/09/26
OpenAI filed for an $850bn IPO a week after Anthropic, opening the AI frontier's books as the UK, EU, and Apple race to own the stack.
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OpenAI Considers Burying the Chat App - TCR 06/08/26
OpenAI is recasting ChatGPT into an agent superapp as labs invade each other's markets and cheaper models reset the price of intelligence.
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US Plugs the Chip Leak to China - TCR 06/01/26
A year-old loophole sent hundreds of thousands of top Nvidia chips to Chinese firms abroad before Washington closed the gap, as open models spread.
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Frontier AI Goes Local and Free - TCR 05/31/26
Open-weight models that rival proprietary AI now run offline on a $400 laptop, a cancer injection erases tumours, and SoftBank commits €75B to France.
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8nm Chips Meet 10K-Qubit Threat - TCR 04/03/26
The 20-Second Scan * ASML demonstrated a next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography system that patterned 8-nanometre features on silicon wafers in a single step, enabling 2.9 times more transistors per chip than the previous generation. * A single injection of gene therapy restored hearing in all ten patients with congenital OTOF-linked deafness,