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.
29 May 2026
"AI killed coding" is the headline of the year. The data tells a stranger, more specific story: it
isn't coding that's dying, it's the way people used to get into it — and the productivity case for
cutting those jobs is shakier than the companies cutting them admit.
29 May 2026
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on 28 May 2026 — a measured update that the company itself calls "modest but tangible". Here is what is new versus Opus 4.7, what it costs, and how it compares to GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro.
26 May 2026
Most AI agents forget everything the moment you close the session. Hermes Agent, the open-source project from Nous Research, is built around the opposite principle: an agent that compounds what it learns, writes its own skills, and gets meaningfully better the longer you use it. This is the complete guide to what it is, how it works, how to deploy it, and how to get the best from it.
26 May 2026
In 72 hours in May 2026, Anthropic launched 10 pre-built finance AI agents, a $1.5 billion joint venture with Goldman Sachs and Blackstone, and live demos with JPMorgan's CEO. OpenAI responded the same week with its own enterprise deployment firm and a PwC partnership. The race to become the default AI layer for financial services has begun — and the stakes are unlike anything in AI's history.
26 May 2026
On 25 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV published a 42,300-word encyclical on artificial intelligence alongside the co-founder of Anthropic. He signed it on the 135th anniversary of the foundational Catholic text on workers' rights during the Industrial Revolution — because the parallel is deliberate and precise. Here is everything it says, and everything it means.
26 May 2026
In the space of five days, SpaceX filed a public S-1 disclosing that Anthropic pays it $1.25 billion a month, OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 targeting a $1 trillion debut, and Anthropic revealed it is heading for its first quarterly operating profit. The private AI era is ending. Here is everything you need to understand about what comes next.
20 May 2026
In the space of 48 hours, Anthropic announced a $900 billion valuation round, acquired a company that builds the infrastructure for its rivals, and topped CNBC's Disruptor 50. Meanwhile a jury threw out Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI in under two hours. And Google I/O launched its most AI-dense keynote ever. Here is everything that happened this week.
20 May 2026
Google's I/O 2026 keynote delivered its most AI-dense announcement slate ever. Gemini Spark is a 24/7 personal agent that runs on your behalf while your laptop is closed. Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms the previous flagship model at four times the speed. And AI Ultra just dropped to $100 a month. Here is everything that was announced, explained.