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onJune 26, 2026

Inception Labs Launches Mercury AI at 700+ Tokens/Second—Matches GPT-4.1 Nano Performance While Outpacing Commercial LLMs

A diffusion-based language model just hit 700+ tokens per second while matching GPT-4.1 Nano on benchmarks. The speed gap between diffusion…

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Artur Markus

onJune 24, 2026

DeepSeek Launches Janus-Pro-7B on January 27—Open-Source 7B Model Beats DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion on GenEval and DPG-Bench

A 7-billion-parameter open-source model just outperformed DALL-E 3 on two major image generation benchmarks. DeepSeek dropped Janus-Pro-7B on…

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Artur Markus

onJune 23, 2026

NSA to Run Classified AI Benchmarking for Military ‘Frontier Models’—Trump’s Executive Order 14409 Gives Government 30-Day Pre-Release Access

The NSA now gets first look at frontier AI models before anyone else—up to 30 days before public release. Executive Order 14409, signed June…

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Artur Markus

onJune 22, 2026

Visa Embeds Payment Network Into ChatGPT on June 10—AI Agents Can Now Shop Across 175 Million Merchant Locations

ChatGPT can now spend your money. Visa just wired 175 million stores into OpenAI’s agent layer—with spending limits and fraud checks,…

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Artur Markus

onJune 21, 2026

Apple Rebuilds Siri on Google’s 1.2-Trillion-Parameter Gemini Model—$1 Billion Annual Deal Announced June 8 at WWDC 2026

Apple just paid Google $1 billion per year to make Siri intelligent. The company that built its brand on privacy now routes your voice queries…

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Artur Markus

onJune 19, 2026

ChatGPT Tasks Launches in Beta on January 15, 2025—OpenAI Adds Scheduled Automation for Paid Subscribers with 10-Task Limit

OpenAI shipped scheduled automation inside ChatGPT on January 14, 2025, capping it at ten tasks per user. The company that built the…

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Artur Markus

onJune 17, 2026

US Government Forces Anthropic to Disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at 5:21 PM on June 12—Cybersecurity Experts Call Export Control ‘Dangerous’

The US government killed the world’s most advanced AI models in four hours. Security experts say that makes America less safe, not more.

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Artur Markus

onJune 14, 2026

Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed Hits 1,000 Tokens/Second on 8-GPU Node—Claims 15X Faster Than ChatGPT and Claude

A Chinese smartphone company just outpaced OpenAI and Anthropic on inference speed by a factor of 15, using hardware any enterprise can…

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Artur Markus

onJune 13, 2026

OpenAI Launches o3-pro at $80 Per Million Output Tokens on June 10—Beats Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4 Opus on Math and Science Benchmarks

OpenAI just told developers that thinking costs money—$80 per million output tokens, to be exact. The company’s new o3-pro model doubles…

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Artur Markus

onJune 9, 2026

Federal Judge Rules AI Training on Lawfully Acquired Books Is Fair Use—But Anthropic’s 7 Million Pirated Copies Are Not

A federal judge just declared that AI companies can legally train on books they own—but Anthropic built its library from 7 million pirated…

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