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Trevor Brown is a journalist and developer covering the AI industry — power, products, policy, and the people affected. He edits and approves every story Still in the Loop publishes.
In its annual report, filed June 22, Oracle says adopting AI "resulted in" job cuts. The numbers around that line: about 21,000 fewer employees in a year, $1.8 billion in severance, and capital spending up 162% to $55.7 billion.
Jun 23, 2026
For the millions of developers who use the AI coding app, nothing changes today. But its new owner builds a rival model, and three things are now worth watching.
Jun 19, 2026
As the suspension holds, the White House's David Sacks says Anthropic spurned a safety fix and the defense secretary says the company was barred from his building months ago. Anthropic calls the flaw minor and the order a misunderstanding.
Jun 14, 2026
An export-control directive citing national security forces Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer. The company says the evidence is a narrow jailbreak that rival models can match — and that the blocking power it asked Washington to create has been used without the process it asked for.
Jun 13, 2026
Claude Fable 5 puts a class of model Anthropic had kept out of general release into public hands — wrapped in a filter that reroutes sensitive requests to a weaker model, and a meter that makes heavy use cost more later this month.
Jun 9, 2026
Seven in-house models — including a coding model now in Copilot — show Microsoft building alternatives to the OpenAI technology it has leaned on.
Jun 7, 2026
A new opt-in setting limits ChatGPT's outbound requests to blunt prompt-injection data theft — and OpenAI concedes it is not a cure.
Jun 7, 2026
The maker of Claude has submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC, the clearest sign yet that a frontier lab is heading for the public markets.
Jun 7, 2026
A new Anthropic Institute report argues AI is increasingly building AI, and that the world should prepare to slow down if recursive self-improvement arrives.
Jun 6, 2026
A background process that synthesizes what ChatGPT knows about you is now the main memory system — and it's coming to free users.
Jun 4, 2026
xAI says Grok now powers Vapi's core voices across millions of agents — on quality claims that, for now, are the companies' own.
Jun 3, 2026
From June 1, Copilot charges by the tokens it consumes through GitHub AI Credits. Headline prices hold — but heavy users will feel the meter.
Jun 2, 2026
