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The releases, breakages, and shifts in tech — explained, not hyped.
June 2026
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Microsoft spent billions on OpenAI — now it's building its own way around it
At Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled seven in-house AI models, a Windows-level cage for AI agents, and a new assistant — a clear move to lean less on the partner it helped make famous. DeepSeek lined up a $7bn raise, and Europe's power grid emerged as the real limit on the AI boom.
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Anthropic files to go public, and the money declares the AI race a two-horse sprint
Anthropic confidentially filed for a US IPO, beating OpenAI to the public markets — while a CNBC investigation found the same AI wave is quietly killing the generation of startups built just before ChatGPT.