Information Technology

Saturday, 13 June 2026

The US ordered Anthropic to kill its two most powerful AI models — overnight →

A Commerce Department directive forced Anthropic to shut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every user worldwide, days after launch. The trigger: the company's own warnings about how dangerous the models were.

Friday, 12 June 2026

South Korea fines Coupang $400M for a breach that exposed two-thirds of the country →

Seoul issued its largest-ever data-breach penalty against the US-based retail giant after a former employee walked off with 34 million people's records. The same day, an unpatched Oracle flaw was used to break into 100+ organisations — most of them universities.

Thursday, 11 June 2026

Canada moves to ban social media for under-16s, and the fix means checking everyone's age →

A new Canadian bill would bar social media for children under 16 and set safety rules for AI chatbots — the latest in a wave of age-based bans that all run on one quiet mechanism: verifying how old every user is. Plus the EU forces WhatsApp open to rival AI assistants, and a bad week for enterprise security.

Wednesday, 10 June 2026

Apple won't ship its new Siri in Europe, and blames the EU's open-access rules →

Apple is withholding its upgraded AI Siri from the EU rather than open it to rivals under the Digital Markets Act. Brussels says nothing in the law stops the launch. Plus: the UK and FCC push surveillance down into the phone itself.

Tuesday, 9 June 2026

Hackers poisoned Microsoft's own open-source code to rob the developers building AI →

A supply-chain attack laced dozens of Microsoft's GitHub projects with password-stealing malware, aimed straight at engineers using Claude Code and other AI coding tools. Plus: Massachusetts bans selling your location, WhatsApp catches NSO spyware again, and Google lines up Intel as a chip backup.

Monday, 8 June 2026

Banks are planning deep AI job cuts while Walmart promises AI will help — same tool, opposite stories →

The same week brought two opposite messages about AI and work: banks quietly preparing mass layoffs, and Walmart telling staff AI will improve their jobs. The technology is identical. What differs is who gets to keep what it produces.

Sunday, 7 June 2026

SpaceX will sell Google $30 billion of AI compute, and the deal shows who really owns the boom →

Google agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for data-center compute, the Trump administration floated taking equity stakes in AI firms, chip stocks had their worst week in over a year, and OpenAI shipped a security mode against prompt-injection attacks.

Saturday, 6 June 2026

SpaceX becomes Google's compute landlord, and the AI buildout hits the grid →

A $30 billion deal to rent computing power, a $30 billion data-center push in India, a Texas grid buckling under demand, and AI named the top reason for May's job cuts — the AI boom is colliding with cost, power and people all at once.

Friday, 5 June 2026

AI now writes most of Anthropic's code, and the bottleneck just moved →

Anthropic says more than 80% of the code it shipped in May was written by its own AI, Claude — eight times the old output per engineer — moving the constraint from writing code to reviewing it. Meanwhile the AI money keeps flowing even as doubt about whether the spending pays off drags tech stocks down, and Washington calls Nvidia's CEO in over chip sales to China.

Thursday, 4 June 2026

AI raised another $85 billion today — and ran straight into the power bill →

Google's parent raised a record $85 billion for AI in a single oversubscribed sale, even as Europe moved to cap data-centre energy use, Americans told pollsters they don't want the buildings, and Amazon's own engineers showed up at city hall to demand limits. The cloud, it turns out, is made of steel, water, and electricity.

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.