New White House orders direct federal agencies to accelerate quantum-safe cryptography deployment and coordinate quantum computing research across defence and civilian agencies.
Year: 2026
Trump Administration Allows Release of Anthropic’s Mythos AI System to Selected US Companies
The administration has approved access to Anthropic’s restricted Mythos Preview model for a limited set of trusted US organisations as part of Project Glasswing security assessment.
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Running Largest AI Distillation Attack in History Using 28.8 Million Claude Interactions
Anthropic’s Senate letter alleges 25,000 fraudulent Alibaba accounts generated 28.8 million Claude exchanges between April and June 2026 to train Alibaba’s Qwen AI model.
SpaceX Joins Nasdaq-100 Just 15 Trading Days After Record $1.75 Trillion IPO — Nasdaq Changes Own Rules
Nasdaq controversially fast-tracked SpaceX into its prestigious index bypassing the normal three-month listing requirement in a decision analysts say sets a problematic precedent.
Alphabet Loses $269 Billion in Market Cap as Four Senior Google DeepMind Scientists Defect to AI Rivals
The historic talent exodus including Nobel laureate John Jumper to Anthropic and Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer to OpenAI crushed Alphabet’s stock in a historic valuation drop.
SK Hynix Files for $29 Billion Nasdaq Listing Targeting July 2026 as Memory Demand From AI Soars
South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker is raising capital as it ramps production of high-bandwidth memory chips critical for powering the AI infrastructure boom.
Colorado AI Act Takes Effect June 30 — Regulating High-Risk AI in Employment Housing Healthcare and Education
Colorado’s landmark AI regulation focused on consequential algorithmic decisions comes into effect though a May 2026 amendment moved most requirements to January 2027.
ChatGPT Market Share Falls Below 50% for the First Time as Rivals Anthropic Google and xAI Gain Ground
OpenAI’s flagship AI assistant has lost its majority market share position as competition from Claude Gemini and Grok intensifies in both consumer and enterprise segments.
OpenAI and HP Announce Enterprise AI Partnership to Scale AI Tools Across HP’s Global Workforce
HP becomes one of OpenAI’s largest enterprise partners committing to deploy ChatGPT Business Codex and related tools across R&D manufacturing and marketing operations globally.
OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Sol — A New Flagship Model for Frontier Reasoning and Long-Horizon Agentic Work
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.6 Sol alongside Terra and Luna as a family targeting stronger coding scientific reasoning and autonomous task completion with improved safety.