Trump cancelled a new AI executive order signing hours before it was due, May 21. Reason: didn't want to dull America's lead over China.
The order would've let agencies pre-vet frontier AI models. Treasury and the Fed chair had met Wall Street CEOs over Anthropic's Claude Mythos — a model that finds real security flaws.
Twelve days later Trump signed a softer version: voluntary, 30-day review, ban on mandatory licensing.
Vertex AI had a flaw letting anyone hijack a company's AI model upload — no password, no login. Unit 42 disclosed it June 16.
The SDK guessed a default folder without checking ownership. Those names are globally unique, so an attacker pre-claims one and waits. The model lands in the attacker's bucket and gets swapped in 1.4 seconds — beats Google's 2.5-second read.
Google patched it in v1.148. Same pattern in other AI tools.
SpaceX just bought Cursor for sixty billion dollars. Biggest AI coding buyout ever, filed four days after SpaceX went public.
Anysphere — the Cursor maker — is now part of SpaceX. All-stock deal, SEC filing June 16, close expected Q3 2026.
Cursor does around 4 billion a year in revenue. SpaceX is now competing for the same AI talent as Google and the major AI labs — with a rocket company's balance sheet.
That's a SpaceX product now.
ChatGPT just fell below fifty percent of the AI assistant market. First time since launch, per Creati.ai's coverage today.
The drivers, per the report: Claude's safety-and-long-context pitch is winning developers, Google's Gemini rides Workspace distribution, and a wave of cheaper specialists now match ChatGPT on the boring tasks.
The fifty-percent line is being read as a psychological marker — the default-ChatGPT era is over.
Android 17 dropped overnight, and the headline isn't a feature list — it's the framing. Google says it's the start of Android's shift from operating system to "intelligence system," with Gemini baked in deeper than ever.
Day one on Pixels: floating app bubbles, AI video editing in conversation, live call translation in your own voice, and a new on-device protocol so AI agents can drive apps. Wear OS 7 ships too.
Three of AI's biggest rivals — Altman (OpenAI), Amodei (Anthropic), Hassabis (Google DeepMind) — just wrote Congress together. They almost never share a stage.
The ask: every firm selling made-to-order DNA in the US has to screen buyers and keep records. So nobody quietly orders the building blocks of a virus.
Self-driving isn't a demo — it's carrying real passengers and cargo, right now.
Waymo gives 500,000 paid robotaxi rides a week, no one driving, across 10+ US cities. Its data: 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than humans. Starship's sidewalk bots have made 10 million deliveries. China's robo-trucks: 700 million km.
The robots drive better than us. Then a power cut hit, and Waymo's whole fleet froze mid-street.
Google rushed an emergency Chrome update on June 8 patching CVE-2026-11645, an out-of-bounds memory bug in V8 (Chrome's JavaScript engine) already exploited in the wild. Hit a crafted page, an attacker can run any code in the renderer.
5th actively-exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue the next day. Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi share the same V8 engine and need their own patches.
Dartmouth's "Therabot" — a generative-AI therapy chatbot — just posted its first clinical trial. 210 people with major depression, 4–8 weeks of chatting.
Symptoms dropped an average of 51%. Anxiety: 31%. Body-image concerns: 19% in people at risk of eating disorders. The bot flags suicidal thoughts and surfaces a crisis line.
Not a replacement for a human therapist. The bar just moved.
Your $5 coffee? The beans cost about 8 cents.
The other $4.92 pays for people and place. The barista, the prime-corner lease, the app on your phone.
Scaled from Starbucks' FY2025: store labor 31 cents on the dollar. Rent 12%. Marketing and overhead 11%. The actual green coffee is 1.6% of the price. About eight cents.
The drink you paid $5 for is mostly a real-estate business with a coffee attachment.
