OpenAI’s first hardware is a macro pad for Codex coders
OpenAI’s first hardware is a macro pad for Codex coders

OpenAI’s first piece of hardware is not the mysterious gadget everyone is waiting for. It is a small keyboard for people who talk to an AI all day. On Monday, the OpenAI Developers account posted a short video on X. It showed a small square device with…

NIH unveils the world’s largest genomics-and-health database
NIH unveils the world’s largest genomics-and-health database

The US government has just handed scientists the largest map of human health ever assembled. It pairs more than half a million genomes with real medical records, and it arrives as the programme behind it faces deep budget cuts. The database comes from …

AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise at a $5bn valuation
AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise at a $5bn valuation

Higgsfield AI did not exist before March 2025. Fifteen months on, the video startup is in talks to raise money at a $5bn valuation, four times its worth at the start of the year. The company is seeking $300mn to $500mn, The Information first reported. …

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper way to run agents
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper way to run agents

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic mid-tier model yet. It runs close to the flagship Opus 4.8 on many tasks, but costs less than half as much. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Sonnet 5 is available today across every plan. The…

Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab
Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab

Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher’s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company’s biggest push yet into the lab. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Claude Scienc…

AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices
AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices

Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have since adopted. Amazon Web Services said on June 30, 2026 …

Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival AI chatbots
Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival AI chatbots

The project ran under the internal name Cannes, and a Meta contractor called Covalen managed it. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and images to competitors’ chatbots, then logged the replies…

Chamath’s AI coding startup 8090 raises $135M, and he’s CEO
Chamath’s AI coding startup 8090 raises $135M, and he’s CEO

Salesforce led the Series A, which 8090 announced this week. The pitch behind it is blunt. AI can already write code. The hard part is stopping enterprise software from falling apart as dozens of agents and engineers change it every week. TechCrunch fi…

AI shopping just beat search at its own game on Prime Day
AI shopping just beat search at its own game on Prime Day

Amazon built Prime Day to keep shoppers inside its own marketplace. This year, AI shopping sent its best customers in from outside: a chatbot made the recommendation. US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn across retail sites during the four-day Prime Day …

Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care
Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care

Meta wants its own AI coding tools. To get there, it is telling its engineers to be careful with the rival tools they lean on today. Meta has placed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division use Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Code…