Microsoft Launches Polaris and Foundry Local at Build 2026

Trump Signs Voluntary AI Review Order After Pushback

Trump signed a narrowed AI executive order giving the government 30 days of voluntary pre-release access to frontier models, after industry lobbying gutted the original 90-day mandatory proposal.

Microsoft Launches Polaris and Foundry Local at Build 2026

Microsoft's Build 2026 keynote ships Project Polaris to replace GPT-4 in GitHub Copilot by August and declares Foundry Local generally available for zero-cloud on-device inference.

Anthropic Files for IPO, Eyes $1 Trillion Debut

Anthropic confidentially filed its S-1 with the SEC on June 1, targeting an October 2026 IPO at a near-$1 trillion valuation after a 5x revenue surge in six months.

DuckDuckGo Traffic Triples After Google's AI Search Pivot

DuckDuckGo's no-AI search page saw a threefold traffic spike after Google's I/O 2026 overhaul made AI-generated summaries mandatory with no opt-out.

Antigravity 2.0 Review: Agent-First, Rocky Launch

Google's Antigravity 2.0 rewrites the platform from a browser IDE into a five-surface agent suite. The architecture is ambitious, the launch was a mess.