AI in 15 — June 08, 2026

AI in 15 — June 08, 2026

One billion dollars a year. That's what Apple just agreed to pay Google to put a Gemini brain inside Siri. And the same keynote opened the iPhone to Claude. Tim Cook's last act as CEO was conceding the AI model race and turning Apple into the world's biggest AI distribution platform.

AI in 15 — June 07, 2026

Twenty thousand Instagram users got hijacked. The attackers didn't need malware. They didn't need a phishing kit. They just asked Meta's own AI chatbot nicely. And the chatbot said yes.

AI in 15 — June 06, 2026

Fourteen billion dollars in passive index buying. That's what S&P 500 inclusion would deliver to SpaceX alone. And on Thursday, the keepers of America's most important stock index just said no.

AI in 15 — June 05, 2026

Eighty percent of the code at Anthropic is now written by Claude. The CEO says recursive self-improvement may arrive sooner than institutions are prepared for. And this drops four days after the IPO filing.

AI in 15 — June 04, 2026

Ninety-five percent of Uber's engineers use Claude Code or Cursor. They blew through the full-year AI tooling budget in four months. Now there's a hard cap. And it's a number every CFO in the Valley is about to memorize.