AI in 15 — May 21, 2026

AI in 15 — June 09, 2026

Eight hundred fifty-two billion dollars. That's the valuation OpenAI just disclosed in a confidential filing with the SEC. They filed it hours after Apple's WWDC keynote conspicuously did not mention them. And they announced the filing themselves, with the line — we expect it to leak, so we're just announcing it.

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.