AI in 15 — June 26, 2026

AI in 15 — June 26, 2026

Here's a question that sounds simple and isn't: do you have the right to point a piece of software at a website and have it shop for you? Amazon says no. Perplexity says that's the whole open web. And right now a federal appeals court is deciding which of them is right.

AI in 15 — June 25, 2026

OpenAI just designed a computer chip — using its own AI to help do it — in roughly nine months. They're calling it Jalapeño, and they say it'll run ChatGPT for about half the cost. The race to escape Nvidia officially has a second front.

AI in 15 — June 24, 2026

Picture a model that reads the code behind cURL and the Linux kernel, finds the way in, writes the patch, and tests it for you. Now picture that you only get to use it if you pass a background check. That's OpenAI's bet this week — and it lands less than two weeks after Washington switched off a rival for almost the same capability.

AI in 15 — June 23, 2026

"It broke into almost all of our classified systems. Not in weeks. In hours." That's the head of the NSA, describing the AI model the U.S. government just switched off. And today we finally learned that's why.

AI in 15 — June 22, 2026

Ten days ago, the U.S. government pulled the most advanced AI model on Earth off the market. Anthropic promised it would be back in "the coming days." That was last week. As of this morning, hundreds of millions of people still can't use it.