DuckDuckGo Traffic Triples After Google's AI Search Pivot

US Export Order Forces Global Fable 5, Mythos 5 Shutdown

Commerce Secretary Lutnick ordered Anthropic to disable its two most powerful models worldwide - the first US export control directive ever issued against a commercial LLM.

Kimi K2.7-Code - Moonshot's Open-Weight Coding Leap

Moonshot AI ships Kimi K2.7-Code with 30% fewer reasoning tokens and a 21.8% gain on its own coding benchmarks, but the model still trails Claude Opus 4.8 on most tests in the same table.

ChatGPT Hits 1B Users - Rivals Grow 10x Faster

ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users in May - the fastest app in history to hit the mark. But Meta AI is growing at 973% and Claude at 640%, against ChatGPT's own 62%.

Google Sues Phishing Ring That Weaponized Gemini AI

A Chinese cybercrime network sold $88/week phishing kits that used Google's own Gemini AI to generate fake sites impersonating banks, carriers, and government agencies at scale.

OpenCode Hits 8M Users, a Year from a Toronto Meetup

OpenCode reaches 8 million monthly users and 172K GitHub stars in one year, displacing Claude Code as the most-starred open-source coding agent.