AI in 15 — June 16, 2026

AI in 15 — June 16, 2026

Thirty-eight and a half billion dollars. That's not OpenAI's revenue. That's what OpenAI lost last year — nearly eight times the year before. And the company is about to ask the public markets to buy in at close to a trillion.

AI in 15 — June 15, 2026

KPMG sold a flagship report on the future of AI. It charged clients six and seven figures for advice like it. There was just one problem. The report itself was riddled with AI hallucinations — and of its forty-five citations, only five pointed to anything real.

AI in 15 — June 14, 2026

We told you the U.S. government switched off Anthropic's two best models worldwide. Here's the part we didn't have yet. The company that pulled the trigger? Amazon. Anthropic's own bankroller — the one that put billions into it — walked into the Treasury and said: these models are dangerous. Turn them off.

AI in 15 — June 13, 2026

At 5:21 PM Eastern yesterday, Anthropic got an order from the US government. By that evening, two of the most powerful AI models on the planet — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — were gone. Not throttled. Not restricted. Switched off, for every single customer on Earth. And the trigger? Someone asked a model to read a codebase and fix the bugs.

AI in 15 — June 12, 2026

Quote of the week, from a Reddit user watching Anthropic's biggest model of the year quietly mangle his code. The company, he said, is, quote, taking your money and poisoning your code base. Anthropic's own response? We made the wrong tradeoff, and we apologize for not getting the balance right.