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Journal / June 27, 2026

The fight for the top heated up

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6, then paused the rollout within hours after a direct request from the US administration. Anthropic's Mythos 5 saga got messier: cleared for 100+ US…

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OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6, then paused the rollout within hours after a direct request from the US administration. Anthropic's Mythos 5 saga got messier: cleared for 100+ US…

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The fight for the top heated up

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6, then paused the rollout within hours after a direct request from the US administration. Anthropic's Mythos 5 saga got messier: cleared for 100+ US companies and agencies while Asian clones ship under the export ban. The mood: 'it's no longer Anthropic vs OpenAI.'

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The chip war heats up under the surface

Everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own silicon and pressuring Nvidia. DeepSeek open-sourced inference optimizations claiming 60-85% speedups, and Railway raised $100M to take on AWS with AI-native cloud.

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Agents go mainstream, dev tools feel the heat

'Claude Code runs up to $200/mo, Goose does the same for free.' Salesforce shipped a Slackbot agent against Microsoft and Google, and Notion is shutting its email app because users live in AI agents now.

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Research worth remembering

Three sharp arXiv papers: detecting and steering model sycophancy, a finding that refusal sits downstream of the persona, and a fresh benchmark for adversarial attacks on agents. Agent security is becoming its own field.

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