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OpenAI Files Confidential IPO Paperwork at $852B Valuation — One Week After Anthropic
OpenAI confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC, becoming the third major AI company in the IPO pipeline after Anthropic and SpaceX. The company is valued at $852 billion and says timing is undecided — 'it may be a while.'
Anthropic Ships Claude Fable 5: Mythos-Class Power With Guardrails, Crushing Every Coding Benchmark
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a publicly available version of its restricted Mythos-class model, scoring 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro — 11 points above Opus 4.8 and 21 above GPT 5.5. Risky cyber and bio queries automatically fall back to Opus 4.8.
Meta's Muse Spark API Is Still Missing — Two Delays In and No Launch Date
Meta launched its first closed-source AI model, Muse Spark, in April 2026 but has repeatedly delayed the developer API, leaving zero external access to the model more than six weeks after its debut. The Wall Street Journal reported a second delay in early June, with Meta saying the API is in partner testing and a June release is still intended.
OpenCode Crosses 160K GitHub Stars — The Open-Source AI Coding Agent That Beat Claude Code on Adoption
OpenCode, the open-source terminal AI coding agent built by the SST team, has surpassed 160,000 GitHub stars and 7.5 million monthly active developers — making it the most-starred open-source AI coding tool in history. It runs on 75+ LLM providers and lets users bring their own subscriptions, which may explain why it grew faster than any proprietary alternative.
Uber Opens London Waitlist for Wayve Robotaxis — Driverless Rides Coming This Summer
Uber launched a public interest list on June 8 for its Wayve-powered autonomous vehicle service in London, the first public robotaxi signup in UK history. The launch puts Uber and Wayve in direct competition with Waymo, which is also targeting London for a driverless rollout in Q3 2026.
NVIDIA and LG Group Sign AI Factory Partnership Covering Robotics, ADAS, and Sovereign AI
NVIDIA and LG Group announced a sweeping AI factory collaboration on June 7, spanning six LG subsidiaries and four technical work streams from physical AI to autonomous driving. The deal ties Korea's largest conglomerate to NVIDIA's Blackwell infrastructure at a moment when sovereign AI buildout is accelerating across Asia.
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Coming in June — 2 Million Token Context and Deep Think Reasoning
Google confirmed Gemini 3.5 Pro for a June 2026 launch with a 2-million-token context window, Deep Think extended reasoning mode, and pricing of $15/$60 per million input/output tokens. It directly targets enterprise agentic workloads where Gemini 3.5 Flash regressed.
China's Moonshot AI Seeks $2 Billion at $30B Valuation — Kimi ARR Hits $200M
Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi chatbot, entered funding talks on June 8 to raise up to $2 billion at a $30 billion valuation — a sevenfold jump from December 2025. Monthly active users hit 100 million in Q1 and ARR doubled to $200M in April.
Supabase Raises $500M at $10.5B Valuation as Claude Code Becomes Its Biggest Database Creator
Supabase closed a $500 million Series F led by GIC at a $10.5 billion valuation this week, driven by a 600% year-over-year surge in database creation. Claude Code is now the single largest contributor of new Supabase databases.
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