Mistral Goes Huge, ChatGPT for Teens Flunks, Google Wins an AI FightMistral drops a 1T-parameter model, Common Sense Media rates ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk, Lambda chases $4B on the back of a $35B Anthropic deal, and a judge tosses the AI Overviews antitrust suits.
The Flat-Rate AI Era Is Dead, and GitHub Just Proved ItGitHub Copilot bills jumped 10x to 50x overnight. Google lost six researchers in five months. Alphabet raised 85 billion for compute. June 30 closes the wildest month in AI history.
Google Killed Search, OpenAI Files IPO, And More AI NewsGoogle flipped search to Gemini, OpenAI is filing for a September IPO after raising $186B, Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 just 41 days after 4.7, and Huawei says the transistor race is over.
Google I/O 2026 Drops Gemini Spark While Meta Cuts 8,000Google I/O kicked off with Gemini Spark and a $100/mo AI tier, Meta cut 8,000 jobs to fund $145B in AI capex, and Blackstone put $5B into a Google data center joint venture.