The Loop · Issue N°025

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The kill switch did the diplomacy — five days after Washington took Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis sat down at the G7 in Évian-les-Bains and asked the allies to sign up for an explicitly US-led AI coalition. Canada said yes; France brought a list.
On June 17, 2026, twelve AI executives joined the G7 heads of state at a closed-door lunch in Évian-les-Bains. Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led AI coalition — five days after Washington took Anthropic's flagship models offline globally.
Jun 18, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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Jun 18, 2026
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The harness, not the model — OpenAI launched its first formal partner network on Sunday, $150 million and 300,000 consultants by year-end, eleven days after Anthropic finalised the same kind of programme at $100 million
On June 14, 2026 OpenAI announced its Partner Network — $150M, four launch partners, 300,000 certified consultants targeted by year-end. The number matches Anthropic's Claude Corps to the dollar. Both companies arrived at the same conclusion in the same fortnight.
Jun 17, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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Jun 17, 2026
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We expect it to leak — OpenAI files its confidential S-1 eight days behind Anthropic and $113 billion lower
OpenAI confirmed its confidential S-1 on June 8, 2026 — eight days after Anthropic, at $852B versus Anthropic's $965B. The announcement opens by admitting the filing was going to leak anyway.
Jun 10, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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Jun 10, 2026
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Rent and resell — Apple's last Cook keynote pays Google a billion a year for Siri's brain and turns the rest into an AI marketplace
On June 8, Apple shipped Siri AI on Gemini and announced iOS 27 Extensions, a third-party AI marketplace where users pick Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok as the default. The keynote was Tim Cook's last. John Ternus takes over September 1.
Jun 9, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jun 9, 2026
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Doubling every four months — Anthropic publishes the curve and asks the industry to brake, three days after the S-1
On June 4, Marina Favaro and Jack Clark published Anthropic's four-month doubling curve and called for a coordinated industry pause. The post went up three days after Anthropic's confidential S-1. David Sacks called the timing regulatory capture.
Jun 8, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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Jun 8, 2026
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Learned, not inherited — Microsoft's first reasoning model ships a benchmark chart that doesn't mention OpenAI
On June 2, 2026, Microsoft's Superintelligence team released MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash at Build. The press release uses the word "inherited" once and the word "OpenAI" never. The competitor named on every chart is Anthropic.
Jun 3, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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Jun 3, 2026
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Filed first — Anthropic submits its confidential S-1, and OpenAI is now the one chasing
On June 1, 2026, Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC. The same paperwork OpenAI was reported on May 20 to be filing "as soon as Friday" has not, as of this writing, been confirmed by OpenAI. The race opened with the wrong company at the front.
Jun 2, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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Jun 2, 2026
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The leapfrog — Anthropic Series H closes at $65B and passes OpenAI on the way to $965B
On May 28 Anthropic closed a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, lifting it past OpenAI to become the world's most valuable AI startup. Three months ago the same company was worth $380B with $14B of run-rate. Both numbers have since roughly tripled.
May 29, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 29, 2026
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Nine signatures — an OpenAI reasoning model disproves the Erdős unit-distance conjecture
On May 20, OpenAI announced that an internal generalist reasoning model produced the first counterexample to Paul Erdős' 1946 unit-distance conjecture. Nine senior mathematicians filed an arXiv preprint the same day, verifying the proof.
May 25, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 25, 2026
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Flash at Pro prices — Gemini 3.5 Flash completes the three-lab pricing pattern
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash on May 19 at $1.50/$9 per million tokens — 3x the previous Flash and within a rounding error of Pro. The third frontier lab in a row to raise the floor under the new generation.
May 21, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 21, 2026
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The recursive hire — Karpathy joins Anthropic to use Claude to train the next Claude
On May 19 Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic's pre-training team to build a sub-team that uses Claude to accelerate pre-training research. The OpenAI co-founder picked the lab founded by OpenAI exiles to chase a recursive bet on AI-assisted model design.
May 20, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 20, 2026
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The shared pipe — Anthropic buys Stainless, the SDK generator OpenAI and Google run on
On May 18 Anthropic bought Stainless, the New York startup whose tooling generates the official SDKs for OpenAI, Google, Cloudflare, and Anthropic itself. The Information put the price above $300 million. The hosted generator winds down today.
May 19, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 19, 2026
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Irreversible dependency — Mistral's CEO tells the French parliament to keep Mythos off military code
On May 17 Mistral's Arthur Mensch told a French parliamentary inquiry that letting Anthropic's Mythos scan the army's source code would create a dependency France could not reverse. The EU/Mythos access standoff just became industrial policy.
May 18, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 18, 2026
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Two-point-one — Anthropic edges OpenAI on Ramp's AI index, and the company's own economist lists three reasons it won't last
On May 13 Ramp's AI Index showed 34.4% of US businesses on its platform paying Anthropic in April, against 32.3% paying OpenAI. It is the first month Claude has been in front. Ramp economist Ara Kharazian attached three headwinds to the same post.
May 14, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 14, 2026
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The Stanford pipeline — OpenAI hires Gimlet Labs, the team that made Codex-Spark run on Cerebras
On May 12 The Information reported OpenAI has hired Gimlet Labs — the Menlo-backed startup whose software has been running GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on Cerebras silicon since February. Gimlet's CEO is a Stanford research partner of Sachin Katti, who now runs OpenAI's compute.
May 13, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 13, 2026
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The Deployment Company — OpenAI takes $4 billion from 19 partners, including the consultancies it's about to compete with
On May 11 OpenAI announced a $4 billion subsidiary to do the enterprise integration work its customers had been hiring Accenture, Cognizant, and Infosys to do. McKinsey, Bain, and Capgemini all wrote cheques. Accenture, Cognizant, and Infosys closed down 3–5%.
May 12, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 12, 2026
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From $250,000 to a credit card — OpenAI turns ChatGPT ads into a self-serve product
On May 5, OpenAI opened ads.openai.com to any US advertiser, dropped the $50,000 minimum spend, switched on cost-per-click bidding, and shipped a conversion pixel. The pilot is over. The next target is $100B in ad revenue by 2030.
May 6, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 6, 2026
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From access list to hardware key — OpenAI gives Trusted Access for Cyber 30 days to plug in a YubiKey
OpenAI's new Advanced Account Security setting disables passwords and mandates FIDO2 hardware keys. Trusted Access for Cyber members have until June 1 to enable it. The cyber-model gate just acquired a hardware perimeter.
May 5, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 5, 2026
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Matched and shipping — AISI's hardest cyber range now has two solvers, only one is in the lab
AISI just confirmed GPT-5.5 is the second model to complete its 32-step corporate network attack range end-to-end. The first was Claude Mythos, which Anthropic still hasn't shipped. AISI also found a universal jailbreak in six hours.
May 4, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 4, 2026
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Trusted access — OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber lands in the same room Anthropic opened three weeks earlier
On April 30 OpenAI began rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber to a vetted list of governments, banks, and security vendors. Project Glasswing did the same thing on April 7. Look at the customer rosters and you'll find a lot of the same names twice.
May 1, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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May 1, 2026
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Twenty-four hours — OpenAI's models hit AWS Bedrock the day after Microsoft's exclusivity ended
On April 27 Microsoft and OpenAI rewrote a contract that had quietly survived since 2019. On April 28 OpenAI's frontier models, Codex, and Managed Agents were live on AWS Bedrock. The pacing tells you everything.
Apr 29, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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Apr 29, 2026
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GPT-5.5 "Spud" — twice the price, split benchmarks, and a polite request to start your prompts over
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 on April 23, doubled the API price, and split the benchmark trophies with Anthropic. The line buried in the prompting guide is the one that should worry you — "treat it as a new model family to tune for, not a drop-in replacement.
Apr 25, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
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Apr 25, 2026