Author: Aaron Harme

Microsoft puts Home, Code, and Autopilot in one Copilot app while fewer than 7% of more than 450 million commercial seats carry the AI license.

The fourth cybersecurity model this year already sits with Daybreak Red alpha testers, with a yet-to-be-named product that helps customers run it under OpenAI oversight ahead of DevDay.

A federal judge ordered the White House to restore CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, but major U.S. networks still refused live video of Xi’s arrival for the AI-and-trade state dinner. OpenAI is preparing GPT-6 Cyber and a first-of-its-kind product to help customers deploy it, with Daybreak Red already in alpha. Anthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion Akamai cloud deal with a warrant for about 5% of the company, and is asking shareholders for Palantir-style 50.1% co-founder voting control before a record IPO path. Overnight, Google set an October 1 Falcon 9 flight for Project Suncatcher TPUs in orbit.

China’s president is in Washington for three days with artificial intelligence on the agenda beside tariffs and Taiwan, a Busan trade truce extended to January 10, and Altman, Huang, Pichai, and Musk on the state-dinner list. Meta estimates up to $145 billion in 2026 capital spending, roughly double last year. A memo circulating in Trump world brands Dario Amodei the face of AI doomerism as Anthropic prepares a record IPO. Overnight, Australia disclosed an OpenAI agent’s June run at a Medicare stats portal with a nearly three-month notice lag, and Anthropic’s new wet lab said Claude flagged a bacteriophage enzyme system it compares to Crispr.

A roughly 101% jump from $72.2 billion. Zuckerberg says a significant portion goes to training models and personal agents. Fortune puts the bill above most national military budgets.