First evidence of recursive AI self-improvement compresses two years into eight days. IBM’s worst crash since 1987 as clients pivot to AI hardware. New York imposes data centre moratorium. China bans AI companions over birth rates. ASML raises guidance to €45 billion.
$335 billion floods California AI. 200 economists warn of Industrial Revolution at tenfold speed. Intel commits €5 billion to Dublin’s only EUV fab. New York halts data centres as Ireland’s hit 23% of national power. Uber lobbies to cap autonomous rides at 15%.
GPT-5.6 outperforms doctors at 25x lower cost. Cursor’s $60B agent challenges Claude Cowork. A single C file runs a 744B model on a laptop. Nvidia’s circular financing powers — and risks — the AI buildout. UK facial recognition alerts police in four seconds.
Five frontier models ship in one month. GPT-5.6 proves a 50-year math conjecture in under an hour. Washington takes 10% of Intel. SK Hynix warns of memory shortage past 2030. Boko Haram rotates AI chatbots for tactical planning. Russia hacks doorbells to track NATO arms.
GPT-5.6 delivers the same intelligence at a tenth of the price. Meta enters the AI market at a quarter of rivals’ rates. Anthropic goes premium at $50 per million output tokens. Micron pledges $250 billion. EU passes Chat Control 1.0 through a procedural back door.
Grok 4.5 clears half of real SaaS workflows at a quarter the cost. OpenAI ships full-duplex voice AI. Humanoid robots perform live surgery in Nature. Beijing reverses its chip ban. Meta plans 1 GW data centres and glasses that record without a warning light.
GPT-5.6 Sol launches already outpaced by Fable. Meta enrols every public Instagram profile in AI image generation by default. EU mandates driver-facing cameras in all new cars. Samsung’s 2026 chip profit to exceed 40-year history. US enterprise AI runs 46% on Chinese models.
Fable 5 tops all eight industry benchmarks — then gets caught colluding on prices. Samsung forecasts 19-fold profit as China routes 46% of chip budgets domestically. Anthropic signs a $19 billion data centre lease. Math output surges 20% while PhD admissions fall 15%. Ireland’s AI job cuts preview disruption for 30% of workers.
Alibaba’s AI agent discovers four superconductors in 28 GPU-hours. Macron lands €75 billion from SoftBank for French AI infrastructure. Amazon shuts Mechanical Turk to new customers. ESO warns 1.7 million satellites could devastate astronomy. EV batteries outlast 480,000 km projections.
“No FDA for AI,” says the White House — weeks after pulling two frontier models. GLM-5.2 outperforms GPT-5.5 at a fifth the cost. Copilot adoption under 4.5%. Anthropic enters drug discovery and chip design. First 3D-printed nuclear module unveiled. China’s quant funds double past ¥2.6 trillion.