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Jun 2017Jun 2026

June

2026

21 events

  1. Jun 03

    2026

    industry

    Claude: Claude talks building, creativity, and silly ideas with Ben James

    Claude sat down with Ben James to discuss creativity, building projects, and the value of silly ideas.

  2. Jun 03

    2026

    product

    TestingCatalog: Google Dreambeans experiment launches for AI Ultra users in Labs

    Google introduced a new Dreambeans experiment in Google Labs that uses Personal Intelligence to deliver daily stories to US-based AI Ultra users on the waitlist.

  3. Jun 03

    2026

    model

    TestingCatalog: Ideogram 4.0 debuts as SOTA open image generation model

    Ideogram released version 4.0 of its open image generation model, which ranks eighth on LM Arena and supports 2K resolution and precise text rendering.

  4. Jun 03

    2026

    model

    TestingCatalog: Google releases Gemma 4 12B open-source multimodal model

    Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is available on Huggingface under Apache 2.0, offering encoder-free multimodal capabilities ideal for local consumer device deployment.

  5. Jun 03

    2026

    product

    TestingCatalog: Perplexity Personal Computer launches on Windows for Max users

    Perplexity has rolled out its Personal Computer application to Max and Enterprise Max users on Windows via a waitlist.

  6. Jun 03

    2026

    product

    Min Choi: Creator makes full music video with Dreamina AI Seedance 2.0

    Min Choi created an entire music video sequence using Dreamina AI and Octo with Seedance 2.0, highlighting its ability to sync with creative workflows.

  7. Jun 03

    2026

    product

    TestingCatalog: Capafy launches five e-commerce AI skills for store operators

    Capafy released five pre-built e-commerce agent skills including video ad makers and listing generators created by experienced operators.

  8. Jun 03

    2026

    product

    Min Choi: OpenAI launches Codex Sites for instant interactive apps

    OpenAI released Codex Sites, allowing users to convert plans, dashboards, and ideas into interactive web apps with a shareable URL.

  9. Jun 03

    2026

    policy

    Sam Altman: Altman praises new AI EO for balancing safety and US leadership

    Sam Altman endorses a new executive order on AI, saying it strikes the right balance between advancing US model leadership, ensuring safety, and equipping trusted defenders with cyber tools.

  10. Jun 02

    2026

    product

    Claude Devs: Claude Code revamps /fork with background agent and prompt cache

    Anthropic updated the /fork command in Claude Code so it now runs a background agent preserving full session context, while renaming the old behavior to /branch.

  11. Jun 02

    2026

    product

    Min Choi: Claude Platform adds built-in terminal for developers

    Anthropic added a terminal to the Claude Platform, enabling API calls, agent deployment, file uploads, YAML sync, and run inspection via CLI.

  12. Jun 02

    2026

    product

    Claude Devs: Tip: encode manual checks so Claude Code self-verifies its work

    Anthropic shared a technique for having Claude Code perform self-checks by encoding manual verification steps into its workflow.

  13. Jun 02

    2026

    product

    Claude Devs: ant CLI launches Managed Agents with full trace retrieval

    The ant CLI now supports starting Managed Agents sessions and retrieving complete execution traces, including every tool call and decision.

  14. Jun 02

    2026

    product

    Claude Devs: Claude Code gains built-in /claude-api skill for ant CLI

    Claude Code can now interact with the ant CLI via a built-in skill, enabling session management, file uploads, and debugging without extra code.

  15. Jun 02

    2026

    product

    Claude Devs: Manage Claude agents as YAML via ant CLI and CI pipelines

    Developers can now define Claude Managed Agents in YAML, version control them in Git, and deploy updates directly from CI using the ant CLI.

  16. Jun 02

    2026

    industry

    Claude: Legora CEO brings legal interpretation into AI era with Claude

    Claude highlights how Legora, led by Max Junestrand, is leveraging AI to modernize legal interpretation and build tools atop new models.

  17. Jun 02

    2026

    milestone

    Sam Altman: Altman shares inspiring Ecclesiastes quote for hard days

    Sam Altman posted a biblical quote from Ecclesiastes 9:10 about doing work with full effort as inspiration for difficult days.

  18. Jun 02

    2026

    industry

    Sam Altman: Altman shares inspiring Ecclesiastes quote for hard days

    Sam Altman posts a biblical quote from Ecclesiastes 9:10 that he finds motivating during difficult times.

  19. Jun 02

    2026

    product

    Anthropic: Anthropic Expands Project Glasswing to 150+ Orgs

    Anthropic expanded its Claude Mythos Preview program to roughly 150 additional organizations across more than fifteen countries.

  20. Jun 01

    2026

    industry

    Sam Altman: Altman teases OpenAI Foundation work on AI resilience

    Sam Altman praised the OpenAI Foundation's efforts and signaled upcoming initiatives to help society become resilient to AI.

  21. Jun 01

    2026

    industry

    Sam Altman: Altman teases OpenAI Foundation work on societal AI resilience

    Sam Altman highlights the OpenAI Foundation's efforts and signals upcoming initiatives to help society build resilience to AI's impacts.

May

2026

44 events

  1. May 31

    2026

    product

    Sam Altman: OpenAI launches robotics division, hiring engineers to build physical AI

    Sam Altman announces OpenAI Robotics, evolved from world simulation research, and opens hiring for hardware and ML engineers to build robots for skilled workers and eventually personal use.

  2. May 31

    2026

    product

    Sam Altman: OpenAI launches robotics division, hiring engineers

    Sam Altman announced OpenAI Robotics is hiring engineers to build useful robots, evolving from the world simulation research program.

  3. May 31

    2026

    product

    Sam Altman: OpenAI debuts Rosalind biodefense initiative

    Sam Altman announced OpenAI's new effort to help the world prepare for biological threats through its Rosalind biodefense program.

  4. May 28

    2026

    industry

    Claude: How red teams break Claude before launch to improve it

    Claude shares insight into its pre-release process, where internal teams stress-test new models to identify weaknesses and improve quality.

  5. May 28

    2026

    funding

    Anthropic: Anthropic Raises $65B Series H at $965B Valuation

    Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia.

  6. May 28

    2026

    model

    Min Choi: Claude Opus 4.8 drops with major coding and agent upgrades

    Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 featuring improved coding, enhanced agent capabilities, effort control, and dynamic workflows with hundreds of subagents, plus Mythos-class models coming soon.

  7. May 28

    2026

    model

    Claude: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8 with sharper judgment

    Claude Opus 4.8 is now available, featuring improved judgment, greater self-assessment honesty, and extended independent operation at unchanged pricing.

  8. May 27

    2026

    industry

    Claude: Replit's AI chief on building software for 50M users with Claude

    Claude spotlights Replit President Michele Catasta and how the platform enables over 50 million people to build software using natural language.

  9. May 27

    2026

    funding

    Sam Altman: OpenAI Foundation commits $250M to AI prosperity and measurement

    Sam Altman announces the OpenAI Foundation's initial $250 million commitment to measurement, transition support, and new approaches for broadly shared prosperity in the age of AI.

  10. May 27

    2026

    funding

    Sam Altman: OpenAI Foundation commits $250M to AI prosperity

    Sam Altman announces the OpenAI Foundation's initial $250 million commitment to support measurement, transition, and shared prosperity in the age of AI.

  11. May 24

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Geoff Hinton was once officially an 'intern' at Google

    Karpathy shares that Geoff Hinton's official title at Google was once "intern".

  12. May 24

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Geoff Hinton's official Google title was once "intern"

    Karpathy shares that Geoff Hinton once held the official title of "intern" at Google.

  13. May 24

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Geoff Hinton's official title at Google was once "intern"

    Karpathy recalls that Geoff Hinton's official title at Google was once listed as "intern".

  14. May 24

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Geoff Hinton's official Google title was once "intern"

    Karpathy recalls that Geoffrey Hinton's official title at Google was once listed as "intern."

  15. May 24

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Praising a big company for calling out industry BS

    Karpathy praises a large company for bluntly rejecting nonsense and highlights a focused MTS team on a mission.

  16. May 24

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Refreshing to see a big company successfully call out industry bs

    Karpathy praises a large company for successfully pushing back against industry nonsense with a focused team.

  17. May 23

    2026

    product

    Demis Hassabis: Hassabis praises Garry Tan's Gemini Live use

    Demis Hassabis replies to Garry Tan praising his use of Gemini Live and the work he's doing with it.

  18. May 23

    2026

    industry

    Demis Hassabis: Congrats to Cleo Abram on her amazing work

    Demis Hassabis congratulates Cleo Abram and encourages her to keep up the amazing work.

  19. May 22

    2026

    industry

    Demis Hassabis: Enjoyed chatting with Two Minute Papers

    Demis Hassabis shares that he had fun chatting with the Two Minute Papers channel.

  20. May 22

    2026

    industry

    Sam Altman: Altman asks followers which problems they want AI to solve

    Sam Altman crowdsources ideas from the community, asking what problems people most hope AI will solve and suggesting OpenAI may be able to help.

  21. May 22

    2026

    industry

    Sam Altman: Altman asks what problems users want AI to solve

    Sam Altman crowdsources ideas by asking followers which problems they most hope artificial intelligence will solve in the future.

  22. May 22

    2026

    industry

    Sam Altman: Altman asks what problems users want AI to solve

    Sam Altman crowdsources ideas by asking followers which problems they most hope AI will solve in the future.

  23. May 21

    2026

    product

    Sam Altman: OpenAI launches new Codex today

    Sam Altman announces that a new version of Codex, OpenAI's coding agent, is shipping today.

  24. May 21

    2026

    incident

    Sam Altman: Altman condemns chilling San Diego mosque attack

    Sam Altman expresses condolences and describes the attack at a San Diego mosque as one of the most chilling incidents he has witnessed.

  25. May 21

    2026

    industry

    Demis Hassabis: Thanks NBTJacklyn for the fun conversation

    Demis Hassabis thanks NBTJacklyn for a super fun chat and says he really enjoyed the conversation.

  26. May 21

    2026

    industry

    Demis Hassabis: Hassabis thanks NBTJacklyn for enjoyable conversation

    Demis Hassabis thanks NBTJacklyn and says he really enjoyed their conversation.

  27. May 20

    2026

    model

    Demis Hassabis: More info on Gemini 3.5 Flash model released

    Demis Hassabis shares a link to Google's blog post with more information about the Gemini 3.5 Flash model.

  28. May 20

    2026

    model

    Demis Hassabis: Hassabis shares details on new Gemini 3.5 Flash model

    Demis Hassabis shares a link to Google's blog post with more information on the Gemini 3.5 Flash model.

  29. May 20

    2026

    product

    Demis Hassabis: Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms 3.1 Pro with 4x speed boost

    Demis Hassabis announces Gemini 3.5 Flash, highlighting superior coding performance, 4x faster speed than frontier models, and lower cost, with Pro version coming soon.

  30. May 20

    2026

    product

    Demis Hassabis: Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms 3.1 Pro with 4x speed, half cost

    Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash, a model that beats 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic tasks while running 4x faster and often costing less than half the price.

  31. May 19

    2026

    product

    Demis Hassabis: Gemini Omni launches with advanced multimodal video editing

    Hassabis introduces Gemini Omni, a multimodal AI system that generates new scenes from photos, video, and audio inputs, starting with video generation and editing features.

  32. May 19

    2026

    product

    Demis Hassabis: Gemini Omni enables major leap in multimodal world understanding

    Google debuts Gemini Omni, a multimodal AI system that creates entirely new scenes from photos, video, and audio inputs, starting with video generation.

  33. May 19

    2026

    milestone

    Andrej Karpathy: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic as MTS to focus on LLM R&D

    Karpathy announces joining Anthropic as an MTS to work on LLM research while maintaining his passion for education.

  34. May 19

    2026

    milestone

    Andrej Karpathy: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to return to R&D

    Andrej Karpathy announces he has joined Anthropic, expressing excitement about returning to R&D at the frontier of LLMs while maintaining his passion for education.

  35. May 19

    2026

    milestone

    Andrej Karpathy: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to return to LLM R&D

    Karpathy announces he has joined Anthropic, expressing excitement about returning to LLM research and development.

  36. May 19

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to return to LLM R&D

    Karpathy announces he has joined Anthropic, expressing excitement to work on LLM research while maintaining his passion for education.

  37. May 19

    2026

    milestone

    Demis Hassabis: Demis Hassabis declares he is 'locked in'

    The DeepMind CEO posts a cryptic but enthusiastic one-liner signaling intense focus just ahead of a wave of major product announcements.

  38. May 18

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Realized 8XH100 requirement would block viewers on step 1

    Karpathy notes that requiring an 8-GPU H100 setup would immediately prevent most viewers from following his nanochat tutorial.

  39. May 12

    2026

    product

    Demis Hassabis: DeepMind unveils prototype for intelligent AI mouse pointer

    Google DeepMind demonstrates an AI-powered intelligent mouse pointer prototype that users can already try out inside Google AI Studio.

  40. May 12

    2026

    product

    Demis Hassabis: Google DeepMind demos AI-powered intelligent mouse pointer

    Demis Hassabis shares a prototype from his team that reimagines the mouse pointer with integrated AI intelligence, available to try in Google AI Studio.

  41. May 12

    2026

    funding

    Demis Hassabis: Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1B to turbocharge AI drug discovery

    Demis Hassabis announces $2.1 billion in new funding for Isomorphic Labs to advance its mission of using AI to reimagine drug discovery and tackle disease.

  42. May 12

    2026

    funding

    Demis Hassabis: Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1B to turbocharge AI drug discovery

    Isomorphic Labs secures $2.1 billion in new funding to accelerate its mission of using artificial intelligence to reimagine drug discovery and combat disease.

  43. May 11

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: AI I/O should evolve from markdown to HTML to neural video

    Karpathy argues that LLM outputs should progress from markdown to HTML and eventually to interactive neural videos, while audio remains the ideal human input.

  44. May 11

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Karpathy: HTML output is the next frontier for LLM interfaces

    Andrej Karpathy argues that AI output should evolve from text to HTML and eventually neural video, while audio remains the ideal input modality.

April

2026

4 events

  1. Apr 30

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Karpathy shares a quote he's been citing frequently

    Andrej Karpathy notes that he has been frequently citing a particular quote recently.

  2. Apr 30

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Karpathy shares a quote he's been citing frequently

    Karpathy notes he has been frequently citing a particular quote recently.

  3. Apr 30

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Karpathy: LLMs create new paradigms, not just speedups

    Karpathy summarizes his Sequoia talk on how LLMs enable previously impossible applications, why capabilities are jagged, and the rise of an agent-native economy.

  4. Apr 09

    2026

    industry

    Andrej Karpathy: Karpathy on the growing AI capability perception gap

    Karpathy explains the divergence between casual users of free AI models and professionals using frontier agentic tools, driven by verifiable rewards and market economics.

October

2025

1 event

  1. Oct 30

    2025

    milestone

    Sam Altman: Altman promises more silly philosophy tweets

    Sam Altman joked that he would post more lighthearted philosophy content and lamented not sharing baby photos due to privacy concerns.

September

2025

1 event

  1. Sep 10

    2025

    research

    Model Context Protocol (MCP) 1.0 spec finalised

    Anthropic-led open standard for connecting LLMs to tools and data. Becomes the de-facto plug-in protocol across major labs and dev tooling.

May

2025

1 event

  1. May 22

    2025

    model

    Claude Opus 4 introduces extended thinking

    First mainstream model with developer-tunable 'thinking budget'. Establishes the pattern other labs subsequently follow.

January

2025

2 events

  1. Jan 21

    2025

    funding

    OpenAI + SoftBank + Oracle: $500B 'Stargate' infrastructure

    OpenAI announces a multi-year, multi-party $500B AI infrastructure plan — the largest single capex commitment in the industry's history.

  2. Jan 20

    2025

    model

    DeepSeek V3 + R1 release — the Sputnik moment

    A Chinese lab releases an open-weights reasoning model at frontier quality, trained for roughly $5M. Triggers an immediate global reassessment of the cost frontier.

April

2024

1 event

  1. Apr 18

    2024

    model

    Meta releases Llama 3

    8B and 70B open-weights models. Llama 3 70B is the first open model to clearly approach closed-frontier quality on benchmarks.

March

2024

2 events

  1. Mar 13

    2024

    policy

    EU AI Act passes the European Parliament

    First comprehensive regional AI regulation: risk-tiered obligations, GPAI provider rules, transparency requirements. Phased rollout follows.

  2. Mar 04

    2024

    model

    Anthropic releases Claude 3 family — Opus tops the boards

    Opus becomes the first non-OpenAI model to clearly top frontier benchmarks. Mid-tier Sonnet and small Haiku launch alongside.

February

2024

1 event

  1. Feb 15

    2024

    model

    OpenAI shows Sora — minute-long generated video

    Quality leap so large that many doubted it was real. Public release follows months later.

December

2023

1 event

  1. Dec 08

    2023

    model

    Mistral releases Mixtral 8x7B (MoE) with open weights

    First widely-used open-weights MoE model. Sets the template for the next two years of European open-weights frontier work.

October

2023

1 event

  1. Oct 30

    2023

    policy

    Biden signs sweeping AI executive order

    First major US federal action on AI: reporting requirements for large training runs, safety standards, content provenance.

March

2023

4 events

  1. Mar 29

    2023

    policy

    ‘Pause Giant AI Experiments’ open letter

    FLI publishes a letter calling for a six-month pause on training models beyond GPT-4. Signed by 1,000+ researchers and tech leaders. Goes essentially ignored.

  2. Mar 14

    2023

    model

    Anthropic introduces Claude

    Same day as GPT-4. Anthropic positions Claude on safety-by-design via Constitutional AI — the first serious alternative to OpenAI as a frontier lab.

  3. Mar 14

    2023

    model

    OpenAI releases GPT-4

    First multimodal frontier model. Doubles down on alignment work via RLHF and constitutional methods. Capability jumps over GPT-3.5 are massive.

  4. Mar 03

    2023

    incident

    Meta's LLaMA weights leak onto 4chan

    Originally distributed to researchers under controlled access, LLaMA leaks publicly. Lights the fuse on the open-weights model ecosystem.

November

2022

1 event

  1. Nov 30

    2022

    milestone

    ChatGPT launches — and AI breaks containment

    OpenAI ships a polished chat UI on top of GPT-3.5. One million users in five days. The moment AI enters the mainstream consciousness.

August

2022

1 event

  1. Aug 22

    2022

    model

    Stable Diffusion v1 released with open weights

    The image-generation revolution becomes open-source overnight. Spawns a thousand forks and the modern AI image ecosystem.

June

2021

1 event

  1. Jun 29

    2021

    product

    GitHub Copilot enters preview

    The first mainstream AI coding tool. Built on OpenAI Codex (descendant of GPT-3).

May

2020

1 event

  1. May 28

    2020

    model

    GPT-3 paper and API launch

    175B parameters. Few-shot prompting becomes a thing. The first model to feel categorically different.

February

2019

1 event

  1. Feb 14

    2019

    model

    OpenAI releases GPT-2 (cautiously)

    OpenAI initially withholds the full 1.5B model citing misuse concerns — the first 'too dangerous to release' moment.

October

2018

1 event

  1. Oct 11

    2018

    model

    Google releases BERT

    First widely-adopted Transformer encoder. Sweeps NLP benchmarks; becomes the default building block for the next two years.

June

2017

1 event

  1. Jun 12

    2017

    research

    ‘Attention Is All You Need’ — the Transformer paper

    Google Brain publishes the architecture that becomes the foundation of every modern LLM. Sequence-to-sequence learning is no longer the same.