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OpenAI unveiled its first custom AI chip, Anthropic accused Alibaba of running the largest-ever AI theft campaign using 25,000 fake accounts, and Google launched a reasoning model that outscored every public competitor on the hardest science benchmarks — all in the same week that SpaceX's Tennessee data centres quietly became the AI world's busiest compute exchange. If you want to talk about where AI infrastructure power is pooling, and who is trying to steal it, this is the week that wrote the case study.

A weekly briefing on what's moving in AI and tech — with a South African lens. Curated for my podcast listeners.

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This week the US government did something that has never happened before: it ordered a commercial AI company to switch off its own models for every customer on earth — within days of launch. Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were live for three days before a national security directive pulled them globally. On top of that, Google lost its Nobel Prize winner and its Gemini co-lead in the same 48-hour window. If you're following the AI talent war, the infrastructure sovereignty debate, or the regulation race — all three moved significantly this week.

A weekly briefing on what's moving in AI and tech — with a South African lens. Curated for my podcast listeners.

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This week the dominant story is Microsoft turning Windows into an operating system for AI agents at Build 2026, alongside Anthropic confidentially filing for an IPO at a $965B valuation and Nvidia gatecrashing the Windows-PC chip market at Computex. Underneath all of it: GitHub flipped Copilot to pay-per-token billing on 1 June, SoftBank pledged €75bn to French AI datacentres, and University of Toronto researchers showed a small free LLM running on a compromised laptop can autonomously worm through 73.8% of a corporate network.

A weekly briefing on what's moving in AI and tech — with a South African lens. Curated for my podcast listeners.

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This week the dominant story is Google's aggressive push into agentic AI at I/O 2026. The company rolled out Gemini 3.5 Flash as the default model for AI Mode in Search, introduced a completely redesigned AI-powered Search box (the biggest change in 25+ years), launched continuous "information agents" that monitor the web on your behalf, and debuted agentic coding tools via its new Antigravity platform.