As of: 2026-10-07 23:43 CEST.
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# AI in June 2026

29 events: 8 major, 1 historic. Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026.
Every event, newest first. Each line: date, short title, page, first primary source.

- 2026-06-30: [Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, "the most agentic Sonnet yet"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-30-claude-sonnet-5/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5
- 2026-06-30: [Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for researchers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-30-claude-science/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-support-for-scientists
- 2026-06-30: [Gemini Omni Flash opens to developers via the Gemini API](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-30-gemini-omni-flash-api/). Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog
- 2026-06-29: [Machine-learning screen predicts two new kagome superconductors, confirmed in the lab](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-29-ml-screened-kagome-superconductors/). Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260701205006.htm
- 2026-06-26: ["A Face Only A Mother Could Love" wins the Grand Prix at Runway's 2026 AI Film Festival](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-26-runway-ai-film-festival-2026-winners/). Source: https://x.com/runwayml/status/2070591928953925793
- 2026-06-25: [US government asks OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 release to approved partners](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-25-us-government-gates-gpt-5-6-release/). Source: https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
- 2026-06-24: [Anthropic tells US senators and the White House that Alibaba's Qwen lab ran the largest known distillation campaign on Claude (28.8M exchanges)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-24-anthropic-accuses-alibaba-qwen-distillation/). Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-illicitly-accessing-its-ai-models
- 2026-06-22: [Micron and Anthropic sign a memory supply, co-design and investment deal](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-22-micron-anthropic-strategic-agreement/). Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/22/3315307/14450/en/micron-and-anthropic-announce-strategic-agreement-to-scale-next-generation-ai-infrastructure.html
- 2026-06-17: [Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer, Google's Gemini co-lead, leaves for OpenAI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-17-noam-shazeer-leaves-google-for-openai/). Source: https://x.com/NoamShazeer/status/2067400851438932297
- 2026-06-17: [OpenAI releases LifeSciBench, 750 expert-written life-science research tasks](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-17-openai-lifescibench/). Source: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/b4299379-0a97-4ffa-8b9b-c3fbb299caa9/lifescibench_preprint.pdf
- 2026-06-16: [SpaceX exercises its option to buy Cursor maker Anysphere for $60B in stock](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-16-spacex-acquires-cursor/). Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001181412/000162828026056945/spcx-20260814.htm
- 2026-06-12: [US export controls force Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-12-us-export-controls-suspend-fable-5/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5
- 2026-06-12: [SpaceX (incl. xAI) lists on Nasdaq in record $75B IPO](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-12-spacex-ipo-record/). Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5853199/spacex-ipo-price-elon-musk
- 2026-06-12: ["Claude Fable 5 Made This Entire Video By Itself"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-12-model-made-this-entire-video-genre/). Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONmaDdOBGig
- 2026-06-10: [AI systems pass 7 of 10 unpublished research problems in First Proof's second batch](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-10-first-proof-second-batch/). Source: https://1stproof.org/assets/docs/report.pdf
- 2026-06-10: [Dario Amodei publishes "Policy on the AI Exponential", calling for binding frontier-AI regulation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-10-dario-amodei-policy-on-the-ai-exponential/). Source: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
- 2026-06-09: [Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-mythos-5/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
- 2026-06-09: [Google launches Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, voice-preserving real-time speech translation in 70+ languages](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-09-gemini-3-5-live-translate/). Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-live-3-5-translate/
- 2026-06-09: [Seattle City Council unanimously passes a one-year emergency moratorium on large AI data centers; Oct 4 statewide protests call for more](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-09-seattle-data-center-moratorium/). Source: https://council.seattle.gov/2026/06/09/city-council-passes-emergency-data-center-moratorium-and-policy-framework/
- 2026-06-08: [OpenAI confidentially submits a draft S-1 for an IPO, a week after Anthropic](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-08-openai-confidential-s1-ipo/). Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-submits-confidential-s-1/
- 2026-06-08: [WWDC 2026: Apple unveils Siri AI and new Apple Foundation Models built with Google's Gemini](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-08-wwdc-2026-siri-ai-gemini/). Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-everything-announced-on-siri-ai-os-27-apple-intelligence-and-more/
- 2026-06-06: [White House senior AI policy adviser Sriram Krishnan announces he will leave at the end of June 2026](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-06-sriram-krishnan-leaves-white-house/). Source: https://gvwire.com/2026/06/06/white-house-ai-policy-adviser-krishnan-to-leave-position/
- 2026-06-05: [Computationally designed broad coronavirus vaccine is safe and immunogenic in first human trial](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-05-ai-designed-coronavirus-vaccine-trial/). Source: https://www.diosynvax.com/
- 2026-06-02: [Microsoft launches seven in-house MAI models at Build 2026, led by MAI-Thinking-1](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-microsoft-mai-models-build-2026/). Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models/
- 2026-06-02: [Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics sets community norms for AI in maths (4,000+ signatories)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-leiden-declaration-ai-mathematics/). Source: https://leidendeclaration.ai
- 2026-06-02: [NeurIPS 2026: 28% of position-track submissions score 100% AI-written, and 178 are desk-rejected](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-neurips-2026-position-track-ai-papers/). Source: https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/ai-generated-papers-in-the-neurips-2026-position-paper-track/
- 2026-06-01: [NVIDIA releases Cosmos 3, an open omni-model for physical AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-01-nvidia-cosmos-3-open-release/). Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos-3-for-physical-ai
- 2026-06-01: [MiniMax M3: open-weights 428B MoE with 1M context and native multimodality](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-01-minimax-m3/). Source: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/release-notes/models
- 2026-06-01: [Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 for an IPO](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-01-anthropic-confidential-s1-ipo/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec

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