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Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, pitching it as a model that plans, uses browsers and terminals, and runs autonomously at a level that previously demanded larger, pricier models. It's priced at an introductory $2 per million input and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, then $3/$15, and it's the new default on Free and Pro. The move directly targets the runaway agent bills enterprises have been complaining about.
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The first full month of GitHub Copilot's usage-based billing has landed, and agentic developers are reporting costs 10x to 50x their old flat subscriptions — projections of $29 jumping to $750, and $50 ballooning to $3,000. The core problem: when Copilot runs an agent, the model itself decides how many internal calls and iterations to make, so one prompt can silently trigger dozens of metered calls. GitHub CPO Mario Rodriguez's defense — "Copilot is not the same product it was a year ago" — has not calmed the backlash.
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Starting July 1, open-source lab Reflection AI begins paying SpaceX $150 million a month for GB300-powered capacity in the Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, a contract worth up to $6.3 billion through 2029. It's a smaller sibling to SpaceX's Anthropic ($1.25B/month) and Google ($920M/month) deals, and it cements Elon Musk's Colossus as a commercial compute landlord. Nvidia sits on both sides of the trade, having invested $800 million in Reflection while supplying the chips SpaceX bought.
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The Colorado AI Act — set to become the first comprehensive US state AI law when it took effect June 30 — has instead been amended and pushed to January 1, 2027, with much of its teeth removed. Gone are the duty of care against algorithmic discrimination, mandatory risk-management programs, and impact assessments; what remains is a narrower disclosure-and-transparency regime enforceable only by the state attorney general, with a 60-day cure period. It's a notable retreat on the regulatory front just as the models get more capable.
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Qualcomm unveiled its Dragonfly C1000 data-center CPU — a chiplet design with 250-plus cores built for agentic AI workloads — and named Meta as a marquee multigenerational customer. The company is projecting north of $15 billion in annual data-center revenue by fiscal 2029, betting that CPUs take on more work as autonomous agents proliferate. It's a direct shot at Nvidia's grip on the AI data center.
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OpenAI began a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 family — flagship Sol, balanced Terra, and low-cost Luna — with a new "max reasoning" effort and an "ultra" mode that spins up subagents for complex work. Sol sets a new state of the art on Terminal-Bench 2.1, but access is capped at roughly 20 government-approved partners at the behest of the US government, with wider availability promised "in the coming weeks."
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a reticle-sized LLM-optimized inference ASIC co-developed from design to tape-out in just nine months — a cycle OpenAI says its own models helped accelerate. The companies are targeting initial deployment by the end of 2026, aiming for roughly half the cost of comparable Nvidia GPUs on inference. It's OpenAI's clearest step yet toward owning its own silicon stack.
