Noam Shazeer, vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini AI models, announced on X that he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. In his post, Shazeer wrote: “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI…
OpenAI updated its official ChatGPT release notes on June 17, 2026, rolling out a new Scheduled tasks feature while confirming the sunset of the Pulse proactive updates tool. The changes consolidate proactive assistance into user-initiated, controllable scheduled executions rather than…
Boston Consulting Group reports that while overall international mobility among highly skilled professionals has declined sharply, the competition for AI talent remains intense, with the United States losing market share in the category for the first time in recent years.…
Anthropic’s official Claude API deprecation documentation confirms that today, June 15, 2026, marks the retirement date for two specific versioned models. API calls using the exact identifiers claude-sonnet-4-20250514 and claude-opus-4-20250514 will now fail. The page, which serves as Anthropic’s authoritative…
Meta deepens NVIDIA partnership with multi-year, multi-generational deal for millions of Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, plus NVIDIA CPUs, Spectrum-X networking, and Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems. Meta also advancing AMD deployments (multi-GW scale starting H2 2026) and its own…
xAI continues aggressive scaling of its Colossus supercluster in Memphis. Colossus 2 (1 GW scale) is now operational with significant GB200/GB300 deployments alongside earlier H100/H200 units, targeting expansions toward 555k+ GPUs and multi-GW capacity. Roadmap points to 1M GPU equivalents.…
Anthropic has added hardware talent from rival OpenAI, with Clive Chan joining as a Member of Technical Staff focused on custom silicon. Chan, who was widely reported as OpenAI’s second hardware hire on its in-house custom chip program, announced the…
Anthropic has officially deprecated the use of custom temperature, top_p, and top_k values on Claude Opus 4.7 and later models, including Opus 4.8. Starting with these newer versions, setting any of these sampling parameters to non-default values now returns a…
Anthropic will retire claude-mythos-preview on June 30, 2026, according to the company’s official Model Deprecations page. The model has been marked as deprecated, with claude-mythos-5 listed as the recommended replacement. Users currently relying on claude-mythos-preview will need to migrate ahead…
Anthropic will retire the original Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 models from the API on June 15, 2026 — just two days from now. The company first announced the deprecations on April 14, 2026. Both models have been…