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…
Anthropic has officially confirmed deprecation timelines for several Claude models, with two major deadlines looming in the coming weeks. According to the company’s Model Deprecations page and recent release notes, developers using older Claude 4-series models will need to migrate…
Mastercard has introduced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a new service designed to enable AI agents and machines to conduct programmatic, high-speed, always-on transactions across its global payments network. The June 10 announcement builds on Mastercard’s existing Agent Pay program…
OpenAI has rolled out a new set of updates to ChatGPT and its Codex tool on June 11, 2026. The changes are aimed at eligible Plus and Pro users and focus on quality-of-life improvements and stronger developer tooling. Rate-limit reset…
xAI has rolled out the Grok Build Plugin Marketplace, bringing a built-in plugin system to its terminal-native coding agent. The marketplace allows users to browse, install, and manage plugins directly inside Grok Build without leaving the terminal. Plugins bundle skills,…
Standard Bots just cleared a major milestone, landing a $200 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, according to the company’s official announcement. The round was led by RoboStrategy with participation from General Catalyst and other existing investors. Insiders…
On June 10, 2026, German robotics company NEURA Robotics announced one of the largest funding rounds in the history of the sector: up to $1.4 billion in Series C financing. The round is led by Tether and includes participation from…
Fresh data from Anthropic’s Institute post “When AI builds itself” (surfacing prominently this week) quantifies how quickly Claude is internalizing Anthropic’s own R&D loop. The numbers paint a clear picture of compounding automation in frontier AI development. Core Metrics (as…
Ongoing coverage of the Midwest Stargate campus continued to surface today with fresh emphasis on the Lighthouse project’s scale: a ~902 MW critical IT load target across four single-story data centers (2.5 million sq ft) on Vantage’s 672-acre Port Washington,…