Monday, 29 June 2026
Anthropic strikes deal with California
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All California state agencies and local governments can now access Claude at 50% off, with free workforce training and Anthropic developer support included.
Cursor ships iOS app for coding agents
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Cursor's public beta iOS app lets you launch cloud coding agents in isolated VMs, review diffs, and merge pull requests from your phone.
Open WebUI 0.10 ships computer agent mode
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Open WebUI v0.10.0 adds a computer agent, team folder sharing, streaming reasoning display, a full memory overhaul, and a webhook event plugin system.
Devin Fusion routes tasks between models mid-job
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Cognition's Devin Fusion routes sub-tasks between a frontier model and a cheaper sidekick, cutting agent costs 35% on FrontierCode benchmarks.
Gemini personal image gen goes free in US
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Google opens Gemini Personal Intelligence image generation to all eligible free US users; previously paid, now free via Nano Banana 2.
Arena hits $100M revenue in 8 months
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Arena's model-evaluation business hit $100M annualized revenue eight months after its September 2025 commercial launch, at a $1.7B post-money valuation.
Claude now runs on GB300 Blackwell Ultra in Azure
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Anthropic's Claude is now generally available in Azure Foundry on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra NVL72 systems, cutting inference cost for agentic workloads.
Cline 4.0.3 opens ClinePass to all users
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Cline v4.0.3 removes the feature-flag gate on the ClinePass provider, making the integrated billing and model access layer available to all users.
Grok 4.5 enters private beta at SpaceX and Tesla
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Elon Musk says Grok 4.5 is in private testing at SpaceX and Tesla, built on a 1.5 trillion-parameter V9 foundation, with early performance called Opus-level.
South Korea pledges $900B+ for AI chips
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Samsung and SK Group committed over $900 billion to memory-chip manufacturing and AI data centers through 2035, citing demand for high-bandwidth memory.
TIDAL cuts royalties for AI-only music
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Starting July 15, TIDAL will not pay royalties to 100% AI-generated tracks, will tag them with an AI badge, and will remove them from recommendations.
Austria asks EU to host Anthropic
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Austria's digitalisation secretary wrote to the EU's tech-sovereignty chief urging member states to explore a strategic Anthropic presence in Europe.