Deepseek topped Ramp’s trending software vendors in June 2026 as a paid service that US companies send data to directly. Ramp chief economist Ara Kharazian points to growing cost awareness as a driver but warns about security risks of using Chinese models.
"Chat is dead," a senior OpenAI employee told the Financial Times. The company is shifting from chatbots that answer questions to agents that handle tasks on their own. That shift is driving ChatGPT's biggest overhaul since its 2022 launch, turning the chatbot into a "superapp" bundling coding tools, AI agents, and partner integrations with companies like Canva and Booking.
Chief product officer Thibault Sottiaux told the FT: "It will transcend the actual surface . . . what we're building towards is where you have your own personal agent that is capable of helping you . . . across everything in your life, be it personally or at work." The reporting draws on more than a dozen current and former employees. OpenAI already confirmed it's working on a "super app."
In the coming weeks, OpenAI will redesign ChatGPT's web and mobile interface, adding features that steer users toward coding, image generation, and partner apps. Over time, those nudges should fade as the models learn to figure out what you need on their own. ChatGPT, Codex, and other product teams have already been merged under Sottiaux.
OpenAI’s new Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT disables web access, Deep Research, and Agent Mode to make data theft through prompt injection attacks harder. The mode doesn’t fully prevent such attacks, it only blocks the final step in an exfiltration chain. Prompt injection remains an unsolved problem.
Meta is developing a paid AI agent product called "Hatch" that could cost up to $200 per month. Hatch is designed to be a user-friendly version of the open-source tool OpenClaw and will handle tasks like creating software tools, scheduling appointments, and sending emails. Users describe what they need in simple language, and Hatch builds a working tool from that description. Microsoft with Scout and Google with Gemini Spark have recently introduced similar systems.
Internal documents show a free version and a "Hatch Plus" subscription with five to ten times higher usage limits. This puts Meta in direct competition with OpenAI and Anthropic, which charge $100 to $200 monthly for their top-tier subscriptions. A broader US launch is planned for July.
Hatch will also power Meta's planned AI hardware, including new smart glasses with a "supersensing" feature and an AI pendant set for internal testing in spring 2027. CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees AI agents as a way to open up new revenue streams beyond advertising, necessary to refinance Meta's massive AI infrastructure investments, which have already resulted in layoffs.
Elon Musk's xAI spent months distilling Anthropic's Claude to train its own coding models, The Information reports. xAI trained its coding model directly on Claude's outputs. After Anthropic revoked official access in January, xAI engineers kept going through personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI. Musk previously admitted in court that xAI "partially" used OpenAI models to train Grok, calling it industry standard.
Internally, xAI looks troubled. The pretraining team shrank to under five people. Four Grok code leads left within months, along with many co-founders. One employee accidentally deleted critical training data, costing two to three weeks of work, according to The Information.
All that compute Musk bought up? He's now renting it to Anthropic via SpaceX and to Google instead of training his own models. Supposedly, it's just a stopgap.
SpaceX signed a $920 million per month contract with Google, according to an SEC filing. The deal runs from October 2026 through June 2029, potentially netting SpaceX around $30 billion total. Google gets access to about 110,000 Nvidia AI chips to meet customer demand. A Google Cloud spokesperson told the New York Times it was a "short-term, timely agreement to ensure we have bridge capacity" for its Gemini Enterprise agent platform.
SpaceX is planning an IPO next week at a potential valuation above $1.7 trillion. Google holds about five percent of SpaceX, giving it a direct stake in a strong debut. The deal also doubles as advertising for Google's AI products, since SpaceX's IPO is drawing massive attention.
SpaceX previously locked in a $1.25 billion monthly deal with Anthropic. Both agreements position SpaceX as an AI infrastructure provider. Musk originally built the capacity for his own AI lab, xAI, which has lagged behind competitors. Leasing it out makes financial sense.
Florida is the first US state to sue OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman personally. The 83-page complaint accuses the company of marketing ChatGPT as safe while the chatbot delivers dangerous content to minors, facilitates violence, and drives users toward dependency. Attorney General James Uthmeier says OpenAI "put children at great risk" and threatens penalties in the billions. Numerous cases are documented where people were harmed by ChatGPT and similar systems.
The suit treats ChatGPT as a product subject to liability and a "public nuisance," an unusual legal approach that could set a precedent for chatbot regulation. The free version has no real age verification, the complaint says, even though tens of thousands of users are under 13. Data collection starts before users agree to the terms of service. The suit even argues AI use causes cognitive erosion.
The complaint cites internal allegations too: Altman allegedly cut short safety testing for GPT-4o, and OpenAI put just 1 to 2 percent of its computing power toward AI safety instead of the promised 20 percent. OpenAI has not commented.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sharply criticized an internal memo proposing to make users "addicted" to the company's new AI agent Scout. That's "absolutely not a goal," Nadella wrote to about 50 top engineers, according to The Information. AI should empower people and create real value.
Not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense! They may want to go work elsewhere.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
The memo came from Corporate Vice President Omar Shahine and laid out a three-phase plan from addictive app to agentic platform, as 404 Media first reported. Scout is built on the open-source software OpenClaw and was unveiled at Microsoft's Build conference.
Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw told The Information that Scout should help people get tasks done more effectively and ultimately lead to less screen time. Users should have choice and control over how they interact with the agent. Nadella's rebuke comes as social media platforms face growing criticism for using addictive design patterns to squeeze more usage time out of people.
