Mehul Thakkar

7 AI News From This Week That Will Make You Think

7 AI News From This Week That Will Make You Think

Scientists used AI to design viruses that have never existed in nature, watched them come to life in a lab, and confirmed they could wipe out bacteria that had grown resistant to existing treatments. Tesla and SpaceX announced a $16.8 billion chip factory. OpenAI put its most powerful model on hold because it was too dangerous to release. And Anthropic announced it will watermark every piece of text its AI generates.

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The $600 Billion Problem AI Cannot Hide Anymore

The $600 Billion Problem AI Cannot Hide Anymore

Mark Zuckerberg recently told Meta staff that AI agents have not progressed as quickly as he had hoped. Microsoft, which has poured billions into OpenAI, is now quietly switching to its own in-house models to cut costs. And the US Treasury has a completed internal report comparing the AI market to the dotcom bubble sitting in a drawer, while the Treasury Secretary publicly praises $750 billion in AI investment as the foundation of America’s golden age.

None of this made the front page. But taken together, these three things tell you more about the state of AI in 2026 than any product launch announcement.

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Fable 5 is Back, Claude's CEO Has a Warning, and Tips to Prompt Better

Fable 5 is Back, Claude’s CEO Has a Warning, and Tips to Prompt Better

Governments are now deciding who gets access to the most powerful AI. One model was forced offline for three weeks, then brought back. A new OpenAI model launched gated behind a government review process. A study revealed most AI chatbots lean politically in one direction. And a developer built a PlayStation 1 game engine using Claude as his co-engineer. This was not a quiet week in AI.

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Power BI June 2026 Updates That Actually Matter

Power BI June 2026 Updates That Actually Matter

You publish a report with a date slicer set to last month. A week later a colleague opens it and updates it manually. Then someone else does the same. Every month, the same report gets manually updated by multiple people who assume someone else already did it.

That problem has a fix in this month’s update. So does a long list of other genuinely useful things.

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Anthropic: The Most Unlikely Comeback Story in the History of AI

Anthropic: The Most Unlikely Comeback Story in the History of AI

In January 2024, OpenAI was generating $2 billion in annual revenue. Anthropic was a rounding error at a reported $87 million. ChatGPT had hundreds of millions of users. Claude had almost none. By April 2026, the lines crossed. Anthropic hit a reported $47 billion run rate while OpenAI sat at a reported $25 billion, with 30 times fewer users.

This is the story of how that happened.

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Are You Using AI in Excel or Is AI Using You?

Are You Using AI in Excel or Is AI Using You?

Everyone is telling Excel users to stop learning formulas and let AI write them instead. That advice works until the AI generates a VLOOKUP when you needed an INDEX MATCH, uses an absolute reference where you needed a relative one, or builds a formula that technically works but breaks the moment someone adds a row. The people who catch those errors are the ones who know Excel. The ones who do not are the ones who stopped learning it.

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3 Copilot Updates Excel Users Cannot Afford to Miss

3 Copilot Updates Excel Users Cannot Afford to Miss

You are reviewing a shared Excel workbook. A colleague made a dozen changes overnight. Some were manual edits. Some were generated by Copilot on their behalf. Scrolling through the file, there is no way to tell which is which.

That changes with one of the three Copilot updates Microsoft released for Excel this month. Here is what each update does.

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