DeepSeek raised outside money for the first time — nearly $7B, Uber capped AI coding at $1,500/month per person, and Microsoft switched Copilot to token-based billing, which sent some developers' bills from $39 to three grand. A week that was really about what AI actually costs.
🤖 AI
OpenAI gave ChatGPT long-term memory
Plus and Pro users in the US now have ChatGPT Dreaming v3 — it automatically rebuilds the user's memory profile and holds context over the long haul instead of losing the thread after a couple of conversations.
Google released Gemma 4 12B — a model for your laptop
The open multimodal Gemma 4 12B runs on a laptop with 16 GB of RAM and barely trails the bigger 26B. Weights are already on Kaggle and Hugging Face.
Meta delayed its model release again
Developers still have no date — Meta pushed the Muse Spark release again. Muse Spark is Meta's flagship LLM, rumored to be competitive with OpenAI and Anthropic — but nobody's seen independent benchmarks.
💻 Software
A third-party AI agent landed inside iMessage
Apple let an outside agent into Messages for the first time: Poke now works directly in iMessage — you text it like a person and hand it tasks. The flood of users is causing some slow replies.
$1,500 to see who hacks apps best
An enthusiast built a deliberately vulnerable app and turned the models loose on it: GPT-5.5 solved 7 out of 10 challenges, DeepSeek-V4-Pro got 3, and the priciest one — Claude Sonnet 4.6 — only managed 2 and hit the budget ceiling on five runs.
Google let websites opt out of AI search results
Site owners can now opt out of AI search features — and Google promises it won't hurt their regular rankings. Google had previously disabled AI Overviews for medical queries after backlash.
⚙️ Robots and hardware
China is hiring people to fold shirts — for robots
To train home robots, China is mass-hiring people to collect data on everyday tasks like folding laundry. The bet is cheap labor plus government subsidies, while the US ships expensive data collection overseas.
Generalist AI raised $400M for "physical AGI"
A $400M round for general-purpose robots backed by Radical Ventures and NVIDIA.
💰 Business
DeepSeek raises outside money for the first time — nearly $7B
The Chinese lab is pulling in around 50 billion yuan: the founder is putting in 20B himself, the rest comes from fewer than ten investors. Closing expected in the coming weeks.
Uber capped AI coding at $1,500/month per person
After AI tool spending blew past any reasonable limit, Uber set a $1,500/month ceiling per tool per employee.
Microsoft moved Copilot to token billing — bills spiked
Starting June 1, GitHub Copilot charges by token, and some users' bills jumped from $39 to $3,000+ a month. At Build, Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO) was promising:
> "Unlimited intelligence on every desk"
— while simultaneously telling people to save money via model routing, distillation, and local models.