News — 2026-06-01

OpenAI rolled out a new feature for its Codex coding assistant that lets users call up AI‑generated animated pets. The optional companions appear as a floating overlay, signaling what Codex is working on, when it finishes a task, or when it needs user input. Developers can type "/pet" to summon or dismiss a companion and "/hatch" to create a custom creature. Eight preset pets ship with the tool, and early users have already shared dozens of variations, including a nod to Microsoft’s classic Clippy. The feature is live on Windows and macOS, and OpenAI is bundling a limited‑time 30‑day ChatGPT Pro trial with ten favorite pets. Read more

Anthropic announced on Monday that it has submitted a confidential draft registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, marking the first formal step toward an initial public offering. Valued at a post‑money $965 billion after its latest fundraising round, the AI startup now eclipses rival OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation. The filing comes as SpaceX prepares for a June 12 IPO that could raise $80 billion, and follows a recent court ruling that dismissed Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI. Anthropic’s move intensifies the competition among the sector’s most valuable private firms. Read more

Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, submitted a confidential registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, signalling its intent to go public. The filing follows a $65 billion Series H financing that lifted the company’s valuation to roughly $965 billion. Anthropic did not disclose the number of shares, price range or timing, saying the offering will depend on market conditions. The move places the startup in a crowded IPO season that also includes SpaceX and adds pressure to its rival OpenAI, which is preparing its own public listing. Read more

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a civil lawsuit on June 1, 2026, accusing OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman of deceptive trade practices, negligence and product liability. The complaint alleges the company knowingly released ChatGPT despite risks of addiction, cognitive decline, suicide and violence. Citing several shootings and suicide cases linked to the chatbot, the suit seeks penalties and court orders to hold Altman personally liable for alleged harms to Floridians. Read more

OpenAI announced that its latest artificial‑intelligence system has produced a counterexample to the unit distance conjecture, a problem that has resisted proof for eight decades. By tweaking the spacing of a mathematical grid and applying the Pythagorean theorem, the model identified a configuration where a unit‑distance circle intersects far more grid points than previously thought possible. Researchers say the breakthrough demonstrates AI’s growing capacity to tackle abstract mathematical challenges that have stumped human experts for generations. Read more

Nvidia announced that AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI, along with SpaceX and Oracle, are among the first major users of its new Vera data‑center processor. Unveiled at Computex in Taipei, Vera replaces Nvidia's Grace CPU with a custom design built around 88 Olympus cores and up to 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth. Independent benchmarks show the chip outpacing Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC on several AI‑agent workloads. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be the first hyperscaler to run Vera at scale, with broader cloud availability slated for the second half of 2026. Read more