GitHub ran on AWS after coding agents overwhelmed it. OpenAI's audited books showed a $38.5B loss. Washington gave Anthropic 90 minutes to pull its best models. Tokyo's biggest IPO of the year was a taxi app.
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OpenAI lost $38 billion. Washington pulled a frontier model. The boom outran them all.
itHub now runs partly on Amazon Web Services. Microsoft
confirmed on June 16 that it is routing GitHub traffic through its biggest cloud rival
after AI coding agents buried the platform: agent-opened pull requests jumped to
17 million a month, up from 4 million last September
, nine outages in May dragged June availability to 88.4%, and the company Microsoft bought in 2018 to feed Azure is being kept online by AWS. The machines wrote more work than the system built to hold it.
The strain was not isolated to one platform. OpenAI’s first audited books,
, showed $34 billion spent against $13 billion earned and a $38.5 billion loss — numbers it must now explain in an S-1 aimed at a roughly $1 trillion listing. And on Friday the 12th, the Commerce Department gave Anthropic
90 minutes to cut off its two most capable models
Put the week together and a single argument emerges: the binding constraint on AI is no longer imagination, or even capital — it is whether the physical and institutional world can absorb what the labs ship. The servers, the accountants, and the regulators answered the same question in three different languages, and each said the same thing: not this fast. For the first time this cycle, what is slowing AI down isn’t the technology — it’s the reality the technology has to run inside.
Washington gave Dario Amodei 90 minutes to pull Anthropic’s best models offline.
Japan’s biggest IPO of the year was a taxi app betting on robotaxis.
OpenAI’s road to a $1 trillion IPO runs through its biggest-ever loss.
A fake Mistral cat model topped a fake benchmark — and half of AI Twitter believed it.
KPMG published the future of agentic AI, then quietly deleted it.
JUN 16 · GITHUB · CORE INFRASTRUCTURE
Microsoft rented Amazon’s cloud to keep GitHub online.
confirmed on June 16 that it is routing GitHub traffic through Amazon Web Services