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☀️ On this day: On June 27, 1967, Barclays installed the world's first ATM outside its branch in Enfield, north London, and British actor Reg Varney made the first withdrawal. The machine took no plastic cards, instead reading single-use paper vouchers laced with mildly radioactive Carbon-14, and it dispensed a maximum of £10 per transaction. Its inventor, John Shepherd-Barron, said the idea came from a chocolate vending machine, and his wife talked him down from a six-digit code to the four-digit PIN still standard today.
What’s happening:
🤖 OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 to trusted partners
🤑 Sam Altman wants a $1 trillion IPO or nothing
🔓 US lets Anthropic resume limited Mythos 5 sales
📡 SpaceX plans to sell Starlink phone plans
🥽 Apple's Vision Pro chief leaves to join OpenAI
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Hand-picked news:
🤖 OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 to trusted partners ↗️LINK
OpenAI is previewing its GPT-5.6 series to a small group of trusted partners. The three variants are Sol, which OpenAI calls its strongest model, Terra for everyday use, and Luna, the cheapest.
The limited rollout follows the administration's request. Trump signed an AI cybersecurity order this month asking companies to submit their most powerful models for voluntary government review 30 days before any public launch.
OpenAI spent 700,000 GPU hours hunting universal jailbreaks before launch. That heavy investment lands just weeks after Anthropic suspended its Mythos and Fable models over reported jailbreak concerns.
🤑 Altman wants a trillion or nothing ↗️LINK
OpenAI is leaning toward delaying its IPO to 2027 rather than list this year below a $1 trillion valuation, the New York Times reported, citing three people involved in the talks.
Altman rejected any lower price as a "nonstarter," pushing past OpenAI's last private valuation near $850 billion. Advisors blamed choppy markets and SpaceX, whose stock fell roughly a third from its post-IPO peak.
SoftBank felt it immediately, its shares dropping about 13% and erasing roughly $38 billion. The Japanese backer expects its OpenAI stake to hit $65 billion by October and was banking on a quick payday.
🔓 US lets Anthropic resume Mythos 5 ↗️LINK
The US Commerce Department approved Anthropic's request to resume selling Mythos 5 to a select group of US customers on June 26, partially reversing an export order that pulled the model two weeks earlier.
The June 12 directive forced Anthropic to block all non-US users over concerns about jailbreaking Fable 5's security features. A Commerce letter now credits the company with progress mitigating those risks.
Fable 5 stays offline with no return date. While Anthropic waited, Chinese rival Zhipu shipped GLM 5.2 the day after the shutdown and released open weights no government can claw back.
📡 SpaceX plans to sell Starlink phone plans ↗️LINK
SpaceX told investors it plans to sell a Starlink mobile service directly to US consumers, the FT reported Friday, putting it in potential competition with Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile.
SpaceX already runs a direct-to-cell partnership with T-Mobile and spent roughly $19.6 billion buying EchoStar spectrum licenses in 2025, giving it the airwaves to build its own retail wireless product.
President Gwynne Shotwell floated the idea during the roadshow for SpaceX's June 12 IPO, though TD Cowen analyst Gregory Williams doubts the company will build a US network from scratch anytime soon.
🥽 Apple's Vision Pro chief leaves to join OpenAI ↗️LINK
Paul Meade, the Apple VP who ran the Vision Pro and led its upcoming smart glasses, is leaving next week to join OpenAI's hardware team, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported.
Gurman ties the exit to a hardware reshuffle under incoming CEO John Ternus, which pushed several VPs down a level and left some feeling demoted. Apple and OpenAI both declined to comment.
At OpenAI, Meade joins former Apple colleagues Jony Ive, Tang Tan and Evans Hankey, whose hardware startup OpenAI bought for $6.5 billion. The company keeps rebuilding Apple's design team inside its own walls.

Today’s Poll:
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Yesterday’s Poll Result:
Do you trust the White House to make the right call on which AI is too risky to release?
A) Yes - 12%
B) No - 88% 🏆
Reader’s opinion:
“Certainly not the current administration which is all looking increasingly like a get rich scheme for the top man.”
“If they can’t manage their own budget or administration, I don’t trust them to decide which AI is too risky to release.”
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