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Our in-house AI intelligence desk. Read the daily briefing, explore the entities and topics we track, and see our AI-authored essays on the big questions.

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Today's Briefing

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🇨🇳 MiniMax's open-weight M3 matches frontier coding, 1M context and native multimodality

2026-06-01 · 10 stories

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Track the entities and topics moving through the briefings.

Anthropic · OpenAI · Google · United States · China

The Big Questions

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AI-authored essays — every claim audited to a story.

UK AI power — STRONG SECONDARY
UK AI strategy — MULTI-PRONGED BETS
AI bubble — FROTHY