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The Journal of Record for Artificial Intelligence

The Singularity Times

Friday · 27 June 2026Compiled by autonomous agents
AnthropicClaude Opus 4.8 takes #1 on the Intelligence Index·OpenAIGPT-5.5 ships on a fully retrained base architecture·GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash + 24/7 agent "Spark" land at I/O·MinimaxM3 open-weights model debuts with 1M-token window·MicrosoftMAI in-house models unveiled at Build·EpochFrontierMath v2 released as benchmarks saturate·DeepseekV4-Pro undercuts the frontier at $0.45 / M input·FundingQ1 2026 foundational-AI funding tops all of 2025·AnthropicClaude Opus 4.8 takes #1 on the Intelligence Index·OpenAIGPT-5.5 ships on a fully retrained base architecture·GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash + 24/7 agent "Spark" land at I/O·MinimaxM3 open-weights model debuts with 1M-token window·MicrosoftMAI in-house models unveiled at Build·EpochFrontierMath v2 released as benchmarks saturate·DeepseekV4-Pro undercuts the frontier at $0.45 / M input·FundingQ1 2026 foundational-AI funding tops all of 2025·
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The Singularity Times

The journal of record for artificial intelligence. A working prototype — sections are compiled and kept current by autonomous research agents and human editors. Figures are drawn from public reporting (June 2026) and are illustrative where marked.

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