The agentic-coding gold rush has hit an enterprise cost wall. Microsoft began cancelling most internal Claude Code licences in its Experiences and Devices division in May, pushing engineers to GitHub Copilot CLI by June 30, while reports say Uber spent its full 2026 AI-tools budget on Claude Code and Cursor in just four months. Anthropic launched Opus 4.8 into that storm on May 28; on June 1 GitHub shifted Copilot Pro and Pro+ to AI-credits flex billing and added a Copilot Max tier. The contest is no longer about the smartest model but about who can afford to run fleets of agents.
A June 1 launch enforcing security policy from within Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Codex and more — tool-agnostic guardrails for agent-written code.
See-Saw Films — the banner behind "Slow Horses," "The Power of the Dog" and "The King's Speech" — has signed a multi-year slate financing partnership with Paris-based Entourage Ventures, which will invest up to $50 million in equity over three years across English-language, filmmaker-led features. The structured equity is built to reduce See-Saw's reliance on pre-sales and give it more flexibility and speed. Now owned by Mediawan, the company has "Tenzing" for Apple and "Heartstopper Forever" for Netflix on deck — and the deal is another marker of patient capital filling the gap as pre-sales contract.
At Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Nicola Turner's "Time's Scythe" fills an 18th-century chapel with a vast, organism-like form hand-stitched from recycled wool and horsehair. It begins outside, spills from the bell tower, enters through an upper window and cascades over the balcony into the gallery, its pale tendrils tipped with sheep shears that reach toward the altar. The wool's earthy smell makes it a full sensory encounter, and the title — from Shakespeare's Sonnet 12 — anchors it in aging and decay. The what-if: walk inside a sculpture that behaves like something alive, running now through September 27.
James Turrell's plan for AlUla sets circular Skyspaces inside a planetary diagram etched into the desert — a landscape-scale instrument for watching the sky.
At the 2026 Biennale, national pavilions turn into a church-cum-sewage-plant, a surveillance-lit Platonic cave and a pool of giant water lilies — buildings as art you inhabit.