Tech & AI Daily — Friday, June 26, 2026

My Daily AI & Markets Briefing · Jun 26, 2026 · 8m

SOXL cratered 10.68% as hyperscaler spending fears overwhelmed Micron's blowout earnings, dragging QQQ, VGT, and VUG all into the red. • The White House asked OpenAI to delay releasing GPT-5.6 to the public over national security concerns — an unprecedented government checkpoint on a frontier AI model. • Anthropic's Claude is winning paying ChatGPT subscribers at the premium tier, the first concrete market-share data threatening OpenAI's core monetization engine. • IBM unveiled sub-1 nanometer chip technology, a landmark milestone that could reset the long-term compute ceiling for AI training…