The latest AI news we announced in June 2026
Google's June 2026 AI announcements included the launch of Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, the latest features in Android 17 and the new Google Home Speaker built for Gemini. The updates introduced new fea
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Google's June 2026 AI announcements included the launch of Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, the latest features in Android 17 and the new Google Home Speaker built for Gemini. The updates introduced new fea
Associated Press: The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison — A self-exiled billionair
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: [Thread] The US' now-lifted export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers towards Chinese AI models — A lot to un
Financial Times: Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held “constructive” talks; sources say they discussed how Apple can launch Siri AI in the EU while avoiding fines — Discussions come as tech
Together AI Inc., the operator of a cloud platform optimized to run open-source artificial intelligence models, has raised 800 million from investors. The startup stated in its funding announcement to
Niko Gallogly / New York Times: Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised 800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an 8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to 1.3B — Together
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a 100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal — Twelve Labs Inc.
TwelveLabs Inc., the developer of generative artificial intelligence foundation models that can understand videos like humans, today announced it has raised 100 million in early funding to expand beyo
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber dismissed two leaders at its AI data labeling business as part of a broader leadership transition at the unit, which it says is “seeing strong momentum” — Uber Technolog
The British government has signaled it is likely to intervene in Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, citing concerns about maintaining media plurality. Briti
Cloudflare’s new Attribution Business Insights dashboard helps website owners understand crawler behavior, appetite, and potential value, fueling business-level conversations around crawl compensation
Home battery installations in the United States hit a new record of 673 megawatts of residential energy storage in the first quarter of 2026. The surge was driven by rising residential electricity cos
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Venice AI, which offers access to 200+ AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a 65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a 1B valuation — Concerns over the impac
Privacy-focused artificial intelligence company Venice.ai Inc. today revealed that it has raised 65 million in new funding that values the startup at 1 billion. Venice pitches itself as a private and
Vercel has announced a new Security Dashboard feature now available in private beta, enabling developers to monitor and manage security aspects of their deployments. This tool likely provides visibili
Physical security company Verkada Inc. has taken an investment from Nvidia Corp. and signed a technical partnership with the chipmaker, the two said today, in a deal meant to speed up the artificial i
Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp, discusses the evolution of software development toward 'software factories'—automated systems that leverage AI to streamline coding workflows and increase developer productivi
Bloomberg: Wayve files to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange's new Private Securities Market, the first major company to test it, and let staff sell $85M in shares — Autonomous driving software
For our second Content Independence Day, we’re giving website owners finer options to manage AI traffic. Instead of a one-size-fits-all block, all customers can now easily distinguish and manage Searc
Financial Times: A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups — Study of 22,000 US com
This article likely explores how agentic AI systems can proactively monitor patient health data and manage clinical risks at scale, improving healthcare delivery through autonomous AI agents. It proba
The article covers the Supabase plugin for OpenCode, an AI coding agent, which bundles the Supabase MCP server and agent skills for direct database and project interaction . The plugin ships official
Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without first laying the groundwork. The use cases are promising, especi
Ahmad Osman discusses the technological and practical reasons why locally-run AI models are becoming increasingly competitive with cloud-based alternatives, likely covering improvements in model effic
Orlando Crowcroft / Financial Times: AI and vibe coding fuel a surge in game releases; ATTN Economy says 181K mobile games launched in six months to May, up 118% on iOS and 73% on Android YoY — More i
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: AI inference startup Etched raised 800M from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked venture firm, and says it has signed sales contracts worth 1B — Nvidia rival says
Peter Campbell / Financial Times: AI may help transform air traffic control by processing vast amounts of data, spotting collision risks early, and easing staff shortages as air travel grows — The tec
Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced that it has acquired Root.io Inc., a company that offers patching for vulnerable open-source software at the exact versions organizatio
Kirstin Ridley / Reuters: Almost 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao for at least £150M, alleging Binance sold them risky derivative products without regulatory approval — Almost 1,700 B
Amazon blamed the malware strain 'Preflayer'—which can record screen content, steal login credentials, and commit ad fraud—as justification for blocking sideloaded apps . The company is preventing pir
Vercel has released an expanded version of its Vercel Agent in public beta, introducing new capabilities including chat functionality, investigation tools, and an approved actions feature. The update
Choosing the threshold of an alert policy can be a headache. You have to analyze historical data, aggregate it into semantically meaningful time series, and choose a threshold that matters. If the wor
Anthropic has integrated Claude with Modal's serverless compute platform, enabling scalable cloud infrastructure for scientific computing workflows. This integration allows Claude to leverage Modal's
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits — Anthropi
Anthropic: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work — Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the mo
@anthropicai: Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access Wednesday — We've received notice that the Dep
After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access W
The Supreme Court agreed to hear Apple's appeal regarding a contempt ruling in its antitrust battle with Epic Games, reviewing lower court decisions that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 ruling inv
Emmy Martin / New York Times: As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave — As OpenA
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams — As compa
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s rolling out a new dedicated organization to bring agentic artificial intelligence systems, built on the same technology, to customers by embedding engineers in
Vercel announced support for deploying custom Docker containers as Vercel Functions, enabling developers to use Dockerfiles to define their function environments and dependencies. This feature allows
Great creative happens when your tools move at the speed of your ideas. To help you create rich, reliable experiences while reducing regeneration time and costs, we’re adding two new models to Gemini
A couple of months ago, we announced that over 50 Google-managed MCP servers are available. Today, we’ll dive into how to use the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform remote MCP server to securely connect
This post walks through how AG-UI integrates into the Fullstack AgentCore Solution Template (FAST) to build interactive agent frontends on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. We then show how CopilotKit extends
Build Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven startup that automates complex industrial real estate development management projects, today announced it has raised an 8.5 million seed round led by Inde
In this post, we share the technical approach using token-based distillation, lessons learned, and deployment architecture. If you face similar bilingual NER challenges, you can benefit from IBS Softw
Apple. Anthropic. Disney Research. Google. Meta. Microsoft. NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim R&D hubs from all of these companies. Fewer still are concentrated in a city of
Beijing, China-based Meituan Inc. today debuted its next-generation LongCat-2.0 open-source large language model, stating that the company trained the 1.6-trillion-parameter model on domestic Chinese
At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Claude Sonnet 5 costs 2 per 1M input tokens and 10 per 1M output tokens through August 31, after which prices rise to 3 and 15, respectively — Anthropic is upgrading Claude Sonnet,
Claude Sonnet 5 is now accessible through Vercel's AI Gateway, enabling developers to integrate Anthropic's latest language model into their applications via Vercel's unified API platform. This integr
Businesses run on fast decisions, but the teams who hold the answers are often buried under a backlog of routine requests, leaving users waiting in line for insights they need now. Today, we are bring
This article describes OpenAI's investigation and resolution of a longstanding bug in their data infrastructure that had persisted for 18 years, likely related to how core dumps (system memory snapsho
Couchbase Inc. is trying to solve one of the hardest problems in enterprise artificial intelligence today: turning brittle, chat-style pilots into production-grade agents capable of remembering, reaso
Meir Orbach / CTech: Cyber unicorn Aikido acquires Israeli startup Root for 70-100 million — The Belgian company expands its AI security push and will open a new development center in Israel following
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $37.6M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components — Belgian cybersecurity
Protective DNS and content filtering company DNSFilter Inc. today launched an expanded partner program for managed service providers, restructuring its channel into three tiers as new company research
Matthew Martin / Semafor: Dubai- and London-based 1001, which uses AI to improve aviation, port, and energy infrastructure efficiency in the Gulf, raised 30M led by Lux Capital — THE SCOOP — Dubai- an
Vercel has expanded its audit log coverage and integrated it with Vercel Drains, their log delivery service. This enhancement allows users to stream comprehensive audit logs to external destinations f