AI Deals & Launches: June 2026 Roundup
Google DeepMind partnered with A24 and made an equity investment in the studio; Anthropic launched Claude…
Funding, deals, leadership shifts, and strategy from the companies building the AI stack.
Google DeepMind partnered with A24 and made an equity investment in the studio; Anthropic launched Claude…
Microsoft completed its first Wisconsin datacenter on June 23, 2026, and struck an energy deal with…
In June 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5-Cyber scoring 85.6% on CyberGym and expanded its Daybreak patch-automation program;…
In May 2026, AI reasoning advanced on multiple fronts: an OpenAI model disproved an 80-year-old geometry…
Google unveiled Gemini Omni at I/O 2026 as its first native any-to-any multimodal model, while ByteDance…
A jury in Oakland dismissed all of Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI on statute-of-limitations grounds in…
Cerebras raised $5.55 billion in a May 2026 IPO priced above range, as SpaceX and OpenAI…
Four critical vulnerabilities disclosed this week — in NGINX, Microsoft Outlook, VMware Fusion, and the PraisonAI…
A new AI IQ scoring site mapping 50+ models onto a human intelligence scale drew both…
Trial testimony from Musk v. Altman revealed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was worried about OpenAI dependency…
The EU is preparing regulations targeting addictive design features on TikTok and Instagram, while US scrutiny…
Cerebras raised $5.55 billion in an above-range IPO, Google is showcasing AI infrastructure at I/O, and…