Backblaze Lands $335M CoreWeave AI Storage Deal
Backblaze signed a $335M, multi-exabyte storage agreement with CoreWeave on June 23, underpinning AI object storage with cost-efficient capacity.
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Chrome 150 Lands With PDF Signing and a Zero-Day Fix
Chrome 150 adds built-in PDF form signing and patches an actively exploited zero-day among more than 70 security fixes in June 2026.
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Katalyst Mission Launches to Rescue Swift Telescope
A commercial Katalyst spacecraft launched in late June 2026 to grab and reboost NASA's Swift observatory before its orbit decays.
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Samsung Teases July Unpacked for Galaxy Z Fold 8
Samsung began hyping a July 22 Galaxy Unpacked event expected to reveal the Z Fold 8, Z Flip 8, a new watch, and rumored smart glasses.
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Google Brings Gemini Into Chrome on Android
Google began rolling Gemini into Chrome on Android in late June 2026, adding page summaries, Q&A, and an agentic auto-browse feature.
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Meta's AI Talent War: A $1.5B Offer and Defections
Meta's Superintelligence Labs hiring blitz featured a reported $1.5B package and $100M bonuses, but several researchers have already left for OpenAI.
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OpenAI Confidentially Files for an IPO With the SEC
OpenAI submitted a confidential draft S-1 to the SEC in June 2026, with reports pointing to a potential listing valued near $1 trillion.
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Anthropic Confidentially Files for an IPO at a $965 Billion Valuation
Anthropic submitted a confidential draft S-1 to the SEC days after a $65 billion round valued it at $965 billion, becoming the first frontier AI lab to file.
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US Restores Limited Access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 for Critical Infrastructure
After ordering Anthropic to disable two top models, the Commerce Department let Mythos 5 return for about 100 US critical-infrastructure defenders.
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The EU AI Act's Enforcement Powers Kick In on August 2, 2026
From August 2, 2026, the EU can actively enforce its rules on general-purpose AI models, with fines up to 15 million euros or 3% of global turnover.
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Canvas Breach Exposes 275M Records, Ransom Paid
ShinyHunters claimed 275 million records from Instructure's Canvas platform; the education giant reportedly paid a ransom in the largest school breach on record.
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Samsung Commits $648 Billion Over Ten Years to South Korea's AI and Chip Push
Samsung pledged about $648 billion over a decade for chip plants, AI data centers, batteries, and displays, its largest investment ever.
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Anthropic Expands Project Glasswing to Defend Critical Infrastructure With AI
Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing to about 150 organizations across 15-plus countries, using a frontier model to find vulnerabilities before attackers do.
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Google Rolls Out Gemini 3 Flash and Deep Think Across Its Apps
Google made Gemini 3 Flash the default in its app and began rolling out Deep Think for hard reasoning, alongside deeper Gemini integration in Chrome.
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Google Is Rationing Gemini Access to Meta Amid an AI Compute Crunch
Google told Meta it could not supply all the Gemini compute it wanted, and reportedly rented bridge capacity from SpaceX to keep up with demand.
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Oracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in a Year and Pointed to AI as a Reason
Oracle's annual filing revealed a roughly 13% workforce reduction over the past year, citing AI adoption among the causes as it pours money into AI infrastructure.
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SandboxAQ Wins $500M CHIPS Award for AI Materials
The U.S. Commerce Department signed a $500M CHIPS R&D deal with SandboxAQ on June 17 to accelerate AI-driven semiconductor materials discovery.
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Waymo Tops 1,400 Square Miles and Hits Freeways
Waymo expanded its robotaxi coverage past 1,400 square miles across 11 cities and now carries riders on freeways as it scales up in 2026.
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24 Billion Stolen Credentials Found in a Giant Exposed Database
Researchers found an exposed server holding 24 billion credential records pulled from infostealer logs and old breaches, a stark reminder to enable MFA.
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Bitcoin Drops Below $60K as ETF Outflows Mount
Bitcoin fell below $60,000 in late June 2026, its lowest since 2024, as spot ETFs bled billions and rate-cut hopes faded.
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China's LineShine Becomes the World's Fastest Supercomputer
LineShine topped the June 2026 TOP500 list at over 2 exaflops, dethroning the US El Capitan using a CPU-only domestic design.
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npm Worm Hits Leo Platform via binding.gyp Trick
Attackers poisoned 20 Leo Platform npm packages in seconds, abusing a tiny binding.gyp file to run code during install and spread like a worm.
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Switch 2 Becomes Nintendo's Best-Selling Console as Sales Near 20 Million
About a year after launch, the Nintendo Switch 2 has shipped close to 20 million units, becoming the company's fastest-selling console ever.
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NVIDIA and SK hynix Sign Multiyear AI Memory Pact
NVIDIA and SK hynix announced a multiyear partnership on June 7 to co-develop memory for AI factories, from Vera Rubin to robotics.
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OpenAI Limits GPT-5.6 Rollout to 'Trusted Partners' at US Government's Request
OpenAI released its new GPT-5.6 models but restricted early access to about 20 government-approved companies, calling it a short-term step.
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OpenAI's Jony Ive AI Device Slips to 2027
OpenAI's screenless AI device with Jony Ive won't ship before February 2027, delayed over personality, privacy, and compute, recent reports say.
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope Arrives in Florida, Months Ahead of Schedule
The $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope reached Kennedy Space Center in June, targeting a Falcon Heavy launch no earlier than August 30.
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SpaceX Fires Up Its Next Starship as Flight 13 Targets July
SpaceX ran a static fire of its next Starship on June 26, moving toward Flight 13, the second outing for the upgraded V3 vehicle.
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Apple to Build Chips With Intel in U.S. Reversal
Apple agreed to make some chips with Intel in the U.S., a reversal of their 2020 split announced June 18 that reshapes the foundry race.
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Apple's WWDC 2026: A Rebuilt Siri AI and the Next Apple Intelligence
At WWDC 2026 Apple unveiled Siri AI, a ground-up rebuild of its assistant with on-screen and personal context awareness, arriving in iOS 27 this fall.
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Startup Raises $320M to Train AI Agents on Millions of Hours of Gameplay
General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, betting that video game data can teach AI real-world spatial reasoning.
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Chip Market Set to Hit $1.5 Trillion in 2026
Industry trackers sharply raised 2026 chip-market forecasts to roughly $1.5 trillion, a 90% jump driven by AI memory and data-center demand.
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Google Finance Exits Beta With an Android App and Heavy AI Features
Google launched a standalone Google Finance app for Android on June 25 with AI portfolios, scheduled briefings and a Key Moments tool.
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OpenAI Unveils Jalapeño, Its First Custom AI Chip Built With Broadcom
OpenAI revealed Jalapeño, a custom inference chip co-designed with Broadcom in a roughly nine-month cycle, aimed at cheaper, more efficient AI serving.
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Ornn Raises $33M to Trade GPU Compute Like Oil
Startup Ornn raised a $33M seed led by a16z to build a marketplace where GPU compute is bought and sold like a commodity, with a price index.
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Qualcomm Buys Modular for $4B to Take On CUDA
Qualcomm agreed to buy AI software startup Modular in an all-stock deal worth about $4 billion, aiming squarely at Nvidia's CUDA moat.
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Switch 2 Passes PS5 in Japan as First-Year Sales Near 20 Million
A year after launch, the Switch 2 overtook the PS5 disc model in Japan and approached 20 million units shipped worldwide.
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Tesla Expands Its Austin Robotaxi Service to the Whole Metro Area
Tesla widened its driverless robotaxi coverage across the entire Austin metro in June 2026, though reports say only a small fleet is actually running.
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Anthropic's Claude Tag Becomes a Slack Teammate
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a tool that lives inside Slack as a shared AI teammate, breaking tasks into stages and working independently.
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DeepSeek Raises $7.4B in First-Ever Funding Round
China's DeepSeek closed a $7.4 billion debut round on June 16 at a $50B-plus valuation, backed by Tencent and CATL under unusual terms.
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Micron's Revenue Quadruples as the AI Memory Crunch Sends Profit Soaring
Micron reported $41.5 billion in quarterly revenue, up more than fourfold, as AI demand for high-bandwidth memory pushed margins to record highs.
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Microsoft's Copilot Cowork Goes Live to Run Multi-Step Tasks for You
Copilot Cowork reached general availability on June 16 with pay-as-you-go pricing, moving Copilot from answering questions to doing work.
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Microsoft Launches Seven In-House MAI Models, Led by MAI-Thinking-1
At Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled seven homegrown MAI models, including its first flagship reasoning model trained without distilling from third parties.
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Mistral's OCR 4 Lets Companies Run Document AI on Their Own Servers
Mistral released OCR 4 on June 23, a self-hostable document AI model covering 170 languages with bounding boxes and confidence scores.
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SoFi Launches Composer for AI-Driven Investing
SoFi launched Composer, an AI platform that turns plain-English ideas into automated trading strategies, after acquiring Composer Securities.
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SpaceX Pulls Off the Largest IPO in History on Its Nasdaq Debut
SpaceX raised about $75 billion and jumped 19% on its first trading day, completing the biggest IPO Wall Street has ever seen.
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Alphabet Plans Its First Stock Sale in 20 Years to Fund AI, With $10B From Berkshire
Google's parent will raise roughly $80 billion in new equity to pay for AI data centers, its first stock offering since 2005, with Berkshire buying $10 billion.
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Amazon Weighs Selling Its Trainium AI Chips Directly to Challenge Nvidia
Amazon is in early talks to sell its Trainium AI chips to outside data centers, a historic break from its AWS-only approach.
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Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 Launched, Then Got Pulled Days Later
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on June 9, then disabled it for all customers on June 12 after a US export-control directive.
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Hackers Exploit Everest Forms WordPress RCE Bug
Attackers are exploiting a critical Everest Forms Pro flaw (CVE-2026-3300) to seize WordPress sites via unauthenticated code execution.
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Groq Raises $650M to Scale Its Inference Cloud
AI chip startup Groq raised $650 million to expand its inference cloud, months after Nvidia paid about $20 billion to license its LPU tech.
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Intel Hires Ex-SK hynix Chief to Lead Foundry's Advanced Packaging Push
Intel appointed semiconductor veteran Seok-Hee Lee to run advanced packaging and back-end manufacturing as it splits Foundry leadership.
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Meta Launches AI Business Agent on WhatsApp
At Conversations 2026 on June 3, Meta rolled out its free Business Agent AI globally across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram to handle customer chats.
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Xbox Plans Major July Layoffs in Sharma's Reset
Microsoft's Xbox unit is planning major July layoffs as new CEO Asha Sharma overhauls a division whose revenue and margins have slid.
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A Single Fiber Cut Knocked X, Reddit and Teams Offline for Millions
A severed fiber line in Eastern North America rippled through Cloudflare on June 22, briefly taking dozens of major services down.
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Intel 18A-P Enters Risk Production On Schedule
Intel said its 18A-P chip process entered risk production in June 2026, hitting a promised timeline with up to 18% lower power than 18A.
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'pedit COW' Linux Kernel Flaw Gets Same-Day Exploit
A Linux kernel bug dubbed 'pedit COW' (CVE-2026-46331) drew a working public exploit within a day of disclosure in June 2026.
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Meta Names CRED Founder Kunal Shah to Lead WhatsApp, Invests $900 Million
Meta tapped Indian fintech founder Kunal Shah to run WhatsApp and put $900 million into his startup CRED in the same move.
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Texas Parks Breach Exposes 3 Million License Holders
A vendor breach exposed data of over 3 million Texas hunting and fishing license holders, including driver's license and passport numbers.
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Firefox 152 Redesigns Settings and Adds JPEG XL
Firefox 152 ships a redesigned Settings page, JPEG XL image support, and a handy way to mute audio straight from the address bar.
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Nintendo Direct Confirms Zelda: Ocarina Remake
Nintendo's June 2026 Direct closed with a Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2 and confirmed Devil May Cry 5 and Kingdom Hearts IV.
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Windows 11 June Update Adds Point-in-Time Restore
Microsoft's June 2026 Windows 11 update brings Point-in-Time restore, a low-latency speed boost, and a single monthly reboot for updates.
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June Patch Tuesday: 206 Fixes and 3 Zero-Days
Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 206 vulnerabilities, including three zero-days and 37 critical flaws across its products.
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WFP Breach Exposes 600,000 Gaza Households' Data
A cyberattack on the UN World Food Programme exposed data of about 600,000 Gaza households, possibly the largest humanitarian data breach yet.
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