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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Google has published Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an Apache-2.0 open standard that lets AI agents find and verify tools across the web — backed at launch by Microsoft, Nvidia, GitHub, Hugging Face, Salesforce and more.
Google Developers Blog
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Google has opened $99.99 pre-orders for the Gemini-powered Google Home Speaker — its first new smart speaker since 2020 — promising natural multi-step conversations, 360-degree sound, and a June 25 ship date.
Qualcomm is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Jim Keller’s RISC-V AI-chip startup Tenstorrent for $8–10 billion, a move that would hand the company an open-architecture data-center stack to take on Nvidia and AMD.
Tom's Hardware
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As of June 18, Gemini CLI stops serving consumer requests. Google steers developers to the Go-built, multi-agent Antigravity CLI — keeping Skills and Hooks, but dropping open source.
Google Developers Blog
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OpenAI's new 750-task benchmark grades AI on real life-science research judgment. The best model, GPT-Rosalind, passed only 36% — and 22.8% of tasks stumped every model tested.
MarkTechPost
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Bengaluru’s Sarvam AI has raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, joining India’s unicorn club on the strength of foundation models built for Indian languages. IT services giant HCLTech led with $150 million, and the cash will fund Sarvam’s next frontier model and a push into agentic, coding and cybersecurity workloads.
TechCrunch
Read more →WIRED has named SK Telecom — a $100M Anthropic investor — as the South Korean carrier whose access to Claude Mythos the White House ordered revoked over alleged China ties, days before the June 12 directive pulled Mythos and Fable 5 offline. SK Telecom denies any China links.
Korea JoongAng Daily
Read more →A practical, illustrated walkthrough of Claude Code routines — saved prompts that run themselves in Anthropic’s cloud on a schedule, an API call, or a GitHub event. How to create one with /schedule or the web UI, write a prompt that behaves, pick a cadence, and worked examples you can copy.
Anthropic
Read more →Detailed June 17, OpenAI and Molecule.one paired GPT-5.4 with an autonomous lab to improve a stubborn Chan-Lam coupling — lifting yields for 88% of boronic acids and 83% of sulfonamides tested, with 8 of 14 validated reactions more than doubling.
OpenAI
Read more →GPT-5.6 is here: OpenAI shipped it on July 9, 2026 as a three-tier family — Sol, Terra and Luna — after a rare US-government delay, with Sol topping several agentic-coding charts. Here's the confirmed launch plus the full pre-launch rumor trail that got us here.
WaveSpeed Blog
Read more →A revised Anthropic privacy policy, effective July 8, lets U.S. citizens reclaim access to the banned Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by verifying citizenship with a government ID — but enterprise customers get no such path.
CIO
Read more →Xiaomi's reasoning model scores 49 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — #10 worldwide, between Kimi K2.5 and GLM-5 — while running its whole benchmark suite for just $348.
Artificial Analysis
Read more →At State of Unreal on June 17, Tim Sweeney revealed Unreal Engine 6 — a unified engine folding UE5 and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite into one, built around the Verse language, open USD/glTF standards, and AI-assisted creation via MCP with Claude, Gemini and others. Early Access is targeted for late 2027.
Epic Games
Read more →On June 17 Anthropic opened a Korea office led by KiYoung Choi and named a deep roster of partners — NAVER has deployed Claude Code across its entire engineering org, while Samsung SDS, LG CNS, Nexon, Hanwha and a KAIST-led university consortium are all building on Claude.
Anthropic
Read more →No OpenAI announcement exists yet, but developer leaks and prediction markets now point to a GPT-5.6 launch in late June — Polymarket prices the June 22–28 window near 83% — with rumored upgrades including a ~1.5M-token context and stronger agentic coding. Treat it all as unconfirmed.
Cryptopolitan
Read more →Detailed June 16, OpenAI’s Deployment Simulation forecasts how an unreleased model will behave by replaying ~1.3M past conversations through it and grading the results — hitting a median error of about 1.5x and catching “calculator hacking” in GPT-5.1 before release.
OpenAI
Read more →Rolling out June 17, the June 2026 Pixel Drop adds Gemini Omni for AI video, Lyria for AI music, and a Pixel-first Screen Reactions tool — and ships stable Android 17 with Bubbles floating-window multitasking and Voice Translate on the Pixel 10a.
Zhipu (Z.ai) has launched GLM-5.2, a 744B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model (40B active) with a 1M-token context window, built for agentic coding and released under a permissive MIT license. The catch: no benchmarks were published at launch, so performance claims remain vendor assertions for now.
Z.ai
Read more →Sensor Tower data reported June 16 puts ChatGPT at 46.4% of the mobile AI-assistant market by late May — below half for the first time, down from about 81% two years ago — as Gemini climbs to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%. Claude now also out-earns ChatGPT on revenue per user.
TechCrunch
Read more →On the day it was set to take effect, Anthropic paused its plan to move Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, GitHub Actions and third-party agent usage off subscriptions into a metered credit pool. Usage stays on regular Pro and Max plans “for now” — a retreat shaped by developer backlash, a looming OpenAI price war and an approaching IPO.
The Decoder
Read more →SpaceX confirmed a definitive all-stock agreement on June 16 to acquire Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, at a $60 billion valuation — routed through a subsidiary so no IPO cash is touched. The deal hands Musk’s xAI a top AI-coding tool, is set to close in Q3, and carries a $4 billion antitrust break fee.
Yahoo Finance
Read more →Audited figures reported by the Financial Times show OpenAI spent about $34 billion in 2025 — roughly $19 billion on R&D alone — against $13 billion in revenue, while a one-off accounting charge pushed its net loss near $39 billion, just as the company files to go public at up to $1 trillion.
Reuters
Read more →An open letter signed by 76 cybersecurity veterans — among them Alex Stamos, Katie Moussouris and Paul Vixie — urges Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to lift the export-control order that pulled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline, arguing it strips defenders of their best tool while doing nothing to slow adversaries. Anthropic warns the precedent could “halt all new model deployments” across the industry.
TechCrunch
Read more →Nvidia, one of the most cash-rich companies on earth, is tapping the bond market for at least $20 billion across seven tranches maturing in two to thirty years — its first investment-grade issuance since 2021. The move puts the AI boom’s biggest beneficiary squarely inside the debt wave now funding the industry’s build-out.
Bloomberg
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