Microsoft announced a new operating unit on July 2 that will embed 6,000 AI engineers inside enterprise client organizations to co-build and maintain AI systems, backed by a $2.5 billion investment.
Read more →Figure AI's third-generation humanoid robot started a complex parts-sequencing role at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg on June 30, advancing well beyond its predecessor's sheet-metal handling work in 2025.
Read more →Enterprise AI coding startup 8090 Labs closed a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with founder Chamath Palihapitiya stepping in as full-time CEO — his first operating role since leaving Facebook.
Read more →Google released Gemini Omni Flash on June 30 — a video model that generates and edits clips through natural-language commands — alongside Nano Banana 2 Lite, an ultra-fast image generator at $0.034 per thousand images.
Read more →OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on June 26, restricting initial access to roughly 20 government-approved organizations in the first application of a new US federal voluntary review framework for frontier AI models.
Read more →President Lee Jae Myung unveiled a sweeping national strategy on June 29, committing at least $880 billion from Samsung, SK Hynix, and major Korean conglomerates to semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and data centers through 2035.
Read more →A WIRED investigation reveals Meta's secret "Project Cannes" used hundreds of workers posing as underage users to send crisis prompts to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI — without the companies' knowledge.
Read more →Google told Meta in March it could not supply the computing capacity Meta had requested for its Gemini AI usage, disrupting internal projects and forcing Meta to push employees toward its own models.
Read more →California governor Gavin Newsom announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Anthropic on June 29, giving all state agencies and participating local governments access to Claude AI at a 50% discount.
Read more →Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization has urged the European Commission to explore bringing Anthropic to the EU, after US export controls cut off European access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
Read more →Samsung Group pledged 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) at a South Korean government briefing on June 28, with over 350 trillion won targeting AI data centers and semiconductor factories across the country over ten years.
Read more →OpenAI is leaning toward pushing its stock market debut to 2027, with CEO Sam Altman rejecting any listing price below $1 trillion even as advisers flag tech market volatility.
Read more →Anthropic is restoring global access to Claude Fable 5 starting July 1, three weeks after a US export control order, and is rolling out a four-criteria jailbreak severity framework developed with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Read more →Google has pushed its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro model from June to July 2026, while a Nobel Prize winner and three other senior researchers departed for OpenAI and Anthropic in the same week.
Read more →Anthropic released Claude Science in beta on June 30, an integrated environment connecting AI to 60+ scientific databases and lab compute for biomedical and life sciences research.
Read more →Colorado's Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence Act came into force on June 30, making it the first US state law to impose binding obligations on developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems.
Read more →Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, bringing near-Opus performance to its mid-tier line with autonomous agent capabilities at introductory API pricing of $2 per million input tokens.
Read more →OpenAI on June 22 expanded its Daybreak security program with GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model designed to detect and patch code vulnerabilities, and launched Patch the Planet to harden over 30 major open-source projects.
Read more →The EU Council gave final approval on June 29 to simplify the AI Act, pushing high-risk compliance deadlines to 2027-2028 and adding a ban on AI-generated non-consensual intimate images.
Read more →South Korea's leading chipmaker SK Hynix plans to raise $29.4 billion via a Nasdaq ADR offering — which would be the largest in history — to fund new AI memory production capacity.
Read more →The first full billing cycle under GitHub Copilot's new token-based pricing model closed June 30, with some developers reporting monthly costs jumping from $29 to $750 or from $50 to $3,000.
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