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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.
Read more →Qualcomm has agreed to buy Modular, the AI infrastructure startup behind the Mojo programming language and MAX platform, for a reported ~$4 billion, aiming to build a cross-hardware AI deployment stack.
Read more →Anthropic's June 2026 Economic Index links real Claude session data to a direct survey of 9,700 users, finding roughly half say AI already handles 50 percent or more of their work tasks — and more than one-third expect automation to cover most of their job within a year.
Read more →RAISE US, a nonpartisan nonprofit co-chaired by former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, launched June 25 with over $500 million from more than 25 companies to retrain American workers displaced by AI.
Read more →OpenAI unveiled three new models — Sol, Terra, and Luna — on June 26, but restricted access to government-vetted partners following a White House request on frontier AI oversight.
Read more →The Trump administration authorized Anthropic to restore Claude Mythos 5 access for roughly 100 US critical infrastructure organizations, ending a two-week suspension. The consumer-facing Fable 5 model remains offline pending further negotiations.
Read more →Alibaba's Qwen team released a language world model that learns to predict agent environment states across seven domains, offering a new approach to training AI agents without live systems.
Read more →Anthropic told US senators that operators linked to Alibaba used nearly 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to illicitly copy Claude's capabilities into Alibaba's Qwen model — calling it the largest known attack of its kind.
Read more →At its annual Config conference on June 24, Figma introduced Motion, a built-in timeline animation tool, and an upgraded Design Agent with reusable skills, external connectors to Notion and GitHub, and AI-generated shader fills.
Read more →Qualcomm on June 24 unveiled the Dragonfly data center chip family — a 250-core Arm-based CPU and a new inference accelerator — with Meta signed on to deploy the hardware in its server fleet from 2028.
Read more →Liquid AI released LFM2.5-230M, a 230-million-parameter open-weight model that runs AI agent tasks at 213 tokens per second on a phone CPU and 42 tokens per second on a Raspberry Pi — without a cloud connection.
Read more →Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — both key figures in Gemini development and AlphaFold — are leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic, extending a six-day talent exodus that erased roughly $270 billion from Alphabet's market value.
Read more →Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit humanoid robot, has entered a SPAC merger valuing the company at $2.5 billion — one of the first major public listings for a commercial humanoid robotics firm.
Read more →New data from SignalFire tracking millions of tech workers shows engineers are the most resilient job category in the AI era, even as recent graduates and non-technical roles absorbed the steepest cuts.
Read more →ByteDance launched Doubao Seed 2.1 Pro and Turbo on June 23, claiming top scores on coding and agent benchmarks and parity with GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7.
Read more →Google has postponed its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro to July, slipping past the June deadline CEO Sundar Pichai set at Google I/O — the second consecutive I/O commitment to miss its target.
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