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Google Gemini won Apple's $1B per year deal to power a rebuilt Siri on 1.4 billion iPhones, with a custom 1.2 trillion parameter model on Apple servers.
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Google Gemini won Apple's $1B per year deal to power a rebuilt Siri on 1.4 billion iPhones, with a custom 1.2 trillion parameter model on Apple servers.


Qualcomm lands a ByteDance deal to supply millions of custom AI ASICs for Doubao, its biggest AI win yet and a direct challenge to Nvidia data centers.


SAP Joule Studio 2.0 ships 50 Joule Assistants and 200+ specialized agents across finance, supply chain, and HR, rolling out to customers in June 2026.


OpenAI launched a $14B deployment unit backed by TPG, Bain, and Brookfield and is acquiring Tomoro to embed engineers inside large enterprises.


Foundation Future Industries won $24M in Pentagon contracts and sent Phantom humanoid robots into Ukraine, the first humanoids in a live combat zone.


NewLimit raised $435M led by Founders Fund and tripled its valuation to $3.1B, taking an epigenetic age-reversal drug toward human trials in 2027.


Subtle Medical raised 33M and named CEO Ohad Arazi as its AI imaging platform cuts MRI, PET, and CT scan time up to 80% on 1,300 scanners.


ZutaCore raised 100M Series C at a 600M valuation as Mitsubishi, Carrier, and Samsung back waterless cooling that cuts AI data center energy use in half.


Cyera raised 300M at a 12B valuation, doubling its worth in five months as AI data security ARR hit 150M on an 80x revenue multiple.


Boston Dynamics ships its full 2026 Atlas production run to Hyundai factories and Google DeepMind, with a 30,000 unit per year plant due by 2028.


Novo Nordisk is integrating OpenAI across drug discovery, trials, and manufacturing by end of 2026, a bid to claw back obesity market share from Eli Lilly.


The US closed a loophole that let Nvidia Blackwell chips reach China-owned firms abroad, after an estimated hundreds of thousands flowed via Malaysia.


Skild AI raised $1.4 billion led by SoftBank, tripling its valuation to over $14 billion in seven months to build one brain for any robot.


Intel's Core Ultra X7 358H runs robot AI 50% faster than Nvidia's Jetson AGX Orin at half the cost, a direct strike at Nvidia's robotics grip.


Google retires the Gemini CLI on June 18 2026 and moves developers to the Antigravity CLI, an agentic coding tool running on Gemini 3.5 Flash.


Stord raised $250M at a $3B valuation and launched Stord Labs to push physical AI and robotics across its 100 fulfillment centers, taking aim at Amazon.


Nvidia GR00T N2 tops MolmoSpaces and RoboArena with 2x the rival success rate, a world action model for humanoid robots shipping in late 2026.


Microsoft's Frontier Tuning lets enterprises train custom MAI models on proprietary data with RL, keeping the weights inside their own infrastructure.


Legora bought Cadastral, its fourth deal of 2026, to push agentic legal AI into commercial real estate and anchor a new 200-person New York hub.


Quobly raised a 115M Series A led by STMicroelectronics and Bpifrance to industrialize silicon quantum computers on standard 300mm chip lines.


Manus founders are raising 1B dollars to buy the startup back from Meta and unwind the deal Beijing blocked, then relaunch as a Chinese firm.


Palantir 445M NHS data contract faces a UK Parliament push to trigger its break clause as MPs warn Britain leans too hard on US tech firms.


OpenAI Codex found HTTP/2 Bomb, a remote DoS flaw crashing Nginx, Apache, and IIS servers in under a minute, now tagged CVE-2026-49975.


Apoha raised $36M to build AI that learns from how materials behave in liquid, capturing 1,000+ data points on smell, taste, and reactivity in minutes.


Picogrid raised $45M led by Bessemer to build a neutral integration layer connecting drones, sensors, and shooters across the US military and allies.


Coralogix raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation to monitor AI agents, betting autonomous software, not human dashboards, is the next era of observability.


ServiceNow jumps 9% as Nvidia backs its autonomous AI agents at Computex 2026, reframing the fear that agents will gut seat-based SaaS software.


Intel Xeon 6+ packs 288 cores on its 18A process at Computex 2026, a rack-density bet to claw back AI server share from AMD and Arm rivals.


Vector Core Compute launches the first cloud built for disaggregated AI inference, splitting each query across Intel CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and SambaNova RDUs.


Reliable Robotics raises $160M at a near $1B valuation to certify an uncrewed Cessna 208, with 200 orders and an Air Force deal backing pilotless cargo.


Mistral opens a 13800 Nvidia GB300 data center near Paris with 44 megawatts and 276 exaflops, Europe's biggest bid yet for sovereign AI compute by 2026.


Salesforce ships Agentforce Multi-Agent Orchestration June 15, routing 50 prebuilt AI agents through one entry point as it pivots to per-outcome pricing.


AI layoffs hit 142,000 in 2026 as profitable firms fund a 700B buildout, yet only 27% of CEOs say the AI investment met expectations.


Inherent raised a 50M seed led by Index and Radical to build Faraday, an AI from ex-DeepMind founders that picks which science questions matter.


Microsoft MXC enforces AI agent permissions at the Windows kernel, booting 94% faster than a Hyper-V VM, with OpenAI and NVIDIA on board.


Nvidia NemoClaw lets Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens and Dassault build autonomous AI engineers that compress weeks of chip design into hours.


Lassie raised $35M Series A led by a16z at a $250M valuation, with AI now running 700+ dental practices across 49 states and $10M in revenue.


Wordsmith raised $70M Series B led by Index Ventures and Highland Europe, hitting $100M total as 500+ in-house legal teams cut outside counsel spend.


Collate raised $95M led by Redpoint at a nearly $1B valuation to automate life sciences paperwork, lifting total funding to $125M for the YC-born startup.


Corgi raised $106M led by TCV at a $2.6B valuation three weeks after a $160M round, doubling its worth as the YC insurtech rebuilds commercial coverage.


OpenRouter raised $113M led by Google's CapitalG at a $1.3B valuation as weekly token volume exploded to 25 trillion across 400 plus AI models.


Anthropic gives Claude Mythos to 150 critical-infrastructure firms across 15 allied nations after the model surfaced 10,000 high-severity software flaws.


OpenAI replaces custom GPTs with Workspace Agents that act inside Slack, Salesforce, Snowflake and Databricks, moving enterprise AI from chat to action.


Anthropic commits $100 million to a Claude Partner Network of certified integrators, building enterprise distribution muscle weeks before its IPO.


Nvidia DGX Station for Windows runs 1 trillion-parameter models locally on the GB300 superchip, a deskside bet that frontier AI does not need cloud.


Apptronik added $520M to its Series A, pushing the round past $935M to scale its Apollo humanoid robot, already piloting at Mercedes-Benz and GXO.


Swarmer stock soared 520% on its Nasdaq IPO debut, selling AI drone swarm software as defense-tech funding hits a record 14.6 billion dollars in 2026.


ServiceNow Project Arc puts an autonomous AI agent on the desktop that writes and runs its own code, with an NVIDIA sandbox and full audit logging.