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onJune 27, 2026

Generalist AI Raises $400 Million at $2 Billion Valuation—NVIDIA and Bezos Back Physical AGI Startup’s 99% Success Rate Robot Models

A robotics company founded in 2024 just raised $400 million by solving the problem that has stalled physical AI for decades: teaching robots…

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Artur Markus

onJune 26, 2026

Inception Labs Launches Mercury AI at 700+ Tokens/Second—Matches GPT-4.1 Nano Performance While Outpacing Commercial LLMs

A diffusion-based language model just hit 700+ tokens per second while matching GPT-4.1 Nano on benchmarks. The speed gap between diffusion…

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Artur Markus

onJune 25, 2026

Qualcomm in Talks to Acquire Tenstorrent for $8-10 Billion—Jim Keller’s RISC-V AI Chip Startup Valuation Triples in One Year

Qualcomm just offered 3x last year’s valuation for a RISC-V chip startup. The bid tells you more about NVIDIA’s moat than…

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Artur Markus

onJune 24, 2026

DeepSeek Launches Janus-Pro-7B on January 27—Open-Source 7B Model Beats DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion on GenEval and DPG-Bench

A 7-billion-parameter open-source model just outperformed DALL-E 3 on two major image generation benchmarks. DeepSeek dropped Janus-Pro-7B on…

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Artur Markus

onJune 23, 2026

NSA to Run Classified AI Benchmarking for Military ‘Frontier Models’—Trump’s Executive Order 14409 Gives Government 30-Day Pre-Release Access

The NSA now gets first look at frontier AI models before anyone else—up to 30 days before public release. Executive Order 14409, signed June…

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Artur Markus

onJune 22, 2026

Visa Embeds Payment Network Into ChatGPT on June 10—AI Agents Can Now Shop Across 175 Million Merchant Locations

ChatGPT can now spend your money. Visa just wired 175 million stores into OpenAI’s agent layer—with spending limits and fraud checks,…

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Artur Markus

onJune 21, 2026

Apple Rebuilds Siri on Google’s 1.2-Trillion-Parameter Gemini Model—$1 Billion Annual Deal Announced June 8 at WWDC 2026

Apple just paid Google $1 billion per year to make Siri intelligent. The company that built its brand on privacy now routes your voice queries…

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Artur Markus

onJune 20, 2026

Google DeepMind Launches AlphaGenome on June 25—AI Processes 1 Million DNA Base Pairs at Single-Nucleotide Resolution, Wins 22 of 24 Benchmarks

DeepMind just made every specialized genomics model obsolete in a single release. AlphaGenome processes 1 million DNA base pairs at once—and…

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Artur Markus

onJune 19, 2026

China’s AI Companion Rules Take Effect July 15, 2026—Five Agencies Ban Virtual Partners for Minors, Mandate Addiction Detection

Five Chinese government agencies just created the world’s first dedicated regulation for emotionally interactive AI, banning virtual…

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Artur Markus

onJune 19, 2026

ChatGPT Tasks Launches in Beta on January 15, 2025—OpenAI Adds Scheduled Automation for Paid Subscribers with 10-Task Limit

OpenAI shipped scheduled automation inside ChatGPT on January 14, 2025, capping it at ten tasks per user. The company that built the…

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Artur Markus

onJune 17, 2026

US Government Forces Anthropic to Disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at 5:21 PM on June 12—Cybersecurity Experts Call Export Control ‘Dangerous’

The US government killed the world’s most advanced AI models in four hours. Security experts say that makes America less safe, not more.

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Artur Markus

onJune 16, 2026

Definely Raises $30M Series B Led by Revaia—Legal AI Workflow Startup Attracts Clio on June 16, 2025

Clio just invested in a company that automates the work Clio’s own customers do manually. That’s not competition—that’s…

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Artur Markus

onJune 15, 2026

Harvey Raises Second $300M Round of 2025 at $5 Billion Valuation—Legal AI Startup Closes Series E on June 23

Two $300 million rounds in six months. Harvey just proved that legal AI has crossed from experiment to enterprise category, and the velocity…

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Generalist AI Raises $400 Million at $2 Billion Valuation—NVIDIA and Bezos Back Physical AGI Startup’s 99% Success Rate Robot Models

Inception Labs Launches Mercury AI at 700+ Tokens/Second—Matches GPT-4.1 Nano Performance While Outpacing Commercial LLMs

Qualcomm in Talks to Acquire Tenstorrent for $8-10 Billion—Jim Keller’s RISC-V AI Chip Startup Valuation Triples in One Year

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