Month: June 2026

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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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Artur Markus

onJune 14, 2026

Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed Hits 1,000 Tokens/Second on 8-GPU Node—Claims 15X Faster Than ChatGPT and Claude

A Chinese smartphone company just outpaced OpenAI and Anthropic on inference speed by a factor of 15, using hardware any enterprise can…

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Artur Markus

onJune 13, 2026

OpenAI Launches o3-pro at $80 Per Million Output Tokens on June 10—Beats Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4 Opus on Math and Science Benchmarks

OpenAI just told developers that thinking costs money—$80 per million output tokens, to be exact. The company’s new o3-pro model doubles…

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Artur Markus

onJune 11, 2026

Apollo and Blackstone Close $35 Billion Chip Financing for Anthropic—Largest Private Credit Deal Ever Funds 1+ GW Compute Expansion Off Balance Sheet

Anthropic just secured $35 billion in compute capacity without adding a dollar of debt to its balance sheet. Wall Street has arrived in AI…

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Artur Markus

onJune 10, 2026

Microsoft Patches CVE-2025-32711 ‘EchoLeak’—Zero-Click Copilot Flaw Allowed Silent Data Exfiltration via Malicious Email

Your AI assistant just became a potential data exfiltration channel, and the attack vector is an unopened email sitting in your inbox.…

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Artur Markus

onJune 9, 2026

Federal Judge Rules AI Training on Lawfully Acquired Books Is Fair Use—But Anthropic’s 7 Million Pirated Copies Are Not

A federal judge just declared that AI companies can legally train on books they own—but Anthropic built its library from 7 million pirated…

8 Min Read

Artur Markus

onJune 8, 2026

Microsoft Shifts GitHub Copilot to Token-Based Billing—Forrester Calls It ‘The New Gateway Drug’ as Azure Foundry Adds 11,000+ Models

Microsoft just turned AI coding assistance into a metered utility—and the enterprises that budgeted for unlimited copilots are about to…

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Artur Markus

onJune 7, 2026

FDA Launches Elsa AI Tool Agency-Wide on February 5—Generative AI Now Reads Adverse Events, Compares Labels, and Generates Database Code for 18,000+ Employees

The FDA just deployed generative AI to 18,000 employees without buying a single SaaS license from an AI vendor. That sound you hear is a…

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Artur Markus

onJune 6, 2026

Meta Takes 49% Stake in Scale AI for $14.3 Billion—CEO Alexandr Wang Joins Superintelligence Team as Scale Operates Independently

Meta paid $14.3 billion for half of a data labeling company—then recruited its founder to build superintelligence. The price tag reveals…

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Artur Markus

onJune 5, 2026

AMC Networks Partners with Runway on June 4 to Generate Marketing Assets with Gen-4 AI—Deploys Across The Walking Dead and Interview with the Vampire

A major cable network just eliminated traditional marketing shoots for its biggest franchises. AMC Networks announced a partnership with…

Month: June 2026

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