Month: June 2026

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onJune 30, 2026

Straiker Raises $64 Million Series A on June 29—Agentic Security Startup Grows Revenue 15× in Under a Year Protecting Fortune 500 AI Agents

A security startup protecting AI agents from AI agents just grew revenue 15× in under a year. The category didn’t exist 24 months…

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Artur Markus

onJune 29, 2026

Anthropic Launches Claude Tag on June 23—Slack AI Agent Writes 65% of Product Team’s Code, Runs on Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic just revealed that 65% of its own product team’s code comes from an AI agent—and they’ve opened that same system to…

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Artur Markus

onJune 28, 2026

Google DeepMind’s GenCast Beats ECMWF ENS on 97.2% of 1,320 Weather Targets—AI Forecasts 15 Days in 8 Minutes, Outperforms Europe’s Gold Standard by 12.6% on Extremes

Europe’s operational weather forecasting system—the one MeteoSwiss and national meteorological services actually rely on—just got beaten…

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Artur Markus

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…

Month: June 2026

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