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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 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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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 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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