OpenAI Launches Patch the Planet Cybersecurity Initiative
June 22, 2026: OpenAI Launches Patch the Planet Cybersecurity Initiative - OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program with Patch the Planet, an open-source patching initiative co-founded with Trail of Bits and HackerOne. Over 30 projects including cURL, Python, and Go have joined, with human engineers reviewing all AI-generated findings before they reach maintainer...
Dutch Chip Inspection Firm Raises $380M, Hits Unicorn Status
June 22, 2026: Dutch Chip Inspection Firm Raises $380M, Hits Unicorn Status - Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam-based semiconductor metrology company, has raised $380 million in a Series D round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, with participation from Temasek, Qatar Investment Authority, and others. The raise is the largest ever by a Dutch company, pushing Near...
Reflection AI Signs $6.3B SpaceX Compute Deal
June 22, 2026: Reflection AI Signs $6.3B SpaceX Compute Deal - Open source AI startup Reflection AI has signed a $6.3 billion compute deal with SpaceX, paying $150 million monthly from July 2026 through 2029 for access to Nvidia GB300 chips at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee. The deal includes a 90-day cancellation option after the first...
Nvidia's Water Fix Ignores the Bigger Problem
June 22, 2026: Nvidia's Water Fix Ignores the Bigger Problem - Nvidia claims its new warm-water cooling system can eliminate water use inside data centers, with its chief sustainability officer declaring the water consumption challenge "largely solved." The closed-loop coolant system does deliver on facility-level promises, potentially achieving a 100% reductio...
Google Invests $75M in A24 for AI Filmmaking
June 22, 2026: Google Invests $75M in A24 for AI Filmmaking - Google is investing $75 million in independent film studio A24 to explore AI-powered filmmaking tools, marking the tech giant's first investment in a film studio. The partnership will give A24 access to Google's DeepMind lab, with a focus on building new production workflows rather than AI-generated...
Visa i OpenAI menjaju budućnost digitalnih plaćanja
June 21, 2026: Visa i OpenAI menjaju budućnost digitalnih plaćanja - Visa i OpenAI najavili su strateško partnerstvo usmereno na razvoj agentne trgovine, modela u kojem veštačka inteligencija ne samo preporučuje proizvode, već i samostalno obavlja transakcije u ime korisnika. Visa obezbeđuje platnu mrežu i tokenizaciju, dok OpenAI integriše AI agente koji odlučuju i ...
Anthropic Crackdown: Who Really Benefits?
June 21, 2026: Anthropic Crackdown: Who Really Benefits? - The Trump administration forced Anthropic to pull its two newest AI models offline over national security concerns, citing fears about foreign access. The move followed reports that Amazon researchers found ways to bypass the models' guardrails, with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly alerting the Whi...
DeepMind Treats AI Agents as Insider Threats
June 21, 2026: DeepMind Treats AI Agents as Insider Threats - Google DeepMind has published an AI Control Roadmap, treating its most advanced AI agents as potential insider threats, similar to how security teams handle employees with sensitive access. The roadmap, released on June 18, assumes that capable AI agents could attempt to evade controls, prompting t...
Nobel Laureate Jumper Leaves DeepMind for Anthropic
June 20, 2026: Nobel Laureate Jumper Leaves DeepMind for Anthropic - John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join rival AI company Anthropic. He credited DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for giving him the opportunity to lead the AlphaFold team shortly after completing his P...
OpenAI's Barret Zoph Exits Again After Five Months
June 19, 2026: OpenAI's Barret Zoph Exits Again After Five Months - Barret Zoph, OpenAI's head of enterprise AI sales, has left the company just five months after rejoining in mid-January, according to The Verge. Zoph had previously departed OpenAI to co-found Thinking Machines Lab as CTO alongside former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati before returning earlier this year.
AI Agent Frameworks Expose Thousands to Remote Attacks
June 19, 2026: AI Agent Frameworks Expose Thousands to Remote Attacks - Three major AI agent frameworks, LangGraph, Langflow, and LangChain, contain critical vulnerabilities that attackers are actively exploiting. Check Point Research found SQL injection in LangGraph leading to remote code execution, while Langflow's file upload flaw has left 7,000 servers under active ...
Trupeer AI hires ex-UiPath CEO for UK push
June 19, 2026: Trupeer AI hires ex-UiPath CEO for UK push - Trupeer AI has appointed Raghu Subramanian, former President and CEO of UiPath APAC, as President and Chief Business Officer to lead its UK expansion. The workflow knowledge platform, backed by RTP Global and Salesforce Ventures, serves over 50,000 teams across 100 countries. Subramanian brings 25 ...
Trump Bans Anthropic Models, SpaceX Buys Cursor
June 19, 2026: Trump Bans Anthropic Models, SpaceX Buys Cursor - The Trump administration banned Anthropic's latest AI models for foreign use, forcing the company to shut down access entirely in a sudden reversal of its recent momentum. Meanwhile, SpaceX moved swiftly to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion using proceeds from its IPO. Databricks dom...
Trupeer AI hires ex-UiPath CEO for UK push
June 19, 2026: Trupeer AI hires ex-UiPath CEO for UK push - Trupeer AI has appointed Raghu Subramanian, former President and CEO of UiPath APAC, as President and Chief Business Officer to drive UK expansion. The workflow knowledge platform, backed by RTP Global and Salesforce Ventures, serves over 50,000 teams across 100 countries. Subramanian brings 25 yea...
Trupeer AI hires ex-UiPath CEO for UK push
June 19, 2026: Trupeer AI hires ex-UiPath CEO for UK push - Trupeer AI has appointed Raghu Subramanian, former President and CEO of UiPath APAC, as President and Chief Business Officer to drive UK expansion. The workflow knowledge platform, backed by RTP Global and Salesforce Ventures, serves over 50,000 teams across 100 countries. The UK is a strategic pri...
Architect Labs Raises $24M to AI-Automate Chip Design
June 19, 2026: Architect Labs Raises $24M to AI-Automate Chip Design - Architect Labs launched today with $24 million in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures, with backing from Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas, Transformer co-inventor Lukasz Kaiser, and former OpenAI executive Srinivas Narayanan. The Palo Alto startup aims to make chip development faster and cheaper ...
Elastic Buys AI Debugging Startup for $85M
June 19, 2026: Elastic Buys AI Debugging Startup for $85M - Elastic has agreed to acquire Deductive AI, a startup that uses AI to detect and fix software bugs, for up to $85 million. Founded in 2023, Deductive raised a $7.5 million seed round at a $33 million valuation before this speedy exit. The deal aims to strengthen Elastic's observability platform by ...
9 Themes Shaping Databricks' Unified Data AI Platform
June 18, 2026: 9 Themes Shaping Databricks' Unified Data AI Platform - At the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026, enterprise leaders outlined nine key themes driving the shift from fragmented AI experiments to governed, production-ready intelligence. Topics ranged from eliminating multiple data copies and localized AI adoption in Europe to machine-speed security and deci...
Crusoe AI Builds Sustainable Infrastructure on Energy-First Strategy
June 18, 2026: Crusoe AI Builds Sustainable Infrastructure on Energy-First Strategy - Crusoe AI differentiates itself with a vertically integrated, energy-first approach to AI infrastructure, sourcing power from unconventional sources like geothermal energy in Iceland and wind in Texas. A partnership with Redwood Materials powers thousands of Blackwell GPUs using recycled EV batterie...
Prem Raises $100M as AI Export Bans Surge
June 18, 2026: Prem Raises $100M as AI Export Bans Surge - Swiss AI startup Prem SA is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a valuation of at least $500 million, with the round expected to close in Q3. The company sells software for running AI models on private infrastructure, targeting hedge funds and law firms that cannot share sensitive data with ...
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