AI News Archive: June 16, 2026 — Part 1
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- SpaceX’s $60 Billion Deal to Buy Cursor Gives It More AI Coding Power
The deal for the AI coding agent comes days after a historic IPO that made Space X one of America’s most valuable companies.
- DeepSeek Becomes China’s Most Valuable AI Startup After $7.4 Billion Fundraise
China’s DeepSeek raised more than $7.4 billion in its first round of fundraising to support its costly development of artificial intelligence.
- How AI Startup CoreWeave Is Quietly Stacking a $131 Billion Backlog Behind the Scenes
The No. 45 company on the 2025 Inc. 5000 may be signing AI contracts far faster than Wall Street expected. Financing the computing capacity to fulfill them will be its next test.
Score: 90🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://www.inc.com/georgia-fearn/core-weave-is-quietly-stacking-131-billion-backlog-behind-the-scenes/91361642 - Singapore using AI to hasten the discovery of recipes for next-gen semiconductors, clean hydrogen
Singapore using AI to hasten the discovery of recipes for next-gen semiconductors, clean hydrogen The Straits Times
- AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job
The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is
- US saw risk of Anthropic models being diverted to foreign military intelligence
US saw risk of Anthropic models being diverted to foreign military intelligence The Straits Times
- Rocket Doctor AI Subsidiary Treatment.com Secures Year 2 NIH Funding to Advance AI-Powered Family Health History Tool
Rocket Doctor AI Subsidiary Treatment.com Secures Year 2 NIH Funding to Advance AI-Powered Family Health History Tool Toronto Star
- Under Trump, DOJ Moves to Intervene in NAACP Lawsuit in Support of Musk’s xAI
In a memo, the DOJ said xAI's Grok is vital for national security efforts, especially in Iran.
Score: 87🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://gizmodo.com/under-trump-doj-moves-to-intervene-in-naacp-lawsuit-in-support-of-musks-xai-2000772560 - TSMC says panel packaging won't replace CoWoS anytime soon for the largest future AI processors — wafer-level tech can scale to 58 massive dies in one package
TSMC is exploring panel-level packaging and is working on its CoPoS technology, but the company's Kevin Zhang says wafer-level packaging technologies is considerably more advanced than panel-level packaging.
- How Nvidia’s New Humanoid Machine Solves the Robot Industry’s Biggest Problem
With Isaac GROOT, Nvidia may end up becoming the Android of robotics.
- SMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply — An interview with Silicon Motion's SVP Nelson Duann
Silicon Motion's Nelson Duann discusses NAND supply crisis in the consumer SSD market and the future of consumer storage.
- Retinal Photos and AI Predict Early Alzheimer’s Risk
Routine, low-cost retinal photographs can accurately predict primary biological and lifestyle risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease.
- Qualcomm said to be circling AI chip biz Tenstorrent in $10B RISC-V power play
Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture
- Trump’s Genesis Mission is putting AI to work on nuclear weapons
The Department of Energy bills Genesis as an AI push for scientific discovery. Its first public challenges tell a different story
Score: 85🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-genesis-mission-is-putting-ai-to-work-on-nuclear-weapons/ - AI Now Co-Executive Director Sarah Myers West Testifies Before Senate Banking Committee
On Thursday, June 11, 2026, AI Now Co-Executive Director Dr. Sarah Myers West testified at a Hearing before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on “AI and the American Dream: Promoting Innovation, Affordability, and American Dominance”. In her testimony, Dr. West highlighted the risks the AI industry poses to the US economy and broader public – […] The post AI Now Co-Executive Director Sarah Myers West Testifies Before Senate Banking Committee appeared first on AI Now Institute .
- Microsoft makes Copilot Cowork open to everyone, and wants to help you tackle even the trickiest work tasks
Microsoft and Anthropic reveal an upgraded Copilot Cowork is now generally available.
- Copilot Cowork is now generally available worldwide, now with multi-model support! Every organization can put long-running agents to work on complex, multi-step tasks, grounded in your organization’s unique knowledge and know-how.
The post Copilot Cowork is now generally available worldwide, now with multi-model support! Every organization can put long-running agents to work on complex, multi-step tasks, grounded in your organization’s unique knowledge and know-how. appeared first on Source .
- Microsoft Mulls China’s DeepSeek for Copilot, Probably to Trump’s Chagrin
Don't see this going over well.
Score: 85🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-mulls-chinas-deepseek-for-copilot-probably-to-trumps-chagrin-2000772649 - AMD’s massive SP7 socket for EPYC Venice and Intel’s gargantuan 9,324-pin socket for Diamond Rapids appear at Computex — SP7 and LGA9324-1 sockets will power the next generation of AI servers
Next-generation data center processors from AMD and Intel with 16 DDR5 memory channels are even bigger than today’s designs.
- Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon START to Enable the Next Phase of Personal AI Devices
Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon START to Enable the Next Phase of Personal AI Devices
Score: 84🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2026/06/qualcomm-launches-snapdragon-start-to-enable-the-next-phase-of-p - China deploys first typhoon rapid intensification forecast model
The deployment of a new 24-hour rapid intensification forecast model for typhoons and its 12-hour rapid intensification forecast service now offer China significantly enhanced forecasting performance, according to Shenzhen-based researchers in south China's Guangdong Province.
- ChatGPT will soon be able to shop with your Visa card
OpenAI has signed a partnership agreement with Visa that allows the company’s AI agents to use the payment card for e-commerce transactions. The agreements lets users shop for everything from groceries and diapers to airline tickets without having to manually enter a lot of information. “As AI agents become active participants in the economy, Visa’s focus is on ensuring that transactions are reliable, secure, and seamless,” Visa Chief Product and Strategy Officer Jack Forestell said in a statement, according to AP . The pact means AI agents can complete purchases on a user’s behalf at virtually any merchant that accepts Visa. Details about the financial terms of the agreement, or whether specific transaction fees will apply, were not immediately detailed.
- A flexible graphene-based neural interface can 'speak and listen' to the brain
Neural interfaces are devices that can detect or modulate neuronal activity when placed in contact with the brain. They are already used to treat various conditions related to the nervous system. However, current technologies still have limitations that can reduce their effectiveness. One example is their unidirectional function. While most existing interfaces can stimulate the brain, they cannot accurately detect or decode brain activity simultaneously. Even when they can do so, they often face limitations in the detection of certain signals, particularly those at very low frequencies.
Score: 82🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://phys.org/news/2026-06-flexible-graphene-based-neural-interface.html - Diagnostic performance of machine learning models versus established risk stratification for intracranial aneurysm rupture: a systematic review and bivariate meta-analysis - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive - ORA
Diagnostic performance of machine learning models versus established risk stratification for intracranial aneurysm rupture: a systematic review and bivariate meta-analysis - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
Score: 80📄 ResearchJun 16, 2026https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ab6edb37-82ad-4f26-b89f-2390b3ce2ef0 - Pentagon Says It Used xAI’s Grok in Iran War as DoJ Fights Data Center Lawsuit
Pentagon Says It Used xAI’s Grok in Iran War as DoJ Fights Data Center Lawsuit The Information
Score: 80🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/pentagon-says-used-xais-grok-iran-war-doj-fights-data-center-lawsuit - Anthropic’s IPO pitch has a new problem: The government can shut it down
Anthropic’s IPO pitch has a new problem: The government can shut it down Fortune
- Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls
Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Founded in 2023, Bland builds AI agents that handle phone calls, SMS and chat. Where much of the market wraps third-party foundation models […] The post Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Score: 79💰 MoneyJun 16, 2026https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/16/bland-raises-50m-automate-complex-high-stakes-phone-calls/ - Shield AI and EFA GROUP partner to advance sovereign autonomous defense capabilities in Greece
PARIS (June 16, 2026) — Shield AI and EFA GROUP today signed a strategic partnership agreement at the Eurosatory defense exhibition to strengthen Greece’s defense technology and industrial base. Under the agreement, Shield AI and EFA GROUP will collaborate to develop and integrate AI pilots for unmanned systems, using Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy software as the baseline. EFA GROUP will contribute […]
- DeepSeek takes outside money for the first time at a $50 billion valuation
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has raised more than 50 billion yuan - about $7.4 billion - in its first external funding round. The article DeepSeek takes outside money for the first time at a $50 billion valuation appeared first on The Decoder .
Score: 79💰 MoneyJun 16, 2026https://the-decoder.com/deepseek-takes-outside-money-for-the-first-time-at-a-50-billion-valuation/ - 1K jobs, more tech for AI data centers on tap as Coherent reveals $650 million Sherman expansion
Coherent said the $650 million expansion will quadruple wafer production capacity at its facility in the city near the Oklahoma border.
- Google Details Five Generations Of TPU Training Supercomputers
Researchers from Google and University of California, Berkeley published a technical paper titled “Google’s Training Supercomputers from TPU v2 to Ironwood: Architectural Stability, Scale, Resilience, Power Efficiency, and Sustainability Across Five Generations.” The paper summarizes five generations of Google TPUs, from TPU v2 through Ironwood, and examines how the systems evolved into scalable, resilient, power-efficient,... » read more The post Google Details Five Generations Of TPU Training Supercomputers appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Score: 78🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://semiengineering.com/google-details-five-generations-of-tpu-training-supercomputers/ - Zurich Insurance (Hong Kong) and YAS announce embedded insurance for robots
Zurich Insurance (Hong Kong) and YAS announce embedded insurance for robots The Straits Times
- GenXAI Analytics enters USD 100 million defence AI opportunity through Partnership with ShortOrbit Defence
GenXAI has joined hands with ShortOrbit Defence. This partnership puts homegrown Indian artificial intelligence at the centre of next-generation defence. The tie-up brings GenXAI’s AI platforms into mission-critical defence applications. The partnership grew out of a working relationship taking up co-innovation approach in various business segments with Content AI platform developed by GenXAI as one […] The post GenXAI Analytics enters USD 100 million defence AI opportunity through Partnership with ShortOrbit Defence appeared first on CXOToday.com .
- SiliconFlow Raises $294 Million as China’s AI Inference Demand Surges
SiliconFlow Raises $294 Million as China’s AI Inference Demand Surges Caixin Global
- The US Government Banned Anthropic's Fable 5 AI. I Tried It Before It Disappeared
The US Government Banned Anthropic's Fable 5 AI. I Tried It Before It Disappeared PCMag
Score: 78🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-us-government-banned-anthropics-fable-5-ai-i-tried-it-before-it-disappeared - Clearlake Capital Closes on $14.8 Billion to Capitalize on AI-Driven Transformation and Continue Sector-Focused Investment Strategy
Fund VIII Reflects Strong Global Investor Support for Clearlake’s Integrated Platform, Operational Value-Creation Model, and AI-Enabled Investment Approach
- Project Jupiter AI data center build raises concerns about water usage in rural New Mexico desert — Oracle calls water usage 'negligible' for 11 million gallon one-time fill
Oracle's Project Jupiter is targeting a New Mexico desert already struggling with water consumption, but the company assures residents that the data center's water usage is "negligible."
- Swedish AI patent platform Lightbringer raises €8.6 million to “take on Big Law” and replace existing patent firms
Lightbringer, a Malmö-based AI-powered LegalTech company transforming how startups and SMEs secure patents, has raised €8.6 million ($10 million) in Series A funding to fuel its US expansion and next phase of product development. The round was co-led by London-based 6 Degrees Capital and Amsterdam-based Newion. Thomas Olszewski, Partner at 6 Degrees Capital, and Dorus […] The post Swedish AI patent platform Lightbringer raises €8.6 million to “take on Big Law” and replace existing patent firms appeared first on EU-Startups .
- Berlin-based Cortea raises €12 million Seed round to build AI quality layer for audit firms
Cortea, a Berlin-based startup building the AI quality layer for audit firms, has raised €12 million in a Seed funding round and announced the launch of its first Audit Quality Agents, designed to help firms improve audit quality while increasing capacity across the audit process. The round was led by Dawn Capital, with participation from […] The post Berlin-based Cortea raises €12 million Seed round to build AI quality layer for audit firms appeared first on EU-Startups .
- Fortinet Launches FortiSOC, a Unified SOC Platform Powered by Agentic AI
Fortinet Launches FortiSOC, a Unified SOC Platform Powered by Agentic AI Toronto Star
- Wear OS 7 arrives to Pixel watches with Gemini AI and live updates
Wear OS 7 is now live for Pixel watches, with a new interface, notifications and Gemini features.
- Microsoft launches AI agent with pay-as-you-go pricing
Microsoft is changing how it charges for its software for the first time in two decades, moving to bill customers with a pay-as-you-go model each time they use its new AI agent.
- Mobileye’s US robotaxi launch will put it on both sides of the AV business
Mobileye apparently wants to own some of the robotaxi market, even if that puts it in direct competition with companies it supplies its self-driving system to.
Score: 75🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/mobileye-us-robotaxi-launch-will-put-it-on-both-sides-of-the-av-business/ - Build On-Device AI Companions with the NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK and Unreal Engine 5 Plugins
NVIDIA RTX technologies are deeply integrated into Unreal Engine 5 through the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine and the NVIDIA DLSS Unreal Engine plugin. This...
- Vietnam’s AI funding just grew 13x in two years. Now comes the hard part
The number is arresting: AI startup investment in Vietnam reached US$130 million in 2025, a 13-fold increase since 2023. In a region where AI funding headlines tend to flow towards Singapore, India, or the occasional Indonesian unicorn, Vietnam’s emergence as a serious AI capital destination is a development that deserves more than passing notice. According […] The post Vietnam’s AI funding just grew 13x in two years. Now comes the hard part appeared first on e27 .
Score: 75🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://e27.co/vietnams-ai-funding-just-grew-13x-in-two-years-now-comes-the-hard-part-20260616/ - This Copilot vulnerability could expose emails, 2FA codes, and other sensitive data
A newly discovered Microsoft Copilot vulnerability enables hackers to access your email and other sensitive data.
Score: 75🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://mashable.com/tech/searchleak-microsoft-copilot-ai-assistant-vulnerability-report - Nvidia Eyes $20B Debt Sale as AI Cash Flow Soars
Nvidia’s planned debt sale could top $20 billion, giving enterprise buyers another look at its cash flow, debt profile, and AI financing plans. The post Nvidia Eyes $20B Debt Sale as AI Cash Flow Soars appeared first on TechRepublic .
- ‘AI is the key to global power status’: Inside China's race to militarise artificial intelligence
The true extent of China's military AI remains unclear, despite public displays of autonomous drones, AI-powered naval weapons and "robot dogs," experts told Euronews.
- Amnesty calls for ban on AI risk-profiling systems
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) for predictive profiling or risk assessment should be banned in a range of “high-stakes contexts”, such as policing, migration and welfare, says Amnesty International, on the basis that it can only entrench existing patterns of discrimination. According to a report published by the group on 11 June 2026, automated AI-powered risk profiling systems are leading to false criminal accusations against marginalised groups, and are incompatible with international human rights law. The report highlights how AI risk profiling – used by public authorities in law enforcement, social security and migration to identify potential offenders and assess whether a person or group is likely to break a law, before an offence is committed – is resulting in discrimination based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and disability, violating the right to equality and non-discrimination. “The way these tools are deployed can be the result of pre-existing stereotypes and prejudices which regard marginalised groups as inherently criminal or dangerous,” said Alexander Laufer, Amnesty International Netherlands researcher on technology and human rights. “Individuals or groups are transformed from statistical, hypothetical suspects into actual suspects, solidifying pre-existing prejudices or generating new ones. This is the result of existing systemic discrimination.” AI-based risk profiling systems trained on discriminatory data So far, the technology has been deployed across Sweden, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Australia, in social fraud investigations and debt recovery schemes. Use of one AI system was suspended in Sweden in November 2025, after investigations found that the technology disproportionally and incorrectly flagged marginalised groups for investigation over social benefits fraud. Prior to the suspension of this system, Amnesty described the use of this profiling system as “akin to a witch hunt”. Data based on existing systemic discrimination means marginalised groups can be targeted with an increased risk of being labelled as “suspicious”. Amnesty flagged that this includes “racialised people, Muslims, people on the move, people with disabilities or chronic illnesses, and people on low incomes”. Laufer said AI risk profiling can lead to false criminal accusations, imprisonment, homelessness, deportations, and denial of social benefits, while the lack of transparency in the technology can leave individuals “unable to challenge these systems and decisions that affect their rights”. He added: “It also poses risks to other human rights, such as the right to fair trial, the presumption of innocence, the right to privacy and data protection, social security and an adequate standard of living, and full realisation of human dignity.” Can AI algorithms predict potential criminal behaviour? Despite concerns raised by Amnesty and others that the technology is consistently inaccurate and scientifically dubious, governments continue ramping up their use of AI-powered risk profiling as a “cost-effective way to fight crime, social security fraud and irregular migration”. However, in Laufer’s view, it is “impossible to design an objective or neutral risk profiling algorithm – data about people is never objective”. The report added that the data required to predict whether an individual will commit a crime does not and cannot exist, meaning unreliable and biased proxy data is being used as indicators to predict potential criminal behaviour. It also noted that, because human behaviour is “inherently indeterminable” and “adaptive”, it is impossible to predict future behaviour accurately. “In some cases, there is no plausible connection between observable data and the proposed behaviour being predicted, such as between race or ethnicity and criminality – namely, racial profiling,” it said. “In other cases, regardless of the amount of data, there is no data, or proxy data, that is good enough or objective enough to adequately model the underlying phenomenon. Such systems include risk profiling that attempts to predict criminality, life course or the propensity to commit social security fraud at the individual level or a specific location. These predictive systems have been debunked and decried as scientific malpractice.” Targeted surveillance feeds existing biases Laufer added that using social data to predict if someone will commit a crime inevitably targets individuals who belong to historically oppressed or marginalised groups that are overrepresented in the underlying datasets, therefore exacerbating past injustices. “Attempts to predict fraud or criminality often amount to automatically turning marginalised communities and individuals into suspects rather than evidence-based decision-making,” he said. AI-powered tools have previously been flagged by Amnesty as discriminatory , where surveillance tools were being used to track and deport migrants in the US. Petra Molnar, migration and human rights lawyer and director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University, previously told Computer Weekly that AI-powered tools can replicate existing biases: “Algorithms are socially constructed, and our world is built on systemic racism and historical discrimination.” In the UK, Statewatch previously revealed that the UK Ministry of Justice was developing data-based profiling tools to predict crimes , including a tool aimed at predicting potential murderers. Critics argued these systems worsen feedback loops by increasing surveillance of poor and racialised communities, with Amnesty International warning separately that predictive policing risks “supercharging racism” . In January 2026, the Home Office announced a £140m investment in PoliceAI – including funding for 40 new live facial recognition units – signalling a substantial scale-up of AI in policing set to roll out over the next three years. Read more about artificial intelligence Publishers can now opt out of Google AI summaries and training : The UK’s competition watchdog has ruled that Google must provide online publishers and news organisations with the ability to opt out of their work being summarised by artificial intelligence, or otherwise used to train the company’s models. Challenging AI hype narratives with director Valerie Veatch : Computer Weekly speaks with Valerie Veatch, the director of a documentary charting the historical development of artificial intelligence, about the difficulties of challenging hype narratives and the pressing need to build a culture of technological refusal. Google AI engineer claims dismissal for opposing tech sales to Israel : ‘Our work on AI was sold to facilitate genocide’: Artificial intelligence engineer claims Google unfairly sacked them for internally criticising the company’s decision to continue supplying technology to the Israeli military, despite credible claims of war crimes committed in Gaza.
Score: 74🌐 MovesJun 16, 2026https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366644494/Amnesty-calls-for-ban-on-AI-risk-profiling-systems - Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe Warns That the U.S. Isn’t Prepared for AI’s Impact on This 1 Type of Job
Rivian has just started delivering the R2, a midsize electric SUV designed for the mass market.