AI News Archive: June 24, 2026 — Part 2
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- NVIDIA and AWS Collaborate to Bring AI to Production at Scale
Building AI systems at scale is demanding, requiring low-latency inference, fast vector search, strong GPU price-performance and infrastructure that can grow without multiplying operational complexity. NVIDIA’s latest work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) addresses each of those constraints. Across Amazon OpenSearch and Amazon EC2, NVIDIA AI infrastructure is giving enterprises more practical paths to deploy […]
- Agility Robotics SPAC gives humanoids their first public-market test
Agility Robotics SPAC gives humanoids their first public-market test PitchBook
Score: 78🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/agility-robotics-spac-gives-humanoids-their-first-public-market-test - Life's New Algorithm: AI Reconstructs the Full Healthcare Industry Chain at 36Kr WAVES2026
As artificial intelligence increasingly permeates the healthcare sector, the fundamental question of how it restructures the entire medical value chain took cen...
- Hyundai workers in South Korea vote to strike over fears of robots replacing them
Union at country’s largest carmaker wants greater say over how AI and automation are introduced
- South Korea's government discussing major new chip investments with Samsung, SK Hynix
South Korea's government discussing major new chip investments with Samsung, SK Hynix Reuters
- 😺 Meta's $299 AI glasses are here
PLUS: Trump's quantum deadline, SpaceX's $6.3B deal, NVIDIA robots
- Would you wear AI on your face? Meta’s new smart glasses fix blinking photos and can see, translate 20 languages
Would you wear AI on your face? Meta’s new smart glasses fix blinking photos and can see, translate 20 languages Gulf News
- What do the IPOs for SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic mean for Microsoft?
The AI IPO tsunami on the stock market has only recently gotten under way, with SpaceX’s more-than-$2 trillion IPO likely to be followed in several months by OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s IPOs — each of which is likely to hit $1 trillion. That will mint three new trillion-dollar AI companies in a matter of months, all of which compete with Microsoft. Wall Street has never seen anything like it. Previously, the most money raised by all IPOs in a single year was $671 billion in 2021 . It took 38,644 deals to get to that figure. Compare that to three deals this year that by themselves will likely total $4 trillion. The numbers are eye-popping. For Microsoft though, it’s not the numbers themselves that are important. It’s what will happen to the company once it as three newly minted trillion-dollar AI competitors. Until recently, when it came to AI, Microsoft was king of the hill. But can it keep that place? Microsoft’s weakened position The IPOs come at a particularly fraught time for Microsoft. At one point, it was the most valuable AI company in the world, with a big head start on the tech industry. No longer. Microsoft’s stock price has tanked in the past 12 months, even as the S&P index has soared. In the last year, Microsoft’s stock price has dropped 24%, while the S&P has jumped 24% . The two were pretty much in sync until last fall.. Microsoft has fared even worse against its most powerful AI competitor, Google. In June 2025, Google’s total value was $2.1 trillion, well behind Microsoft’s $3.57 trillion. By mid-June this year Google was worth $4.5 trillion, Microsoft, $2.8 trillion. That’s entirely due to Google’s AI push and Microsoft’s failure to improve Copilot significantly. Matt Vellosso, who worked for Microsoft for 14 years — including four as technical advisor to CEO Satya Nadella and then as Partner Director for fostering AI innovation in Windows before leaving in 2023 — is scathing about what he views as Microsoft’s AI failures. He warned : “Microsoft missed the internet wave, the mobile wave and now it missed the AI wave.” Show me the money The most immediate likely impact on Microsoft after the three massive IPOs take place will be on the company’s stock price, which could well take another hit. Investors don’t want to miss out on the AI boom, and until now, there’s been a relatively small number of companies in which they could. When Anthropic and OpenAI join SpaceX as publicly traded companies, investors will have three more choices than they did only a few months ago. That could make it tougher for Microsoft to attract AI-focused investors. And that, in turn, could knock down its stock price. A lower stock price means the company will have a harder time raising money when it needs it. In addition, Microsoft won’t be able to as easily buy other companies in stock-only deals, because the value of its stock will be less. Still, the IPOs are not all bad news for Microsoft’s stock position. It does, after all, own 27% of OpenAI. So if OpenAI is valued at $1 trillion after its IPO, Microsoft has a $270 billion stake in it. Thumbs up for increased Azure revenue One area where these mega IPOs should be unalloyed good news for Microsoft is in Azure revenue, which should significantly. Microsoft’s final divorce settlement with OpenAI requires the latter to buy $250 billion in Azure services through 2030. And its estimated trillion-dollar valuation ensures the company will be around for the long term, meaning Microsoft can count on that revenue — and possibly more on an ongoing basis. Microsoft will likely also get tens of billions of dollars from Anthropic for Azure cloud services. Anthropic might spend $43 billion annually on Azure cloud services by 2030, according to estimates by HSBC, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services companies. Thumbs down for the effect on Copilot Although Azure use will boom thanks to the IPOs, Microsoft’s own Copilot could face significant competition at a time when it’s having serious problems gaining traction. In its April 2026 earnings call, the company said Microsoft 365 Copilot had 20 million paid seats . That’s up from 15 million paid seats as of January, but still a minuscule number, considering Microsoft has 450 million Microsoft 365 commercial subscribers. That means only about 4% of the company’s business customers have been willing to pay for it since its launch in late 2023. Beyond that, developers have been leaving GitHub Copilot and turning to Anthropic’s Claude Code and SpaceX’s recently purchased Cursor. A survey by the software development company JetBrains of more than 10,000 developers found that 29% used GitHub Copilot, 18% used Cursor and 18% used Claude Code . Early in 2025, GitHub Copilot had a commanding 67% market share. More downside than up from the IPOs Although the IPOs do have some upside for Microsoft — dramatically increased Azure revenue and several hundred billion dollars in OpenAI stock holdings — mostly, they’re bad news thanks to increased competition. Unless Microsoft significantly improves Copilot for businesses, developers and consumers, the company’s one-time AI dominance will erode even further.
- China expo draws Nvidia, Apple, Micron as Beijing guards AI supply chain
US firms made up the largest foreign presence at the event, demonstrating the complexity of Sino-American ties.
Score: 77🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://kr-asia.com/china-expo-draws-nvidia-apple-micron-as-beijing-guards-ai-supply-chain - Ticker: Robot company going public; Alibaba sues the Defense Department
Ticker: Robot company going public; Alibaba sues the Defense Department Boston Herald
Score: 77💰 MoneyJun 24, 2026https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/06/24/ticker-robot-company-going-public-alibaba-sues-the-defense-department/ - Oregon robotics firm with Pittsburgh presence set to go public
The merger with SPAC Churchill Capital Corp XI comes as multiple AI-focused companies file to go public this year.
Score: 77🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2026/06/24/agility-robotics-going-public-oregon.html?ana=brss_6150 - Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini 3.5 logo on a blue background
Score: 76🤖 ModelsJun 24, 2026https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-gemini-3-5-flash/ - EXL to acquire AI data firm iMerit for $310 million
The acquisition comes as enterprises increasingly move AI projects from experimentation to large-scale deployment, driving demand for high-quality data, model training, and evaluation services
Score: 76💰 MoneyJun 24, 2026https://www.livemint.com/companies/exl-to-acquire-ai-data-firm-imerit-for-310-million-11782310374040.html - Samsung opens ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex access after AI restrictions
Samsung Electronics is expanding employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, giving staff wider use of AI tools for technical and non-technical work. According to OpenAI, the deployment covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all Device eXperience employees worldwide. The DX division includes smartphones, consumer electronics, and home appliances. Samsung plans to use […] The post Samsung opens ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex access after AI restrictions appeared first on AI News .
Score: 76🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/samsung-chatgpt-enterprise-codex-employee-ai-use/ - Morgan Stanley doubles China humanoid robot shipment forecast as commercialization accelerates
Morgan Stanley has sharply raised its outlook for China's humanoid robotics market, as early commercial deployment in real-world scenarios accelerated.
Score: 76🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/morgan-stanley-china-humanoid-robot-market-forecast.html - Search company Elastic plans to lay off hundreds 'as AI transforms how work gets done'
The data-search company expects to cut about 281 workers. Executives say AI automation will reduce operational complexity while still allowing net head count growth this fiscal year.
Score: 75🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2026/06/24/elastic-layoffs-ai-search.html?ana=brss_6150 - Suppliers eye $5 trillion humanoid robot market despite value-capture concerns
Suppliers eye $5 trillion humanoid robot market despite value-capture concerns Automotive News
Score: 75🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/suppliers/ane-supplier-target-humanoid-robot-market-0624/ - Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi joins as Chairman of Agentic AI firm AIREV as UAE advances ambition to export homegrown artificial intelligence
Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi joins as Chairman of Agentic AI firm AIREV as UAE advances ambition to export homegrown artificial intelligence Gulf News
- India’s sovereign AI ambition gains momentum, with 96% of government leaders advancing strategy: IDC-Dell Study
India is emerging as a distinctive Sovereign AI market, where regulation, innovation and national digital public infrastructure are closely linked. India’s government leaders show stronger confidence in agentic AI than the Asia Pacific average, with organisations moving from proof of concept towards investment The post India’s sovereign AI ambition gains momentum, with 96% of government leaders advancing strategy: IDC-Dell Study appeared first on Express Computer .
- Zhipu AI considers mega Hong Kong share sale
The company raised US$558 million in its initial public offering at HK$116.2 (US$15) per share.
Score: 75💰 MoneyJun 24, 2026https://www.techinasia.com/zhipu-ais-formula-for-surviving-chinas-tech-market - Presidential policy chief calls for aggressive investment in AI infrastructure
The presidential policy chief said Wednesday that the advent of a new artificial intelligence era requires new state infrastructure, calling for aggressive investment to bolster the country's potential growth trajectory in AI. Kim Yong-beom, presidential chief of staff for policy, made the point at a discussion hosted by the Kwanhun Club, a senior journalists' association, amid a stock market boom in South Korea driven by record profits and stock gains by AI-related chipmakers. "If the ongoing s
- AI landlord targeted for £12bn takeover
AI landlord targeted for £12bn takeover The Telegraph
Score: 75💰 MoneyJun 24, 2026https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/24/ai-landlord-targeted-for-12bn-takeover/ - Congress wants Big Tech to pay AI’s power bills
Congress is moving to stop households paying for Big Tech’s AI power bills. A House panel votes this week on a package of measures. The aim is to put AI data centre energy costs back on the companies that create them. As AI drives up electricity bills, Congress wants Big Tech to pick up more […] This story continues at The Next Web
Score: 75🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://thenextweb.com/news/house-bill-ai-data-centre-energy-costs-big-tech - Meet ZoomMate: Zoom's next chapter in AI
Meet ZoomMate: Zoom's next chapter in AI
- Deloitte Unveils Connected Agentic Intelligence in Deloitte Omnia to Advance Audit & Assurance
Empowering teams with a network of AI agents embedded in everyday workflows to support quality and enhance client service
- The coming disorder over artificial general intelligence and how to mitigate its impact
The story of the 'race' to artificial general intelligence benefits hyperscalers and their shareholders by shifting attention away from the social risks.
Score: 75🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/coming-disorder-artificial-general-intelligence/ - 5 things to know about Seer Robotics ahead of its Hong Kong IPO
Its controller leadership, thin float, and high valuation could make for an unpredictable debut.
Score: 75🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://kr-asia.com/5-things-to-know-about-seer-robotics-ahead-of-its-hong-kong-ipo - China’s telecoms giants bet on ‘air-space-ground-sea’ networks for future AI needs
China’s telecoms giants are pushing for “air-space-ground-sea” networks amid Beijing’s push to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure, as SpaceX’s market debut has ignited the industry’s focus beyond the Earth. At the opening of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai on Wednesday, telecommunications executives framed the next phase of infrastructure as one that needs to encompass both the skies and oceans to meet skyrocketing demand for AI computing. Wang Tao, rotating chairman of...
- How AI is transforming natural disaster prediction
Catastrophe scientists are pushing past the limits of physics-based models, improving how insurers calculate risk
- AI memory startup Engram raised $98 million to help companies spend less running enterprise AI
The 13-person company says its models can match frontier AI performance while using up to 100 times fewer tokens
- AI-driven tripartite classification for optimizing wearable bioelectronics in depression management
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- Chinese AI firm Zhipu plans billion-dollar share sale amid rally
Chinese AI startup Zhipu is weighing a multi-billion dollar share sale after it skyrocketed around 2,000% since its January IPO.
Score: 75💰 MoneyJun 24, 2026https://www.semafor.com/article/06/24/2026/chinese-ai-firm-zhipu-plans-billion-dollar-share-sale-amid-rally - Startup Trase Raises $107 Million to Help Large Firms Adopt AI
Startup Trase Raises $107 Million to Help Large Firms Adopt AI The Information
Score: 75💰 MoneyJun 24, 2026https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/startup-trase-raises-107-million-help-large-firms-adopt-ai - Exclusive: Taktile raises $110 million from Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global to automate high-stakes financial decisions
Exclusive: Taktile raises $110 million from Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global to automate high-stakes financial decisions Fortune
Score: 75💰 MoneyJun 24, 2026https://fortune.com/2026/06/24/exclusive-taktile-goldman-sachs-ai-bank-insurance-funding/ - Apple supplier Lingyi iTech prices $1.06 billion Hong Kong IPO to tap AI demand
Apple supplier Lingyi iTech prices $1.06 billion Hong Kong IPO to tap AI demand Reuters
- Irish space-tech Ubotica raises $11m to scale AI marine monitoring
Ubotica has seen a ‘significant demand’ for its maritime intelligence platform over the past year, it said. Read more: Irish space-tech Ubotica raises $11m to scale AI marine monitoring
Score: 75💰 MoneyJun 24, 2026https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/irish-space-tech-ubotica-raises-11m-to-scale-ai-marine-monitoring - Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections
The common cold comes for us all—often more than once a year. And there is no way to prevent it. The best you can do is take vitamin C and stay away from people with the sniffles. Now the payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, says it will fund a new…
- Elon Musk denies Tesla’s Autopilot caused crash that killed grandmother
Tesla, accused of failing to fix design flaws, blames driver pressing accelerator.
- Qualcomm Unveils Comprehensive Data Center Roadmap for the Agentic AI Era with New Qualcomm Dragonfly Portfolio
Qualcomm Unveils Comprehensive Data Center Roadmap for the Agentic AI Era with New Qualcomm Dragonfly Portfolio Qualcomm
Score: 75🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2026/06/qualcomm-unveils-comprehensive-data-center-roadmap-for-the-agent - GM, Tencent-backed driving firm Momenta eyes Hong Kong IPO
Momenta posted a US$510 million loss on US$354 million revenue in 2025.
Score: 75💰 MoneyJun 24, 2026https://www.techinasia.com/hyundai-to-launch-ioniq-ev-revamp-china-strategy - RBI proposes guidelines for banks to manage AI risks
RBI proposes guidelines for banks to manage AI risks Reuters
Score: 75🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.reuters.com/business/rbi-proposes-guidelines-banks-manage-ai-risks-2026-06-24/ - OpenAI Isn’t Just Writing Emails—It’s Solving Cold Cases in Medicine
A historic new study reveals how OpenAI’s o3 model helped Boston Children’s Hospital diagnose patients with rare genetic illnesses.
Score: 74🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/openai-isnt-just-writing-emails-its-solving-cold-cases-in-medicine/91364948 - Gartner: AI coding agents will cost more than real developers
Research by Gartner Peer Insights has found that 23% of tech leaders are spending $200 to $500 per developer per month on tokens for artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents, such as Claude Code, Cursor and OpenAI Codex. With many organisations ramping up the use of AI to augment software engineering workflows, Gartner believes they may find their software development costs skyrocket, as AI tools providers switch to token-based pricing . Gartner warns that the shift by AI coding agent providers from seat-based licensing to consumption-based pricing is introducing highly variable cost structures for software engineering workloads. It said that many providers of AI coding agents lack transparency into how token consumption is calculated and billed, limiting companies’ ability to accurately forecast and control costs. Without clear visibility into token usage across development tasks, organisations risk budget overruns and reduced ability to track cost-to-value outcome. The IT analyst firm has forecast that by 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary due to rising large language model (LLM) token consumption and the shift to consumption-based licensing models. Nitish Tyagi, senior principal analyst at Gartner, said: “I’m a big believer that AI is bringing gains. You should not move away from AI because the total costs are increasing. But I believe that token costs will certainly increase.” As AI tools providers move to a consumption-based pricing model, he said IT leaders will see the cost of software development increase tenfold, or even 100-fold. “Cost will increase from $20 to $200, or even, in some cases, to $2,000 per month,” he warned, which is more than the average salary of a software developer based in India. In fact, Gartner’s research shows that 6% of organisations are paying more than $2,000 per developer per month, based on token pricing in AI tools. Tyagi advises IT leadership teams to justify the value of paying large monthly fees to support the use of AI for internal software development. As an example of where costs can be justified, he said at one Indian IT organisation, a developer’s AI usage was costing the business $20,000 based on the volume of tokens being consumed. But when the IT leadership team looked into the high cost, it found that the developer was actually working on a legacy modernisation project, and the cost could therefore be justified. In its How to optimize token consumption for AI coding paper, Gartner urges software engineering leaders to work with their teams to assess the maturity of their current software engineering processes. The goal is to identify whether the organisation is ready for autonomous agentic development . After assessing existing software development processes, Gartner recommends that software engineering team leaders should then identify how and where developers are currently using AI coding agents. The report authors said the goal is to identify the use cases where autonomous development and premium models are essential versus where the cost of using them is not justifiable. Read more about agentic AI IT firms cautiously try AI agents for infrastructure as code : Enterprise IT leaders at regulated companies keep a tight leash on AI agents for infrastructure as code, but some envision a new agentic front door for developer access. GitHub Agent HQ opens platform to third-party coding agents : GitHub will support and orchestrate agents from partners, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI, through an agent control plane and mission control interface.
Score: 74🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366645054/Gartner-AI-coding-agents-will-cost-more-than-real-developers - OpenAI's deployment chief on Codex growth, falling AI prices, and the ROI question
OpenAI deployment chief Arnaud Fournier explains in an interview how DeployCo wants to embed AI deep inside large corporations using its own engineers. He talks about explosive Codex growth, the feedback loop from customers back into model development, and why he thinks the price of AI intelligence has dropped sharply. The article OpenAI's deployment chief on Codex growth, falling AI prices, and the ROI question appeared first on The Decoder .
Score: 73🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://the-decoder.com/openais-deployment-chief-on-codex-growth-falling-ai-prices-and-the-roi-question/ - AI is an energy and water hog, here’s what you can do to counter that
AI is an energy and water hog, here’s what you can do to counter that AP News
Score: 73🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://apnews.com/article/ai-energy-water-climate-change-pollution-environment-77c9de6f9c6326c12d8d18e20dc99c44 - As AI Agents Transform Commerce, Salesforce Unleashes Its Biggest Agentforce Commerce Release Yet
One platform connecting shoppers, merchants, and AI apps across B2C, B2B, point of sale, and order management.
Score: 73🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/agentforce-commerce-announcement/ - Medical AI could compromise your privacy in disturbing new way, experts warn
Systems are intended to improve medical care – but could expose people in unexpected ways
Score: 73🌐 MovesJun 24, 2026https://www.the-independent.com/tech/security/ai-artificial-intelligence-medical-b3002551.html - Welcome to the Luxury City Built by Taiwan’s A.I. Boom
Fortunes, luxury buildings and birthrates are rising in the city at the center of Taiwan’s chip supply chain.
- Embodied AI Chip Market Heats Up as Multiple Players Race for Dominance
Embodied AI Chip Market Heats Up as Multiple Players Race for Dominance
- 70% of companies deploying customer service AI agents see ROI in 60 days
Outcome-based resolution pricing means companies pay only when the AI agent resolves an issue autonomously, without human intervention.