AI News Archive: June 30, 2026 — Part 20
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- Schneider Electric Agrees to Buy Industrial AI Firm Cognite for $3.1 billion
Schneider Electric Agrees to Buy Industrial AI Firm Cognite for $3.1 billion The Information
- Schneider Electric signs deal to buy AI software player Cognite for $3.1 billion
The French multinational said in a press release it would pay $3.1 billion for the whole of Cognite in an all cash deal.
- Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.
- Intrusion Inc. Announces Acquisition of VigilAigent to Create an AI-Native Cybersecurity Platform
Intrusion Inc. Announces Acquisition of VigilAigent to Create an AI-Native Cybersecurity Platform azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- UK speech AI startup Lucida AI lands €6.1 million to develop speech-native AI for global communication
Lucida AI, a London-based speech-to-speech AI platform for global communication, has raised a €6.1 million ($7 million) Seed round to expand into new languages and geographies, develop its proprietary AI infrastructure, scale its enterprise offering globally, and accelerate product development. The round was led by Velocity Capital and included participation from Next Tier Ventures and […] The post UK speech AI startup Lucida AI lands €6.1 million to develop speech-native AI for global communication appeared first on EU-Startups .
- Inference chip startup Etched launches with $800M in funding
Etched Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence inference chips, launched today with $800 million in funding. The startup raised the capital over multiple rounds. The most recent investment, which closed in December, valued Etched at $5 billion. It included the participation of VentureTech Alliance, a startup fund associated with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. It was […] The post Inference chip startup Etched launches with $800M in funding appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- US investors lead $30M funding for Gulf AI startup 1001
Startup plans to bring AI efficiencies to the region’s aviation, ports, and energy infrastructure.
- Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite
Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.
- Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet
They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.
- Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API
Google adds two new generative AI models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds at $0.034 a pop. Gemini Omni Flash brings video generation and editing via text prompts to the API for the first time. Google recommends chaining both models to go from a quick image to an animated video. The article Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API appeared first on The Decoder .
- Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash. How to try them now
Google's AI suite has expanded, with some new toys for image and video generation becoming available this week.
- Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
- Anthropic Runs Pre-Clinical Drug Trials, Launches Sonnet 5 Model
Anthropic Runs Pre-Clinical Drug Trials, Launches Sonnet 5 Model The Information
- Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to Opus model series
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which beats its predecessor Sonnet 4.6 across all benchmarks and even edges past the larger Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 knowledge work test with a score of 1,618. Anthropic is also quick to point out that the model scores far below the models the US government currently has blocked when it comes to cybersecurity tasks, a likely deliberate signal given the ongoing debate. The article Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to Opus model series appeared first on The Decoder .
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 5
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Sonnet 5: strong agentic performance at a higher cost per task
Claude Sonnet 5 shows improved agentic performance but incurs higher cost per task.
- Anthropic finally, officially launches Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, narrowing the performance gap with Opus 4.8 while undercutting it on price.
- Claude Sonnet 5: Everything to Know About Anthropic’s New Model
Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic AI features, lower pricing, and updated safety protections. Here's what IT leaders need to know. The post Claude Sonnet 5: Everything to Know About Anthropic’s New Model appeared first on TechRepublic .
- Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Sonnet 5 model, details here
Anthropic is upgrading Claude Sonnet, replacing Sonnet 4.6 from February with Sonnet 5 as the best medium-sized model.
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- Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 With Near-Opus Performance at a Lower Price
Anthropic today introduced Claude Sonnet 5, a more affordable model that narrows the gap between Sonnet and Opus. Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5 is its most agentic Sonnet model to date, able to make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals, and run autonomously. Opus models have better agentic capabilities, but they're more expensive than Sonnet models. Sonnet 5's performance is similar to Opus 4.8, and it has improved over Sonnet 4.6 in areas including reasoning, tool use, coding, and knowledge work. As for agentic capabilities, Sonnet 5 is able to finish complex tasks that Sonnet 4.6 could not complete, and it checks its own output without being asked. It is better at refusing malicious requests, and Anthropic says it shows lower rates of hallucination and sycophancy. Sonnet 5 is available across all plans and is the default model for Free and Pro plans. It is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, then prices will go up to $3 and $15, respectively. Tag: Anthropic This article, " Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 With Near-Opus Performance at a Lower Price " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
- Anthropic rolls out Sonnet 5 with near-Opus 4.8 performance at a lower price
Anthropic is now rolling out Sonnet 5, and it's almost as good as the Opus range, but it is designed to be cheaper than the company's flagship model. [...]
- Announcing Claude Sonnet 5 on Snowflake Cortex AI
Claude Sonnet 5 is now available in private preview on Snowflake Cortex AI, bringing its advanced reasoning and agentic capabilities with Snowflake’s secure governed AI platform
- Claude Sonnet 5, Now Live in Harvey
Harvey integrates Claude Sonnet 5, enhancing legal AI capabilities with advanced language model features.
- Sonnet 5 review: I ran 64 generations to find out if it's worth it
Watch now | 🎙 I built the How I AI Bench live using Claude Code, ran 5 frontier models through 64 blind prototype generations, PRDs, and agent voice tests, and the results surprised even me
- Anthropic Wants You to Know Its New AI Model Is Definitely Not Too Dangerous to Release
Claude Sonnet 5 delivers impressive agentic capabilities at a relatively low cost. It’s also really bad at cybersecurity—probably for the reason you’d expect.
- Anthropic's new Sonnet 5 model is better at the tasks that are running up enterprise bills
Anthropic trained its newest Sonnet model to excel at agentic tasks, which have been causing a headache for the company's enterprise customers and power users.
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Spy on competitor Shopify revenue & bypass TikTok ad bans.
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- Claude’s Sonnet 5 is built to do more on its own and cost you less
Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap with Anthropic's flagship Opus 4.8, scoring close on key benchmarks while costing significantly less per token.
- China's Meituan says new AI model trained on domestic chips
China's Meituan says new AI model trained on domestic chips Reuters
- China claims biggest AI model trained on local chips, as Meituan releases LongCat-2.0
As China attempts to move beyond using domestic chips solely for model inference, food delivery giant Meituan released what it claims is the country’s largest artificial intelligence model trained entirely on home-grown hardware. The Beijing-based on-demand service giant on Tuesday open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a new large language model (LLM) boasting 1.6 trillion parameters and a context window of 1 million tokens. The scale puts it on par with DeepSeek’s latest flagship model, V4-pro, which...
- Meituan open-sources massive AI model built on China tech
The company said LongCat-2.0 is part of its in-house foundation model program and is aimed at coding.
- China’s Meituan open-sources massive LongCat-2.0 AI model, saying it was trained on domestic chips
Beijing, China-based Meituan Inc. today debuted its next-generation LongCat-2.0 open-source large language model, stating that the company trained the 1.6-trillion-parameter model on domestic Chinese chips and compute clusters. The larger takeaway for this colossal model isn’t just the open-source release, it’s the domestic hardware throughline. Meituan may initially seem like an unlikely place for AI […] The post China’s Meituan open-sources massive LongCat-2.0 AI model, saying it was trained on domestic chips appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- China's Meituan says new AI model trained on domestic chips
Chinese tech firm Meituan launched a new artificial intelligence model on Tuesday that it said was the first of its size to be trained using domestically developed computer chips.
- Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia
Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. The article Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia appeared first on The Decoder .
- Anthropic unveils 'Claude Science' for scientific research
Anthropic unveils 'Claude Science' for scientific research Reuters
- DeepSeek to launch V4 in mid-July with new peak-time API pricing
The DeepSeek team announced on Monday that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July. According to the company, the new version builds on the existing preview release with further feature enhancements and performance upgrades. It will come standard with a 1-million-token context window across the entire model lineup, while delivering stronger performance […]