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Analysis: Anthropic may have talked its way into an export ban, as its 2026 statements and social media posts used 8x more AI risk-related terms than OpenAI (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 AI Ban

OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x for individual users (www.theregister.com)
2026-6-26

Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a $60M Series B led by Battery, bringing its total funding to $85M (www.axios.com)
2026-6-26 Startup AI Battery

Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an $81M Series B at a $1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin (www.utahmoneywatch.com)
2026-6-26

SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 IPO

California launches a tool to serve as an “early warning system” for widespread AI-driven job loss, linking AI exposure with unemployment insurance claims (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI Unemployment Insurance California

Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powered housing insights, raised a $20M Series A led by Aquiline with Flare Capital, 645, and others participating (www.fiercehealthcare.com)
2026-6-26 Real Estate AI

How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for electricity, software, and more; in a survey, 81% of economists say it will add to inflation over the next year (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says “advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams”; ESTC closed down 8.70% (www.theregister.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Doc: the DOD has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets, envisioning “systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI

YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 YouTube

Poland busts SIM-swapping gang tied to millions in crypto theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26 Poland

Anthropic is testing desktop-like Claude Cowork for mobile (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26 Mobile

Polestar Banned From Selling Cars In US From Model Year 2027 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26

NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in “vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems” (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26

Apple says it removed VK's apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were removed without warning and it has never been under US sanctions (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26 Apple

Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to $70M (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59 (om.co)
2026-6-26

Trump Administration Asks OpenAI To Stagger Release of New Model (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Trump

Chipmaker Onsemi agrees to buy Synaptics in a nearly $7B all-stock deal expected to close in the middle of 2027; ON drops 9%+ and SYNA jumps 11%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-26

Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-26 Google AI

Linux Foundation Launches Akrites To Coordinate AI-Driven Open Source Security (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Linux AI Open Source

Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising $250M; it has raised ~$181M since its 2021 launch (www.axios.com)
2026-6-26 Climate

Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-26 IPO

Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-26

Apple stock closed down 6.15% on Thursday after the company raised some product prices, its worst fall since April 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-26 Apple

The US awards $250M in CHIPS funds to a startup co-founded by billionaire mining magnate Robert Friedland to develop silicon-carbide chips and pulsed-power tech (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 Startup

Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-26 Blockchain AI

Apple Raises Prices On Macs, iPads, and More By Hundreds of Dollars (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Apple

Order-tracking app Shop abused to push callback phishing attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26

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