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June 24, 2026, 8:15 PM
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OpenAI:
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models  —  - Early testing shows that the first-generation accelerator will deliver performance per watt substantially better than current state-of-the-art
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Qualcomm says it will acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026  —  Modular, one of the most promising chip software startups of the AI era, heads for a multibillion-dollar exit.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm unveils Dragonfly C1000, a new data center CPU built for agentic AI, and says Meta will use the chip when production starts in 2028  —  Qualcomm shares jumped 15% in extended trading on Wednesday after the chipmaker said non-handset revenue in fiscal 2029 will be $40 billion, up from a prior forecast of $22 billion.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to $41.46B, vs. $35.84B est., gross margin above estimates, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; MU jumps 14%+ after hours  —  Micron's revenue more than quadrupled in the fiscal third quarter, the company said on Wednesday, as the memory maker continued …
Bloomberg:
Filing: SK Hynix is seeking to raise ~$29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds to build additional capacity  —  Memory Chip Frenzy Sends SK Hynix, Micron Into $1 Trillion Club  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 8.94% Playback Rate
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Rockstar says GTA VI will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; preorders start at midnight local time on June 25, ahead of the November 19 launch  —  The game is set to launch on November 19th. The game is set to launch on November 19th. … That gets you the standard edition of the game …
Tom Phillips / IGN:
Rockstar says physical copies of GTA VI will contain a download code, not a disc, and be available starting November 12, when players can begin pre-loading
Mateo Quiros / The Keyword:
Google says computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform  —  Computer use is now a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash to build agents that can interact across platforms.
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on “basic Python errors” and data cherry-picking  —  Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data.  Redmond insists its work is sound
Reuters:
Binance says it will make a fresh push for permission to operate in the EU after its MiCA license application in Greece failed ahead of the June 30 deadline  —  Crypto platform Binance intends to stay in the European Union and will make a fresh push for permission to operate there …
Lorelei Smillie / Bloomberg:
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down  —  Investigators used new tools to defeat old malware technology.  —  Microsoft Corp. deployed artificial intelligence to link …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic  —  Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Alphabet Inc.'s Google are planning to leave for rival Anthropic PBC …
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital  —  The rise of AI has rekindled the long-dormant search wars.  Chatbots and AI agents need to surface timely, relevant information about news and all kinds of products and services.
Jack Healy / New York Times:
Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who championed a huge data center beside the Great Salt Lake, lost his Republican primary on Tuesday after voter backlash  —  The upset of J. Stuart Adams represented one of the strongest examples of how the data center issue has affected elections.
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app will use Meta AI models to generate questions from trending topics, make recommendations, and resolve markets  —  Meta is planning to launch its own prediction market app to compete with companies like Kalshi and Polymarket in a booming sector …
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios:
Trase, which is building an operating system and infrastructure layer for AI agents in industries like health care and defense, raised a $107M seed led by Arch  —  Trase, an AI operating system company, has raised $107 million in seed funding led by Arch Venture Partners, CEO Grant Verstandig tells Axios Pro exclusively.
The Information:
SambaNova Executive Chairman Lip-Bu Tan says the AI chip startup is set to raise $800M to $1B, sources say at a ~$10B valuation, up from $2B in February  —  AI server chips that effectively compete with Nvidia's have never been more in-demand as AI developers and cloud providers seek lower-cost alternatives to the market leader.
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Ornn, which plans to launch a marketplace for GPU capacity designed to function like an exchange to trade oil contracts, raised a $33M seed led by a16z  —  Ornn raised $33 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz as the marketplace startup seeks to build a venue where the power …
Kevin Schaul / Washington Post:
An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts  —  Excerpts from each chatbot's responses to political questions  —  Left-leaning argument  —  Right-leaning  —  ChatGPT  —  Gemini
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing Agility at ~$2.5B, listing under ticker symbol AGLT  —  Agility's humanoid robot, Digit, is used by companies including Amazon  —  Agility Robotics, a startup that makes humanlike robots used …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump names Danielle Thumann, an adviser to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to serve as an FCC commissioner; if confirmed, she'd bring the Republican majority to 3-1

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Scripps' CEO says the company is adopting a streaming news model enabled by AI, including cutting 12% of staff, and praises the FCC's lift of the ownership cap

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust challenge to Paramount's WBD acquisition brought by a group of consumers, but allows them to file a revised complaint

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, acquiring Pixar, AI tools, and more
Moneycontrol:
Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's global revenue, or $1B+ annually, largely via business messaging, which likely helped Kunal Shah get WhatsApp's top job
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims it has 30M+ users, releases the open weights for its Krea 2 image models under a custom license
Geoff Weiss / Business Insider:
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M+ registered users and $30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at $88M+
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate who argued for AI safeguards, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary that had millions in AI PAC spending
New York Times:
Sources: the NSA was red-teaming with Mythos 5 before losing access amid the Anthropic dispute; the tests showed Mythos can identify flaws in classified systems
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