16 Jun 2026
Here's What's New With Visual Intelligence in iOS 27
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:33 PM PDT by Juli Clover Visual Intelligence is getting a big upgrade in iOS 27 . It's now easier to find than it was before, and there are new Visual Intelligence capabilities. Apple also expanded it to the iPad and the Mac, so you can use the same features across devices.
16 Jun 2026
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed.
16 Jun 2026
Alibaba Is Building Qwen-Robot: The Operating System for the Robot Economy
In brief Alibaba unveiled the Qwen-Robot Suite, a trio of AI models designed to handle robot navigation, manipulation, and physics-based world simulation through a unified software stack. The company says its models top multiple robotics benchmarks, using millions of training samples and tens of thousands of hours of open-source robot data. Real-world robot deployment remains years away.
16 Jun 2026
Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone
AI runs at the speed of light. More and more, that light is made in Texas. Coherent broke ground today on an expanded manufacturing building in Sherman, Texas. The company makes the lasers, optical components and compound semiconductors that wire AI systems together — and runs what it calls the world’s first 6-inch indium phosphide fab.
16 Jun 2026
Elon Musk's Space Empire Takes Him Across the Trillion-Dollar Line. Here Is What That Astronomical Fortune Means on Earth
Credit: Nasdaq. One trillion dollars is the sort of figure that usually belongs to governments, war budgets and national economies. It never belonged to a biography, and some perhaps think it never should. Alas, after SpaceX surged 19 percent in its Nasdaq debut and the company’s market value vaulted past $2 trillion, that number attached itself to one person: Elon Musk, whose fortune Reuters…
16 Jun 2026
Why Anthropic Is Fighting With Trump (Again)
Anthropic’s roller-coaster year continues. The artificial intelligence firm announced late Friday that it was disabling its two newest large language models just three days after launching them, citing new export controls that had just been imposed by the U.S. government that prevent any foreign nationals from using those models.
16 Jun 2026
This Copilot vulnerability could expose emails, 2FA codes, and other sensitive data
It seems no matter how many safeguards are put on AI assistants and chatbots, crafty hackers will find a way around them. Just earlier this month, malicious actors tricked Meta's AI support into providing access to some of Instagram's largest accounts. This time, cybersecurity researchers at Varonis Threat Labs have uncovered a new three-stage vulnerability chain that "turns Microsoft 365 Copilot…
16 Jun 2026
OpenAI Just Started Selling What Your Consulting Business Sells
On May 11, 2026, the open source AI consulting competition for small business advisers was implemented. A new AI consulting business for big firms called OpenAI Deployment Company was established by OpenAI with over $4 Billion in backing . TPG leads the partnership, with Advent, Bain Capital and Brookfield serving as co-lead founding partners. In addition, OpenAI agreed to acquire UK-based AI…
16 Jun 2026
SpaceX Buys Cursor In Largest Startup Acquisition Ever At $60 Billion
SpaceX just executed the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup in history, exercising its option to buy Cursor parent Anysphere for $60 billion in an all-stock deal that pulls a rocket company straight into the center of the AI coding war.
