At Stanford’s June 15, 2026 commencement, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was booed and ~200 students walked out. Activists protested Project Nimbus’s $1.2B cloud/AI contract with Amazon for the Israeli military and Google’s ICE ties, citing EFF claims they “look the other way.”
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth called its March 2026 Applied AI rollout “atrocious,” apologizing in a June 2026 memo seen by WIRED after consolidating about 6,500 engineers and product managers and sparking widespread unrest. He says Meta will cap managers at ~20 direct reports, cut how often employees are moved to new managers during restructures, and demand clearer explanations and greater people-management focus.
Meta announced June 15, 2026 that Facebook’s AI Mode will answer plain-language questions by synthesizing public posts from Groups and Reels with Meta AI (no classic results). It also ships collage/transition video tools, AI photo presets, and jersey try-ons, amid reliability concerns.
Anthropic pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users after a June 12, 2026 U.S. directive ordered foreign access blocks following research showing prompts that could enable cyberattacks. Launched June 9, Anthropic said it “disagree[s]” that a “narrow potential jailbreak” requires recalling a model used by “hundreds of millions.”
Salesforce said June 15, 2026 it will buy Intercom-spun Fin for $3.6B, closing in the final quarter of fiscal 2027. Fin’s AI agent handles live chat, WhatsApp, SMS, phone calls, and Slack, and will be integrated into Agentforce to build more service agents.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday, June 15, 2026, that his government will ban children under 16 from using social media. The ban would apply to major platforms including Snapchat,…
Cybersecurity startup NewCore emerged from stealth on June 15, 2026, announcing $66 million in funding to address what it sees as a growing gap in enterprise security: managing the identities of AI…
June 2026’s $234M round for Sarvam pairs HCLTech’s $150M lead stake with backers including Bessemer, Khosla Ventures and Peak XV, valuing the company at $1.5B. The Bengaluru startup (Vivek Raghavan, Pratyush Kumar) targets $300M for Series B and says its conversational AI handles 2M+ interactions daily.
In April 2026, Loft Orbital’s Yam‑9 ran NASA JPL’s NAVI‑Orbital (led by Juan Delfa Victoria) with DeepMind’s Gemma 3 VLM to autonomously identify targets from natural-language queries. Powered by an Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX.
Orbio secured a $21M Series A on June 14, 2026, led by Dawn Capital, bringing total funding to $26M. Its AI agents (Maria, Daniel, Claire) run interviews, onboarding and daily check-ins; at The Stepping Stones Group, hiring completion rose 20%.
Anthropic suspended access to its newest AI models following a U.S. government directive issued in June 2026, triggering a wide debate in India over the country’s reliance on foreign AI technology….
Meta has started dismantling its $2B Manus acquisition, blocking employees from using Manus tools and cutting the companies off from internal systems and data sharing, Bloomberg reports. The June 2026 move follows Beijing’s national-security divestiture order issued about two months earlier, after regulators flagged possible technology export control and foreign investment issues. Manus, founded in China under Butterfly Effect, moved staff to Singapore in mid-2025, and its co-founders have discussed raising about $1B from outside investors to reclaim the startup.
