TikTok has barred sellers from listing iPhones, iPads, televisions, diamonds, gift cards, and precious metals as prizes in its “Surprise Set” livestream auctions, following complaints from users who…
Threads announced on June 16, 2026 that it has reached 500 million monthly active users, adding 100 million users in the 10 months since reporting 400 million in August 2025. Alongside the milestone,…
India’s National Testing Agency ordered a nationwide temporary Telegram block in June 2026, keeping it offline until June 22 after the June 21 NEET (UG) re-test, citing cheating networks selling fake papers and spreading misinformation. It also ordered Telegram to disable message editing until June 30, saying it was used to fabricate evidence of leaks; the actions were issued under Section 69A.
Days after its IPO, SpaceX confirmed plans to buy AI coding platform Cursor for $60B, filing with the SEC that the deal should close in Q3 2026. Earlier, it had set either the $60B price or a $10B breakup fee, citing Musk’s frustration that xAI coding lags Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex.
Respond.io, a Kuala Lumpur-based customer conversation management platform, announced in June 2026 that it has raised a $62.5 million Series B round led by Camber Partners, with participation from…
High-level talks between Anthropic and Trump administration officials concluded Monday without resolution, leaving export controls on the company’s Claude Fable 5 AI model in place. The two sides…
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.
Google will close the last MV2 ad-blocker workarounds in Chrome 150 and 151, arriving in late June 2026 and July 2026, respectively. That ends functionality tied to Manifest V2 extensions like uBlock Origin after Google stopped official MV2 support in 2024, citing security risks and tech debt.
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.
