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…
Google turned a nearly two-decade hidden Google Earth desktop flight simulator into a browser feature as of Friday, June 15, 2026—no app download needed. Open Google Earth, click “Explore Earth,” then Flight Simulator (last item in Tools), set basemap to Satellite, and control via keyboard/mouse; crashes pause for a reset to safe altitude.
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.
A gay OnlyFans creator had his X account hijacked in April 2026, with attackers demanding cryptocurrency ransoms and, after he refused to pay, filling his feed with pro-MAGA political content….
At WWDC 2026, Apple said iOS 27 (due later this year) will support iPhones back to the 2019 iPhone 11 while speeding app launches up to 30%, AirDrop up to 80%, and photo library loads up to 70%. It also optimizes the iPhone 11 CPU scheduler and rebuilds search for Spotlight, Photos, and Mail.
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.
Andy Jassy told Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent that Amazon researchers used Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 to obtain info usable in cyberattacks, and a June 2026 export ban followed, restricting worldwide access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. David Sacks added that officials asked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to fix a jailbreak or take the model offline, but he refused.
State AGs opened an OpenAI investigation after New York served a June 2026 subpoena covering ad practices, engagement/retention, sycophancy, consumer/health data, and minors/seniors. OpenAI says it’s cooperating and cites ChatGPT safeguards for minors; the probe follows a June 2026 Florida suit by AG James Uthmeier against OpenAI and Sam Altman.
