AI News — June 22, 2026
Daily news briefing for 22nd June 2026. Track model releases, research breakthroughs, startup funding updates, and AI signals published on this day.
All Stories Published on June 22 (37)
At ISC, JUPITER Shows What Exascale Science Looks Like
JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer at Germany's Forschungszentrum Jülich, runs on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-X800...
NAIRR Science Program Reshapes Scientific Research, Powered by NVIDIA AI Infrastructure
For the past two years, the U.S.
Hotter Than a Hot Tub: the 45°C Breakthrough to Cool AI's Biggest Machines
Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes.
Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI's future in Hollywood with A24 deal
Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.
Intrinsic unveils next-gen accessible modular automated industrial AI robotic assembly
Intrinsic, Google LLC's artificial intelligence robot software company, unveiled today during Automate 2026 an AI robotic prototype that will help companies modularize factory floors with automated robotics. Automate is North America's largest robotics and automation trade show, hosted by the...
Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint
After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest fund, which will see it expanding its...
Sector Snapshot: Robotics Startups On Fire As Venture Funding Surges To Record Numbers In 2026
Globally, robotics startups have so far raised $18.8 billion in 2026, compared to $15 billion in the full year of 2025. The figure also handily surpasses the...
Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet
Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."
Nearfield Instruments raises $380M to accelerate AI chipmaking
Nearfield Instruments B.V., which specializes in producing advanced chip manufacturing equipment, revealed today it has gotten a massive $380 million capital injection. The Dutch company's Series D round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and saw participation from a host of...
Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI
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Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away
Alibaba Cloud on Sunday released HappyHorse 1.1 , a major upgrade to its AI video generation model that the company says delivers production-ready video...
Building Pay-per-intelligence for AI Agents: How Ampersend Uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments
In this post, you will learn how Ampersend built a pay-per-intelligence routing layer on top of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments.
From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem
Learn about the progress we've made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive. The post From pledge to practice...
Embed the World: Multimodal AI for Searchable Aerial Imagery at Scale
In this post, we walk through the problem space, our architecture on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, the evaluation methodology we built on.
Running ComfyUI Workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI Processing Jobs
In this post, we walk you through how to deploy ComfyUI workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI processing jobs to generate hundreds of high-quality images in a.
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India's CRED founder Kunal Shah and invests $900M in startup
WhatsApp gets a new boss, as Will Cathcart moves to a new role at Meta, while Shah steps down as CEO of Indian fintech giant CRED to replace Cathcart.
From Materials Simulation to Experimental Astronomy, New NVIDIA AI Software Unlocks Scientific Discoveries
At the ISC conference running in Hamburg this week, NVIDIA is introducing new software that speeds AI for science, from chemistry and materials discovery to.
NVIDIA Vera CPU Opens the Way for Agentic Scientific AI at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mission, Vision and Veritas - new Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) supercomputers to be built with HPE and NVIDIA - are tapping NVIDIA Vera CPUs to.
Eco Wave Power Turns Waves Into Watts with NVIDIA AI Infrastructure and Digital Twins
The next era of AI will not be defined by compute alone. Its growth will be determined by energy.
Patch the Planet: a Daybreak Initiative to Support Open Source Maintainers
OpenAI introduces Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative helping open-source maintainers find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with AI and expert review.
Daybreak: Tools for Securing Every Organization in the World
OpenAI introduces new Daybreak tools, including Codex Security and GPT-5.5-Cyber, to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities at scale.
Codex-maxxing for long-running work
Learn how Jason Liu uses Codex to preserve context, manage complex projects, and help work continue beyond a single prompt.
GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers
US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.
Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rockets
SpaceX has told NASA it plans to launch Starship every eight days from Kennedy.
The AI world is getting 'loopy'
The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.
Why agentic enterprises need to become learning systems
Presented by Splunk Every day, organizations learn things their AI systems never get to use. A security analyst corrects an AI-generated investigation. A...
Researchers introduce Self-Harness, a framework that lets AI agents rewrite their own rules, boosting performance up to 60%
Not every company can or should build their own frontier AI language model. However, the harness controlling the model is something that most enterprises can...
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Saas Isn't Coming Back. Something Much Bigger Is Replacing It
The next wave of software will be AI-native, industry-specific platforms, writes guest author Richard de Silva who believes the biggest winners will be...
World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot
From fake tickets to cloned websites, AI is magnifying World Cup scams. Can fans distinguish between what's real and what's not?
European Investor Seedcamp Closes On $320M Across Two Funds To Back Seed Startups And Reaches $1B AUM
Seedcamp, one of Europe's earliest seed investors, has closed on its 7th fund of $220 million and a select fund 2 of $100 million to invest in winners from...
AI hit the memory wall - now it needs a new context tier
Presented by Solidigm As inference workloads evolve from discrete question-and-answer exchanges into persistent, multi-step agentic systems, GPU availability...
Executive Interview: Crescendo
Sylvie Tongco, Head of Communications at Crescendo, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? The total addressable market for the ... The post Executive Interview: Crescendo...
Executive Interview: Resolve AI
Manveer Sahtoa, Head of Product Marketing at Resolve AI, tells CB Insights how they view the future of the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market, and where does your company fit into that space? ... The post Executive Interview: Resolve AI appeared first on CB...
Executive Interview: Insait.io
Ilan Flax, COO of Insait, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. 1. Market Definition & Where Insait Fits Estimated Total Addressable Market (TAM) Insait operates at the intersection of two high-growth markets: conversational AI ... The post Executive...
CEO Interview: Growverse
Roberto Romagnino, Founder & CEO of Growverse, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market, and where does your company fit into that space? Market definition Growverse operates at the ... The post CEO Interview: Growverse appeared...
HPE and Kamiwaza rethink AI infrastructure for the inference era
As AI factories evolve into "data centers of the future," the infrastructure stack must also transform into a mix of CPU and GPU platforms that can deliver a full set of AI computing solutions. This runs the gamut from application hosting to intelligence generation and from static workflows to...