AI Week in Review: June 15 – 21, 2026

Your AI agent did exactly what it was designed to do. The framework underneath it just handed an attacker a shell on the box that holds your OpenAI key, your...

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

The acquisition of Cursor gives SpaceX a foothold into the enterprise software development market, where AI-assisted coding has taken off and led large...

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.

The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245...

Chip design startup Architect Labs Inc. launched today with $24 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. Kindred Ventures led the seed round. It was joined by Perplexity AI Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aravind Srinivas, Transformer co-inventor Lukasz Kaiser, former OpenAI Group PBC...

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the...

Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the "inference gold rush" marches on.

Baseten Inc., a startup with a platform for running artificial intelligence inference workloads, is raising $1.5 billion in funding. The Wall Street Journal reported today that Altimeter Capital, Conviction, Spark Capital, Sands Capital and Wellington Management are co-leading the deal. It's...

SailPoint Technologies Inc. is acquiring Entro Security Ltd., a startup that helps enterprises secure their artificial intelligence agents. The companies announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. CTech reported that the transaction is worth about $200 million. Nasdaq-listed...

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight - a fear the Anthropic...

Elastic NV has reportedly acquired Deductive AI Inc., a startup with a platform that helps enterprises fix errors in their technology infrastructure. TechCrunch on Thursday cited a source as saying that the deal is worth up to $85 million. That's reportedly more than double the valuation Deductive...

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

In the decade-plus since Playground Global's founding, it has built its investment thesis around the idea that breakthroughs in science and engineering - not...