Qualcomm is in early discussions to acquire artificial intelligence chip startup Tenstorrent for between eight billion and ten billion United States dollars, The Register reported on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, citing The Information's earlier scoop. Qualcomm shares rose roughly three percent on the news across the Tuesday session before the broader sell-off in the technology…
SpaceX signed a sixty billion United States dollar all-stock merger agreement with Anysphere, the maker of the Cursor artificial intelligence coding platform, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, CNBC reported in its Tuesday afternoon market coverage. SpaceX subsidiary X67 Inc. will merge with Anysphere, leaving the startup as a wholly owned SpaceX subsidiary. The number of…
Anthropic senior leaders met with Trump administration officials on Monday, June 15, 2026 over the recently imposed foreign-access restrictions on the Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, with no resolution reached at the close of the first session, Crypto Briefing reported in its coverage of the meeting cycle. Additional Commerce Department meetings continued into…
Salesforce released its Summer 26 product update on Monday, June 15, 2026, the company confirmed in its release-notes post. The update introduces Slack First Sales, Agentforce Sales in Slack, and multi-agent orchestration as the central new capabilities the platform adds to its enterprise commercial cloud stack. Slack First Sales brings the Salesforce customer relationship management…
Microsoft Work IQ APIs reached general availability on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, giving developers and information technology administrators programmatic access to Microsoft 365 organizational data, context, and tools for building enterprise artificial intelligence agents, Microsoft confirmed in the post-Build conference announcement cycle. The GA release converts the prior preview-track program into a production-ready API surface…
Tech industry layoffs reached nearly forty thousand positions in May 2026, the highest single-month total in two years, with Meta cutting eight thousand jobs and Block reducing its workforce by approximately fifty percent, TechCrunch reported on Monday, June 15, 2026 at twelve twenty-five Pacific Time. Artificial intelligence integration has been cited as the leading layoff…
More than one hundred cybersecurity executives and researchers, including leaders from Adobe and Nvidia, sent a letter to the Trump administration on Sunday, June 14, 2026 urging the government to lift the Commerce Department export controls that pulled Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models from public access on Friday, June 12, the Associated Press…
Former Trump administration artificial-intelligence adviser David Sacks accused Anthropic in a lengthy social-media post on Saturday, June 13, 2026 of being reckless with the release of its latest commercial model Fable 5 and of refusing to fix a jailbreak that the United States government had flagged before the Friday June 12 Commerce Department export-controls order…
Anthropic disabled access to its Fable 5 product and the underlying Mythos 5 model for all users worldwide on Friday, June 12, 2026 after the United States Commerce Department imposed national security export controls barring the company from distributing the models to foreign nationals, Fortune reported in its Sunday update at 5:10 p.m. Eastern. The…
