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Articles from www.theinformation.com

Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-26 Google AI

Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-26

Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to better compete with Anthropic, after key executive departures (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-25 Google AI

SambaNova Executive Chairman Lip-Bu Tan says the AI chip startup is set to raise $800M to $1B, sources say at a ~$10B valuation, up from $2B in February (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-25 Startup AI

RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised $100M led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-25 Nvidia

xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for EUV machines, told investors that it is in talks to raise $350M led by Boardman Bay and Bain Capital (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-24 Startup

ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying the AI video model can generate 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-23 AI

A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor that Bernie Sanders' team consulted while developing his AI sovereign wealth fund proposal (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-22 AI

Source: Morgan Stanley is pitching data center developers to use leveraged loans rather than bonds, and estimates ~$15B will be issued this year in such loans (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-22 Morgan Stanley

Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B+ in cash and marketable securities vs. $40B at the end of December (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-20

Sources: Kalshi is generating $2B+ in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, and has held informal talks with banks about an eventual IPO (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-19 IPO

Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-18 China Startup AI Tencent

Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-18 Google AI

OpenAI's CSO Jason Kwon messaged staff that the company “strongly” told the US government that building AI “requires the best talent from around the world” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-17 AI

Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-17 Alibaba AI

Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-16

Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump admin officials on June 15, but no resolution was reached and both sides are working to resolve things quickly (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-16 Trump

Source: Qualcomm is in talks to buy AI chip designer Tenstorrent for $8B to $10B; Tenstorrent discussed raising $800M at a ~$3.2B valuation last year (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-16 AI

Source: the White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos 5 to other AI companies, citing Anthropic's refusal to fix jailbreaks (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-14 AI

Sources: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among tech leaders who raised concerns with Trump officials about Mythos 5, setting in motion new export restrictions (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-14 Trump Amazon

Staff memo: Meta plans to limit employee token usage and encourage employees to use MetaCode, after internal AI spending forecasts reached billions for 2026 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-13 AI

Sources: Microsoft considered spinning out or restructuring its Xbox unit as a wholly-owned subsidiary, or creating a joint venture with other partners (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-13 Microsoft Xbox

Sources: six months after acquiring Rivos, Meta is struggling to integrate the chip startup and halted development of a chip for training its largest AI models (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-12 Startup AI

How Anthropic is blindsiding business partners by launching potentially competitive products with little warning, changing pricing, and more (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-12

Sources: Anthropic signed 12+ initial agreements for direct data center leases, a first for the company, with Google potentially providing a financial guarantee (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-12 Google

Sources: Google is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a memory input-output die for its 10th-gen Icefish TPU, while making the computing engine at TSMC (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-11 Google Samsung

Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public “within the next year” and OpenAI plans a tender offer “very soon” at a $687.69 share price (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-11

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-10 Nvidia

Sources: Google recently placed an order with Intel to manufacture 3M+ TPUs in 2028; Nvidia is testing Intel's tech for a new processor and running 18A trials (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-8 Google Intel Nvidia

Source: White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan plans to leave his role at the end of June; sources: Krishnan plans to start a pro-Trump AI policy institution (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-7 Trump AI

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