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Stories covered on 2026-06-15

  1. Agentic Inference Deployment: From Prose Skills to Deployed Endpoints

    Towards AI · 2026-06-15

    Researchers have demonstrated the ability to transform sophisticated natural language processing capabilities into directly callable API endpoints

  2. Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides

    MarkTechPost · 2026-06-15

    Sakana AI's first commercial product runs autonomously for up to eight hours per task. It returns multi-page reports and slides, built on AB-MCTS and AI Scientist workflows.

  3. The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-15

    The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both

  4. Deploying an ADK Agent with MCP, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Run

    Towards AI · 2026-06-15

    Building a secure and observable agent architecture for Google Cloud Storage using the Agent Development Kit, Model Context Protocol, and…

  5. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’

    WIRED · 2026-06-15

    In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale.

  6. Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts

    The Verge · 2026-06-15

    Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode.

  7. Anthropic Explains How Claude Builds Its Own Execution Harnesses

    InfoQ · 2026-06-15

    Anthropic has published additional details about the orchestration system behind Claude Code's recently introduced Dynamic W

  8. Why Your RAG System Doesn’t Know What’s in Your PDFs (And How to Fix It)

    Towards AI · 2026-06-15

    A three-step pipeline — pdfplumber, regex, and fuzzy matching — that turns unstructured invoices into data your model can actually use.

  9. Investigation by The Atlantic reveals many millions of songs used for AI music training

    Engadget · 2026-06-15

    Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and many, many more artists have had their work fed into AI models.

  10. I Added One Agent to My Claude Setup and Output Quality Jumped 10% Overnight

    Towards AI · 2026-06-15

    How Anthropic’s rubric-grading loop works, why the separation matters, and the 80-line version you can run yourselfContinue reading on Towards AI »

  11. Anthropic Disables AI Access for Foreign Nationals | Bloomberg Tech 6/15/2026

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-15

    Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down why Anthropic disabled access to its most advanced models for all foreign nationals after a request from the Trump administration.

  12. China's AI Markets Still 'A Source of Funds' Says Citigroup

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-15

    Alicia Yap, Citi's head of Pan-Asia Internet Research, breaks down where China's tech market stands amid global AI adoption.

  13. SpaceX Stocks Still Volatile, Says JPMorgan Strategist

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-15

    Stephanie Aliaga, JPMorgan Asset Management global market strategist, says to expect SpaceX volatility in the next six months.

  14. Cohere Seeing Inbounds After Washington's Anthropic Scrutiny

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-15

    Cohere Chief AI Officer Joelle Pineau says Cohere has seen a huge number of inbounds after Anthropic was ordered by the US government to disable access to its most advanced AI

  15. The Race to Build Data Centers in Space

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-15

    “Data centers in space” may sound like science fiction, but as the SpaceX IPO augurs a space boom, tech giants and startups are betting orbital artificial intelligence is the next

  16. Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021

    Ars Technica · 2026-06-15

    Debt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.

  17. All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House

    The Verge · 2026-06-15

    Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off foreign access to its most

  18. What Is Anthropic’s Mythos AI and Why Was It Blocked?

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-15

    Anthropic PBC has said its new artificial intelligence tool, Mythos, is so good at finding vulnerabilities in software and computer systems that it can’t be released to the general

  19. Why do South Koreans love AI so much?

    MIT Technology Review · 2026-06-15

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here.

  20. The Hidden Security Risks of Agentic AI: Why Enterprise AI Needs More Than Guardrails

    Towards AI · 2026-06-15

    A recent analysis highlights that agentic AI systems, designed for autonomous task execution, introduce novel security vulnerabilities beyond standard content moderation.

  21. Anthropic hit with lawsuit over its Claude Max usage limits

    Engadget · 2026-06-15

    Anthropic is being sued over Claude Max usage limits

  22. Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-15

    Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on

  23. xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets has been thrown out

    Engadget · 2026-06-15

    A federal judge decided to dismiss an xAI lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice.

  24. Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI

    The Verge · 2026-06-15

    At Washington's request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend.

  25. Is Loop Engineering Really What We Need?

    Towards AI · 2026-06-15

    This is Why the Hottest AI Trend Might Not Be Your Next MoveContinue reading on Towards AI »

  26. The US government may be asking Anthropic the impossible by demanding unhackable LLMs

    The Decoder · 2026-06-15

    Government officials accuse Anthropic of disregarding Trump's cyber directive and releasing Fable 5 without approval. "They screwed us," one administration official said.

  27. Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation

    The Verge · 2026-06-15

    For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption.

  28. Facebook's new AI tools offer more of the same, with photo-editing and question-answering capabilities

    Engadget · 2026-06-15

    Don't worry, there's yet another chatbot you can ask for restaurant recommendations.

  29. Salesforce to Buy AI Firm That Handles Customer Service

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-15

    Salesforce Inc. has agreed to buy Fin, a firm that develops artificial intelligence-powered customer agents, for about $3.6 billion as the software company works to win new

  30. 5 Failure Modes in Production Agentic RAG That No Architecture Diagram Will Show You

    Towards AI · 2026-06-15

    Developers are encountering practical complexities in deploying Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) agents, revealing limitations not evident in theoretical designs.