This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:

FERC voted unanimously to issue show-cause orders under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act against all six US regional grid operators, giving them 30 days to detail spare generating capacity and 60 days to defend or revise the rates they charge large data center loads, in a federal push to clear the grid as the bottleneck on AI buildout.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/ai-data-centers-just-got-a-government-mandated-fast-lane-to-the-grid/

The Wall Street Journal reports Google is putting a $3.2 billion financial guarantee behind the Lake Mariner data center in upstate New York, plus $7 billion for an Anthropic site near Baton Rouge and $1.4 billion in Colorado City, Texas, running Nvidia's circular-financing playbook to grow demand for Google's own TPUs.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-is-using-nvidias-playbook-to-build-a-rival-ai-chip-business-1eac86f9

Amazon MGM dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished "Artificial," about Sam Altman and the 2023 OpenAI board ouster, with Variety and the Hollywood Reporter noting the studio's $50 billion February deal to expand OpenAI's use of AWS as the obvious context for the move.

https://variety.com/2026/film/global/luca-guadagnino-sam-altman-movie-artificial-dropped-amazon-1236785830/

The Commerce Department told ASML it is concerned one of the company's export-restricted EUV lithography machines may have ended up in China, with Lutnick reportedly raising the issue in meetings going back to April and ASML firmly denying any system is there.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/us-tells-asml-it-s-concerned-china-may-have-top-chip-tool

Nobel laureate John Jumper, who led the AlphaFold team at Google DeepMind, announced he is leaving for Anthropic after nearly nine years, the second top DeepMind departure in 48 hours after Gemini co-lead and Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI on Wednesday.

https://the-decoder.com/google-deepmind-loses-another-top-ai-researcher-as-nobel-laureate-john-jumper-leaves-for-anthropic/

Snap is spinning its generative AI video team out into a separate company called Dotmo, focused on AI video for gaming and interactive entertainment, in exchange for a large equity stake and a license to its tech, citing the cost of running that work in-house.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/snap-spins-off-ai-video-team-into-new-company-dotmo-due-to-costs/

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