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DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Today's briefing: SpaceX turns its Colossus supercomputer into a commercial platform with a compute deal worth up to $6.3 billion for open source lab Reflection AI

AI Agents Are Becoming Employees: NewCore's $66M Bet and the Machine Identity Crisis - June 22, 2026

Chris and Laura dig into NewCore's $66 million stealth launch at a $300 million valuation and the fast growing problem it targets: as enterprises deploy autonomous AI agents, those agents now outnumber human staff by dozens to one and live in an identity gray area that legacy security tools were never built to govern. They unpack the split key architecture, the Agentic Skill for tools like Claude Code and Cursor, the McKinsey and Goldman Sachs adoption signals, and whether a clean sheet startup can outrun the identity incumbents.

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DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, June 22, 2026

Google returns to smart speakers with the Gemini powered Google Home Speaker, and Anthropic opens a Seoul office as NAVER, Samsung SDS, and LG CNS deploy Claude. Qualcomm pursues an eight to ten billion dollar bid for chip startup Tenstorrent, while Salesforce moves to acquire Fin for 3.6 billion dollars to bolster Agentforce. OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Futures student program, Meta leases a 168 megawatt AI data center from Reliance in India, and Oracle posts record results powered by its OpenAI cloud partnership. In funding, DeepSeek closes a 7.4 billion dollar first external round, Supabase raises 500 million dollars, robotics startup Generalist AI lands 400 million dollars with Nvidia backing, and AlphaSense secures 350 million dollars. Microsoft rounds out the briefing with its homegrown MAI Code 1 Flash model.

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FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Fast Track AI Data Center Power While Protecting Ratepayers

On June 18, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued six show cause orders directing PJM, MISO, SPP, CAISO, ISO New England, and NYISO to accelerate grid interconnection for AI data centers while barring cost shifting onto ordinary ratepayers. Rick Spair and Laura unpack the 30 and 60 day deadlines, the Texas carve out, the Maryland ratepayer fight, and why the race for AI compute has become a race for electricity.

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#AI #Energy #DataCenters #FERC #GridPolicy

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, June 21, 2026

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain offline for a ninth day under a US export-control directive as a subscriber deadline looms, while Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro lingers in enterprise preview with its June window closing. Amazon walks away from a nearly finished film about Sam Altman, Qualcomm pursues an 8 to 10 billion dollar acquisition of chip startup Tenstorrent, and DeepSeek unveils a 1.6 trillion parameter V4 model trained on Huawei chips. We cover xAI's Grok 4.3 landing on Amazon Bedrock, Meta's new Muse Spark model, the Reuters Institute finding on AI chatbots and news, a Black Duck study on AI coding governance, FERC's grid orders for AI data centers, OpenAI's 150 million dollar Partner Network, and Fei-Fei Li's world model taxonomy at World Labs.

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Google's Always-On Search Agents: How Information Agents Turn Search Into a Service That Works While You Sleep

At Google I/O 2026, Google unveiled "information agents" in AI Mode, persistent background processes that monitor the entire web around the clock and send synthesized push updates without you ever opening the search box. Chris and Laura dig into how this flips search from pull to push, why it launched gated behind the AI Ultra tier, and what always-on monitoring means for publishers, privacy, and the economics of the open web.

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DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, June 20, 2026

Today's briefing: Anthropic says its banned Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models could return within days as it opens a Seoul office amid a wave of Korean enterprise adoption

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, June 19, 2026

Today's briefing: OpenAI loads up on talent, hiring transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer and former White House AI policy official Dean Ball ahead of its IPO. Amazon moves to sell its Trainium chips, challenging Nvidia. Anthropic restricts its newest Claude models for foreign nationals under US export controls, igniting debate in India. xAI's Grok lands natively on Databricks Agent Bricks. Elastic acquires DeductiveAI for up to 85 million dollars. Snap spins off its AI video team as Dotmo. FERC fast-tracks grid connections for AI data centers. General Intuition raises near 300 million dollars with backing from Bezos and Schmidt. Adobe embeds agentic AI across Creative Cloud. Pixi brings AR characters to iMessage. Google unveils a Gemini-powered Home Speaker. And Y Combinator's spring Demo Day spotlights robotics and a truck-sized MRI startup.

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The NO FAKES Act Clears the Senate Judiciary Committee: America's First Federal Property Right in Your Voice and Face - June 19, 2026

On June 18, 2026, the US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced the bipartisan NO FAKES Act, which would create the first federal intellectual property right in an individual's voice and visual likeness. The right would survive up to 70 years after death, platforms hosting unauthorized AI replicas could face liability of up to $750,000 per work, and a companion measure called the TRAIN Act targets the training data side of the same problem. Chris and Laura unpack the stakes, the politics, and the free speech tensions.

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#AI #DeepfakeRegulation #NOFAKESAct #AIPolicy #VoiceCloning

AI's Two-Track Labor Market: Inside the PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer and the 62% Skills Premium - June 18, 2026

PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, drawn from roughly a billion job ads, finds AI is splitting work into two tracks: jobs "professionalised" by AI grow twice as fast with 42% faster wage growth, while the AI skills premium climbs to 62%. Chris and Laura unpack what it means for workers, entry-level careers, and the companies pulling ahead.

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