Top AI & Tech News Stories — June 25, 2026
The top AI and tech news story of June 25, 2026 was “NYT CEO confident company will win legal battles against OpenAI/Microsoft, Perplexity - Axios”, covered by 1 outlet (1 articles), according to Skillenai's news index. 20 stories ranked across 31 articles.
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NYT CEO confident company will win legal battles against OpenAI/Microsoft, Perplexity - Axios
1 outlet · 1 article · 3 total since June 22, 2026 · OpenAI, microsoft, NYT, Perplexity, axios
NYT CEO confident company will win legal battles against OpenAI/Microsoft, Perplexity Axios
Read at nytimes.com →First reported by news.google.comWhat AI can't replace
1 outlet · 1 article · Search technology, large language models, MCP Server, natural language processing, content generation
On Monday evening, to kick off Cannes Lions, I hosted two conversations at Yahoo’s beach stage: a conversation with CEO Jim Lanzone, followed by a creator-economy panel with Tyler Denk , co-founder and CEO of beehiiv, Casey Lewis , author of After School, and Cat Goetze …
IBM Stacks Transistors Vertically to Push Past 1-Nanometer Limits
3 outlets · 3 articles · 6 total since June 25, 2026 · IBM, IBM Research, Jay Gambetta, Albany, New York, nanostack architecture
IBM announced a prototype chip packing nearly 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized area. The design uses a new “nanostack” architecture that stacks transistors in two layers instead of shrinking them only on a flat plane. The result nearly doubles the density of the…
More coverage: datacenterknowledge.com · interestingengineering.com
OpenAI’s Codex context reduction for GPT 5.6 sparks dissatisfaction among developers - InfoWorld
3 outlets · 5 articles · 58 total since June 25, 2026 · OpenAI, GPT-5.6, Anthropic, United States, Luna
OpenAI’s Codex context reduction for GPT 5.6 sparks dissatisfaction among developers InfoWorld
Read at theverge.com →First reported by news.google.comMore coverage: news.google.com · engadget.com
RingCentral’s AIR Pro Bet: Can Agentic AI Redefine the Contact Center Stack?
1 outlet · 2 articles · 3 total since June 25, 2026 · Five9, agentic AI, Futurum, NICE, Genesys
The post RingCentral’s AIR Pro Bet: Can Agentic AI Redefine the Contact Center Stack? appeared first on Futurum . Analyst(s): Keith Kirkpatrick Publication Date: June 25, 2026 RingCentral expanded AIR Pro to deliver agentic AI capabilities across its customer engagement…
Read at futurumresearch.com →First reported by futurumresearch.comGoogle files first joint lawsuit with FBI over Chinese AI scam network, OpenAI blocks PRC influence clusters
1 outlet · 1 article · 18 total since June 10, 2026 · Google, China, United States, OpenAI, ChatGPT
Google files first joint lawsuit with FBI over Chinese AI scam network, OpenAI blocks PRC influence clusters Within days of each other, Google and OpenAI separately exposed operations allegedly originating in China that use AI for fraud and covert influence campaigns. Both…
Read at tomshardware.com →First reported by cyberscoop.comHugging Face hosts nudification tools targeting a former Trump cabinet official and other senior US political figures
1 outlet · 1 article · fine-tuning, image generation, content safety policy enforcement, model adaptation, LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
Credit: Hugging Face/Transformer Earlier this month, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said he was visiting Washington “to talk directly with policymakers … about open-source AI.” We don’t know exactly what he told these policymakers. But it’s safe to assume one thing was left…
Salesforce’s Agentforce Commerce Pushes Agentic AI From Hype to Retail Revenue Reality
2 outlets · 2 articles · 5 total since June 24, 2026 · Salesforce, Futurum, Futurum Group, Google, appointment scheduling
The post Salesforce’s Agentforce Commerce Pushes Agentic AI From Hype to Retail Revenue Reality appeared first on Futurum . Analyst(s): Keith Kirkpatrick Publication Date: June 24, 2026 Salesforce has launched Agentforce Commerce, combining Shopper Agent, Buyer Agent, and…
Read at futurumresearch.com →First reported by futurumresearch.comMore coverage: siliconangle.com
Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents
1 outlet · 1 article · Patronus AI, Meta AI
Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.
Microsoft’s Carbon Emissions Surge 25% Amid AI and Data Center Boom
1 outlet · 2 articles · 18 total since March 25, 2026 · NVIDIA, International Energy Agency, Google, Liquid Cooling, data centre capacity
Microsoft’s carbon emissions rose by 25 percent between 2020 and 2023 according to the company’s own sustainability report, a sharp increase that highlights the environmental costs of its aggressive expansion into artificial intelligence and cloud computing. The Wired article…
Read at iafrica.com →First reported by ificlaims.comEpicor Prism’s Cognitive ERP Push: Can Embedded AI Agents Redefine Manufacturing Outcomes?
1 outlet · 1 article · 2 total since June 23, 2026 · Epicor, Futurum, Keith Kirkpatrick, WMS (Warehouse Management System), integration
The post Epicor Prism’s Cognitive ERP Push: Can Embedded AI Agents Redefine Manufacturing Outcomes? appeared first on Futurum . Analyst(s): Keith Kirkpatrick Publication Date: June 25, 2026 Epicor has launched Epicor Prism across European markets, embedding vertical AI agents…
Read at futurumresearch.com →First reported by futurumresearch.comWill Adobe’s Topaz Labs Deal Redefine Creative AI and On-Device Content Workflows?
1 outlet · 1 article · 2 total since June 25, 2026 · Adobe, Creative Cloud, AI upscaling, image enhancement, On-device inference
The post Will Adobe’s Topaz Labs Deal Redefine Creative AI and On-Device Content Workflows? appeared first on Futurum . Analyst(s): Keith Kirkpatrick Publication Date: June 25, 2026 Adobe’s planned acquisition of Topaz Labs signals a decisive escalation in the creative AI arms…
GeekWire 200 update: New unicorns and a hardware surge remake our list of top Pacific NW startups
1 outlet · 1 article · data centers, solar-powered sites, fusion power, reusable rockets, autonomous machines
Starcloud, which is building solar-powered data centers in orbit, is the biggest mover on the new GeekWire 200 — vaulting 96 spots to No. 75 after becoming the fastest Y Combinator company ever to reach unicorn status. (Starcloud Image) The tech economy in Seattle and the…
An Interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field About Design and AI
1 outlet · 1 article · WebGL, BASIC, programming, compiler, Figma
Good morning, This week’s Stratechery interview is with Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field . Field was a Thiel Fellow who dropped out of Brown in 2012 to start Figma. Figma was born of a technical breakthrough that leveraged WebGL to deliver powerful graphical capabilities in…
Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception
1 outlet · 1 article · Political bias analysis, scored argument generation, OpenAI, Google, THE DECODER
A Washington Post investigation shows that most major AI chatbots still skew left on political questions. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave exclusively left-leaning arguments 80 percent of the time, and even Musk's Grok, marketed as anti-"woke," leaned left more often than not. The one…
Google unveils 24/7 Gemini Spark AI Agent for advanced tasks
1 outlet · 1 article · 7 total since May 19, 2026 · Google, Gemini Spark, Canva, Instacart, OpenTable
Google has introduced Gemini Spark, a new 24/7 personal AI agent designed to handle complex digital tasks for users. This AI agent is built on Gemini 3.5 and leverages the Antigravity harness for background processing. It integrates deeply with Google Workspace tools, including…
Read at the-decoder.com →First reported by testingcatalog.comGrok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content
1 outlet · 1 article · image generation, video generation, Grok AI, xAI, The Information
Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content Grok AI is for porn. Two former xAI employees estimate that well over half of all Grok traffic goes to pornographic images, videos, roleplay chats, or other adult content, The Information…
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1 outlet · 1 article · large language models, AI regulation, natural language processing, model training, Prompting
Dispatches from Mitch The Claude aesthetic The New Yorker’s Kyle Chayka has noticed that Anthropic’s Claude AI knows what it likes, where design is concerned. You’ve probably noticed it, too, whether you knew it or not: If you’ve observed that a lot of newer websites and…
Amazon and Microsoft join new nonprofit’s push to help American workers navigate the AI economy
2 outlets · 3 articles · 9 total since June 25, 2026 · generative AI, microsoft, Anthropic, United States, Artificial intelligence
(Raiseus.ai Image) Amazon, Microsoft and other leading tech companies are joining a new nonpartisan workforce organization launched Thursday aimed at helping American workers navigate the transition to an AI-driven economy. RAISE US aims to partner with governors, employers, and…
More coverage: news.google.com
Amperity hit with layoffs as AI changes the shape of the customer data startup and how it operates
1 outlet · 1 article · Artificial intelligence, Data unification, enterprise software, Amperity, GeekWire
Amperity co-founders and co-CEOs Kabir Shahani, left, and Derek Slager. (Amperity photo). Seattle-based customer data startup Amperity conducted layoffs this week, the company confirmed to GeekWire, citing a transformation related to its use of more artificial intelligence. The…
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How this was computed
Articles in the Skillenai news index are grouped into event clusters at enrichment time (hybrid embedding/BM25/entity candidate search plus an LLM join-vs-new judge). Stories are ranked by the authority of the articles published on 2026-06-25 (UTC) — the sum of their outlet and author authority — so a multi-day story only ranks on the strength of that day's coverage. Article and outlet counts are likewise scoped to the day. The highlighted link is the day's highest-authority article in each cluster.