Thursday, June 25, 2026
TL;DR
Today’s briefing covers 532 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash; The memory chip crunch is paying off for this US company; A24 Knows You’re Mad About the Google AI Collab.
Top Stories
Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
DeepMind
The memory chip crunch is paying off for this US company
TechCrunch AI
Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago. The company’s profit, meanwhile, rose from $1.88 billion to an incredible $28.2 billion year-over-year.
A24 Knows You’re Mad About the Google AI Collab
Wired AI
Indie movie fans are upset about Google DeepMind’s $75 million investment in the studio, which comes as AI companies are deepening their influence in Hollywood.
The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw
The Verge AI
The expensive, $27 million political proxy war between Anthropic and OpenAI came to a draw last night when Alex Bores, a New York state Assemblyman whose popularity surged after being targeted by a pro-AI super PAC, narrowly lost the Democratic primary to represent New York’s 12th Congressional dist
Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators
TechCrunch AI
The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook’s recently launched AI creator assistant built into it.
Research Corner
Industry Updates
- Accelerating Transformers Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel - HuggingFace
- OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip - OpenAI
- Introducing the FFASR Leaderboard: Benchmarking ASR in the Real World - HuggingFace
News & Analysis
- Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents (MIT AI News)
- Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war (TechCrunch AI)
- Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world (TechCrunch AI)
- Cerebras stock plunges after earnings as CEO says margin outlook was misunderstood (TechCrunch AI)
- AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient (TechCrunch AI)
- AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals (TechCrunch AI)
- One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime “assembly line” (Ars Technica AI)
- Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks (TechCrunch AI)
Deep Dive: Today’s AI Landscape
Synthesized from multiple research sources
As of the morning of June 25, 2026, there are no specific breakthroughs or launches announced for today (June 25) in the search results, but the AI industry is in the midst of major recent breakthroughs and launches from early-to-mid June 2026, including OpenAI’s Dreaming V3 memory architecture, Microsoft’s MAI (Microsoft AI) model suite, and Google’s Search agents era.
Key Recent Breakthroughs & Launches (June 2026)
1. OpenAI – Dreaming V3 Architecture & Memory Upgrade [1] [5]
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This newsletter is automatically generated by PAI using RSS aggregation and AI research tools. Sources include arXiv, HuggingFace, OpenAI, Google AI, MIT News, VentureBeat, and more.
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