AI News for June 8, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI plans 'superapp' ChatGPT overhaul ahead of IPO, declares 'chat is dead': OpenAI will redesign ChatGPT into a 'superapp' bundling coding tools, AI agents, image generation, and integrations from Canva and Booking.com.
[NEWS] Nvidia and SK Hynix sign multi-year pact for next-gen AI memory; Vera CPU to use SK DRAM: Nvidia and SK Hynix signed a multi-year agreement to co-design future memory chips for AI, and Jensen Huang confirmed Nvidia's new Vera CPU will use SK Hynix DRAM.
[RESEARCH] Perplexity unveils 'Search as Code': models write their own Python search pipelines: Perplexity released a technical report on Search as Code (SaC), an architecture where AI models write custom Python scripts to run searches instead of calling a fixed API.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic, Stanford paper explains why large models learn rare skills small ones can't: Researchers from Anthropic, Stanford, and other institutions published a study showing why scaling unlocks capabilities small models never master, regardless of training time.
[NEWS] Anti-AI extremism rises: arson at OpenAI HQ, attacks on data centers, Unabomber-style plots: Researchers and law enforcement are tracking a wave of anti-AI political violence.
[NEWS] Jensen Huang calls tech selloff a 'buying opportunity,' says AI buildout 'just beginning': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed the global tech rout that wiped hundreds of billions off AI megacaps last week, telling reporters in Seoul the AI buildout has 'just begun' and the selloff is a buying opportunity.
[NEWS] Moonshot AI seeks $30B valuation in third raise in six months: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is raising up to $2 billion at a $30 billion valuation, its third financing in six months as it races Chinese rivals in frontier model development.
[NEWS] DeepSeek V4 triggers China API price war, Xiaomi cuts MiMo-V2.5 by 99%: Xiaomi slashed API pricing for its MiMo-V2.5 model by 99%, joining Chinese AI developers undercutting each other after DeepSeek's ultra-cheap V4 release.
[NEWS] Anthropic poaches OpenAI's second-ever chip engineer Clive Chan: Clive Chan, second hardware hire on OpenAI's custom chip program, is joining Anthropic after working on its Broadcom partnership.
[NEWS] US data center power use to jump 50% as 176 new sites permitted in 2025: US data centers will consume 224.3-358.8 terawatt-hours of electricity annually once everything permitted through 2025 comes online, a 50% increase year-over-year, according to Business Insider analysis.

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