AI News for June 12, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic reverses Fable 5 invisible AI-research throttling after researcher backlash: Anthropic apologized and reversed a policy that secretly degraded Claude Fable 5 responses for users it suspected of training competing AI models.
[NEWS] Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation to build 'artificial general engineer': Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and former Verily co-founder Vik Bajaj, closed a $12B round at a $41B valuation.
[NEWS] OpenAI acquires cloud platform Ona to power Codex and AI agents: OpenAI agreed to acquire Ona, a cloud-services startup that provides infrastructure for AI agents, to strengthen its Codex coding assistant and make its agentic technology more useful for enterprise customers.
[NEWS] SpaceX prices IPO at $135, $75B raise, set to be largest IPO ever: SpaceX officially priced its IPO at $135 per share, selling 555.6 million shares to raise $75B, making it the largest IPO in history, eclipsing Saudi Aramco's $24.9B.
[TOOLS] Xiaomi open-sources MiMo Code, a terminal coding agent it says beats Claude Code on 200+ step tasks: Xiaomi released MiMo Code V0.1.0 under MIT license, an agentic terminal coding assistant the MiMo team claims outperforms Claude Code on ultra-long-horizon tasks of 200+ steps, based on internal benchmarks and a 576-developer beta.
[RESEARCH] LCLM research compresses LLM input 16x and runs 8.8x faster than KV cache methods: Researchers from NYU, Columbia, Princeton, Maryland, Harvard, and Lawrence Livermore released Latent Context Language Models (LCLMs), an open-source encoder-decoder family that compresses input tokens before they reach the decoder.
[NEWS] Visa and OpenAI embed Visa payments inside ChatGPT for agentic shopping: Visa announced it has embedded its payment network inside ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and complete transactions on a user's behalf at potentially any Visa-accepting merchant.
[NEWS] ChatGPT crosses 1 billion monthly app users as public sentiment sours: OpenAI's ChatGPT mobile app crossed 1 billion monthly users, cementing its lead as the dominant consumer AI surface even as broader public sentiment toward AI cools.
[TOOLS] DoorDash launches Ask DoorDash AI chatbot with photo and prompt-based ordering: DoorDash launched Ask DoorDash, an in-app AI chatbot that lets users search by natural language or photo: snap a recipe, cookbook page, or grocery list and the app builds the cart with correct quantities, prompting users about staples they may already have.
[TOOLS] Deezer launches free AI music detector for Spotify, Apple Music, and 18 other platforms: Deezer launched a free AI music detection tool that scans playlists across 20 streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and SoundCloud, available in 27 languages.

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