AI News for June 15, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Semafor: China-linked group may have already accessed Mythos, raising distillation risk: A China-linked group may have accessed Anthropic's Mythos model before the export ban took effect, according to Semafor — a detail that could explain the White House's urgency.
[NEWS] Zhipu AI stock surges 48% on plans to open-source GLM-5.2 this week: Beijing-based Zhipu AI's Hong Kong-listed shares jumped as much as 48% to HK$1,620 Monday after the company announced it will release GLM-5.2, its most powerful large language model, on an open-source basis later this week.
[RESEARCH] Microsoft Research's Mirage gives video world models persistent spatial memory at 10x speed: Microsoft Research and university collaborators released Mirage, a video world model that maintains consistent scene geometry during long camera moves by storing image features directly in a latent spatial memory rather than expensive pixel-based 3D point clouds.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic publishes chemistry research showing Claude can read NMR spectra: Anthropic released its first research paper from a new effort with world-class synthetic, computational, and analytical chemists to make Claude better at chemistry.
[NEWS] Canadian PM Carney warns Anthropic ban exposes danger of US AI dependence: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the US export ban blocking foreign access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 underscores the risk of overreliance on a small set of American AI providers.
[NEWS] UK bans social media for under-16s, restricts AI companion chatbots: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a total social media ban for children under 16, set to take effect from early next year.
[NEWS] OpenAI launches Partner Network with $150M to accelerate enterprise AI: OpenAI launched the OpenAI Partner Network, committing $150M to help global consulting and systems integrator partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.
[TOOLS] Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format standardizes AI agent context as Markdown: Google Cloud introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a v0.1 spec that represents organizational knowledge as a directory of Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, linked through standard Markdown links to form a knowledge graph.
[RESEARCH] SWE-Explore benchmark exposes coding agents' code-search blindspot: An international research team led by Shanghai Jiao Tong University released SWE-Explore, a benchmark that isolates the code-search phase of AI coding agents from the bug-fixing step.
[NEWS] Ant Group tests AI agent interface for billion-user Alipay app: Ant Group is testing a major overhaul of its Alipay super app that introduces an AI agent interface, marking a significant escalation in its battle for users with Tencent's WeChat.

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