AI News for June 16, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Salesforce buys AI customer service firm Fin for $3.6B to boost Agentforce: Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fin, the AI customer service platform formerly known as Intercom, for $3.6B.
[NEWS] Nvidia raises at least $20B in first bond sale since 2021, orders top $85B: Nvidia kicked off its first investment-grade bond offering since 2021, marketing seven tranches with maturities from two to 30 years.
[NEWS] Microsoft turns to AWS for GitHub capacity as AI commits surge 14x: Microsoft is adding compute capacity from Amazon Web Services to GitHub to handle AI-driven load, despite plans to fully migrate GitHub to Azure by 2027.
[RESEARCH] Loft Orbital satellite runs Gemma 3 in orbit, finds targets on its own: An Earth observation satellite identified targets autonomously using a vision-language model running onboard in April, the first reported use of a VLM in orbit.
[NEWS] Alibaba launches Qwen Robot Suite, its first AI models for physical robots: Alibaba's Tongyi Lab introduced the Qwen Robot Suite on Tuesday, the company's first AI model family for embodied AI applications.
[TOOLS] Sakana AI launches Marlin, a 'Virtual CSO' that runs 8-hour research loops: Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched its first commercial product, Marlin, an autonomous B2B research agent that runs continuous reasoning loops for up to eight hours to produce 100-page strategy reports and executive slides.
[NEWS] 1.5M Pentagon workers now use GenAI.mil daily, up from 80,000 in six months: The Department of Defense's generative AI platform GenAI.mil has grown from fewer than 100,000 users six months ago to 1.5 million daily users, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael told the Hudson Institute.
[NEWS] Sarvam becomes India's newest AI unicorn with $234M led by HCLTech: Bengaluru-based Sarvam raised $234M at a $1.5B valuation, with $150M from lead investor HCLTech and participation from Bessemer, Khosla Ventures, and Peak XV.
[RESEARCH] UK AI Security Institute alumni launch Sequent to chase $100M-$150M for alignment: Researchers from the UK AI Security Institute's alignment team and alignment-theory startup Timaeus formed Sequent, a new nonprofit research organization targeting superintelligence safety.
[NEWS] Radical Numerics raises $50M to teach AI the language of biology: Radical Numerics emerged from stealth with a $50M seed led by Emergence Capital, with Obvious Ventures, Triatomic, Factory, and First Spark participating.

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