AI News for June 23, 2026 — 7min.ai

[RESEARCH] Five Eyes warn AI that can take down governments is months away: The signals-intelligence agencies of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada issued a rare joint statement urging business and political leaders to "act now" on AI-driven cyber threats.
[NEWS] WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart out; Meta bets $900M on Cred founder as replacement: Will Cathcart is stepping down after seven years leading WhatsApp, with Mark Zuckerberg announcing Kunal Shah, founder of Indian fintech startup Cred, as his replacement.
[NEWS] SpaceX inks $6.3B compute deal with open-source lab Reflection AI: Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150 million a month from July 2026 through 2029 for GB300 chips at the Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, a contract worth up to $6.3 billion.
[NEWS] Google DeepMind invests $75M in A24 to build AI film tools: Google DeepMind is taking a roughly $75 million stake in indie studio A24, its first investment in a film studio, to co-develop AI tools for movie production.
[RESEARCH] Study: AI out-persuades expert humans across 18,978 conversations: AI systems were reliably more persuasive than expert humans in four preregistered experiments involving 18,978 conversations and 6,923 people, researchers from Oxford, the UK AI Security Institute, Stanford, and LSE found.
[NEWS] Baseten's $1.5B Series F officially closes, co-led by Altimeter: Baseten closed its $1.5 billion Series F round at a $13 billion valuation, co-led by Altimeter.
[NEWS] Oracle cut 21,000 jobs in 12 months, citing AI for some roles: Oracle eliminated 21,000 jobs over the past year, a 13% workforce reduction and deeper than previously known, disclosing in an annual SEC filing that AI adoption "resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce." It is the clearest dollar figure yet on a pattern of companies posting record revenue while culling staff and naming AI as the cause.
[NEWS] Micron and Anthropic strike deal to co-design AI memory: Micron and Anthropic signed a four-part agreement to jointly design memory architectures for AI workloads, a multi-year supply contract for Micron data center products, a rollout of Claude inside Micron, and a Micron investment in Anthropic's Series H round.
[RESEARCH] Sakana AI launches Fugu to match Fable and Mythos by orchestration: Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-LLM orchestration system that delivers frontier-level results through a single OpenAI-compatible API.
[NEWS] Meta pauses keystroke-tracking AI training program after leak: Meta paused its mandatory Model Capability Initiative after a leak made sensitive training data accessible across the entire company.

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