AI News for June 24, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate inside Slack: Anthropic launched Claude Tag, embedding Claude directly inside Slack as a shared teammate that anyone can delegate work to by typing @Claude.
[NEWS] Abu Dhabi's MGX raises about $50B to accelerate AI deals: Abu Dhabi's MGX raised close to $50 billion from regional and global investors to fund AI infrastructure and technology spending.
[NEWS] AI legal startup Legion sues US government over loss of Anthropic Fable 5: Legion, a US legal-tech firm that employs Canadian nationals working remotely, sued the federal government in Washington over an order requiring Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.
[TOOLS] Krea releases open-weight image models that generate in 2 seconds: AI creative startup Krea opened the weights to its frontier image model in two versions, Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo, available for download on Hugging Face under a custom license.
[TOOLS] Mistral releases OCR 4 with bounding boxes and 170-language support: Mistral released OCR 4, an open document model that returns bounding boxes, typed-block classification, and inline confidence scores alongside extracted text.
[NEWS] Menlo Ventures raises $3B for AI startups, its largest fund ever: Menlo Ventures raised $3 billion to back AI startups, the biggest fundraise in the firm's 50-year history.
[NEWS] Probook raises $40M from a16z and Sequoia for home-services AI: Probook raised $40 million to apply AI to dispatch and operations for plumbers, electricians, and HVAC crews, splitting a $34 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and a $6 million seed led by Sequoia Capital.
[RESEARCH] GPT-5 Pro cracks a 3-year-old immunology mystery about T cells: GPT-5 Pro helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a three-year-old mystery, generating insights into T cell behavior that could support cancer and autoimmune research.
[TOOLS] ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second AI videos in one clip: ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at Volcano Engine's FORCE conference, a video model launching in early July that generates single clips up to 30 seconds long without post-stitching, complete with scene changes and tempo shifts.
[TOOLS] Cursor unveils its own from-scratch AI model, a Git platform, and a mobile app: Cursor detailed its first fully self-trained AI model, built from scratch with no open-source base and using 10 to 20 times more compute than previous Cursor models.

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