AI News for June 25, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first custom chip, built with Broadcom: OpenAI revealed Jalapeño, a custom accelerator co-designed with Broadcom and purpose-built for large language model inference rather than the general-purpose GPUs sold by Nvidia and AMD.
[NEWS] Anthropic accuses Alibaba of a massive distillation attack on Claude: Anthropic told US senators that Alibaba-affiliated operators ran 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April 22 and June 5, calling it the largest known distillation attack on its models.
[NEWS] Anti-regulation side wins NY-12, spending $27–29M to defeat AI safety champion Bores: Assemblyman Micah Lasher won New York's 12th congressional district primary with 39% in a crowded field, handing a clear victory to the pro-deregulation camp backed by OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz executives.
[TOOLS] Google adds native computer use to Gemini 3.5 Flash: Google made computer use a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, delivering its best performance yet on agentic computer-use tasks.
[NEWS] Micron forecast crushes estimates as AI memory crunch sends shares soaring: Micron projected fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of roughly $49 billion to $51 billion, far above Wall Street's $43.2 billion estimate, after third-quarter revenue quadrupled to $41.46 billion and profit jumped from $1.88 billion to $28.2 billion.
[NEWS] Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro launch to July: Google pushed back the launch of its next frontier model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, to July after previously targeting June, spending extra time gathering feedback from early testers and tuning the model.
[NEWS] SK Hynix plans $29 billion US listing to fund AI memory push: SK Hynix filed to raise up to 45.45 trillion won, about $29.4 billion, in a landmark US listing, with trading expected to start around July 10.
[NEWS] Qualcomm confirms $3.9B Modular acquisition to challenge Nvidia in data centers: Qualcomm confirmed it will acquire AI software company Modular for about $3.9 billion in stock, closing a deal reported as imminent a day earlier.
[NEWS] Agility Robotics to go public at $2.5 billion via SPAC: Humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics plans to go public through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI at roughly a $2.5 billion valuation, becoming the first humanoid-focused company to list in the US under ticker AGLT.
[NEWS] Two more Gemini researchers leave Google for Anthropic: Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, according to people familiar with the matter.

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