The 10 most important AI stories of June 15, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Chipmaking giant Nvidia Corp. sold $25 billion of high-grade bonds, joining a wave of jumbo debt offerings from tech heavyweights as investors clamor to get exposure to the artificial intelligence boom.
Qualcomm has been in talks to acquire Tenstorrent, a startup designing AI chips, for roughly $8 billion to $10 billion, according to The Information. Tenstorrent had discussed raising about $800 million at a roughly $3.2 billion valuation last year.
Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its enterprise platform for building custom AI agents that automate customer-service tasks.
Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in Bengaluru startup Sarvam, which builds sovereign-language AI models for India.
Ivanti research of 3,900 employees across six countries found 85% of IT professionals claim a named owner exists for every AI agent, but only 42% say ownership is actually clear, a 43-point governance gap.
A federal judge dismissed an xAI lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets, with prejudice.
Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Sakana Marlin, a B2B research agent that runs long-horizon reasoning jobs and can produce 100-page strategy reports in about eight hours.
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.
An Atlantic investigation found millions of songs by major artists were used to train AI music models, renewing copyright and consent debates.
For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased federal AI preemption legislation that would override state-by-state rules with one national standard. The latest push ties pro-industry language to child-safety bills in Congress as companies try to lock in favorable rules before more states pass their own AI laws.
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