June 2026

OpenAI launched the Partner Network, a programme designed to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation. The company is investing $150m in the initiative, which aims to expand the reach of its AI tools beyond direct customers and into larger ecosystems of resellers, consultants, and systems integrators. Source The White House imposed

Anthropic has suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models following a government order issued on Friday evening citing national security concerns. The directive requires the company to block access to both models for all foreign nations and users, including Anthropic's own employees. To comply, Anthropic has completely cut off customer access to

SpaceX's initial public offering raised a record sum and saw shares rise 11 percent on their debut, paving the way for a wave of enormous offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The blockbuster stock market debut of Elon Musk's rocket company marks the largest IPO ever. Source Anthropic said it is taking its Claude Fable 5

Jeff Bezos's Prometheus, a physical AI startup, has raised $12 billion in a new funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Prometheus aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design through what it describes as an "artificial general engineer" for the physical world. Source Theker has raised $85 million to manufacture reconfigurable factory

A former engineer at xAI is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic initial public offering. The lawsuit claims the engineer was terminated in retaliation for flagging AI safety issues with the chatbot shortly before the company went public. Source Amazon borrowed $17.5