Daily AI RoundupsTuesday, 23 June 2026

Deals and infrastructure set 23 June. Google DeepMind partnered with A24 on a reported $75M effort to build filmmaker-shaped AI tools, Baseten raised a $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation after 20x revenue growth and showed GLM-5.2 serving past 280 tokens/sec on NVIDIA Blackwell, and Micron announced an Anthropic pact covering AI memory, storage, Claude adoption and a Series H investment. On products, OpenAI expanded Daybreak with a Codex Security plugin and full GPT-5.5-Cyber, Google launched its Interactions API, and GitHub Copilot added a Claude provider preview plus org agents. NVIDIA detailed 2,300 Vera CPUs for Los Alamos and its Halos for Robotics safety stack.

• AI deals
• AI funding
• AI chips
• Model releases
• Dev tooling

Stories in this roundup

1. 01
   Google DeepMind and A24 launch reported $75M research partnership to build filmmaker-shaped AI toolsTECHCRUNCH
2. 02
   OpenAI expands Daybreak with Codex Security plugin and full GPT-5.5-Cyber for trusted defendersOPENAI
3. 03
   Baseten raises $1.5B Series F at $13B valuation after 20x revenue growthBASETEN
4. 04
   Baseten serves GLM-5.2 at 280+ tokens/sec on NVIDIA Blackwell via inference-stack optimizationsBASETEN
5. 05
   Micron announces Anthropic pact covering AI memory, storage, Claude adoption and Series H investmentMICRON
6. 06
   Google launches Interactions API as unified interface for Gemini models and agentsGOOGLE
7. 07
   A-Evolve-Training post-trains 30B Nemotron to 0.86 vs top human 0.87 via autonomous 4-round loopARXIV
8. 08
   Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Mission will include 2,300 NVIDIA Vera CPUs, with Veritas adding approximately 1,150NVIDIA
9. 09
   GitHub Copilot adds Claude provider preview, org agents and cloud agent GA for JetBrains IDEsGITHUB
10. 10
    GDPval-AA compares GLM-5.2 with Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash on 3 rendered briefsARTIFICIAL ANALYSIS
11. 11
    NVIDIA details Halos for Robotics safety stack for physical AI robots working around peopleNVIDIA