June 26, 2026

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Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover: The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering as users are increasingly handing over the reins of their email to the agents. Read More

The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns: OpenAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of with the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to. Read More

Polymarket says hackers stole users' funds: The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach. Read More

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Anthropic's Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT: Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows. Read More

Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that: Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others. Read More

Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents: Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says. Read More

Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x: Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems. Read More

General Intuition's $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world: General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Rippling now wants to be your entire data stack: "There were employees doing things like, 'Claude is so helpful for me — it analyzes my calendar and my email and puts together a plan for me,'" he says. "That person was spending at a run rate of $30,000 a year for this." Read More

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