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Salesforce is buying Fin in a $3.6 billion deal that gives Agentforce a proven AI customer service engine with real enterprise adoption.
Salesforce is buying Fin, the AI customer service platform formerly known as Intercom, in a $3.6 billion deal that brings autonomous agent technology to its fast-growing Agentforce platform.
Fox Corporation announced a definitive agreement to acquire Roku for approximately $22 billion in cash and stock on June 15, 2026 — combining Fox's live sports and news rights with Roku's 100 million household platform to create the third-largest U.S. TV network by viewing share.
OpenAI announced the OpenAI Partner Network today, backed by $150 million and structured across three tiers — Select, Advanced, and Elite. The program targets 300,000 certified consultants by year-end and includes Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey at launch.
Salesforce announced today it will acquire Fin — the AI customer service platform formerly known as Intercom — for $3.6 billion cash. The deal absorbs an agent that already resolves 76% of support tickets end-to-end into the Agentforce platform.
Google's Chrome 150, due June 30, strips the final flag keeping Manifest V2 extensions alive. uBlock Origin's 40 million Chrome users have weeks to find an alternative.
The Trump administration invoked national security authority on June 13 to block foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's two newest models — and Anthropic, unable to filter by nationality, disabled them for everyone.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will formally announce a ban on social media platforms for children under 16 on Monday, June 16 — putting the UK on a path that Australia pioneered in late 2024.
A joint operation by the FBI, Google, and Black Lotus Labs has dismantled Outsider Enterprise, a Chinese phishing-as-a-service platform that stole 3.8 million credit card records and caused an estimated $1.9 billion in losses through AI-generated smishing attacks.
SpaceX went public on June 12, 2026, on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, selling 555.6 million shares at $135 each to raise $75 billion — the largest IPO in history, surpassing Saudi Aramco's 2019 record and valuing Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company at $1.77 trillion.
Chinese cyberespionage group Velvet Ant compromised an isolated critical infrastructure network in 2016 and remained undetected for a decade — by replacing Linux PAM and OpenSSH binaries with backdoored versions that embedded persistent access into the authentication process itself.
Following a U.S. government directive citing security concerns, Anthropic suspended access to its newest AI models for all foreign nationals — including its own international employees. The move landed days after Anthropic announced a major enterprise partnership in India, reigniting a global debate over AI sovereignty.