DeepL Acquires Real-Time Audio Startup Mixhalo to Push AI Translation Into Live Events

As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay.

New partnership brings on-device deepfake detection to video calls on desktop SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2026 — Scam.ai today announced a partnership with Qualcomm and the launch of Halo, an on-device deepfake detection model for live video calls. Both announcements were made at Computex 2026 in Taipei, where Scam.ai was featured at Qualcomm’s booth as […] The post Scam.ai Announces Qualcomm Partnership, Launches Halo Deepfake Detection Model at Computex 2026 appeared first on AI News.

San Francisco-based company announces ‘limited preview’ of new models with powerful cyber security capabilities

SAN FRANCISCO and PALO ALTO, Calif., June 24, 2026 — OpenAI and Broadcom today unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first Intelligence Processor: an accelerator architected around OpenAI’s vision for the future of […] The post OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil LLM-Optimized Intelligence Processor appeared first on AIwire.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2026 — Upbound, the company behind Crossplane, today released Modelplane, an open source control plane for AI inference fleets. Modelplane is designed to do for AI […] The post Upbound Launches Modelplane: The Open Source Control Plane for AI Inference appeared first on AIwire.

“A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions.“ | Image: Midjourney Medical Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company's first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the "cat pictures" produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney Scanner, it's an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical slices of the inside of your body, looking at the composition of your muscle, fat, bone, and organs to start. Holz said ideally, you could do this once a year or every single day, as it "aims for image quality comparable to MRI in many ways." He mentioned that one way he'd like to use it would be to see how h … Read the full story at The Verge.

Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explain why they try to include “a little chaos” when they record their New York Times tech podcast in front of a crowd in San Francisco.

With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.