DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, June 19, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, June 19, 2026Today's briefing: OpenAI loads up on talent, hiring transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer and former White House AI policy official Dean Ball ahead of its IPO. Amazon moves to sell its Trainium chips, challenging Nvidia. Anthropic restricts its newest Claude models for foreign nationals under US export controls, igniting debate in India. xAI's Grok lands natively on Databricks Agent Bricks. Elastic acquires DeductiveAI for up to 85 million dollars. Snap spins off its AI video team as Dotmo. FERC fast-tracks grid connections for AI data centers. General Intuition raises near 300 million dollars with backing from Bezos and Schmidt. Adobe embeds agentic AI across Creative Cloud. Pixi brings AR characters to iMessage. Google unveils a Gemini-powered Home Speaker. And Y Combinator's spring Demo Day spotlights robotics and a truck-sized MRI startup.DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning.Send us fan mail#AINews #OpenAI #Nvidia #Google #DXToday