Midjourney Is Building Body Scanners in a Spa, OpenAI Poaches a Google Legend, Mythos Returns Soon

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 19th, 2026. Midjourney — the company known for turning text into surreal images — just revealed it’s building a full-body medical scanner that lowers users through an underwater ultrasound ring and maps the entire body in 60 seconds, wrapping the hardware in its own spa concept complete with saunas and cold plunges, with the first Midjourney Spa opening in San Francisco’s Union Square in 2027. OpenAI pulled off one of the biggest talent steals of the year, hiring Noam Shazeer away from Google — the co-author of the 2017 transformer paper that shaped nearly every modern AI system, and the researcher Google paid $2.7 billion to win back just two years ago from Character.AI. Plus, Anthropic’s chief commercial officer told reporters the company is “very confident” Mythos and Fable will be back online within days — and today’s community workflow comes from Kristin in Los Altos, who used Claude Code to build a scoring app for her classic Chinese mahjong students, and said the best moment was when her son saw it and looked at her with surprise and respect.