AI News from June 21, 2026

Amazon MGM has dropped a Luca Guadagnino-directed film about the week Sam Altman was fired and rehired as OpenAI CEO in 2023.

Amazon workers who publicly backed data center regulations say they were called into HR meetings and face termination for their activism.

Midjourney announces a major expansion into medical AI, applying its generative AI technology to produce full-body ultrasound scans.

Barret Zoph has left OpenAI for the second time, just five months after rejoining from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab startup.

The Atlantic launches a public database exposing millions of music tracks used in AI training datasets, raising significant copyright concerns.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5, claiming top scores on SWE-bench coding and OSWorld computer use benchmarks, with major safety and alignment improvements.

Apple's iOS 27 introduces Apple Intelligence-powered bill splitting, enhanced Siri AI, and a range of updates to Maps, Wallet, and other core apps.

Former OpenAI employees launch 'In the Weights,' a tool that queries multiple AI models to measure how well they recall a person's existence from training data.

Signal's president Meredith Whittaker cautions users that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are surveillance tools, not trusted companions.

Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI and Nobel laureate John Jumper joins Anthropic, marking a historic AI talent exodus from Google DeepMind.