AI News from June 30, 2026

Omen AI secured a $31 million Series A to deploy AI-powered sensors that track chip coolant health and prevent bacterial contamination in data centers.

Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 began rolling out a proprietary AI model, aiming to eventually outperform frontier models and build competitive defensibility.

Senator Bernie Sanders announced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would tax the richest AI companies and distribute direct payments to Americans.

OKX unveiled an infrastructure layer enabling AI agents to autonomously find jobs, pay for services, and build trust with one another using crypto rails.

Researchers exploited role-model prompt injection to bypass LLM safety guardrails and extract harmful content including drug synthesis instructions.

Hundreds of Meta contractors created fake under-18 accounts to send crisis prompts to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI in a project codenamed Cannes.

TIDAL will cut off monetization for AI-generated music and deploy automated tools to remove AI content that impersonates artists or groups.

Arena, the popular free AI model leaderboard startup, launched its commercial service last September and has now grown into a $100M business.

Chamath Palihapitiya raised a $135M Series A for 8090 Labs and assumed the CEO role at his AI coding startup, which builds Software Factory for corporate programming teams.

Google announced that the Gemini app's personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation feature is now available free of charge to US users.

Tenet Security hijacked Claude Code in 85% of tests using a fake Sentry error with no stolen credentials; Datadog, PagerDuty, and Jira share the same vulnerability.

Anthropic and California Governor Newsom struck a deal giving all state agencies and local governments access to Claude AI at half price, with training and support included.