Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Sunday, June 14, 2026

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Meta Picks Up Voice Startup Play AI as It Rebuilds Around GenAI

Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup known for ultra-realistic and emotionally rich voice generation, as part of its broader push to build its AI infrastructure. According to an ...Full Article

Apple’s Interest in Perplexity Hints at Growing AI Urgency

Apple is quietly weighing what could be one of its biggest moves in artificial intelligence so far, with a potential acquisition of Perplexity AI. The fast-growing startup has built ...Full Article

OpenAI’s $3 Billion Windsurf Deal Hints at Bigger AI Ambitions

OpenAI has agreed upon a deal to acquire Windsurf, an AI-powered coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for $3 billion, according to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg. While the ...Full Article

CoreWeave Aims to Expand AI Capabilities with Weights & Biases Acquisition

CoreWeave, a cloud-based AI infrastructure company offering GPU cloud services to simplify AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, has deepened its foothold in the AI development space by reaching ...Full Article