TechSambad Jun 15, 2026: Ecosystem Over Empire: Nadella's Loop-Heavy Warning

A curated roundup of the most impactful stories in AI, technology, and research — handpicked to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.

1 As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?

Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."

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2 As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future

Tech leaders debate whether the Anthropic episode is a wake-up call for India’s AI ambitions.

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3 Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand

Meta starts dismantling its $2 billion Manus acquisition after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.

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4 KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI.

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5 Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s...

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6 Learning to lead in a hybrid human-AI enterprise

As adoption of AI agents looks set to surge by as much as 300% in the next two years, leadership teams are carefully considering the implications of a hybrid human-AI...

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7 Five things you need to know about AI

At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in...

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8 Z.ai Launches GLM-5.2 With a Usable 1M-Token Context, Two Thinking-Effort Levels, and No Benchmarks at Launch

Z.ai launched GLM-5.2 on June 13, 2026, across every GLM Coding Plan tier. The headline is a usable 1-million-token context window plus High and Max effort levels. It drops into...

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9 Claude Code Guide 2026: 25 Features with Examples + Demo

Claude Code is a layered agentic coding tool, not a single chat prompt. This guide breaks down 25 features, from CLAUDE.md, skills, subagents, and hooks to MCP and Auto Mode....

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10 A Coding Hands-On on FineWeb for Streaming, Filtering, Deduplication, Tokenization, and Large-Scale Web Corpus Analytics

In this tutorial, we explore the FineWeb dataset through an advanced hands-on workflow. We stream a manageable sample of the dataset without downloading the full multi-terabyte corpus, inspect its schema...

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