[ This week in AI ]
Week of June 8, 2026
The week's most significant primary-source updates, ranked across 55 stories from 6 labs. Every link goes to the original source.
- 01
OpenAI Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network
OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.
· Releases· Infra & hardware - 02 OpenAI
New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work
OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.
· Releases· Agents - 03 OpenAI
How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning
Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.
· Releases - 04
Google DeepMind Investing in multi-agent AI safety research
Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.
· Releases· Agents· Research - 05 OpenAI
From data to decisions: how LSEG is scaling trusted AI
See how LSEG uses OpenAI to scale trusted AI across its global business, accelerating insights, shrinking release cycles, and empowering 4,000 employees.
· Releases· Infra & hardware - 06
NVIDIA AI NVIDIA Achieves Leading Agentic Coding Performance on First Agentic AI Benchmark
AI agents have fundamentally changed the complexity of inference workloads. Until now, the industry has struggled to define a standard for measuring how...
· Agents· Infra & hardware· Research - 07 NVIDIA AI
NVIDIA Blackwell Leads on First Agentic AI Infrastructure Benchmark
AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare systems for agentic AI. In the first round of published results, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra NVL72 platform delivers leading performance across the agentic AI workloads tested, running 20x more agents per megawatt than NVIDIA […]
· Agents· Infra & hardware· Research - 08 NVIDIA AI
NVIDIA Accelerates Google DeepMind’s DiffusionGemma for Local AI
Today, Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma — an experimental open model built for exceptionally fast text generation. NVIDIA has optimized DiffusionGemma to run even faster across NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, the NVIDIA RTX PRO platform and NVIDIA DGX Spark systems, from local PCs to the cloud. Rather than generating text one word at a time, DiffusionGemma generates multiple words in parallel to output whole blocks of text, opening a new, low-latency frontier for the kind of single-user workload
· Releases· Infra & hardware