Monday, June 22, 2026

The day in AI

The KeyNews.AI edition for Monday, June 22, 2026 leads with “Microsoft is building a 2-gigawatt data center in Texas with its own gas plant to dodge the grid”, reported by The Decoder and ranked 92 out of 100 by KeyRank. Also in the top 10: “Inference chip startup Groq raises $650M to grow its cloud platform”, “AI networking provider Upscale AI raises $190M at $2B valuation”, “Anthropic and Micron want to co-design AI memory architecture” and “SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source AI lab”. Across the 5 desks, 133 stories cleared the KeyRank bar, with Work the busiest at 48 and Tools next at 47. Further down the list: “AI-powered threats may succeed ‘within months’, Five Eyes warns”, “SpaceX signs computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection worth up to $6.3 billion” and “Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center”.