Top Tech News Today, June 18, 2026

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It’s Thursday, June 18, 2026, and the AI boom has moved from theoretical to real, rewriting everything from your next phone bill to global power dynamics. What began as a race to build smarter chatbots is now reshaping corporate balance sheets, driving trillion-dollar market bets, raising hardware costs, redrawing the global chip industry, and forcing governments to decide who controls the future of search, data, and computing. Today’s biggest stories point to the same conclusion: AI is no longer a product category. It’s becoming the infrastructure layer of the global economy. Elsewhere, Anthropic overtook OpenAI in revenue run rate while…

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