# AI News Digest - 2026-06-18

1. Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD invested $310 million in Odyssey ML, valuing the world-model startup at $1.45 billion and securing additional backing from IQT and Google chief scientist Jeff Dean.

2. Nvidia, Carnegie Mellon University, and UC Berkeley demonstrated that robots could train themselves using AI coding agents, achieving up to 99% success on dexterous grasping tasks with a fleet of eight robots in real-world experiments.

3. Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2 under the MIT license with a stable one-million-token context and approached closed-source leaders on the FrontierSWE coding benchmark, trailing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 by one percentage point while remaining behind on reasoning tasks.

4. Epoch AI found that hyperscalers including Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle were growing AI infrastructure spending by about 70% annually while operating cash flow rose roughly 23%, projecting that spending could overtake cash flow as early as Q3 2026.

5. A Berlin court ruled that Google's AI Overviews constituted a new search result format rather than original content, finding that Google had no "decisive influence" over the generated summaries in the case.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/amazon-nvidia-and-amd-bet-310-million-on-ai-startup-building-3d-world-models/](https://the-decoder.com/amazon-nvidia-and-amd-bet-310-million-on-ai-startup-building-3d-world-models/)

[Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD bet $310 million on AI startup building 3D world models](https://the-decoder.com/amazon-nvidia-and-amd-bet-310-million-on-ai-startup-building-3d-world-models/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-research-shows-robots-that-train-themselves-through-ai-coding-agents/](https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-research-shows-robots-that-train-themselves-through-ai-coding-agents/)

[Nvidia research shows robots that train themselves through AI coding agents](https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-research-shows-robots-that-train-themselves-through-ai-coding-agents/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/zhipu-ais-glm-5-2-closes-in-on-closed-source-leaders-in-coding-marathons/](https://the-decoder.com/zhipu-ais-glm-5-2-closes-in-on-closed-source-leaders-in-coding-marathons/)

[Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 closes in on closed-source leaders in coding marathons](https://the-decoder.com/zhipu-ais-glm-5-2-closes-in-on-closed-source-leaders-in-coding-marathons/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/hyperscalers-may-soon-be-unable-to-fund-their-ai-buildout-from-cash-flow-alone/](https://the-decoder.com/hyperscalers-may-soon-be-unable-to-fund-their-ai-buildout-from-cash-flow-alone/)

[Hyperscalers may soon be unable to fund their AI buildout from cash flow alone](https://the-decoder.com/hyperscalers-may-soon-be-unable-to-fund-their-ai-buildout-from-cash-flow-alone/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/berlin-court-rules-googles-ai-overviews-are-just-a-new-search-format-not-original-content/](https://the-decoder.com/berlin-court-rules-googles-ai-overviews-are-just-a-new-search-format-not-original-content/)

[Berlin court rules Google's AI Overviews are just a new search format, not original content](https://the-decoder.com/berlin-court-rules-googles-ai-overviews-are-just-a-new-search-format-not-original-content/)

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