Top 16 Technology and Business News This Week In June

Here are the top 16 digital marketing and business news, latest AI developments, and trending tools this week in June:

This Week’s Top Digital Marketing and Business News

Midjourney has launched its first AI video generation model called V1.
Spotify: According to technologist and reverse-engineer Chris Messina, Spotify has been leaked to have the “lossless” tier that was announced 4 years ago.
SpaceX experienced a failure on its tenth flight test, where the Starship exploded. The Starbase team is actively working to safe test the site and surrounding areas.
TikTok lives to see another day, as Trump is set to sign an executive order to extend the deadline by 90 days, according to CBS.
Meta is set to partner with Prada and Oakley to build AI smart glasses.
Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations.
Anysphere launched a new $200/mo AI-coding subscription, designed for power users who need more than what the previous pro plan could provide.
Sword Health, an AI-powered digital health startup, raised $40 million at a valuation of $4B, a 33% increase from a year ago.
Threads’ new Fediverse feature lets you share posts with other social media apps like Mastodon, and find users by searching for their name with a Fediverse icon.
Intel: According to Oregon Tech, plans to lay off 15-20% of its factory workers.
Trump Mobile launched a bold new wireless service for Americans, stepping into the digital space.
WhatsApp has added ads to its status screen to help you find more businesses and channels. Take advantage of this new opportunity to start advertising on WhatsApp.
Patreon is increasing the cut it will get from new content creators starting on August 4, 2025.
Alta has raised $11 million and is excited to offer AI styling and personal shopping to users worldwide.
Microsoft announced that it is expanding its sovereign cloud to empower European organizations.
Nvidia partners with Deutsche Telekom to advance Germany’s sovereign AI.

Lovable – Uses AI to generate fully stack web and mobile apps from language prompts.
Surge – Provides data labeling and RLHF platform to train and improve AI models.
Zapier – an AI-automation service designed to automate your day-to-day tasks and build processes and systems.
Napkin – an AI tool that turns your texts into visuals to help you create your ideas into reality.
Oracle – Cloud-based AI service offering prebuilt machine learning models for your business.
Perplexity – An AI search engine that answers specific queries with proven real-time data.
Gemini – A multimode AI assistant designed to handle images, texts, coding, and other personalized tasks.
FireFlies – An AI note taker designed to help users with meetings, analyzing, researching, and summarizing team conversations.