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On June 26, 2026, AI‑native HR and payroll platform Warp announced a $60 million Series B round led by Battery Ventures, with Peak XV, Sound Ventures and Y Combinator participating. The New York‑based startup says it doubled ARR in Q1 and expects to process over $2 billion in payroll volume this year as it automates multi‑state payroll, tax and benefits workflows using AI agents.
At its Build 2026 developer conference on June 2, Microsoft announced a new in‑house reasoning model, MAI‑Thinking‑1, alongside a family of MAI models for code, images, transcription and voice. The company also debuted the Microsoft IQ context layer, a strengthened agent platform and new AI‑optimized hardware such as the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box.
On May 28, 2026, Korea Investment Accelerator and Korea Investment Partners announced a joint hackathon in Seoul with US AI firms Anthropic and Replit called “Push to Prod Seoul.” The event brings Anthropic’s Claude‑based Push to Prod series to Korea after runs in India, Singapore and Helsinki, aiming to support startups building with AI coding agents.([newspim.com](https://www.newspim.com/news/view/20260528000768?utm_source=openai))