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AI Daily Brief — 24 June 2025

A heavy-news Tuesday. Anthropic announced its first APAC office in Tokyo. Salesforce shipped Agentforce 3 with native Model Context Protocol support. Google DeepMind dropped Gemini Robotics On-Device, the first vision-language-action model in the Gemini Robotics family optimized to run locally on a robot. Microsoft-OpenAI partnership tensions hit “nuclear option” headlines, and the Israel-Iran ceasefire took effect.

Top stories

  • Anthropic announces first APAC office in Tokyo. Opening autumn 2025, citing 10x year-over-year regional revenue growth. Former Snowflake Japan president Hidetoshi Tojo will lead the subsidiary; a Japanese-localized Claude is planned. via Anthropic
  • Salesforce launches Agentforce 3. New Command Center for observability, built-in MCP support for plug-and-play agent interoperability, 100+ prebuilt industry actions, 50% lower latency since January, and rollout to Canada, UK, India, Japan, Brazil with six new languages. via Salesforce
  • Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics On-Device. First VLA model in the Gemini Robotics family optimized to run locally on a robot, built on Gemini 2.0, with fine-tuning available from 50-100 demonstrations. Ported beyond ALOHA to Franka FR3 and Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid. Tested on seven dexterous tasks (zipping a lunchbox, dealing a card, pouring salad dressing). via Google DeepMind
  • Microsoft-OpenAI tensions hit “nuclear option” headlines. Computerworld synthesized reporting: OpenAI executives discussing federal antitrust complaints against Microsoft over the $13B partnership; Microsoft considering walking away from talks and relying on the existing contract through 2030. The two sides reportedly $100B apart on equity stake (20% vs 49%). via Computerworld
  • Israel-Iran ceasefire takes effect. A US-mediated ceasefire ending the 12-Day War took effect; Trump publicly accused both sides of violations within hours. The cooling stabilized oil and AI infrastructure equities after a week of selloffs. via NPR
  • Imagen 4 + Imagen 4 Ultra in Gemini API paid preview. $0.04/image and $0.06/image respectively; both also in limited free testing on AI Studio. The big upgrade over Imagen 3 is text rendering inside images. via Google Developers Blog

Who shipped

Anthropic shipped an APAC HQ. Salesforce shipped Agentforce 3. Google DeepMind shipped on-device robotics. Google‘s Imagen 4 family hit paid preview.

Open-source pulse

The Bartz ruling continued to dominate AI legal coverage. Plaintiffs’ bar quickly identified the “shadow library strategy” as the new template for AI copyright suits.

Money, infra & hardware

VentureBeat’s VB Transform 2025 conference opened in San Francisco (June 24-25) — an Innovation Showcase of seven enterprise GenAI startups (CTGT, Catio, Kumo AI, Solo.io, others) pitched to ~600 enterprise decision-makers and VCs, underscoring mid-2025 enterprise-AI adoption momentum.

Quiet corners

Tesla’s June 22 Austin robotaxi launch drew NHTSA scrutiny over multiple incidents — wrong-side-of-the-road driving, phantom braking, traffic violations — widely covered on Tuesday. Vertex AI deprecated Imagen 1 and 2 image-generation endpoints plus legacy vision endpoints effective the same day.

By the numbers

  • 10x — Anthropic’s APAC year-over-year revenue growth (driving Tokyo office)
  • 50% — Salesforce Agentforce 3 latency reduction since January
  • 50-100 — demonstrations needed to fine-tune Gemini Robotics On-Device to a new task
  • $13B — Microsoft-OpenAI partnership stake at issue in “nuclear option” reporting
  • $0.04 / $0.06 — Imagen 4 and Imagen 4 Ultra per-image API pricing

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 24 June 2025.