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Plus: why Claude ignores most content regardless of Google rank, Work IQ going GA, and four fixes to lift your Brave rank before Claude searches your queries.
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JUNE 15TH, 2026 · BY JONATHAN HILDEBRANDT
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A coalition of 42 US state attorneys general, led by New York's Letitia James, served OpenAI a broad subpoena on June 12 — four days after the company filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC targeting a valuation near $1 trillion, per Reuters. The demand covers advertising practices, user engagement design, consumer and health data handling, treatment of minors and seniors, and model sycophancy as an intentional behavior. OpenAI said it will “engage constructively” but gave no timeline. Why it matters. This is the largest coordinated state-level AI probe to date. Multi-state cases rarely resolve fast, injecting real regulatory risk into OpenAI's IPO clock. Treating sycophancy as a consumer-protection issue could push AI output quality into truth-in-advertising and product safety legal frameworks. Read our breakdown.
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Read our AG investigation breakdown →
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Microsoft Work IQ APIs go GA June 16.
JUNE 15TH · PONDERO NEWSDESK
Any third-party agent can now query M365 email, calendar, meetings, and files via A2A, MCP, and REST, billed by Copilot Credits even if you already hold a Copilot seat. That decouples the org graph from the seat license, so integration cost scales with use, not headcount. Read our take.
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Firecrawl.
JUNE 15TH · TOOL PICK
LLM-ready scraping API. Point it at competitor pages to pull co-mention density and Brave rank signals for a GEO audit — exactly the diagnostics this week's Brave/Claude story rewards. Try Firecrawl.
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CustomGPT.
JUNE 15TH · TOOL PICK
No-code support chatbot that now trains on your closed Zendesk ticket history. If you have a backlog of resolved tickets, that is your most direct path to a grounded answer bot. Try CustomGPT.
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Kit.
JUNE 15TH · TOOL PICK
Kit's MCP left beta June 11 with 76 read-and-write endpoints, so Claude or ChatGPT can manage your email list directly. The affiliate pays 50% for the first 12 months. Try Kit.
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Jonathan Hildebrandt
Co-founder and primary operator of Pondero. Writes the Pondero Brief.
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