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Tech & AI Daily — Thursday, June 18, 2026
SOXL surged +3.39% on a Dell'Oro report showing data center semiconductor revenue up 116% year-over-year, while QQQ and growth ETFs slipped ahead of Kevin Warsh's debut Fed rate decision. • DeepSeek avoided a US blacklist but over 100 other Chinese AI firms face new sanctions, drawing a sharper line in the escalating tech cold war. • Midjourney pivoted from generative art to medical AI, launching a full-body ultrasound scanning product and instantly raising questions about FDA oversight and clinical safety. • DeepSeek added multimodal vision capabilities, putting Chinese open-weight AI in…
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