Runway's AI Festival at Lincoln Center on June 11 screened 10 AI-generated short films, with the $50,000 Grand Prix awarded to Robert Gaudette, a Toronto nonprofit worker with no formal film training,…
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg said the legal AI startup's monthly token usage surged from 1 trillion in January to 12-13 trillion in May, reflecting explosive demand for its AI document tools. Weinberg …
Ariba Mobin Khan, a 37-year-old marketing copywriter and mother of three in Lahore, Pakistan, relies on AI tools including Claude, Google Gemini, and Grok to manage her corporate job and three side hu…
Alex Mashrabov's AI video startup Higgsfield claims a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million in September 2025, as it raises a Series B round driven by inbound investor interest. The compa…
OpenAI researcher Karan Singhal is leading efforts to improve ChatGPT's health advice, as the company reports over 230 million weekly users seeking health guidance. Singhal, who joined OpenAI in mid-2…
Klarna Chief Marketing Officer David Sandström created an internal AI replica of himself for employees to vent during budget cuts, according to Business Insider and Entrepreneur. The tool, built on El…
AI pioneer Yann LeCun called Elon Musk's xAI 'kind of a failure,' citing difficulty hiring top talent and reliance on renting infrastructure to recoup costs. LeCun also warned that AI labs face a 'big…
Sebastian Kurz and Shalev Hulio's AI cybersecurity startup DREAM raised $260 million in Series C funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11. The company sells sovereign AI …
Higgsfield, an AI video startup, reported an annual revenue run rate of $500 million as of June 2026, up from $50 million in September 2025, and is now cash-flow positive. The company works with 390 F…
Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of the Gemini models, announced he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. Shazeer is a co-author of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly questioned trust in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a Bloomberg interview, saying 'why argue with someone when you don't have the same vision and you don't trust them?…
Shoe company Allbirds is changing its name to Smartbird and pivoting to AI infrastructure, appointing former AWS quantum computing head Nadia Carlsten as CEO. The company sold its manufacturing equipm…
Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming warns that outsourcing thinking to AI could weaken cognitive reserve, the brain's defense against dementia, especially in young people. She compares AI chatbots to GPS, ci…
Morning Consult reported that seven out of 10 major AI brands saw year-over-year declines in net trust scores, while Google's Gemini improved by six points to a net trust score of 24. Nostalgic brands…
Companies are imposing token limits on AI usage as workplace adoption surges, with Pylon CEO Marty Kausas reporting a potential $1.4 million bill after scaling an Anthropic plan toward 150 employees. …
Crosby, a legal-tech startup, released the Redline Bench to evaluate AI models on contract-review tasks such as redlining and risk-spotting. The benchmark addresses the challenge of defining correct o…
Talks between Microsoft and Oracle over a cloud-infrastructure leasing deal worth more than $3bn have collapsed due to Oracle's lack of FedRAMP certification, a US government security framework, accor…
Rainbow studio manager Phil Caraway warned freelance fashion models in June that the retailer had begun using AI to generate avatars and style products, stating that fewer people would be needed long-…
Fashion retailer Rainbow warned its models last June that AI would reduce the need for human workers, then began using AI-generated doppelgängers of the models in marketing images. Models reported few…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models were suspended globally around June 13, 2026, after a U.S. export-control directive ordered the company to cut off access for foreign nationals on nation…