Amazon is testing its generative AI-powered assistant Alexa+ in India with Hindi support, inviting users to join a beta program by June 22. The company aims to tap the large Hindi-speaking market, tho…
Baden Bower's AI Visibility Index 2026, which tracked 12,040 citations across six AI engines, ranked Forbes first with a score of 92, followed by Business Insider. The study found that editorial outle…
A controlled study from IIT Delhi and Princeton found that citing sources, adding statistics, and quoting experts boosts AI search visibility by up to 40%, while keyword stuffing reduces it by 10%. Pe…
The U.S. Commerce Department sent an enforcement letter invoking an export-control directive that barred non-U.S. access to Anthropic's latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, leading Anthropic to dis…
A new Pew Research study found that only 16% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society, revealing a significant trust gap between Wall Street optimism and public skepticism. For s…
The Trump administration forced Anthropic to take its two newest AI models offline due to an export control order citing national security concerns, after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly raised conce…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI agents like Microsoft Copilot constitute surveillance backdoors, citing their need for pervasive access to credit cards, mes…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots are not friends or conscious beings, cautioning against treating them as sentient interlocutors. She expressed concerns about granting syste…
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day saw investors gravitating toward startups that turn AI into durable control systems for defense, agent infrastructure, and healthcare, with some companies commandin…
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered six major grid operators to prioritize data center connections without adding new power supply, highlighting that AI's real bottleneck is ele…
A developer created a 40-line offline pre-gate script that triages agent spans with deterministic rules, escalating only uncertain cases to an expensive LLM judge. On one trace, this reduced the judge…
The US government forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over national security concerns after Amazon researchers found a jailbreak, but cybersecurity researchers and Anthropic ar…
The US government forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over national security concerns after Amazon researchers found a way to bypass Fable 5's guardrails. Cybersecurity researc…
Meta forced roughly 6,500 engineers into a new unit called Agent Data Optimization to manufacture training data for AI models, a move employees describe as soul-crushing and liken to a gulag. The invo…
Snap spun off its AI video team into a new company called Dotmo due to high costs, signaling that video generation remains the most expensive AI task. The move highlights the financial burden of AI vi…
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day featured standout startups including 9 Mothers, an AI-powered counter-drone system valued at over $200 million, and other companies in defense tech, robotics, AI in…
Snap co-founder and CTO Bobby Murphy is personally investing in Dotmo, a new company spun out of Snap's generative AI video team to build models for interactive gaming experiences. Snap will license t…
Snap is spinning off its internal generative AI video team into a new company called Dotmo, citing high costs of internal development. Dotmo will focus on AI models for interactive gaming, with Snap r…
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…
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…