Figma announced code layers and AI plugin tools at Config 2026, enabling teams to clone repositories, convert components into editable code-backed layers, and build custom plugins via text prompts. Th…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the U.N. AI Environmental Transparency Initiative on June 23, calling on major AI companies to measure and publicly disclose their carbon, wa…
Indonesia plans to integrate artificial intelligence into its largest state initiatives, starting with a $15bn free-meal program for 83 million children and pregnant women, according to The Next Web. …
Prem AI announced multi-GPU confidential inference is now available in production through Fluso, its secure AI workspace for sensitive workloads. The move targets regulated industries needing hardware…
President Donald Trump told Axios he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat, saying the company has 'behaved very responsibly,' and indicated he would consider easing restrictions. Th…
China's State Council has approved a five-year employment plan for 2026-2030 that acknowledges AI and automation will eliminate jobs and mandates government intervention to prevent mass unemployment. …
Google's AI Overview is treating fictional entities from the SCP Foundation horror wiki as real, with no disclaimers. The AI's pattern-matching mistakes the wiki's deadpan bureaucratic style for factu…
Microsoft is shifting Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and testing a self-hosted version of DeepSeek V4 as a lower-cost alternative to Anthropic and OpenAI models, with a roughly 57x price gap pe…
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 …
The U.S. government ordered restrictions on access to frontier Anthropic models, prompting Anthropic to disable global access to its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, cutting off Indian developers …
China's State Council issued a 2026-2030 employment blueprint that orders research into a monitoring system to track how artificial intelligence creates and destroys jobs, using data such as industria…
Adobe on June 17 launched Adobe Brand Visibility, a tool combining Semrush AI data with Adobe content tools to help brands monitor their presence in AI-generated results across platforms like ChatGPT,…
Coherent broke ground on an expanded indium phosphide wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Coherent CEO Jim Anderson attending the June 16 ceremony. The facility, supported by…
CyCognito launched Kineto, a continuous AI pentesting capability that simulates multi-step attack chains across enterprise infrastructure. The platform uses AI agents to evaluate sequences of actions …
The US Commerce Department issued an export-control directive on June 12 requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals, prompting the compa…
Meta rolled out its proprietary foundation model Muse Spark in April after spending $14.3 billion to acquire Alexandr Wang and his Scale AI team, but the company has repeatedly delayed the public API …
FINQ's two AI-managed ETFs, AIUP and AINT, launched on NYSE Arca on February 5, 2026, have outperformed the S&P 500 since inception, with AIUP returning 15.30% and AINT returning 27.13% as of May 31, …
Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang urged startups to focus on lowering the cost of living as AI compresses wages and eliminates entry-level jobs. Yang cited his own company, Noble Mobile, which…
Google filed a civil lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime operation Outsider Enterprise, alleging the group used Gemini and other AI tools to generate phishing code and deploy scam text messages. The op…
Prometheus, a Jeff Bezos-backed startup, raised $12 billion in a funding round at a $41 billion valuation, with investors including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock. The company, which emp…