The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously cleared the No Fakes Act by voice vote on Thursday, creating a legal right for individuals to authorize use of their voice and likeness in AI-generated conte…
Squeez Labs demonstrated CrankGPT, a fully offline, hand-cranked AI voice assistant built on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM and a 20W generator, running local LLMs via llama.cpp. The device boots in 30…
Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett announced the formation of a national AI advisory committee to develop long-term policy recommendations in innovation, education, regulation, and security…
A Search Engine Journal article reports that feeding the same query to a search engine and a large language model produces numerically similar but fundamentally different metrics, as search indexes ma…
Ahrefs published a guide defining AI agents as software that pursues goals and completes tasks on a user's behalf, distinguishing them from LLMs and chatbots. The article explains the agent loop—Perce…
Tenet Security emerged from stealth with $6 million in seed funding to address runtime security for autonomous AI agents. The round was led by The Westly Group with MizMaa Ventures participating. The …
Students from Jerusalem College of Technology's women's programs presented AI-powered projects at a hackathon addressing tumor tracking in medical imaging and risk assessment in public safety. The stu…
The US government issued an export control directive on June 12 suspending access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models for all foreign nationals, prompting Anthropic to disable the models for al…
Dream, a sovereign AI infrastructure startup, raised $260 million in a funding round co-led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11, reaching a $3 billion valuation. The company, founded by former NSO Group C…
Pure Storage is using autonomous infrastructure to give AI agents live access to enterprise data across on-prem, cloud and SaaS repositories, mapping data endpoints into a knowledge map tied to config…
Enterprises are accumulating orphaned AI agents—autonomous tools left running after their creators depart—and standing privileges that increase attack surface, according to The Hacker News. Compromise…
Adobe is launching a redesigned Firefly AI studio and expanded Firefly assistant capabilities in a private beta starting today, introducing Elements for saving reusable characters and objects and Proj…
Zyter announced its inclusion in Gartner's June 2026 report on agentic AI use cases, highlighting the company's platform that coordinates specialized AI agents with governance and human oversight for …
ZenaTech, Inc. announced Zoo Office, a unified AI-powered enterprise productivity platform combining productivity tools, operational workflows, and agentic AI capabilities, with a private beta program…
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…
Socket Security researchers discovered that malicious PyPI packages in the Hades wave of the Mini Shai-Hulud/Miasma supply chain campaign embed fake CBRN-themed text in JavaScript block comments to tr…
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 …
Imperial College London hosted the seminar "Maritime Innovation Outlook: Resilience and Future Readiness" at Posidonia 2026, featuring discussions on AI, decarbonisation, and digital transformation in…
Artisan released Ava 2.0, a second-generation autonomous AI BDR rebuilt from the ground up. CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack demonstrated a campaign that sent 7,000 emails with a 3.6% positive response rate…
HSBC announced a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to deploy AI across its global operations, targeting hyper-personalized wealth management, financial crime risk management, and tools for fron…