Alibaba.com reported that 71% of applicants to its CoCreate Pitch competition are solopreneurs, up from 40% last year, with 89% of solo founders citing AI tools as essential. The surge, driven by AI a…
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…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has added an enterprise authorization layer, addressing a key gap for organizations deploying AI agents in production. The update provides standardized protocol-level …
A non-peer-reviewed letter published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research on June 18, 2026, by Zablah, Molina, and Garcia-Loureiro benchmarks three smaller domain-specific LLMs against GPT-4 on…
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the 'American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act' on June 18, 2026, proposing a one-time 50% tax on the stock of the largest U.S. AI companies to create a public fund worth an…
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…
Aether AI, founded by UC San Diego professor Biwei Huang, announced a $20 million seed round led by MPCi to develop Causal World Models for robotics and physical AI, aiming to replace statistical corr…
A Stanford-led study of 3.4 million people and 4 million job applications found that AI hiring algorithms from a single vendor produced racial disparities, with 26% of Black applicants and 15% of Asia…
The Conversation reports that people are forming intimate relationships with AI companions, with one study finding 75% of respondents believe chatbots are conscious. A new philosophy paper argues that…
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…
The Joint Commission launched the Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare (RUAIH) certification in early June, a voluntary program recognizing healthcare organizations that demonstrate governance, data ma…
The Pennsylvania House passed House Bill 95, the Artificial Intelligence Transparency in Advertising Act, 124-78 on Wednesday, requiring businesses to disclose when AI generates or substantially modif…
Bell Canada (BCE) announced a collaboration with Cohere, Hypertec, and BUZZ High Performance Computing to host and operate AI models on Bell AI Fabric infrastructure, using compute capacity from Bell'…
Deutsche Bank's investment bank CIO Denis Roux said AI is slashing tech project timelines from two years to three to six months, and clearing backlogs in weeks instead of months. The bank has 9,000 te…
Alchemy launched AgentCard, a virtual Visa card and identity platform for AI agents that integrates with Visa Intelligent Commerce, provisioning a Visa payment token, email, phone number, and crypto w…
Leverate has selected WNSTN AI to enhance its AI Investments Assistant, adding a broker-focused conversational intelligence layer to improve platform engagement and client retention. The white-label A…
A KFF poll released Wednesday found that 29% of U.S. adults now use AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude for health advice monthly, nearly double the share from June 2024. The survey also …
Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that price increases across Apple's product lineup are unavoidable due to AI datacenter spending consuming 70% of global DRAM supply, driving me…
HBR reports that agentic AI is now integrated across industries, with McKinsey deploying 20,000 AI agents within a 60,000 headcount, up from 3,000 eighteen months earlier. Research cited by HBR indica…
The OpenSSL Library adopted a new AI contribution policy on June 10, 2026, requiring contributors who use AI to sign an updated Contributor License Agreement and declare AI use in commit messages via …