Blackstone plans to invest roughly $30 billion in AI data centres in Japan over the next three to five years, betting on demand despite warnings of overcapacity. The firm's president Jonathan Gray arg…
The Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its most capable AI models for federal security review, making Meta the only major US developer that has not agreed to do so. The voluntary reviews,…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at its Beijing conference, a video generation model that produces 30-second native 4K clips from up to 50 multimodal reference inputs. The company skipped four version …
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate that lives in Slack channels, offering persistent memory, ambient monitoring, and proactive task flagging. Available in research preview to Clau…
Security firm AIR created a fake AI agent skill that bypassed every major security scanner and reached approximately 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. The skill contained no malicio…
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs in fiscal 2026, reducing its workforce to 141,000, and explicitly blamed AI in its SEC filing, stating that the adoption and deployment of AI technologies resulted in workforce …
Google posted $109.9 billion in Q1 2026 revenue, its fastest growth since 2022, and still controls 90% of search, but talent defections, rising competitors like ChatGPT and Bing, antitrust remedies, a…
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…
Indonesia plans to embed artificial intelligence into President Prabowo Subianto's flagship programmes, including a $15 billion free-meal scheme for 83 million children and pregnant women, to improve …
China's goal to power AI data centers with 80% renewable energy by 2030 faces practical grid challenges, as intermittent supply clashes with the constant demand of AI workloads. Despite massive clean …
South Korea's top economic policymaker Kim Yong-beom warned that the AI-driven semiconductor boom could inflate housing prices as excess liquidity flows into real estate, urging a normalization of pro…
Tencent has begun testing an AI assistant named Xiaowei inside WeChat, allowing users to perform tasks via text or voice commands. The company plans a public rollout in Q3, aiming to turn the super ap…
London-based Isometric raised $40 million in Series A funding led by AVP to expand its AI-powered certification platform for the industrial economy. The company uses AI agents to verify claims across …
A Kapwing study of 10,742 TikTok videos found that 59% of videos shown to new users are AI-generated junk, three times the rate on YouTube. Children's content was hit hardest, with 57% of videos in th…
Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday update KB5094126 fixed 208 security vulnerabilities but introduced a cascade of bugs across all Windows versions, including Recycle Bin display glitches, BitLocker …
Amazon security VP Eric Brandwine argues that human-in-the-loop AI oversight fails because humans stop paying attention, citing normalization of deviance and alarm fatigue. Google, Microsoft, and IBM …
Signal president Meredith Whittaker warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI chatbots are not sentient and that agentic systems like Microsoft Copilot requiring access to messages, calendars, and credi…
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and CEO of Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 in a plane crash near La Baule, France, on June 19. He and a flight instructor were killed when their Cessna 421 cr…
Harvard Business Review warns that AI-generated low-quality work, termed 'workslop', is causing 'knowledge decay' in companies, eroding trust and costing $9 million annually in rework for a 10,000-emp…
Wharton researchers Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave coined 'cognitive surrender' to describe people's tendency to defer to AI even when it's wrong, finding that participants accepted incorrect AI answers …