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The US government imposed export controls on Anthropic's new AI model Fable 5 and its underlying Mythos model, citing national security concerns, leading Anthropic to take both models offline. The move marks a significan…
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. Compromised service accounts a…
Graham Norton has won a US court order forcing Meta to reveal the source of AI-generated deepfake Facebook posts that falsely reported his mother's death and his own ill health. The Irish presenter filed the case in Cali…
ByteDance is Microsoft's largest AI customer, spending over $1 billion annually on OpenAI models via Azure, even as U.S. regulators tighten rules on Chinese AI access. Microsoft's AI revenue in China tripled in the past …
Rockstar Games confirmed that Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders open June 25 on PlayStation, Xbox, and select retailers, with a November 19 launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The cover art was revealed, but pricing and edit…
Yann LeCun warned that AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic face a 'big bubble explosion' due to investor-subsidized operations and insufficiently declining costs. LeCun's own startup, AMI Labs, raised $1 billion for an …
Allianz GI chief executive Tobias Pross warned investors against over-reliance on public AI chatbots like Claude for portfolio management, arguing it leads to identical outcomes akin to passive investing or 'socialism'. …
Salesforce has an internal AI leaderboard tracking team usage of AI tools like ChatGPT and awarding digital badges such as 'Champion,' 'Innovator,' and 'Legend' based on completed training courses. Employees express conc…
Google DeepMind has unveiled a security plan to protect against rogue AI agents, shifting focus from the alignment problem to a layered cybersecurity framework that treats AI agents as potential insider threats. The plan…
The Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI to fire over 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets in Iran within 96 hours, according to a sworn declaration by the Pentagon's AI chief Cameron Stanley. The revelation came amid a Clean A…
Epic Games announced Unreal Engine 6 will integrate generative AI models like Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini to automate game development tasks, but over half of developers surveyed view generative AI negatively.…
Swiss private AI infrastructure startup Prem AI is raising a $100 million Series A round at a target valuation of at least $500 million, according to Bloomberg. The company, led by founder and CEO Simone Giacomelli, help…
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 healthcare workflows…
Nod, a new AI notepad for macOS, captures and transcribes meetings, calls, and voice notes without joining the call or storing audio, processing audio in five-second chunks and discarding it immediately after transcripti…
Safari's opposition to the WebMCP API highlights a principle that web improvements for AI should also benefit all users, not just agents. The Safari team argues that gaps in site semantics should be fixed in shared layer…
Ukrainian drones penetrated three layers of Moscow air defenses to strike the Moscow Oil Refinery, one of Russia's largest oil facilities, for the second time in days. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed th…
An aggressive botnet scraping git.sr.ht to train large language models has disrupted the service, forcing Sourcehut to disable many web routes to manage load. Mitigations deployed as of 19:00 UTC on June 6 have reduced i…
AI tools like Midjourney and Sora are breaking down Chinese opera into datasets for generative models, enabling users to create opera-style content with simple prompts. This digitization, accelerated since 2024, transfor…
The Trump administration's Department of Justice is intervening to protect Elon Musk's xAI from a lawsuit over pollution from its Memphis data center, arguing that shutting down the facility threatens national security. …
Japanese men face accusations of double standards after male football fans were praised for cleaning stadiums during the World Cup, while a viral AI-generated poster urged them to do household chores at home. Data shows …