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Anthropic employees and industry experts allege the Trump administration is targeting the AI company with unreasonable restrictions, including a de facto ban on its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national se…
ByteDance's Doubao, China's most popular AI chatbot with 345 million monthly active users, is introducing subscription plans from 688 to 5,088 yuan annually, sparking user backlash and debate over monetization. Critics q…
French President Emmanuel Macron urged the US to grant broader access to Anthropic's AI models, following a US order to block foreign nationals from accessing them. G7 leaders discussed a "trusted partners" scheme to all…
ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is spending billions on AI and shifting to domestic chips, potentially benefiting second-tier Chinese chipmakers like Iluvatar CoreX, Biren Technology, and others. The move comes as US san…
NewCore emerged from stealth on June 15 with $66 million in seed funding to build an identity security layer for AI agents, addressing widespread vulnerabilities where agents use human credentials or shared API keys. The…
China is building a platform to debut new AI consumer products as part of its 'AI Plus' initiative, with over 70 domestic companies developing AI wearables like smart glasses. The initiative aims to embed AI into consume…
The Iran War, which began on February 28, 2026, has become the first major conflict driven by artificial intelligence, with U.S. and Israeli forces using AI to strike over 4,000 targets in four days, while Iran employs d…
An AI agent wallet is a system that allows AI agents to autonomously spend money within predefined limits without human approval for each transaction. Protocols like Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, Mastercard's Agent Pay,…
Bengaluru-Karnataka has been ranked as Asia's second-best AI-native cluster by Startup Genome, with Bengaluru-headquartered startups raising approximately $79 billion in venture capital funding since 2010. The region ent…
Startup Genome's Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2026 ranks Bengaluru-Karnataka as Asia's second-best AI-native startup cluster and 15th globally, with Bengaluru-based startups raising $79 billion in VC since 2010 and ho…
Donald Trump announced that Apple and Intel have agreed to collaborate on designing and manufacturing chips within the United States, a move aimed at bolstering domestic semiconductor production. The partnership would di…
A developer compiled a comprehensive defensive knowledge base cataloguing known prompt-injection and jailbreak patterns, the models and systems they have affected, and the defenses against them. The reference, updated th…
China's 618 shopping festival in 2026 hit a record 855.6 billion yuan in GMV, but weak consumer demand persisted as platforms stretched promotional windows. AI integration became central, with Alibaba deploying its Qwen …
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an 83-page lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on June 1, alleging product liability and public nuisance over ChatGPT's role in the 2025 Florida State University shooti…
DeepSeek closed its first external fundraising in a Series A round, raising about 50 billion yuan at a post-investment valuation of 400 billion yuan, making it one of China's most valuable AI startups. Founder Liang Wenf…
C1 launched enterprise-managed authorization (EMA) for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling governed AI agent access to enterprise tools. Anthropic implemented the first EMA support in Claude, with C1 serving as th…
Google Cloud urges the European Commission to revise its Cloud and AI Development Act to avoid market isolation, advocating for open digital sovereignty through partnerships with European firms like S3NS, Thales, and Tel…
AO World founder John Roberts blamed the Labour government's tax hikes for offshoring 150 sales jobs to South Africa, saving £2 million annually, with plans to move most customer contact operations overseas by March. The…
Google released multiple Workspace updates on June 17, 2026, integrating Gemini with Google Classroom for education, enabling longer Veo videos and parallel generation in Google Vids, enhancing AI avatars with Gemini 3.1…
The UK Home Office knew its AI-powered facial age estimation tool for migrant children was flawed and racially biased, but is rolling it out anyway. A leaked report shows the technology often misjudges teenagers as adult…