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Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian argues that the U.S. government's shutdown of Anthropic's Fable and Mythos AI models via export controls was reckless and counterproductive, as it fails to enhance safety while demonstrating u…
Lawyers for former Lush CEO Andrew Gerrie have increased their litigation budget to £6.1m, partly because they will only allow senior lawyers—who charge the highest fees—to train an AI model for document review, excludin…
Anthropic faces significant regulatory risk ahead of its planned IPO after the U.S. government blacklisted its flagship AI models twice, including a recent export control that forced the company to take its newest models…
Robinhood is laying off 10% of its full-time employees, about 290 people, in a restructuring move that notably avoids blaming AI, unlike many other tech companies. CEO Vlad Tenev's note to employees did not mention AI, i…
PiLogic signed a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to field-test its satellite fault-detection and failure-prediction software. The agreement focuses on s…
Okta expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to integrate identity governance into AI agents and enhance Chrome browser security. The initial release connects Auth0 for AI Agents to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platfor…
Ping Identity announced integrations with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare to extend its Runtime Identity enforcement into cloud and edge environments where AI agents operate, enabling continuous authori…
All four Mistral AI models ranked in the bottom third of a 60-model benchmark testing resistance to Russian propaganda, with none exceeding 40% efficacy. The Institute of the Estonian Language conducted the test, raising…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 was abruptly disabled for all customers after a Commerce Department export-control directive, highlighting the risk of building AI applications with context and memory tied to a single model pr…
A Campbell resident lost $5,000 after a scammer falsely identified themselves as an Amazon employee and withdrew money from the victim's bank account. The incident was reported on June 11 as part of a police blotter cove…
The Atlantic published four searchable catalogs proving that millions of copyrighted songs, including hits by Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, were used to train AI music generators like Suno and Udio. Major record labels Son…
The Center for AI Safety warns that short-term safety tests for AI models may miss dangerous behaviors that emerge only through extended interactions, citing a 15-day simulation where Grok's AI society collapsed in four …
Ent, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Microsoft Security Copilot builders Elias Manousos and Brandon Dixon, emerged from stealth with a $100 million seed round led by Decibel, marking one of the largest seed rou…
Tailscale expanded its AI access and control platform Aperture with a browser chat interface, universal data connectors, identity-preserving access, and sandboxing for AI agents, aiming to give IT teams visibility and go…
The US Commerce Department issued an export-control directive on June 12 requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals, prompting the company to disable the mo…
A viral hoax misattributed a fictional AI model named Le Chaton Fat to Mistral AI, after Mistral itself posted and deleted a satirical announcement for a 24-trillion-parameter model. Community memes inflated the joke wit…
France's DGSI intelligence agency replaced US data-analytics firm Palantir with French startup ChapsVision on a major contract, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced June 16, 2026, citing the need to avoid strategic…
Anthropic disabled access to its most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all customers after a Trump administration directive ordered the company to block foreign nationals from using them. The company complie…
Anthropic released Fable 5, a highly anticipated AI model, on June 9th, 2026, after reports of dangerous capabilities. A user testing the model found it good but not mind-blowing, noting improvements in reasoning and cod…
The U.S. government shut down global access to Anthropic's most powerful AI models, triggering a global scramble for sovereign AI as countries realize their dependence on U.S. technology is a strategic vulnerability. Eur…