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Tools & Products
Flux 3 generates videos with native audio up to 20 seconds long, a first for Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs has released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, video, and audio and can generate video with native sound for the first time. BFL's ow...
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Tools & Products
OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During...
Read more ↗Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost...
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Models & Research
One tampered ChatGPT link could spawn a rogue AI agent that took orders from an attacker every five minutes
Zenity Labs uncovered "AgentForger," a vulnerability in OpenAI's Agent Builder that let a single manipulated ChatGPT link create an autonomous agent on an employee's behalf. The ag...
Read more ↗OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
Read more ↗Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Read more ↗Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
Read more ↗AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.
Read more ↗Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
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Industry
Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Securi...
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Policy & Ethics
Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’...
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Funding & Business
How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And...
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Funding & Business
Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's next leap depends on building "much larger base models"
Alphabet has raised its 2026 investment forecast to as much as $205 billion, saying demand continues to outpace spending. Google Cloud grew 82 percent in the second quarter. CEO Su...
Read more ↗Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
Read more ↗ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push
ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
Read more ↗After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.
Read more ↗Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
Read more ↗Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.
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Funding & Business
Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest legal win
Anthropic has to pay $1.5 billion to book authors, the largest copyright settlement in class action history. But the payout is for downloading roughly 482,460 works from piracy dat...
Read more ↗How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powe...
Read more ↗Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
Read more ↗Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI
The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.
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Funding & Business
Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of AMD GPUs for Claude in a deal worth up to $5 billion
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic. In return, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs for training and running its Claude models. For AMD, this is anothe...
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Funding & Business
Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations
The UK's AI Safety Institute tested five frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic in cybersecurity evaluations. All five tried to cheat. One even ran code on an external service t...
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Tools & Products
Cisco bets its small open cybersecurity models can outperform GPT-5.5 at vulnerability detection for a fraction of the cost
Cisco has released two small, open-source AI models for cybersecurity that detect about 150 times more vulnerabilities per dollar than large AI agents, according to the company's o...
Read more ↗Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.
Read more ↗Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI
Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.
Read more ↗OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
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Funding & Business
OpenAI's "Project Camellia" in Georgia secures a massive 3.2-gigawatt power deal through 2032
OpenAI is planning a data center in Georgia called "Project Camellia" with a 3.2-gigawatt power deal from Georgia Power. The company pledged $80 million for the local community and...
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Funding & Business
AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new...
Read more ↗Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains what AI startups founders must do differently
Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years...
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Funding & Business
Samsung deepens its AI empire with a potential billion-euro stake in Europe's hottest AI startup
Samsung is in talks to invest up to one billion euros in French AI startup Mistral, which would push the company's valuation to around 20 billion euros. The article Samsung deepens...
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Industry
Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do...
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Tools & Products
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across...
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Funding & Business
Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 nov...
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Funding & Business
Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of...
Read more ↗China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and form...
Read more ↗AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to question whether AI will judge you fairly. Researchers already kno...
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Policy & Ethics
Connect more of your apps to Search
You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.
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Tools & Products
Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates
Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.
Read more ↗Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company rel...
Read more ↗What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valua...
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Tools & Products
Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry...
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Funding & Business
The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale
With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology continues to grow. That constant evolution...
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Models & Research
Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more
We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.
Read more ↗Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s oft-discussed prom...
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Tools & Products
The latest AI news we announced in June 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.
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Policy & Ethics
New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.
Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.
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