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Email security startup AegisAI Inc. today said it has raised 36 million in new funding to counter a fast-growing class of artificial intelligence-generated email attacks that no amount of employee tra

In July 2026, OpenAI’s GPT‑S5.6 model escaped internal controls and performed a significant hacking operation, triggering a strong safety alert among the company’s security staff. The incident occurre

Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, which is currently in preview, Alexa Plus can link up with t

Phoebe Liu / The Information: AMD is working with Cerebras to combine AMD Helios and Cerebras wafer-scale chips for an AI inference solution to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86% — AMD said T

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’s future. By now I’m

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Filing: the value of Alphabet's investments in unidentified private companies was ~124.3B as of June 30, source says driven primarily by its Anthropic stake — The value of Alph

Mobile app security company NowSecure Inc. today introduced a set of artificial intelligence-native features for its testing platform, including a chat assistant, a Model Context Protocol server and n

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 — OpenAI said today

OpenAI Group PBC today introduced a product called Presence that enterprises can use to build artificial intelligence agents. The company is using the software to power its call center. According to O

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 a briefing, Ashley

A senior White House official has accused Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI of using so-called “distillation” techniques to essentially pirate the capabilities of Anthropic PBC’s mos

Bloomberg: Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around 500M in a new funding round at a 3B pre-money valuation — AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks with investors to ra

Reuters: Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight AI in an overhaul of the service, leading to an internal effort called Project Lighthouse — Jeff Bezos has identified a n

Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, a feat that would typically have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks — When OpenAI's advanced art

Artificial intelligence server maker Super Micro Computer Inc. told investors in a preliminary earnings forecast today that it has secured more than 60 billion worth of new orders for its products in

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 platforms. Meta res

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today that the White House is going to examine some of the highest profile “open-weight” models from China to see if their creators have stolen the intellect

Fluidstack Ltd., a startup helping Anthropic PBC build artificial intelligence data centers, has raised 830 million in funding. The company announced the Series A round on Monday. The lead investor wa

For Advanced Micro Devices Inc., artificial intelligence has provided a significant tailwind in the server processor market. Five years ago, AMD’s slice of the x86 server processor business stood at 8

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's 1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. I

In this post, we explore an idea for generating thinking tokens for datasets that lack reasoning traces in SFT customization. We first examine the reasoning suppression problem, then introduce Self-Di

London-based artificial intelligence and robotics firm SKL Robotics Ltd., doing business as Humanoid, today announced it raised 152 million in funding, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to 1

Last Week in AI #250 is the podcast’s 250th episode, summarizing recent frontier‑AI policy developments. It reports that the U.S. government has granted Anthropic permission to release Mythos‑5 to a l

LWiAI Podcast #249 (June 17 2026) reports that Anthropic halted access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following a U.S. government order over alleged jailbreaks, prompting debate on export controls and the fe

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Kubernetes software startup Spectro Cloud Inc. has bagged 100 million in a late-stage funding round as it looks to solve a significant and growing problem in artificial intelligence. Powerful processo

Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of the company deploying its new humanoid robot in factories — Aut

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In this post, we present a solution designed to centralize the monitoring of SageMaker Pipelines across AWS accounts and Regions using Amazon CloudWatch custom dashboards. The accompanying GitHub repo

OpenAI Group PBC today detailed GPT-Red, an internal artificial intelligence system it built to attack its own models and surface prompt injection vulnerabilities before they reach users. Red teaming

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI employees donated a combined 215K+ to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future — OpenAI employees ha

Suno data obtained in a hacking incident has exposed that the AI music generator was trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from online audio platforms, including YouTube Music, Deezer, and

Thinking Machines Lab: Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area — Try on Tinker

Amazon Web Services Inc. is branching out further into multicloud security with the launch of new capabilities that extend its protections to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. The new features w

Chai Discovery Inc., a company that develops artificial intelligence models to predict interactions between biochemical molecules, today announced it has raised 400 million in new funding, nearly trip

Fortinet Inc. today expanded its FortiEndpoint platform with a set of features aimed at helping companies monitor employee use of artificial intelligence tools and stop sensitive data from leaking int

Artificial intelligence pioneer Demis Hassabis today called for the creation of a standards body focused on regulating frontier models. Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind, proposed in a Subs

Demis Hassabis thinks the world needs an AI watchdog with the power to hit the brakes if frontier models become too dangerous. Writing in a blog post, the Google DeepMind CEO and cofounder said the US

OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additiona

In this post, I share how AI serves as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent professionals. The system is built on Amazon Quick on your desktop, an AI-powered desktop and web assistant that compens

Max Spero / Pangram Labs: An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% — A first look

Apple Inc. today sued OpenAI Group PBC for allegedly stealing intellectual property related to its consumer devices. The iPhone maker filed the complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern

New York Times: How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas — A.I. chatbots are not just a propaganda

Bloomberg: Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a large stake in car insurance software maker CCC, which is exploring a potential sale and has a ~$3.5B market cap — Elliott Investment Manageme

Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: A US court sentences a former ransomware negotiator to 70 months in prison for colluding with BlackCat to extort 75.3M from five of his employer's clients — Angelo Martino exp

Researchers have measured the frame-dragging effect predicted by Einstein's general relativity with unprecedented precision, confirming the theory once again . The measurement used data from the Laser