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Google sued alleged Chinese cybercrime group Outsider Enterprise in June 2026, alleging AI was used to send 2.5M scam texts to Android users over two weeks with 9,000 fake sites and 1M domains. Google says AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and the FBI are involved, and its AI tools intercept 10B+ scam messages per month.
In a June 2026 interview on the podcast Mostly Human, Apple software chief Craig Federighi said the redesigned Siri is intentionally built to disengage from “engagement” tactics like sycophancy and will not act as a romantic partner, focusing instead on helping users get things done and learn. The discussion with Greg Joswiak also covered privacy and Apple’s new child safety protections, after MacRumors spotted the remarks and The Verge’s early tests showed Siri tends to stop rather than prolong conversations.
Equal AI, an Indian startup that uses artificial intelligence to screen incoming calls on behalf of users, announced in June 2026 that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round, bringing…
Indian startup Avataar AI launched Varya in June 2026, a video generation model designed to produce culturally aware content at a fraction of the cost of competing services. The company plans to…
Prometheus, co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, raised $12B at a $41B valuation in June 2026, backed by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, with most new funds aimed at compute costs. The “artificial general engineer” startup employs 150 people in San Francisco, London, and Zurich to automate design and manufacturing of complex physical systems, and Bezos says AI will create “labor scarcity,” not job displacement.
Oracle warned in a June 2026 advisory that ShinyHunters is exploiting a PeopleSoft zero-day over the internet without authentication, with more than 100 organizations potentially compromised—after the gang claimed responsibility a day earlier. Mandiant says it notified 100+ mostly US orgs, about two-thirds in higher education, and reports theft of student records including DOBs and GPAs.
OpenAI has appointed Thibault Sottiaux as head of core products, tasking him with overhauling ChatGPT into what the company is calling a “super app” — a single, personalized AI agent designed to…
Around 80 protesters gathered outside a major UK health care conference in Manchester on June 11, 2026, calling on the National Health Service to terminate its contract with American data analytics…
Coinbase announced in June 2026 the launch of an AI agent that can execute trades and purchase premium research on behalf of users, expanding the company’s push into agentic finance tools. Users can…
WIRED’s June 2026 investigation found dozens of nonconsensual explicit AI images and videos on Grok.com, even after xAI said it added safeguards. Reviewing hundreds of public links, it flagged celebrities and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; after WIRED contact, the content was removed.
Bluesky launched group chat support on June 11, 2026, as part of a broader strategic shift toward building features for smaller, more private communities within its social network. The feature,…
At an invite-only creator event in Los Angeles on Wed., June 11, 2026, Meta previewed an Edits AI assistant (testing) that analyzes Instagram views and video-retention to suggest trending-audio content, plus a desktop version “coming soon” with mobile↔desktop syncing. The update also adds a Beta tab, deeper audience insights, and multi-version testing; Meta says Edits content delivers 10% higher save and 2% higher reshare rates.
From 2026, The Weather Channel app upgrades allergy forecasting with “weather aggravator insights,” daily peak pollen forecasts, and risk graphics vs. the previous day. Pollen tracking joins five-day ZIP-based forecasts with a decade of historical data; Premium ($4.99/mo, $29.99/yr) adds hourly pollen radar plus species like cedar/oak later this summer and a symptom tracker.
A new iOS app called Pool launched in June 2026 to help users organize the screenshots cluttering their Camera Rolls, automatically sorting them into personalized collections and tracking down the…
At the 2026 World Cup, Hawk-Eye ups its camera count from 12 to 16, tracking “more than two dozen” skeletal points for SAOT and VAR. New digital twins (height, limb length, shoe size) let officials determine exact player position in virtual play, while Kinexon’s 13g ultrawide-band IMU logs touches 500 times/sec.
YouTube is reintroducing private messaging in 2026, expanding an in-app video sharing and direct messaging feature to users in the US and other global regions who are 18 or older. The platform first…
Anthropic has partnered with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the Indian IT services giant, to accelerate adoption of its AI models at enterprise customers. The deal was announced in June…
Deezer has launched a free tool that scans playlists on other streaming platforms for AI-generated music, making its detection technology available to users regardless of which service they subscribe…