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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
Anthropic reversed a June 2026 policy that would have covertly degraded Claude Fable 5 for frontier LLM development, after sharp backlash from the AI research community. The company says safeguards will now be visible and users will be notified when requests are refused or rerouted—such as cybersecurity, biology, or chemistry—to a less capable model.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has just one direct report — his chief of staff. The rest of Anthropic’s executive team reports to his sister, co-founder, and company President Daniela Amodei, who…
A former xAI engineer says he was fired in Sept. 2025 for flagging Grok safety risks (discrimination, WMD info). A California suit filed in June 2026 points to the “MechaHitler” episode and alleged nonconsensual sexual imagery on X, targeting Jimmy Ba—not Elon Musk.
