Google says its 2026 privacy update adds a new “Search Services History” control to save media from searches—Lens images, Search Live recordings, voice queries, and Translate audio. Google will use it to improve services, including training AI, and with “Personalized Recommendations” for suggestions and ads; users can opt out by disabling it (and “Save Media”).
Instagram’s June 2026 “Your Algorithm” controls move from Reels and Explore to the main feed, letting users review and edit topic-based interests. Adam Mosseri says large language models enable plain-language content clustering, with people, moods, and content types still in development.
Warner Music Group announced June 10, 2026 it’s acquiring Sureel AI to trace how song components and artists’ NIL are used in AI training and generation via patented “AI DNA” tech. Sureel (founded 2022) also offers provenance, audit/compliance and NIL attribution for voice clones and avatars; terms undisclosed, platform stays standalone.
AI coding startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round to build infrastructure that lets companies switch between AI coding models rather than depending on a single provider. The round,…
Anthropic’s June 10, 2026 release of Fable—positioned as a limited Mythos—can freeze chats when it detects “cybersecurity or biology” topics and then falls back to Claude Opus 4.8. Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Tolmo say the guardrails are overly broad and keyword-like, blocking even code reviews and secure-coding requests.
Zest, a restaurant discovery app that builds personalized recommendations from users’ real dining transactions, launched to the public in 2026 and has attracted over 100,000 visits in the weeks since…
New York-based startup Jedify has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round to expand its platform, which connects to enterprise knowledge sources and builds a “context graph” that AI agents can…
AI startup Decart unveiled Oasis 3 on June 10, 2026 — a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments and is now available to developers via API at $0.02 per second, with…
Google has partnered with the Argentine Football Association (AFA) to make Gemini the main global sponsor of Argentina’s national soccer team at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The deal, closed in March…
Google cut its Google AI Plus U.S. price from $7.99 to $4.99 and doubled included storage from 200GB to 400GB; Vikas Kansal said the storage changes roll out over the next several days. Launched in Jan 2026, the tier bundles Omni Flash video generation, Google Flow, and NotebookLM.
Anthropic released two new AI models on June 9, 2026 — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — with access to each determined by who is asking. Mythos 5 remains restricted to a limited set of industry…
Apple says its AI-powered Siri will not launch on iPhones and iPads in the EU, announced in June 2026 at WWDC 2026, blaming the Digital Markets Act and its demand that rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic get comparable access. In a follow-up post, Apple said Siri AI is delayed in the EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, and there’s currently no timeline; the company’s “Trusted System Agent” proposal would take 18 months, but the European Commission rejected it.
