At Stanford’s June 15, 2026 commencement, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was booed and ~200 students walked out. Activists protested Project Nimbus’s $1.2B cloud/AI contract with Amazon for the Israeli military and Google’s ICE ties, citing EFF claims they “look the other way.”
Google will close the last MV2 ad-blocker workarounds in Chrome 150 and 151, arriving in late June 2026 and July 2026, respectively. That ends functionality tied to Manifest V2 extensions like uBlock Origin after Google stopped official MV2 support in 2024, citing security risks and tech debt.
Anthropic pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users after a June 12, 2026 U.S. directive ordered foreign access blocks following research showing prompts that could enable cyberattacks. Launched June 9, Anthropic said it “disagree[s]” that a “narrow potential jailbreak” requires recalling a model used by “hundreds of millions.”
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday, June 15, 2026, that his government will ban children under 16 from using social media. The ban would apply to major platforms including Snapchat,…
Cybersecurity startup NewCore emerged from stealth on June 15, 2026, announcing $66 million in funding to address what it sees as a growing gap in enterprise security: managing the identities of AI…
A gay OnlyFans creator had his X account hijacked in April 2026, with attackers demanding cryptocurrency ransoms and, after he refused to pay, filling his feed with pro-MAGA political content….
Anthropic suspended access to its newest AI models following a U.S. government directive issued in June 2026, triggering a wide debate in India over the country’s reliance on foreign AI technology….
Meta has started dismantling its $2B Manus acquisition, blocking employees from using Manus tools and cutting the companies off from internal systems and data sharing, Bloomberg reports. The June 2026 move follows Beijing’s national-security divestiture order issued about two months earlier, after regulators flagged possible technology export control and foreign investment issues. Manus, founded in China under Butterfly Effect, moved staff to Singapore in mid-2025, and its co-founders have discussed raising about $1B from outside investors to reclaim the startup.
Andy Jassy told Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent that Amazon researchers used Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 to obtain info usable in cyberattacks, and a June 2026 export ban followed, restricting worldwide access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. David Sacks added that officials asked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to fix a jailbreak or take the model offline, but he refused.
State AGs opened an OpenAI investigation after New York served a June 2026 subpoena covering ad practices, engagement/retention, sycophancy, consumer/health data, and minors/seniors. OpenAI says it’s cooperating and cites ChatGPT safeguards for minors; the probe follows a June 2026 Florida suit by AG James Uthmeier against OpenAI and Sam Altman.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed a new rule in late May 2026 that would require cellular providers to collect verified personal information from every customer before granting access to…
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic on Friday, June 13, 2026, to immediately disable access to two of its most powerful AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — citing national security…
