On June 2, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order that gives certain AI companies a voluntary 30-day submission window for government testing/evaluation before public release, scaled back from an earlier up-to-90-day draft. It also bars any mandatory licensing and directs DOJ to prioritize AI-assisted hacking and unauthorized access.
A Seattle class action filed June 2, 2026 by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt targets Ring’s Familiar Faces, launched Dec. 2025, which identifies regular visitors and sends alerts like “Dad is at the door.” The suit argues passersby have their facial recognition collected without consent, while Amazon says face data is encrypted, never shared, and deleted after 30 days.
AI compliance startup ZeroDrift announced in June 2026 that it has raised $10 million in a seed funding round to expand its service, which sits between AI models and end users to detect and rewrite…
Florida’s Attorney General sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on June 2, 2026, in what officials are calling the first state-led lawsuit of its kind, alleging the company ignored safety warnings and…
Meta’s March 2026 AI support chatbot let attackers replace a victim’s email, receive the verification code on their own address, and reset the password to take over Instagram. A Telegram video documented the technique, and Meta says it’s patched after hijacks including @obamawhitehouse.
Atlas Menu, a paid GTA V cheat service, was hacked in 2026, exposing nearly 64,000 users with emails, usernames, hashed passwords, and IPs. The hacker posted the data on GitHub, and Have I Been Pwned reported the breach on June 1, 2026.
Strava will tighten AI scraping by moving public profiles and club listings behind authentication and charging developers a flat $11.99/month API fee starting June 2026, with a 90-day grace period. CEO Michael Martin told TechCrunch that Perplexity scraped via aggregators and hurt performance, and Strava will retire some API endpoints like club details.
Play claimed in May 2026 it hacked MyPillow, exfiltrating private data, client documents, budgets, payroll, IDs and taxes, and set a Friday deadline. Mike Lindell denied the breach as a political “hit job,” and the FBI says Silent Ransom Group operatives physically enter offices to steal data.
Microsoft plans criminal referrals and legal action against “Nightmare Eclipse” after public disclosure of three unpatched bugs—BlueHammer, RedSun UnDefend, and YellowKey—affecting Windows Defender and BitLocker. A May 29, 2026 blog post says the researcher bypassed coordinated disclosure, even as Microsoft and CISA say the bugs are already being exploited.
A phishing campaign is targeting Signal users by impersonating the app’s support team in an attempt to steal recovery keys that unlock encrypted chat backups, TechCrunch reported on May 28,…
Anthropic released Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, only 41 days after Opus 4.7 and at the same price. It’s more likely to flag uncertainties and avoid unsupported claims, and Dynamic Workflows (research preview) lets Claude Code + Opus 4.8 coordinate hundreds of parallel subagents for migrations spanning hundreds of thousands of lines.
CNN filed suit in New York on May 28, 2026, alleging Perplexity’s Comet outputs “verbatim” CNN articles and paywalled content. CNN says talks over a Comet Plus deal (Oct. 2025) ended in Nov. 2025 and its stop letter went unanswered; Perplexity spokesperson Jesse Dwyer says, “You can’t copyright facts.”
