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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
