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…
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 revealed a set of artificial intelligence upgrades to its iPhone camera and Photos apps at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, on June 8, 2026. The changes are…
Apple held its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 8, 2026, using the keynote address to announce sweeping updates to its software platforms and reveal how its AI partnership with…
Meta removed its internal NameTag face-recognition code from the Meta AI app in June 2026, a day after WIRED said it was embedded on 50M+ phones. WIRED’s code diff found the face-recognition libraries and local “Person recognized” workflow stripped; Meta called it “purely exploratory.”
Watch Duty added flood alerts in 2026—its first new disaster type since launching for wildfires—and the update is free for existing users. Location-enabled users get push warnings near flood zones, plus buoy-finder and water-height threshold alerts based on floodplain locations and current levels.
Cryptocurrency payments to Chinese peptide supplement labs exceeded $100 million annually, according to a June 2026 analysis by crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis. The report found that some of the same…
Two former members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced in 2026 the launch of a startup aimed at applying what they describe as “learnings” from DOGE to private-sector…
Meta quietly embedded face-recognition technology into its AI app — downloaded more than 50 million times — months before publicly acknowledging the feature was under consideration, according to a…
Flourish raised $500M at a reported $2.5B valuation in 2026 to model AI on biological neurons, backed by Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital and Google Ventures. Co-founder Thomas Reardon IV (Columbia neuroscience PhD) works with Amazon ex-Williams and DeepMind’s Greg Wayne, who gets 20% time negotiated by Demis Hassabis. Bezos started with $50M after a two-page pitch and nearly doubled his stake.
The heads of several major AI companies signed a public letter in June 2026 calling on Congress to pass laws requiring synthetic DNA and RNA providers to screen customers and orders for potential…
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is asking a federal court to strip four pseudonymous plaintiffs of their anonymity in a class-action lawsuit alleging that xAI’s Grok chatbot was used to generate…
