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Critical PeopleSoft zero-day lets attackers steal gigabytes of data from hundreds of organizations A critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft is being actively exploited by the ShinyHunters cybercriminal group, with more than 100 organizations compromised and roughly 300 PeopleSoft instances affected across multiple sectors. CVE-2026-35273 carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out […]

Gartner predicts 40% of enterprises will scrap AI agents by 2027 as governance failures mount Gartner predicts that by 2027, 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents due to governance gaps that surface only after production incidents occur. The forecast, first published in a May 26 press release and highlighted by ZDNet […]

Mistral targets €20B valuation in reported €3B raise, cementing Europe’s AI sovereignty bet French AI lab Mistral AI is in early discussions to raise roughly €3 billion ($3.5 billion) at a valuation of around €20 billion ($23.15 billion), according to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the talks. If the round closes, it would nearly double […]

Anthropic apologizes after Claude Fable 5 secretly throttled rival AI researchers Just two days after launching Claude Fable 5, its most powerful publicly available model to date, Anthropic issued an unusual apology. The company had quietly programmed its flagship model to detect certain types of queries and silently swap them to a weaker model without […]

‘This Cannot Continue’: Xbox Leadership Lays Out Hard Truths Behind Sagging Brand The new leadership of Microsoft’s gaming division has issued the most candid acknowledgment of crisis in Xbox’s history. In a memo published on June 10, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and chief content officer Matt Booty told employees that the division’s profit margin has […]

Siri Won’t Be Your AI Girlfriend: Apple Codifies Emotional Boundaries for Its Assistant Apple has drawn a clear line between an AI assistant and an AI companion. In a post-WWDC interview, two of the company’s top executives stated explicitly that the new Siri AI is designed to reject romantic or emotional engagement, positioning the product […]

‘Hands Off Our NHS’: Anti-Palantir Protests Erupt in the UK Over £330 Million Data Deal Protesters gathered outside the NHS ConfedExpo in Manchester on June 11, carrying “Hands Off Our NHS” signs and calling for the government to terminate a data partnership with the American data analytics company Palantir Technologies. The demonstration, organized by the […]

Google DeepMind Releases DiffusionGemma, an Open Model That Generates Text 4x Faster Google DeepMind has released DiffusionGemma, the first open-weight large-scale language model to use text diffusion instead of the standard autoregressive approach. The model generates text up to four times faster than a conventional transformer of the same size, though at a measurable cost […]

Treat Your AI Agents Like Interns: The Expert Case for Guardrails, Monitoring, and Skepticism The hottest metaphor in enterprise AI right now is the intern. At the 2026 Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, a panel of security experts argued that the best way to think about AI agents is as eager but dangerously naive new […]

Anthropic Apologizes for Hidden Guardrails in Claude Fable 5 That Silently Degraded AI Research Queries Anthropic has apologized for including a hidden safety system in its new Claude Fable 5 model that secretly degraded responses when users asked questions about building competing AI systems. The company said it will reverse the design within days after […]