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Visa and OpenAI partner to let AI agents make purchases autonomously Visa and OpenAI announced a strategic partnership on June 10 that allows AI agents to initiate and complete financial transactions autonomously, integrating Visa’s payment infrastructure directly into OpenAI’s products including ChatGPT. The deal represents a major step toward a world where AI agents shop, […]

German court rules Google is liable for false statements made by AI Overviews The Regional Court of Munich has issued a landmark ruling that Google can be held directly liable for false and defamatory statements generated by its AI Overviews feature, marking the first time a court has classified an AI-generated search summary as the […]

Anthropic’s safety warnings backfired. The US government just shut down its most powerful AI On June 9, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, its first publicly available Mythos-class model, alongside the restricted Claude Mythos 5. Four days later, both models went offline. The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an export control […]

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 […]