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- GLM 5.2 Beat GPT-5.5. China Did It Again, For 1/10th The Price
Towards AI · 2026-06-18
China did it again. Z.ai shipped GLM 5.2 on June 16, 2026 and it beat GPT-5.5, the latest frontier model from OpenAI, by less than four…
- AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round
TechCrunch · 2026-06-18
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.
- Companies Move to Secure Data as AI Increases Security Risks
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Michael Cardaci, CEO of FedHIVE said that the government is moving 'faster than its ever moved before' to secure data and make sure that US computing companies are compliant in
- The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time
WIRED · 2026-06-18
Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.
- Fmr. Lululemon CIO on AI’s Impact on C-Suites, Jobs
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Julie Averill, former CIO of Lululemon, REI, and Nordstrom, discusses this shift in the context of her new book
- Meta Strikes New AI Computing Deals With Data Center Firm Crusoe
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Meta Platforms Inc. has secured new agreements to get AI computing power from data center developer Crusoe, bolstering the infrastructure it needs to support an ambitious
- JPM Asset Mgt. CEO: AI Can Power Markets for Some Time
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
George Gatch, CEO of JPMorgan Asset Management, discussed the current excitement surrounding mega-cap initial public offerings (IPOs) in the technology sector.
- Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs
TechCrunch · 2026-06-18
The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be composed of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video
- Perplexity Launches Brain, a Self-Improving Memory System That Builds a Context Graph of an Agent’s Work and Learns Overnight
MarkTechPost · 2026-06-18
Perplexity has launched Brain, a self-improving memory system for its Computer agent.
- How FERC’s Large-Load Interconnection Actions Help Address Grid Stress, Improve Affordability
NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-06-18
In a consequential grid infrastructure decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today issued a major milestone on large-load interconnection impacting how those
- OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO
TechCrunch · 2026-06-18
OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.
- Meta’s AI Workers Are Revolting, Peter Thiel’s Secret Society, and SBF’s Plea to Trump
WIRED · 2026-06-18
On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.
- ChatGPT's new health upgrade beats doctor-written answers, OpenAI says
The Decoder · 2026-06-18
OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT's healthcare capabilities with GPT-5.5 Instant. In the company's own comparative tests, the model now outscores answers written by doctors in accuracy
- Rumble Bets on AI Compute Demand With New AI Platform
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Video platform Rumble is jumping on the AI bandwagon with its newest AI platform. Launching as Quake AI, the new sector combines cloud, compute, and AI infrastructure
- Investors Anticipate Fresh Liquidity Following Historic SpaceX Debut
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
SpaceX's historic public debut comes during a critical inflection point as a wave of multibillion-dollar AI companies prepare to go public.
- Investors Look Beyond Chips For Next Big Thing in Tech
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
As the AI hype continues to grow, investors are looking beyond chips to find the next big thing to revolutionize the tech sector.
- Anthropic brings Artifacts to Claude Code, letting teams share live pages from coding sessions
The Decoder · 2026-06-18
Claude Code can now turn work results into interactive web pages called "artifacts" and share them with your team.
- New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises
OpenAI Blog · 2026-06-18
OpenAI introduces new spend controls and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations manage costs and scale AI with confidence.
- Alleged China ties at SK Telecom alarmed US officials and triggered Anthropic crisis
The Decoder · 2026-06-18
SK Telecom had access to Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos through the company's partner program Project Glasswing until the White House stepped in.
- Almost half of US singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says
TechCrunch · 2026-06-18
About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating - but many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters.
- Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips
TechCrunch · 2026-06-18
AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.
- Ukraine's Denikeieva on Building AI for Citizens
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Nataliia Denikeieva discusses digital resiliency and building artificial intelligence for citizens
- MosaicLeaks: Can your research agent keep a secret?
Hugging Face Blog · 2026-06-18
A recent discovery, dubbed MosaicLeaks, has revealed vulnerabilities in research agents, specifically those built using the LangChain framework
- Structured Outputs with LLMs: JSON Mode, Function Calling, and When to Use Each
Towards Data Science · 2026-06-18
Getting reliable, readable responses out of your LLM, and knowing which tool to reach for
- Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents like rogue employees with office keys
The Decoder · 2026-06-18
Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents as potential insider threats. The company's new "AI Control Roadmap" ties security measures to measurable AI capabilities
- Steinberger, LeCun, Habib on AI Deployment
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Austrian programmer Peter Steinberger, AMI Labs's Yann LeCun, and Writer CEO May Habib discuss the possibilities and deployment of artificial intelligence with Bloomberg's Francine
- AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
TechCrunch · 2026-06-18
FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.
- Alibaba's Tsai, zu Furstenberg Discuss AI Investment
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Alibaba Group Chairman Joe Tsai and General Catalyst Managing Director Jeannette zu Furstenberg discuss investment opportunities and leadership with the development of artificial
- WWW Inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Development of AI
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, discusses the development of artificial intelligence with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua and Tom Mackenzie at the VivaTech x
- Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry
Ars Technica · 2026-06-18
Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund.
- ‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone
TechCrunch · 2026-06-18
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē.
- How Powerful is Claude Fable (Mythos) 5 for Coding?
Towards Data Science · 2026-06-18
Learn about the upsides and downsides of Claude Fable 5
- I Built My Own Analytics + AB Testing Tool in a Weekend With Claude Code.
Towards AI · 2026-06-18
A developer successfully built a functional analytics and A/B testing tool over a single weekend by leveraging Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus model for code generation.
- Computer vision deployments drive retail productivity gains
AI News · 2026-06-18
Computer vision deployments are driving retail productivity gains as operators automate physical shelf tracking to protect eroding margins.
- Healthcare's Next AI Revolution
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Infinitus CEO Ankit Jain joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why the next generation of AI won't be copilots or chatbots—but autonomous agents that handle healthcare tasks
- General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
TechCrunch · 2026-06-18
The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.
- A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight
TechCrunch · 2026-06-18
Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
- US Acts to Accelerate Power Grid Hook-Ups for AI Data Centers
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
US regulators have taken their biggest step yet to speed the connection of data centers to the country’s grids while simultaneously attempting to slow surging utility bills that
- Amazon in Talks to Sell Custom AI Chips in Bid to Cut Nvidia’s Dominance
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to sell its custom-made artificial intelligence chips for use in other companies’ data centers
- Power BI Copilot Now Accepts 10,000-Character Prompts. That’s Not the Upgrade That Matters.
Towards AI · 2026-06-18
In , Microsoft raised Copilot’s input limit from 500 characters to 10K across every surface. Twenty times more room to type…
- Rolling out AI agents? 4 ways to move fast and furious - but with extreme caution
ZDNet · 2026-06-18
For starters, don't just hand over the keys to AI agents. Any endeavor needs to remain a human-instigated, human-led endeavor.
- ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
The Guardian AI · 2026-06-18
Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how
- Apollo’s Shutterfly Debt Concessions Expose AI, Competition Risk
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Shutterfly’s track record in credit markets has been far from picture-perfect, but its latest refinancing laid bare a newer challenge: the cost of managing burdensome debt amid
- Why AI’s All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Is Coming to an End
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Silicon Valley spent much of the past few years feverishly pushing consumers and businesses to inject artificial intelligence into every corner of their lives.
- AI systems rival doctors in new Nature studies, but one result suggests the tech won't age well
The Decoder · 2026-06-18
Two new studies published in Nature show that specialized AI systems diagnose diseases and make treatment decisions as well as physicians in simulated patient cases
- Google Home Speaker vs. Amazon Echo Dot Max: I compared the $99 smart hubs by the specs
ZDNet · 2026-06-18
Both Google and Amazon have generative AI-powered smart speakers for under $100, so which one stands out?
- The 10 Best AI Models in 2026, and Why the Most Powerful One You Can’t Use
Towards AI · 2026-06-18
A recent analysis projects ten leading AI models for 2026, highlighting one exceptionally powerful but inaccessible option.
- Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
The Verge · 2026-06-18
On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge.
- Dispatching the Parsed RAG Question: Chunk Strategy, Model Tier, Activations, Audit
Towards Data Science · 2026-06-18
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #6c] - The decisions the parser makes on top of the user string, using the document’s profile: dispatch, activations, full schema
- Anthropic Lays Out Vision for How to Bolster AI Models’ Safety
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Anthropic PBC co-founder Jack Clark said the company is in daily discussions with the Trump administration to resolve security concerns surrounding the startup’s top two artificial
- Accenture Forecasts Less Revenue on AI Upheaval, Mideast War
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
Accenture Plc said it’s expecting to reel in less revenue in the coming months, as artificial intelligence upends the consulting services industry and clients paused business due
- Yann LeCun warns AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic face a "big bubble explosion"
The Decoder · 2026-06-18
According to Yann LeCun, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are heading for a "big bubble explosion": Their operations are effectively subsidized by investors
- PyAgent: A Design Pattern Orchestrator for Multi-Agent LLM Systems
Towards AI · 2026-06-18
A new framework, PyAgent, has been introduced to streamline the development and coordination of multi-agent systems powered by large language models (LLMs).
- Adobe’s redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like
The Verge · 2026-06-18
Adobe is introducing some new capabilities for its Firefly AI assistant, alongside a "reimagined" AI studio that lets you edit and generate new designs from a single interface.
- Midjourney, known for AI image generation, unveils a full-body ultrasound scanner and its own spa
The Decoder · 2026-06-18
Rumors about Midjourney hardware have circulated for years, but nobody saw this coming.
- Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants
The Verge · 2026-06-18
Adobe's plan to stick AI assistants into all of its Creative Cloud suite is now fully underway, with new chatbots now rolling out to its biggest editing and design apps.
- Adobe brings its Firefly AI Assistant inside of Premiere, Photoshop and Illustrator
Engadget · 2026-06-18
Adobe has added its Firefly AI tool to some of its most important apps.
- Software Buyout King Orlando Bravo Attempts an AI-Era Reboot
Bloomberg · 2026-06-18
The billionaire behind Thoma Bravo is seeking to reassure investors that the private equity firm is ready to embrace AI — and that its losing bet on Medallia is a one-off.
- Sound Waves Give Neuromorphic Chips a Brain-Simulating Edge
IEEE Spectrum · 2026-06-18
By mimicking how the brain operates, neuromorphic computing can use dramatically less energy than conventional electronic AI chips.
- XGIMI MemoMind One review: Smart glasses, creepy AI
Engadget · 2026-06-18
XGIMI's MemoMind One is a good pair of smart glasses blighted by a creepy AI that spies on you.