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Virtual influencer market on track to hit $60B by 2030 as AI avatars flood feeds
AI-generated creators are getting indistinguishable from real influencers, and platforms have no clear policy for accounts that aren't quite people.
Nashville shooting survivor sues Omnilert over AI gun detection failure
A January 2025 Nashville school shooting left two dead after the district's $1M+ AI camera system failed to spot the weapon.
Nvidia takes RTX Spark to Korea's PC bangs with KRAFTON, NC and T1
Jensen Huang demoed the new superchip alongside Faker and KRAFTON's chairman, pitching 1440p at 100+ fps on slim laptops.
OpenAI ships Lockdown Mode to blunt prompt injection attacks in ChatGPT
The new setting disables live browsing, image retrieval, deep research, and agent mode for accounts handling sensitive data.
Trump administration in talks to take equity stake in OpenAI
The White House is discussing a government equity position in AI companies, with proceeds potentially seeding OpenAI's proposed Public Wealth Fund.
Sriram Krishnan exits White House AI advisor role after 18 months
The former a16z partner who helped author the AI Action Plan plans to build an outside institution shaping Trump AI policy.
Shelbyville mayor calls data center opponents' homes 'shitty' on camera
Scott Furgeson dismissed yard-sign protests against a $2 billion build as coming from rentals; residents pushed back on local TV.
Meta kills AI clickbait feed after questions about fake royal stories
The Meta AI app's For You section generated fake articles with images of two Queen Elizabeth IIs; Meta says it will deprecate the feature.
S&P 500 refuses to bend rules for SpaceX, blocking OpenAI and Anthropic too
S&P Dow Jones Indices kept its profitability and seasoning rules intact, denying $14B in passive buying to SpaceX and shutting the door on AI IPOs.
Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month to rent xAI compute capacity
The 32-month deal covers 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and lands one week before SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO on the Nasdaq.
Fitbit Air ships at $100 with a chatty Gemini-powered Health Coach
Google's screenless $100 tracker nails the basics, but its always-on AI Health Coach hallucinates workouts and buries the off switch.
New York passes one-year data center moratorium, awaits Hochul signature
The bill would be the first statewide ban of its kind, freezing projects above 20 megawatts while the state studies AI infrastructure impacts.
Enterprises blow past 2026 AI token budgets by 3x, scramble for controls
Uber burned its full-year AI coding budget by April. One company racked up a $500M Claude bill. The FinOps reckoning has arrived.
Quilty bets AI can predict box-office hits — and gets Sinners wrong
The startup's script-scoring tool rated flop Christy above Sinners, which grossed $370 million and won an Oscar.
About 90 investors hold stakes in both OpenAI and Anthropic
Sequoia, Greylock, Founders Fund and dozens more are backing both AI labs as valuations approach $1 trillion each.
AI companies pivot to serif fonts to look more human
Anthropic, Perplexity, Runway, and Manus have all moved to serifs — a design choice critics are calling "tasteslop."
Meta's AI support agent handed over Instagram accounts to attackers who just asked
Attackers told Meta's AI customer support agent to change the email on target Instagram accounts — including the dormant Obama White House handle — and it complied.
Huang says robotics is South Korea's next big sector
Nvidia's CEO frames Korea's industrial base as the launchpad for physical AI, hinting at unannounced partnerships in Seoul.
Jensen Huang lands in Seoul to lock in Korea's AI supply chain
Nvidia's CEO arrives in South Korea after GTC Taipei with Grace Blackwell shipping and Vera Rubin in full production.
Mira Murati surfaces at Thinking Machines with a new bet on real-time AI
The former OpenAI CTO previewed 'interaction models' that process audio, text, and video in 200-millisecond intervals — her first major appearance in 18 months.
Robotics researchers warn humanoid demo videos hide teleoperation and cherry-picked runs
Agility's Jonathan Hurst and Berkeley's Sergey Levine say viral humanoid clips routinely mask human control, replayed environments, and sped-up footage.
Anthropic's Daniela Amodei defends AI economics as IPO filing lands
Annualized revenue hit $47B in May, up from $9B at the end of 2025, as the co-founder pitches public markets on frontier-model economics.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is starting his own AI lab
Chesky stays on as Airbnb CEO while funding a new model lab focused on user interaction and design — putting him in quiet competition with Sam Altman.
Anthropic files to go public at $965B, beating OpenAI to the IPO window
Anthropic, SpaceX-owned xAI, and OpenAI are all racing to list — and San Francisco realtors are now pricing homes in pre-IPO stock.
Estonia's new benchmark ranks Claude Opus 4.7 best at resisting Russian propaganda
The Estonian Language Institute scored dozens of LLMs across 14 propaganda categories; Anthropic took six of the top 10 spots.
Musk petitions FTC to end X privacy order running through 2042
X argues the 20-year monitoring deal is obsolete after merging into xAI and SpaceX; public commenters are urging the FTC to refuse.
Kevin O'Leary halves Utah's Project Stratos data center to 20,000 acres
After pressure from Utah's Senate president, O'Leary will cut 19,430 acres — but the footprint still exceeds Manhattan.
Apple approves Poke as first AI agent on Messages for Business
The Palo Alto startup will pay Apple per user to run inside iMessage, opening a new distribution channel and a new Apple revenue line.
Meta is building data centers in tents to keep up with AI compute demand
Six 125,000-square-foot rapid-deployment structures outside New Albany, Ohio, powered by 200 MW of off-grid gas turbines.
Apple to unveil Gemini-powered Siri rebuild at WWDC 2026
The conversational Siri overhaul, an AI agent app store, and Visual Intelligence upgrades headline Apple's developer conference Monday.
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