BlackFog Brings Shadow AI Detection to macOS
June 18, 2026: BlackFog Brings Shadow AI Detection to macOS - BlackFog has launched ADX Vision for macOS, extending its shadow AI detection platform to Apple endpoints and enabling unified data-loss policies across Windows and Mac devices. The move addresses a significant security blind spot, as nearly half of employees use unapproved AI tools at work. Unlike...
Prem Raises $100M as AI Export Bans Surge
June 18, 2026: Prem Raises $100M as AI Export Bans Surge - Swiss AI startup Prem SA is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a valuation of at least $500 million, with the round expected to close in Q3. The company sells software for running AI models on private infrastructure, targeting hedge funds and law firms that cannot share sensitive data with ...
Bad Data Keeps Enterprise AI Stuck in Pilots
June 18, 2026: Bad Data Keeps Enterprise AI Stuck in Pilots - Enterprises have invested billions in AI infrastructure, yet most deployments remain stuck in experimentation. According to an IDC survey, 94% of IT leaders cite data quality as the primary factor in AI success, but most enterprise data remains unclassified, ungoverned and unfit for production workl...
Google's AI Control Roadmap Secures Agentic Systems
June 18, 2026: Google's AI Control Roadmap Secures Agentic Systems - Google has unveiled its AI Control Roadmap, a defense-in-depth security framework for managing advanced AI agents deployed internally. The system treats AI agents as potential insider threats, using trusted AI supervisors to monitor behavior, block harmful actions, and grant permissions incrementall...
Anthropic Pitches Deal to End AI Model Ban
June 18, 2026: Anthropic Pitches Deal to End AI Model Ban - Anthropic is negotiating with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to lift export controls on its powerful Mythos and Fable AI models, pledging closer cooperation with the Trump administration on security concerns. Cofounder Tom Brown and policy chief Sarah Heck are leading the talks, which sources say...
Claude Code Now Builds Live, Shareable Dashboards
June 18, 2026: Claude Code Now Builds Live, Shareable Dashboards - Anthropic has launched Artifacts for Claude Code, available to Team and Enterprise subscribers. The feature converts coding sessions into live, interactive HTML webpages that update in real time as Claude works autonomously or under user guidance. Teammates can view shared URLs to monitor dashboard...
Trump Claims Apple Will Partner With Intel on Chips
June 18, 2026: Trump Claims Apple Will Partner With Intel on Chips - President Trump announced on Truth Social that Apple has agreed to design and build chips with Intel, marking a potential major win for the struggling chipmaker. The deal is part of the White House's push to boost domestic chip manufacturing, and follows Intel's announcement that its advanced 18A-P ...
HPE's Neri: Five Bold Bets on AI's Future
June 18, 2026: HPE's Neri: Five Bold Bets on AI's Future - At HPE Discover in Las Vegas, CEO Antonio Neri reframed enterprise IT's role from operating technology to designing outcomes. His keynote outlined five key shifts: networks as AI performance multipliers, self-driving operations moving from concept to reality, and storage emerging as a critical bottl...
How to Disable Gemini AI in Google Docs
June 18, 2026: How to Disable Gemini AI in Google Docs - Google Docs now aggressively pushes Gemini AI features on users, including a persistent bottom bar and a "help me write" cursor overlay. You can remove the bottom bar by clicking "Gemini" in the top menu and selecting "bottom bar preferences." For a more complete fix, disable smart features across ...
OpenAI Recruits AI Legend and Trump Policy Insider
June 18, 2026: OpenAI Recruits AI Legend and Trump Policy Insider - OpenAI is adding major talent ahead of its IPO, hiring Google DeepMind veteran Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI official Dean Ball. Shazeer, a co-author of the landmark 2017 Transformer paper and ex-Character AI founder, departed Google after a $2.7 billion rehiring deal. Ball will lead...
Amazon Eyes Direct Nvidia Challenge With Trainium Sales
June 18, 2026: Amazon Eyes Direct Nvidia Challenge With Trainium Sales - Amazon Web Services is in early talks to sell its Trainium AI chips directly to other companies for use in data centers, marking a potential major challenge to Nvidia's dominance. CEO Andy Jassy estimated a standalone chips business could generate a $50 billion annual run rate. However, AWS faces s...
Adobe Embeds Agentic AI Across Creative Cloud Suite
June 18, 2026: Adobe Embeds Agentic AI Across Creative Cloud Suite - Adobe has launched a major expansion of its creative agent across Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io in public beta. The tool targets everyone from solo creators to enterprise marketing teams. Unlike basic generative AI tools, the agent acts as an orchestration layer, inte...
New AI Framework Outperforms Claude, Codex by 2.5x
June 18, 2026: New AI Framework Outperforms Claude, Codex by 2.5x - Researchers at Renmin University of China and Microsoft Research have developed Arbor, a framework that transforms AI optimization from trial-and-error guessing into a structured learning process. It organizes hypotheses, experiments, and insights into a tree structure, enabling the system to learn ...
Midjourney Pivots From AI Art to Body Scanners
June 18, 2026: Midjourney Pivots From AI Art to Body Scanners - Midjourney CEO David Holz has unveiled the company's first hardware product, a full-body ultrasound scanner called The Midjourney Scanner. The device uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical slices of the body, analyzing muscle, fat, bone, and organ composition. Holz described the scanner as targ...
Google vs Amazon: Two $99 AI Speakers Compared
June 18, 2026: Google vs Amazon: Two $99 AI Speakers Compared - Google announced the Home Speaker launching June 25 for $99, directly competing with Amazon's Echo Dot Max at the same price. Both feature generative AI assistants — Gemini for Home and Alexa+ respectively — capable of handling complex tasks and smart home control. Google's Gemini edges ahead on AI...
How to Finally Disable Google Docs AI Popups
June 18, 2026: How to Finally Disable Google Docs AI Popups - Google Docs now aggressively pushes Gemini AI features on users, including an intrusive bottom bar and a cursor-hovering write assistant. You can remove the bottom bar by clicking Gemini in the top menu and selecting bottom bar preferences. For a more complete fix, disable smart features across all...
Clean Data Beats Fast Storage for AI Readiness
June 18, 2026: Clean Data Beats Fast Storage for AI Readiness - Enterprises pursuing production-ready AI need clean, governed and well-understood data before infrastructure investments can deliver value, according to executives from Everpure and World Wide Technology. The conversation is shifting from hardware performance benchmarks to data preparation and consu...
Santa Barbara Workshop Builds AI From Smartphones
June 18, 2026: Santa Barbara Workshop Builds AI From Smartphones - Participants in WorkZones' first AI Builders SB workshop are creating personalized AI agents using only their smartphones. Spread across five sessions, attendees connect their AI assistants to advanced models and build messaging-based tools, gaining hands-on experience with the technology.
Ex-Cisco Researchers Launch AI Agent Security Startup
June 17, 2026: Ex-Cisco Researchers Launch AI Agent Security Startup - Former Cisco AI security researchers Barak Sternberg and Nevo Poran have launched Tenet Security, a platform designed to stop rogue AI agent behavior before it reaches live systems. Its core Agent-Side Simulation technology predicts an agent's next moves and intervenes if a path looks risky, address...
Anthropic Blindsided by Confusing AI Export Rules
June 17, 2026: Anthropic Blindsided by Confusing AI Export Rules - Anthropic spent much of the week scrambling to restore access to its newest AI models after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut off all foreign nationals, including users inside the US and its own employees. The sudden directive forced Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 a...
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