AI News Archive: June 2, 2026 — Part 20
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- Hackers stole high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta AI nicely
A staggering security oversight in Meta's AI support chatbot allowed attackers to bypass verification entirely.
- Hackers tricked Instagram AI into letting them take over high-profile accounts [Video]
Hackers managed to trick Meta’s AI-powered support bot into allowing them to take over a number of Instagram accounts, including some high-profile ones. This included accounts belonging to the White House, US Space Force, and security researcher Jane Wong. On a more positive note, the social network is experimenting with a way of blocking teenage users from repeated exposure to content likely to impact their mental health … more…
- Instagram users locked out after Meta AI abused to steal accounts
Multiple Instagram users had their accounts hijacked after attackers convinced Meta's AI-powered support tools that they were the legitimate owners. [...]
- OpenAI Really Doesn’t Like the Attention Its Co-Founder’s Political Donations Are Getting
OpenAI released a statement distancing itself from a pro-AI super PAC backed by President Greg Brockman and his wife.
- Mission Critical Group Opens Third Pennsylvania Manufacturing Facility to Support Growing AI and Data Center Infrastructure Demand
Mission Critical Group Opens Third Pennsylvania Manufacturing Facility to Support Growing AI and Data Center Infrastructure Demand Toronto Star
- Salesforce acquires German-founded AI platform Contentful
The Information reported that the acquisition deal cost Salesforce between $1bn and $1.5bn. Read more: Salesforce acquires German-founded AI platform Contentful
- Inside OpenAI’s Decision to Combine Codex and ChatGPT
Inside OpenAI’s Decision to Combine Codex and ChatGPT The Information
- OpenAI putting Codex inside ChatGPT app everywhere, releasing 6 business plugins
OpenAI continues to push Codex beyond an agentic coding desktop app to a general productivity tool for everyone. As part of that effort, the company shared three enterprise-focused Codex updates today. Additionally, OpenAI says it will soon put Codex functionality inside the ChatGPT app everywhere. more…
- Salesforce’s Anthropic Stake Reaches $5 Bn Ahead of AI Startup’s IPO Filing
The company confidentially filed for an IPO on June 1, setting the stage for one of the most closely watched public offerings in the AI sector.
- SK Hynix to Double Capacity as AI Strains Memory Supply
SK Hynix to Double Capacity as AI Strains Memory Supply The Information
- SK Hynix ascends as new memory king with high-bandwidth AI chips
SK Hynix ascends as new memory king with high-bandwidth AI chips Nikkei Asia
- Chipmaker SK Hynix to double wafer capacity in 5 years to meet AI demand
Chipmaker SK Hynix to double wafer capacity in 5 years to meet AI demand Nikkei Asia
- Chinese super-app could get an AI agent
A public launch could happen as soon as this month.
- FirstFT: Tencent moves closer to launching AI agent for WeChat
Also in today’s newsletter: China’s hunt for US tungsten, and India Inc gears up for nuclear energy push
- Tencent shares jump 10% on expectations of AI agent within WeChat super app
Shares of Tencent Holdings surged 10 per cent on Tuesday, driven by investor optimism over reports that the Chinese tech giant is close to launching an artificial intelligence agent within its super app WeChat. Tencent was testing a prototype AI agent for the WeChat ecosystem, which boasts 1.4 billion active users, and planned to start the compliance process as soon as this month for a public launch, according to a report by the Financial Times on Tuesday, citing anonymous sources. The company...
- Tencent shares rise on WeChat AI agent report
WeChat had 4.1 million registered mini programs and 935 million active WeChat Pay users in 2023.
- Adobe is rebuilding Photoshop and Premiere to run on NVIDIA's new AI superchip
The companies say the overhaul will deliver up to 2x faster AI and graphics performance across creative workflows
- Nvidia wants to supercharge your laptop
Jensen Huang is bringing the firm’s AI act to the PC
- Nvidia ‘reinvents PC’ with AI chip that replaces mouse and keyboard
Personal AI computer reimagines PC for first time in 40 years, Nvidia boss says
- Nvidia bets on AI personal computers with new 'superchip' powering Windows laptops
Nvidia bets on AI personal computers with new 'superchip' powering Windows laptops San Francisco Chronicle
- Nvidia bets on AI personal computers with new 'superchip' powering Windows laptops
Nvidia bets on AI personal computers with new 'superchip' powering Windows laptops Houston Chronicle
- Nvidia bets on AI personal computers with new 'superchip' powering Windows laptops
Nvidia has unveiled powerful new chips to bring advanced artificial intelligence to Windows laptops and desktops
- Archestra.AI raises $10M to unlock next-gen agentic use case
A startup whose tech allows enterprises to connect sensitive data to AI agents has raised $10m in a seed funding round, led by Harry Stebbings’ 20VC, a new investor in the startup.The funding round in...
- Oplane raises €4.5M to bring security to AI development teams
Swedish cybersecuritystartup Oplane has raised €4.5 million in seed funding to help engineeringteams address the security risks emerging from AI-assisted softwaredevelopment. The round was led by Seed...
- AI trillion-dollar boom: Why India missed the biggest wealth-creation story of the decade
The AI wave has not merely created new products. It has minted trillions of dollars in market value and transformed a handful of technology firms into wealth-compounding machines.
- Microsoft turns its back on Claude Code, asks employees to use Github Copilot instead: Report
Microsoft has instructed its employees to stop using Claude Code and instead transition to GitHub Copilot. The company had first started giving access to Claude Code to employees in December last year.
- Cadence Launches Autonomous AI Engineer for Chip Design
Cadence said the AI agent can cut semiconductor verification cycles from five weeks to less than a day.
- Coforge Launches Nexa Agentic Platform for Insurers
Discover Coforge's Nexa agentic platform, designed to automate underwriting, claims, and legacy modernization for insurers. Explore AI-driven solutions today!
- Zoom Launches AI Assistant ZoomMate to Turn Meetings Into Actions
ZoomMate can search enterprise data, automate workflows, generate presentations and reports and perform actions across platforms such as Salesforce, Jira, Slack, ServiceNow, Google Workspace and Microsoft tools.
- Zoom launches ZoomMate to turn conversations into completed work
Zoom Communications announced the launch of ZoomMate, an agentic AI work surface to help people move from workplace conversations to execution without losing context along the way. Built on Zoom’s system of action vision announced in March, ZoomMate connects live conversational context to agentic search, workflow execution, custom agents, and AI content creation. The post Zoom launches ZoomMate to turn conversations into completed work appeared first on Express Computer .
- Snowflake, Anthropic Expand Cortex AI to Push Agentic AI into Enterprise Core
The expanded partnership will support a range of enterprise use cases using Claude tools within Snowflake’s ecosystem.
- Snowflake for AI: Put Enterprise AI to Work
Explore Snowflake for AI and see how Snowflake CoWork (formerly Snowflake Intelligence) helps enterprises deploy AI agents, train models, automate workflows, and govern AI at scale.
- Snowflake Unveils New AI and Governance Stack to Power Autonomous Enterprise Agents
Snowflake the AI Data Cloud company, today announced at Snowflake Summit 26 a broad set of innovations that help organizations accelerate the shift to the agentic enterprise. Across Snowflake CoCo, Snowflake CoWork, Snowflake Horizon Catalog, and Snowflake’s interoperable data platform, Snowflake is helping organizations build, govern, and operationalize AI on a single, connected, and trusted foundation. As enterprises move from AI experimentation […] The post Snowflake Unveils New AI and Governance Stack to Power Autonomous Enterprise Agents appeared first on CXOToday.com .
- Snowflake adds new AI services while continuing to build relationships with key model providers
In the era of artificial intelligence, some companies have struggled to adopt artificial intelligence and others have pivoted to an AI framework that has yielded positive results. Snowflake Inc. this week confirmed it’s firmly in the latter category. The cloud data platform giant took what amounted to a victory lap during its annual Snowflake Summit […] The post Snowflake adds new AI services while continuing to build relationships with key model providers appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- AI agents, open data and governance take center stage at Snowflake Summit
Snowflake Inc. is using its Summit 2026 conference today in San Francisco to present a vision of what it calls the “agentic enterprise,” unveiling a broad set of products and enhancements that it says help organizations build, govern and operate artificial intelligence systems on top of trusted enterprise data. The announcements span data interoperability, AI […] The post AI agents, open data and governance take center stage at Snowflake Summit appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Snowflake and Anthropic accelerate enterprise AI adoption driven by rising demand for governed AI
Together, Snowflake and Anthropic are helping enterprises move from AI experimentation to production faster
- AI-driven cyber threats are shrinking response windows: Can India keep up?
As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, Cert-In is pushing faster remediation and automation. The challenge is whether enterprises can respond quickly enough
- Unitree passes review for Shanghai IPO
The company plans to raise 4.2 billion yuan (US$621 million) for research and development, new products, and a manufacturing base.
- Mayo Clinic and Microsoft collaborate to develop a frontier AI model for healthcare
The post Mayo Clinic and Microsoft collaborate to develop a frontier AI model for healthcare appeared first on Source .
- Mayo Clinic and Microsoft collaborate to develop a frontier AI model for healthcare
Mayo Clinic and Microsoft collaborate to develop a frontier AI model for healthcare EurekAlert!
- Announcing the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge
ARC has teamed up with AIcrowd to launch the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge , a contest to improve upon our estimation algorithms for random MLPs . The warm-up round begins this week, and later rounds will have a total prize pool of at least $100,000. We are very grateful to Sharada Mohanty, Sneha Nanavati, Dipam Chakraborty and everyone else at AIcrowd for working with us to host this contest, as well as to Paul Rosu for testing the contest and to Harshita Khera for operational support. Introduction to the Challenge Our challenge follows the same setup as our recent paper on wide random MLPs: we consider MLPs with weights , defined by where the activation function is , applied coordinatewise. To begin with, we are fixing the width and the number of hidden layers , but we expect to change this setup in future rounds. [1] Contestants must design an algorithm that takes in a set of weights and produces an estimate for the expected output Algorithms will be evaluated on MLPs with randomly-sampled Gaussian weights. The goal is to achieve as low mean squared error as possible, subject to certain computational constraints. We have devised a FLOP-counting scheme with AIcrowd to minimize any advantage from using heavily optimized numerical kernels, allowing participants to focus on higher-level algorithm design instead. This scheme may still have a few rough edges remaining, but we hope to round these out over the course of the warm-up round. For further details, please see the challenge website . Why run this contest? In the long run, we would like to answer questions about highly intelligent AI systems such as, "Are there unusual situations in which the system would undermine human control?". Running the system on a huge number of different inputs may not be a reliable way to answer such questions, since a highly intelligent system may not fall for our "honey pots". This why we are interested in white-box approaches that leverage our access to the model's internals. Ultimately, of course, we should use whichever methods perform the best. Unfortunately, designing highly performant white-box estimation methods for trained networks is challenging, even for tiny models . ARC's bet is that we can build up to this challenge by first producing performant white-box estimation methods for randomly-initialized networks, and then figuring out how those methods can be adapted with each step of training. However, even this first step remains incomplete. In our recent paper , we produced white-box methods that outperform black-box methods for MLPs with large width, but they break down as the depth grows, and we are very confident that our methods can be significantly improved. By running this contest, we hope to spur others to discover such improvements. Even though "white-box" is in the name of the challenge, contestants are permitted to use any methods they choose, whether white-box or black-box: as stated above, we ultimately want the best-performing algorithm. However, we strongly expect the best possible algorithms for this problem to be "mechanistic" (i.e., to avoid black-box sampling entirely), mirroring our existing results in the large width setting. Use of LLMs We encourage contestants to use LLMs to whatever extent helps them improve their submissions the most. In later rounds, there will be two kinds of prize: one for the best-performing submission, and one for our favorite algorithmic contribution described in a technical report. Especially for the latter kind of prize, contestants may benefit from having a good understanding of any LLM-written code themselves, but the rules of the contest do not require this. In fact, exploring LLM usage is another motivation for holding the contest. Thanks to how our research has developed, it now looks possible to make progress on some of our core problems by hill-climbing on well-defined metrics, which is exciting to us. [2] At the same time, the ability of LLMs to make considerable progress on such problems is improving rapidly, and we want to position ourselves to take full advantage of this. We are not sure whether we will be able to draw generalizable insights from strong submissions that are primarily LLM-written, but we think putting LLMs to work on the problem is a worthwhile experiment nonetheless. As a word of caution, our FLOP-counting utility is definitely hackable in ways that would be very unambiguously hacking once pointed out, such as by modifying constants or counts held in memory. Contestants are responsible for ensuring that their submissions do not hack our FLOP-counting utility, regardless of whether or how they choose to use LLMs. To all contestants: good luck! The contest setup is actually slightly different in that it omits the final linear layer, but this makes essentially no difference. ↩︎ We have previously offered prizes for solutions to problems, but they have either been more pedagogical or less central to our agenda. ↩︎ Discuss
- “AI is now useful”: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks a new era for AI is here - and its partnership with Microsoft could be key for achieving it
Now that AI is actually proving useful, more and more of us will actually benefit, Nvidia CEO says.
- Workday launches Agent Passport to test and monitor AI agents in the enterprise
Workday is aiming to help customers to develop and deploy agentic systems without compromising corporate security or compliance, unveiling a series of AI tools at its DevCon event this week. Chief among them is Agent Passport, which validates an agent’s safety and compliance both before it is deployed, and continuously during its operation. When an agent attempts a task, Agent Passport can allow, block, or route the action appropriately, and problem agents can be stopped or restricted, based on company policy. Agents will be vetted for a series of risks, including prompt injection, jailbreak and goal hijacking, system prompt extraction, leaks of employee data, and unsafe outputs. Those tests will be tied to public standards such as Mitre ATLAS, and will be performed by security partners, not by Workday. Security teams can view those attestations, receiving a signed, auditable record of who tested the agent, and what it was tested for. Because every check is tied to a public standard, security teams can compare agents from different vendors, tested by different partners, on the same terms. The sole testing partner at launch is Cisco. “It’s difficult to really get ramped up in a standard with a lot of partners in the mix, so we want to get this right with just ourselves and Cisco,” said Workday CTO Gabe Monroy. “We’ll be rolling it out more broadly soon.” No-one to blame There are still questions to be worked out. For example, if an agent that has been tested and received its compliance stamps from a tester misbehaves, who’s on the hook? That, said Monroy, is something “we’re still wrestling with with our partners.” Agent Passport will be available in early access in the third quarter, with general availability expected before year end. DevCon also saw the launch of Developer Agent, which enables developers to easily build AI apps and agents, and Agent-Ready Tools, a new class of enterprise connectors created for autonomous agents. Agent-Ready Tools provide agents with precise, easy-to-navigate business logic and context while reducing hallucination and latency, Workday said. They connect to act across Workday through open standards such as MCP. For agents that need to work beyond Workday, developers can use pre-built Pipedream connectors to create custom agent actions and expose them as Agent-Ready Tools. Developer Agent plugs into a dev’s agentic development tool of choice, be it Claude Code, Cline, Codex, Cursor, or Google Antigravity, and can also be used to create and deploy custom agents for the Workday platform with the open AgentSkills standard (OASS). Using it, a developer can simply type a request such as “Build an agent that alerts finance when a department is trending to go over budget this quarter,” and Developer Agent will choose the appropriate Agent-Ready Tools, connect to the necessary data and services, and pull in any required documentation and examples to complete the task. Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools are available to early access customers through Workday Extend Professional, with general availability planned for the second half of 2026.
- Workday introduces new capabilities for building and verifying AI agents
Workday Inc. today announced new capabilities aimed at providing developers new ways to build on top of its platform using their own tools. During DevCon 2026, the company’s annual developer conference, Workday unveiled a new Developer Agent and Agent-Ready Tools to take developers from simple requests directly to working apps or agents within minutes. The […] The post Workday introduces new capabilities for building and verifying AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- FTC broadens Microsoft probe to cloud, AI, and software bundling
Microsoft continues to face scrutiny over its alleged antitrust practices, with new details coming to light about what, exactly, the federal government is investigating about the tech giant. According to new information revealed by The Verge , the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is gathering information about Microsoft’s business agreements, licensing arrangements, and the interoperability of its various products. It has also been looking into Microsoft’s bundling practices, particularly around AI, security, and software, including Windows and Office. This development is the latest in a year-and-a-half-long probe into whether Redmond is illegally monopolizing several markets and purposely making it more difficult, expensive, or near-impossible to use its products on competitors’ cloud infrastructure. This could put the tech giant in violation of the FTC Act which was passed in 1914 to promote industry competition. Detailed questions around competitive pressure, AI bundling The FTC launched its probe into Microsoft in November 2024 and amped it up earlier this year , issuing civil investigative demands (CIDs) to more than a half dozen of the tech giant’s competitors in the business software and cloud computing markets. US government agencies use these powerful, subpoena-like mandates to investigate potential violations of civil law, and they typically (but not always) precede formal complaints or lawsuits. New reports reveal that the CIDs ask a range of questions (generally more than 15, some with multiple parts) centered around Microsoft’s licensing and other business practices. In what seems an attempt to learn more about the cloud industry, the FTC is also asking for information on the competitors’ organizational charts, product roadmaps, business and marketing strategies, and detailed plans around bundling, pricing, discounting, and profitability. Additional questions seem to focus on the difficulties competitors face in breaking into a Microsoft-dominated market, requesting information about factors such as costs and barriers to entry or expansion. The CIDs ask about Redmond’s impact on competition, and solicit any documentation that explicitly reveals its policies, bundling, and interoperability practices. Further, the mandates seek information about industry AI offerings , particularly the combining of extra features and services with long-standing products like Microsoft 365. But that’s not the extent of the investigation; the FTC has also been scrutinizing Microsoft’s data centers, capacity constraints, and AI research and spending. Notably, the company has made a multi-billion-dollar investment in OpenAI, rolling out ChatGPT-powered features and slowly scaling back its own AI research. That partnership could potentially reduce competition, and even indicate an undisclosed merger that should have gone through antitrust review. The saga continues The FTC initially issued a CID to Microsoft in late 2024, requiring it to turn over data about its operations over a near 10 year period (from 2016 to 2025). The federal agency seems to be particularly interested in the tech giant’s long-standing practice of bundling productivity (Office) and security software with cloud services, and whether it structures licensing in a way that impedes customers from switching to rival services. If the company is proven to exploit its dominance in cloud computing and cybersecurity to put competitors at a disadvantage, this could constitute unfair practices and violate antitrust laws. Microsoft has long faced allegations of product tying and restrictive practices. For example, its Listed Providers program does not allow some Microsoft on premises software to be deployed on certain hosted cloud services, such as those offered by rivals Amazon, Google, and Alibaba. Excluded products and apps include Microsoft Office, M365, Windows desktop OS, Windows Server, and Visual Studio. Previously, they could be deployed in dedicated cloud environments, but Microsoft restricted this option in October 2019 to licenses purchased with the addition of Software Assurance (SA) and mobility rights. In other instances, Microsoft seems to make the purchase of its Microsoft 365 E5 top-tier subscription plan the only “viable short-term economic choice” compared to cheaper options like Microsoft 365 E3, said Scott Bickley , advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group. “Microsoft embodies the mantra of ‘beg forgiveness versus asking permission’ and leverages its scale to force bundled products upon its customer base,” he said. The current investigation was initiated under former FTC chair Linda Khan and traces back to the Biden administration. But Microsoft has dealt with antitrust issues going back nearly 30 years, and was forced to unbundle Internet Explorer from the Windows OS in 1998 after accusations from the Department of Justice. Still, Bickley said, “their tactics have stayed remarkably the same.” Concerns going forward will no doubt center around bundling or integrations of AI services like Copilot or OpenAI, for which the consumption metrics will be “ambiguous” and the services “difficult, if not impossible, to disable for IT administrators,” he said. Ultimately, he noted, “to say MSFT is a serial offender with regard to stretching the limits of anti-trust law would be the understatement of the century.” This article originally appeared on CIO.com .
- AI brings object-level vision prosthetics closer to reality
EPFL researchers are developing AI models that could one day enable vision prosthetics able to restore meaningful, object-level sight for the blind. The research, from the NeuroAI Lab of Martin Schrimpf, part of EPFL's Schools of Computer and Communication Sciences and Life Sciences, uses AI models to predict exactly where to stimulate the brain to evoke images of faces and specific objects in the users instead of simply evoking spots of light.
- Nvidia chief, SK Group's Chey meet in Taipei to discuss AI memory chip cooperation
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of US chip giant Nvidia, met with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won in Taipei to discuss the future of cooperation in artificial intelligence memory, SK Group said Tuesday. The meeting took place in Taipei on Monday, according to a post on SK Group's Facebook account. Both executives were in the Taiwanese capital to attend Computex, one of Asia's largest technology trade shows. "With SK hynix reaching a market capitalization of US$1 trillion, the executives of
- Nvidia chief, SK Group Chey meet in Taipei to discuss AI memory chip cooperation
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of US chip giant Nvidia Corp., met with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won in Taipei to discuss the future of cooperation in artificial intelligence memory, SK Group said Tuesday. The meeting took place in Taipei on Monday, according to a post on SK Group's Facebook account. Both executives were in the Taiwanese capital to attend Computex, one of Asia's largest technology trade shows. "With SK hynix reaching a market capitalization of $1 trillion, the executives
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang to make Korean TV debut during Seoul visit
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will appear on the popular Korean television talk show "You Quiz on the Block," adding another high-profile event to a week that includes meetings with some of South Korea's most influential business leaders. TvN said Tuesday that Huang had confirmed his appearance on the program hosted by Yoo Jae-suk. The episode is scheduled to air in June. The announcement comes as Huang prepares to visit Korea later this week following Nvidia's GTC Taipei conference. He is expected to
- Chinese labs with ties to military seeking Nvidia’s AI chips
Chinese labs with ties to military seeking Nvidia’s AI chips The Japan Times