AI News Today — Part 1
Jun 26, 2026 · Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- Hanyang University researchers develop AI-designed shape-shifting microneedles for diabetic wound healing
Hanyang University researchers develop AI-designed shape-shifting microneedles for diabetic wound healing EurekAlert!
- Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow
"Returns on intuition": Why Anthropic no longer needs junior engineers and warns of an economic shock. The article Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow appeared first on The Decoder .
- Using AI to tackle global superbug crisis
Using AI to tackle global superbug crisis EurekAlert!
- Microsoft is turning Windows 11 into an AI operating system
For years, Microsoft has hyped Windows 11 cas an OS with AI, and the company is finally putting the building blocks in place for that transformation. Microsoft execs shared examples of how the company is integrating AI in Windows 11 at its Build event earlier this month, highlighting how AI models and agents will make the OS smarter, allowing users to interact with it using natural language and intent. Specifically, Windows 11 PCs will provide unmetered intelligence so users can run AI for free without a network connection. “No token cost. No sensitive data leaves the device. It also reduces latency,” Anastasiya Tarnouskaya, product manager for Windows ML, said during a Build session . Hardware makers introduced AI-capable hardware before the applications were available. But Tarnouskaya said more than 500 million PCs are already running local AI workloads. “Thanks to recent advancements in AI models, hardware, and the software stacks that run them, today, every Windows PC is becoming increasingly AI-capable,” she said. The AI experiences are blended into apps and the Windows UI, not working only as chatbots such as those offered by ChatGPT or Gemini. Microsoft Office, Photos and Teams already use on-device AI capabilities, with Outlook, for instance, summarizing emails using Microsoft’s Phi Silica model and a GPU on the PC. “And it’s not just developers that are betting on local AI…, [companies] from Adobe to WhatsApp are building some incredible local AI-powered experiences.” Tarnouskaya said. Other early adopters include Canva, Affinity, and Speechify. AI apps for Windows 11 proliferated after Microsoft shipped Windows ML last fall, she said. (Windows ML helps developers create offline AI applications without accessing cloud models. It maps applications, localized AI models and hardware such as GPUs and neural processors.) Windows ML is part of Microsoft’s “Foundry” portfolio of products, which includes Foundry Local for running open-source models on Windows devices, and Windows AI APIs that automate tasks such as conversation summarization, speech recognition, and video upscaling. Microsoft is also turning to AI agents to change how users interact with Windows 11. Users can describe a task through natural language, and a long-running agent will get to work and complete the action. “Windows is evolving into a platform where natural language can map to real system outcomes,” said Samantha Song, product manager for Windows at Microsoft. Song demonstrated how users could just tell or type how they want to personalize colors, wallpaper, or menus, and the agent will do it . “There is no manual set up against themes, setting or lighting. The system treats it as one coherent action,” Song said. For the effort to succeed, developers will need to create a skills file that maps how an agent behaves. That skill can then be reused over and over again, Song said. “At the enterprise level, you could imagine a world where a user switches into a secure finance mode, and the system aligns apps, access boundaries and environment automatically,” Song said. Microsoft also demonstrated how OpenClaw can be used to create personalized agents to run Windows functions. At Build, LLMware.ai demonstrated an agent on a Qualcomm laptop that collects Jira issues in real-time , summarizes them locally, and emails daily summaries of top issues to the team. The agent runs automatically without prompting. “You can get optimized performance on the NPU [neural processing unit] by running the model locally…and you also implement a scheduled run of your automated agents,” said Darren Oberst, co-founder of LLMWare.ai. Samsung, Lenovo and others are rolling out — albeit slowly and carefully — agentic AI features under the moniker of ‘personal AI,’” said Leonard Lee, principal analyst at Next Curve. “The problem is ensuring safe deployment,” he said. Microsoft’s efforts to embed AI in Windows will force enterprises to rethink hardware strategies, said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. And since AI chips excel at different tasks, Microsoft will have to support multiple chips to offer choice to enterprises, he said. “We recommend — and others do, too — that any new PC purchases, especially for enterprise, be done with this in mind and purchase AI PCs during any upgrade cycle,” Gold said.
Score: 95🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.computerworld.com/article/4189045/microsoft-is-turning-windows-11-into-an-ai-operating-system.html - Using AI to harness the gut microbiome for therapies
Using AI to harness the gut microbiome for therapies EurekAlert!
- Forget chatbots: Why Apple, Meta and OpenAI are racing toward 'Spatial AI'
Forget chatbots: Why Apple, Meta and OpenAI are racing toward 'Spatial AI' Tom's Guide
Score: 93🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/forget-chatbots-why-apple-meta-and-openai-are-racing-toward-spatial-ai - Canada's new law criminalizing sexualized AI deepfakes 'too little, too late,' woman says
Canada's new law criminalizing sexualized AI deepfakes 'too little, too late,' woman says CBC
Score: 92🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ai-deepfakes-new-canadian-law-intimate-images-criminal-code-9.7249071 - AI support tool improved clinician decisions in real-world primary care trial
AI support tool improved clinician decisions in real-world primary care trial EurekAlert!
- AI buildout reshapes global energy grids
In the US, data centers are boosting energy demand faster than the power network can expand.
Score: 90🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.semafor.com/article/06/26/2026/ai-buildout-reshapes-global-energy-grids - Insilico Medicine caps monumental week at BIO 2026: Secures landmark $2.5B partnership and dominates thought leadership
Insilico Medicine caps monumental week at BIO 2026: Secures landmark $2.5B partnership and dominates thought leadership EurekAlert!
- OpenAI Limits Access to New Models, Citing Government Security Concerns
The company said a White House review of AI releases shouldn’t become the norm.
- US allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to 'trusted' US organizations
US allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to 'trusted' US organizations Reuters
Score: 88🤖 ModelsJun 26, 2026https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-releases-anthropic-model-mythos-some-us-companies-semafor-reports-2026-06-26/ - Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed Police Drones
This is not science fiction. It’s not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones and robots , we have precious little time. In the absence of substantial regulation around when and how domestic law enforcement in the United States can deploy force using drones, the companies that markets technology to law enforcement have been moving. It’s past time concerned people take notice. Cities should not procure weaponized drones or robots, and multi-purpose drones and robots should be restricted from causing harm. Since 2021, EFF has been advocating against the use of armed robots or drones by law enforcement. This call has become more urgent as companies are moving in to take advantage of the lax regulatory landscape. This month, two disturbing developments raised concerns that we might be on the verge of a larger trend of drone militarization. The first is that the CEO of Skydio, one of the most prolific vendors of police drones in the United States, signaled that the company has a more permissive attitude toward arming their drones in some contexts than many people expected. When asked on a podcast about the public perception that the company had restrictions around letting the military arm their drones, CEO Adam Bry said , “This is an area where I’ve gotten some things wrong. We said some things previously that led folks externally and internally to believe that, for example, we would prevent the military from putting weapons on our drones […] It’s very easy to sit back in a Silicon Valley office and think that we’re very smart, that we know the technology, and the idea of using it for X, Y, or Z thing seems evil or bad, so we’re going to write a policy or ban people from doing it. I think that’s ultimately misguided.” Simply put: he is signaling that Skydio will not implement restrictions on their customers’ use of their devices. Bry was specifically asked about the military arming drones but the question reveals a disturbing truth: whether police arm drones domestically is currently based more on the internal ethical commitments of companies than it is any laws created by elected officials. Combining Skydio’s huge amount of police contracts , including supplying entire fleets for Drone as First Responders (DFR) programs, and the tendency of military technologies like surveillance aerostats to get redeployed on U.S. soil, creates a real recipe for the emergence of armed police drones. The other piece on the chess board to keep our eye on is the introduction of weaponized drones as a tool of school safety. A company called Campus Guardian Angel will run pilot programs in schools in Georgia and Florida in Fall 2026 to introduce drones that are designed to swarm, distract, crash into, and even shoot irritants at potential school shooters. This comes just years after a large national backlash that got the large police tech company Axon to pause its development of drones armed with tasers as a solution to school shootings. Although it may be obvious to some people, it’s worth saying again: antagonizing an active shooter with a small drone is a dangerous idea. In chaotic situations, deploying physical harm via drone is likely to get bystanders or good samaritans hurt by accident. It is also unproven that this technology will work to distract or deter an actual school shooter–especially when the demonstrations we see online revolve around crashing drones into stationary mannequins in pristine, controlled conditions. Another important question: What would happen if a potential shooter shoots at the small moving drone and endangers the people fleeing behind it? After all, in the demonstrations we’ve seen it is unclear if these drones have the ability to see what is behind them. This is an unproven and potentially dangerous method of combating the very serious problem of gun violence in schools, and it’s one that helps to normalize armed drones as a solution to other policing problems as well. These developments also mean It’s not enough to follow San Francisco’s lead, which became the first city to change its policy regarding how robots could be used in order to ban police from using deadly force via robots in 2022 . A robust and effective policy must include both drones and robots (not one or the other), and it has to explicitly prevent drones and robots from deploying any body harm — including deadly force and less-lethal measures like kinetic strikes, pepper spray, rubber bullets, or tasers. In addition, cities and states should not procure weaponized drones and robots. Since 2021, EFF has been advocating against the use of armed robots or drones by law enforcement. This call has become more urgent as companies are moving in to take advantage of the lax regulatory landscape. We cannot continue to rely solely on the good will of companies that make their money selling technology to police departments to protect us from dangerous police technology. Lawmakers need to act now.
Score: 88🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/lawmakers-must-act-now-prevent-armed-police-drones - OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request, says restrictions shouldn’t be the norm
“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” says OpenAI. “It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.”
- Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI Model Cleared by US for Wider Use
Anthropic PBC won US approval to restore some access to its powerful Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model, after resolving Trump administration concerns about the technology’s potential threats to national security.
- Samsung weighs W1,000tr chip, AI push beyond Seoul
Samsung Group is reportedly drawing up a long-term investment plan worth as much as 1,000 trillion won ($646 billion), as Korea seeks to turn its semiconductor and AI ambitions into a broader regional growth strategy. The plan, according to a local media report Friday, was discussed during a dinner meeting between President Lee Jae Myung and Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong at Cheong Wa Dae on Thursday. It is said to cover semiconductors, artificial intelligence, next-generation batteri
- Samsung to invest $650bn in AI
Samsung to invest $650bn in AI Arabian Business
Score: 88💰 MoneyJun 26, 2026https://www.arabianbusiness.com/business/technology/samsung-investment-ai - Pentagon sees broader role for AI in setting military targets
Pentagon sees broader role for AI in setting military targets The Straits Times
- NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI
NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.
- onsemi to buy Synaptics in $7bn bet on ‘physical AI’
onsemi is buying Synaptics in an all-stock deal worth about $7bn. The onsemi Synaptics deal bets that AI’s next wave lives not in the cloud, but in cars, factories and robots. The chip industry has spent three years building for AI that runs in giant data centres. Onsemi just placed a bet on the opposite […] This story continues at The Next Web
- ON Semiconductor Joins ‘Edge AI’ Market With $7 Billion Acquisition. The Stock Plummets.
ON Semiconductor Joins ‘Edge AI’ Market With $7 Billion Acquisition. The Stock Plummets. Barron's
Score: 86🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.barrons.com/articles/on-semiconductor-stock-synaptics-acquisition-fd060035 - Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)
Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out of single-supplier risk. The goal is less of a […]
- AI startup General Intuition raises $320 million from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Jeff Bezos
General Intuition describes itself as a "frontier lab for acting in space and time.” It focuses on the development of large action foundation models rather than conventional language models.
- Smuggled Nvidia AI Servers Now Cost Over $1 Million in China
Smuggled Nvidia AI Servers Now Cost Over $1 Million in China PCMag
Score: 85🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.pcmag.com/news/smuggled-nvidia-ai-servers-now-cost-over-1-million-in-china - DeepSeek Plans Major Hiring Spree After $7.4 Billion Funding Round
DeepSeek Plans Major Hiring Spree After $7.4 Billion Funding Round Caixin Global
- The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives Another Spree Of Megadeals
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives Another Spree Of Megadeals Crunchbase News
Score: 84🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-funding-rounds-ai-marketing-robotics-baseten/ - Proposed US law would make AI risk reporting a legal obligation
US lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill that would require developers of advanced AI models to report major safety and security incidents to the Commerce Department, establishing a federal oversight framework for high-risk AI systems. The proposed AI Incident Reporting Act would mandate that developers of designated “covered models” disclose incidents within seven days of knowing, or reasonably believing, that one has occurred. For incidents posing an imminent or ongoing risk of serious harm, the Commerce Department would have to notify congressional leadership and the chairs of relevant House and Senate committees within 48 hours after receiving the report. The bill directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish capability thresholds to determine which AI models and developers are subject to the reporting requirements. “AI is a powerful engine of innovation, and I want to see it flourish, but not without accountability and not without human oversight,” Moran said in a statement announcing the legislation. “The rule of law should apply to this new frontier. This legislation ensures that when something goes wrong with a high-capability AI system, the US Government has the information needed to act quickly.” Broad range of reportable incidents The proposal identifies a broad set of incidents that would require disclosure to the Commerce Department. According to the bill , developers would have to report attempts by covered AI models to evade human oversight, deceive operators, circumvent safeguards, resist shutdown, or obtain unauthorized access to systems or privileges. The reporting requirement would also apply to theft or attempted theft of model weights, capabilities that could materially enable offensive cyber operations against important software or critical infrastructure, autonomous development of more capable AI systems, and capabilities that could accelerate the development or use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive weapons. The legislation also directs the Commerce Department to develop the capability thresholds in consultation with AI developers, academic researchers, cybersecurity experts, national security officials, and other stakeholders before issuing implementation guidance. Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research, said the proposal would make reporting serious AI incidents a legal obligation rather than a voluntary practice for developers of frontier AI models. “The serious frontier developers already run the evaluations, the red-teaming and the escalation drills,” Gogia said. “What they have never faced at the federal level is a legal obligation to tell the government, on the clock, when a model behaves dangerously.” Reporting timelines and enforcement The bill requires covered developers to submit an initial report within seven days of discovering a reportable incident and supplemental reports as additional information becomes available. The legislation also authorizes the Commerce Department to investigate compliance, issue subpoenas, require corrective action, and impose civil penalties of up to $2 million for violations. Each day of a continuing violation would constitute a separate violation, the bill states. Gogia said implementation could hinge on how regulators define reporting triggers. “Capability thresholds are the visible difficulty, and not the deepest one. Thresholds decide which models enter the regime. Discovery decides whether the regime ever sees the fire,” he said. Drawing a comparison with cybersecurity regulations, he said reporting requirements should clearly define when an incident becomes reportable. “Cyber reporting has already taught the lesson. A vague trigger produces either silence or noise: firms stay quiet until they are certain, or they file everything and bury the signal,” Gogia said. Filling a gap, a recent dispute exposed The bill follows a US government action that exposed the absence of any such process. On June 12, the Commerce Department took action against the latest models from Anthropic, a US AI developer, on national security grounds, prompting the company to disable global access to those models . “Export control was the sledgehammer. This proposal is the search for a scalpel,” Gogia noted. The measure is a narrower alternative to the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act , a broader discussion draft released earlier in June that also routes critical safety incidents to Commerce. The Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation has separately signed agreements to evaluate leading models before deployment . Compliance burden falls on enterprises Gogia said the legal duty falls on the developer, but the operational cost reaches the customers. “Regulation may name the lab, but the bill for poor visibility is settled downstream,” he said. He said the hardest question is not which models qualify but when a reporting clock starts. “Thresholds decide which models enter the regime. Discovery decides whether the regime ever sees the fire,” he said, adding that a model can pass laboratory tests yet behave differently once connected to live tools and enterprise data. The bill exempts submitted reports from public disclosure requirements and states that submitting a report would not waive trade secret protections or attorney-client privilege. “The instinct behind this bill is sound, but the balance cannot be scored from a press release,” Gogia said. “The wording will decide everything.” The article originally appeared on CSO .
Score: 83🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.cio.com/article/4189918/proposed-us-law-would-make-ai-risk-reporting-a-legal-obligation-2.html - How is AI empowering healthcare in China?
How is AI empowering healthcare in China?
- Quantifind Announces $200 Million Growth Investment Led by Summit Partners to Advance AI-native Risk Intelligence and Governed Agentic Middleware for Modern Risk Operations
Quantifind Announces $200 Million Growth Investment Led by Summit Partners to Advance AI-native Risk Intelligence and Governed Agentic Middleware for Modern Risk Operations The Straits Times
- What is OpenAI and Broadcom’s ‘Jalapeño’ AI chip, and why does it matter?
What is OpenAI and Broadcom’s ‘Jalapeño’ AI chip, and why does it matter?
- China universities expand AI and strategic field enrolment
China universities expand AI and strategic field enrolment The Straits Times
Score: 81🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-top-universities-expand-enrolment-in-ai-strategic-fields - No brakes, no problem? Trump's DOT proposes new rules for driverless vehicles.
No brakes, no problem? Trump's DOT proposes new rules for driverless vehicles. Business Insider
Score: 81🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/no-brakes-trumps-dot-pedal-free-tesla-zoox-2026-6 - Anyverse Dynamics Raises Over $200 Million as China’s Robotics Funding Boom Accelerates
Anyverse Dynamics Raises Over $200 Million as China’s Robotics Funding Boom Accelerates Caixin Global
- Experience AI Announces 2026 Rollout to Deepen AI Education Across Nigerian Secondary Schools
NerdzFactory Company has announced the continuation of the Experience AI...
Score: 80🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://techpoint.africa/brandpress/experience-ai-announces-2026-rollout-to-deepen-ai-education/ - Abu Dhabi Biobank partners with BioTwin to advance AI-powered preventive healthcare
Abu Dhabi Biobank partners with BioTwin to advance AI-powered preventive healthcare Gulf News
- Inside India’s 90-day countdown for CBSE schools to embrace AI
The post Inside India’s 90-day countdown for CBSE schools to embrace AI appeared first on The Ken .
Score: 80🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://the-ken.com/story/inside-indias-90-day-countdown-for-cbse-schools-to-embrace-ai/ - Responsible, inclusive AI adoption will accelerate India’s journey towards a developed nation, says PM Modi
PM Modi said AI, when combined with human judgement and ethical practices, can improve efficiency, strengthen compliance and drive innovation across sectors
- Industry Voices—What Pope Leo’s AI encyclical could mean for healthcare: 3 key takeaways for leaders
The papal letter’s guidance on artificial intelligence can provide competitive, legal, reputational and financial benefits to healthcare organizations, faith-based and otherwise, legal experts from Epstein Becker Green write.
- RBI’s draft guidelines push banks toward AI kill switches and board oversight
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on June 24, 2026, released the draft Guidance on Regulatory Principles for Model Risk Management, 2026 for public comments until July 24. The comprehensive […] The post RBI’s draft guidelines push banks toward AI kill switches and board oversight appeared first on Express Computer .
- NATO's C2 centre chief on AI and lessons from Ukraine
"Ukraine has really been a game changer for command and control."
Score: 79🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.thestack.technology/nato-c2-centre-chief-on-ai-and-lessons-from-ukraine/ - Italy to join US-led Pax Silica AI initiative despite Trump spat
Italy to join US-led Pax Silica AI initiative despite Trump spat Reuters
Score: 79🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.reuters.com/world/china/italy-join-us-led-pax-silica-ai-initiative-despite-trump-row-2026-06-26/ - LLMs help robots understand vague instructions and focus on key details
To help robots do chores in places like homes and factories, a new approach from MIT uses one language model to clarify users’ instructions, then another to ignore irrelevant info.
Score: 79🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://news.mit.edu/2026/llms-help-robots-understand-vague-instructions-and-focus-key-details-0626 - India’s AI ambitions hit as US curbs access to key Anthropic models
India's reliance on foreign-controlled advanced AI models, like Anthropic's, is under scrutiny after a US government directive suspended access. Experts warn this highlights a significant vulnerability, potentially hindering India's ambition to become an AI power. The incident underscores the need for stronger domestic capabilities and strategic infrastructure to avoid being merely an adopter of technologies controlled elsewhere, emphasizing the geopolitical implications of frontier AI.
- Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants launch Akrites to fix open-source flaws before AI-powered attacks hit
About twenty tech companies, AI labs, and banks are joining forces through Akrites to fix vulnerabilities in critical open-source software before AI tools can exploit them. The article Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants launch Akrites to fix open-source flaws before AI-powered attacks hit appeared first on The Decoder .
- India-US hold roundtable to deepen AI, chips, critical minerals cooperation
India and the United States held a closed-door roundtable bringing together senior government officials and industry leaders to strengthen cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductor supply chains and critical minerals, as both countries seek to deepen their strategic technology partnership.
- ‘Digital ID cards’: China moves to regulate AI agents with unified identity system
China is establishing an identity system for artificial intelligence agents, as part of new national standards released on Friday to regulate the next frontier of autonomous technology. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) unveiled the standard for “Artificial Intelligence Agent Interconnection”, aiming to establish a “closed-loop system” with a unified identity management framework for all AI agents, according to a report from state broadcaster China Central Television...
- India led the world’s biggest AI Summit; now comes the hard part
India's recent AI summit showcased global leadership, but a critical data infrastructure gap hinders enterprises. Poor data quality and outdated governance frameworks prevent AI from delivering consistent, trustworthy results. Leaders must now shift from treating governance as a checkpoint to embedding it as operational infrastructure to ensure AI's reliable execution and compliance with evolving regulations, paving the way for true AI-driven transformation.
- Anthropic accuses Alibaba of biggest Claude cloning attempt, seeks tougher US action
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of biggest Claude cloning attempt, seeks tougher US action
- Anthropic backs new AI regulations in Massachusetts that would be among strictest in nation
Anthropic backs new AI regulations in Massachusetts that would be among strictest in nation The Boston Globe
Score: 78🌐 MovesJun 26, 2026https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/26/business/anthropic-massachusetts-ai-regulations-bill/ - Artificial intelligence in breast pathology: Recent advances in multimodal models, explainability, and clinical applications
Artificial intelligence in breast pathology: Recent advances in multimodal models, explainability, and clinical applications EurekAlert!