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06/18/2026

In an interview with Bloomberg, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said some companies testing Mythos warned the system felt like a “super weapon” and argued access should be controlled like a gun license.

Anthropic says Mythos can find and exploit software flaws at a level beyond most human experts, and has already discovered thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers.

Source: Bloomberg Originals

Utah is testing AI chatbots for prescription refills, raising new questions about AI’s role in healthcare. Utah’s pilot ...
06/18/2026

Utah is testing AI chatbots for prescription refills, raising new questions about AI’s role in healthcare.

Utah’s pilot with startup Doctronic allows an AI system to help renew existing prescriptions for certain non-controlled drugs, including common medicines for chronic conditions.

Doctors and medical groups are pushing back, warning that AI prescribing could create safety, transparency and liability risks.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Poland’s state-backed Vinci fund has invested $11 million in ElevenLabs, giving the government a minority stake in the $...
06/18/2026

Poland’s state-backed Vinci fund has invested $11 million in ElevenLabs, giving the government a minority stake in the $11 billion AI audio startup.

The deal also launches AI Lab Poland, a new national program designed to help early-stage AI startups with funding, mentorship, and access to ElevenLabs’ global investor and customer network.

Source: Elevenlabs

Meta has reportedly reassigned 30–50% of engineers on some core product teams to AI feedback work.The engineers were mov...
06/18/2026

Meta has reportedly reassigned 30–50% of engineers on some core product teams to AI feedback work.

The engineers were moved into an internal group called Agent Data Optimization, where they review AI-generated GitHub repos and give feedback to improve Meta’s AI systems.

Infrastructure and security teams were reportedly among the hardest hit, with some small teams losing several engineers.

Source: Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?/The Pragmatic Engineer

Apple plans to raise prices on its products as surging memory chip costs pressure the company, CEO Tim Cook told The Wal...
06/18/2026

Apple plans to raise prices on its products as surging memory chip costs pressure the company, CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal.

Cook said price hikes are now “unavoidable.”

He said Apple has tried to protect customers from higher costs, but the situation is no longer sustainable.

Apple has not said when prices will rise or which products will be affected. Memory chips are used in iPhones, Macs and other devices.

If Apple raises prices, it could make smartphones more expensive across the market.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Image: Forbes

Noam Shazeer, Google’s vice president of engineering and co-lead of Gemini, said he is leaving the company to join OpenA...
06/18/2026

Noam Shazeer, Google’s vice president of engineering and co-lead of Gemini, said he is leaving the company to join OpenAI.

Shazeer co-founded Character.AI and co-authored the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, which helped create the transformer architecture behind modern AI models.

Google reportedly struck a $2.7 billion Character.AI licensing deal in 2024 to bring him and other researchers back.

Source: Reuters

Image: WSJ

Odyssey, a start-up building AI systems that can simulate the physical world, just raised $310M in a Series B valuing th...
06/17/2026

Odyssey, a start-up building AI systems that can simulate the physical world, just raised $310M in a Series B valuing the AI startup at $1.45 billion.

Amazon joined the round alongside Nvidia’s and AMD’s investment arms, GV, IQT, Google’s chief scientist Jeff Dean and Elad Gil.

As part of the deal, Odyssey will use AWS as its preferred cloud provider and deploy Amazon’s Trainium chips.

The company is developing “world models” that can understand physics, motion, body language and object relationships to create interactive 3D environments.

Source: Financial Times

Allbirds has completed its unusual pivot from eco-friendly sneakers to AI infrastructure, renaming itself Smartbird and ...
06/17/2026

Allbirds has completed its unusual pivot from eco-friendly sneakers to AI infrastructure, renaming itself Smartbird and appointing former Amazon Web Services executive Nadia Carlsten as CEO.

Carlsten previously worked on advanced computing at AWS.

The move comes after Allbirds sold its shoe brand and assets to American Exchange Group.

Smartbird now plans to rent access to high-end AI servers and cloud services for businesses needing computing power.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reportedly urged G7 leaders to form a U.S.-led coaliti...
06/17/2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reportedly urged G7 leaders to form a U.S.-led coalition to set global AI rules and standards.

The closed-door meeting in Évian-les-Bains, France, included President Donald Trump, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and other tech executives.

The push comes as governments worry about powerful AI models that could be used for cyberattacks or other security threats.

Source: CNBC

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