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The AI image generation company announces Midjourney Medical and a whole-body ultrasound device that scans in under 60 seconds—with no radiation and no magnets—aiming to make routine full-body imaging as accessible as a gym membership.
The Trump administration gave interagency approval to blacklist DeepSeek, China's top memory chipmaker CXMT, and more than 100 other Chinese companies — then chose not to act, prioritizing diplomatic relations over national security enforcement.
OpenAI announced the OpenAI Partner Network today, backed by $150 million and structured across three tiers — Select, Advanced, and Elite. The program targets 300,000 certified consultants by year-end and includes Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey at launch.
Meta is unwinding its $2 billion acquisition of Chinese-founded AI startup Manus following a divestiture order from Beijing citing national security concerns. The forced breakup highlights the mounting risks for Western companies pursuing Chinese AI assets.
A Ukrainian drone developer has confirmed to New Scientist that ten AI-controlled quadcopters operating in fully autonomous 'terminator mode' killed Russian soldiers near Bakhmut in 2024 — with no human connection, no video feed, and no way to abort. Researchers say it is the most compelling evidence yet that an AI has independently made lethal decisions in combat.
The US government issued an export control directive on June 12, 2026, forcing Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models worldwide. Anthropic is complying but publicly disputes that a narrow jailbreak technique justifies pulling a model deployed to hundreds of millions of users.
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, its most capable publicly available model, alongside Claude Mythos 5 — the same underlying model with its security safeguards lifted, available only to vetted partners through Project Glasswing.
China's NDRC ordered Meta to ditch its $2B Manus AI acquisition in April, ruling that the deal violated technology export rules — even though Manus had already relocated to Singapore. The founders are now raising $1B to buy the company back and take it to a Hong Kong IPO.
Mastercard today launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), payment infrastructure designed specifically for autonomous AI agents to transact with each other at machine speed. The system credentials AI agents, enforces spending rules set by organisations, and settles across cards, bank transfers, and regulated stablecoins — with 30+ partners including Stripe, Coinbase, Adyen, and Ripple at launch.
Bloomberg reports that Beijing is finalizing a 2 trillion yuan plan to build a national AI computing network over five years, with a mandate that 80% of chips and core hardware come from domestic suppliers — a direct challenge to Nvidia's dominance in AI infrastructure.
In what is expected to be his last WWDC keynote as CEO, Tim Cook unveiled a Siri powered by a custom Google Gemini model, launched iOS 27, and introduced an Extensions system that lets users swap in any AI they want.
The Defense Department has formally authorized Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, NVIDIA, Reflection AI, and Oracle to deploy their artificial intelligence systems on America's most sensitive classified networks—while a new White House directive mandates all defense agencies adopt multi-vendor AI within 120 days.