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Getty Images shares surged roughly 200% in premarket trading Monday after the stock photo giant announced a licensing agreement with OpenAI to integrate its curated image library into ChatGPT's search features. The deal marks a significant pivot for Getty, which previously sued an AI image generator over unauthorized use of its content.
Intelligence chiefs from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand issued a rare joint warning Monday, stating that AI systems capable of undermining governments and critical businesses could be operational within months, and calling for urgent coordinated action.
South Korea's memory chip giant SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics in market capitalization, ending a 25-year reign at the top of the KOSPI. The shift reflects AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory chips, where SK Hynix holds a commanding lead.
WeChat users in China can now invoke Xiaowei by text or voice to send messages, start calls, and navigate the app's vast mini-program library — putting an AI command layer on top of the world's most-used super app ahead of a full Q3 rollout.
John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for co-creating AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind to join rival AI lab Anthropic — the most decorated scientist ever to change employers mid-career in the AI industry.
Beijing placed 10 American defense and industrial suppliers on its export control list, blocking Chinese companies from shipping dual-use goods to them — a direct response to the Pentagon's decision to add Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to its military-linked firms list.
Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 patches 208 security vulnerabilities but has broken OLE automation for Office apps, triggered boot failures on HP business machines, and left the Recycle Bin showing garbled file identifiers.
The Trump administration told ASML that one of its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines may have violated export controls by reaching China. ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet flatly denies it, saying the company tracks every EUV system ever built.
The extortion group has issued an ultimatum to the healthcare provider, which confirmed unauthorized access to archived patient data from its Iora Health acquisition. No sample data has been released to verify the scope of the claim.
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.
SK Hynix has begun delivering qualification samples of its next-generation HBM4E memory to major AI customers, offering 20 percent better power efficiency and 17 percent lower heat resistance than HBM4 — ahead of Nvidia's Rubin Ultra platform ramp.
President Trump announced on Truth Social that Apple has agreed to work with Intel to produce chips on American soil. Intel's stock jumped as much as 11 percent on the news, while Apple and Intel have yet to issue official statements.