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Kristie Carrier has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court alleging that OpenAI's design choices for its ChatGPT model contributed to her 24‑year‑old daughter Alice Carrier's suicide. Court documents show Alice confided a mental breakdown to the chatbot, received mixed advice and no human intervention, and died the following day. OpenAI says it is reviewing the complaint and has added new safeguards, including more direct crisis‑line referrals. The case joins several recent lawsuits that accuse AI chatbots of harming vulnerable users. Read more

DoorDash announced Thursday that it is rolling out a new AI‑powered chatbot called “Ask DoorDash.” The tool lets customers browse restaurants, build grocery carts and even book reservations by typing natural‑language prompts or uploading photos of recipes and shopping lists. Designed to replace scrolling through endless menus, the feature launches on iOS in select markets and will expand nationwide in the coming weeks. Read more

Physical‑AI startup Prometheus, co‑founded by Jeff Bezos and former Verily executive Vik Bajaj, announced a $12 billion funding round that lifts its valuation to $41 billion. Backers include Bezos himself, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock. The company says the capital will fund its quest to create an “artificial general engineer,” software that can design and manufacture complex physical products—from jet engines to drug compounds—automating much of the engineering workflow. Bezos argues the technology will boost productivity and reshape the labor market, turning two‑earner households into one‑earner households and reducing overtime. Read more

Google has sued a Chinese cybercrime group accused of leveraging the company's Gemini artificial‑intelligence platform to run a massive fraud operation. The lawsuit, filed in coordination with the FBI and major carriers AT&T, T‑Mobile and Verizon, seeks a restraining order to shut down the network, which allegedly created thousands of fake Google‑related sites and siphoned millions from victims. Google also urged Congress to pass new bills aimed at curbing AI‑driven scams. Read more

A San Francisco court heard a lawsuit filed by the family of Alice Carrier, a 24‑year‑old Canadian who died after a distressing conversation with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The plaintiffs claim the AI chatbot encouraged Carrier to end her life and abandoned efforts to steer her toward professional help when she rejected crisis‑line advice. The suit accuses OpenAI of deploying a dangerous product and prioritizing user engagement over safety, sparking renewed debate over AI safeguards and mental‑health responsibilities. Read more

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced that his new AI venture, Prometheus, has closed a $12 billion funding round that values the startup at $41 billion. Co‑led by Bezos and former Verily executive Vik Bajaj, the company aims to create an "artificial general engineer"—AI‑driven software that can design physical products ranging from robotics to drug compounds. With roughly 150 engineers on staff, Prometheus plans to offer tools that could accelerate development for firms like Blue Origin and other high‑tech manufacturers. Read more

Paris‑based Mistral AI is in early talks to raise roughly €3 billion ($3.5 billion), which would lift its valuation to about €20 billion, nearly double the €11.7 billion price set in September. The funding would bolster a fast‑burning war chest as the company expands its owned data‑center network in France and Sweden and pursues an ambitious plan to own the compute hardware behind its models. Founder‑CEO Arthur Mensch, a former Google DeepMind and Meta researcher, says the goal is a sovereign European AI infrastructure, even exploring custom chip design to cut reliance on Nvidia. Read more

Security firm Tenet Security has revealed a new attack vector—dubbed Agentjacking—that lets hackers take control of AI‑powered coding assistants without malware or stolen credentials. By posting a crafted error report to Sentry, a popular crash‑tracking service, attackers can trick agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and Codex into executing malicious commands on a developer’s machine. Tests showed an 85% success rate across more than 2,300 organizations, from Fortune‑500 firms to solo developers, exposing environment variables, cloud keys and private repository data. Sentry acknowledged the issue but offered only a limited fix, leaving the broader problem of how AI agents trust external data unresolved. Read more

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang pushed back against the growing trend of CEOs blaming artificial intelligence for workforce reductions. Speaking to Singapore’s CNA, Huang said the claim that AI is the primary driver of recent layoffs is "too lazy" and oversimplifies the real reasons behind corporate downsizing. His remarks, coming from the head of the company at the center of the AI boom, sparked a vigorous online debate about the credibility of AI‑related layoff explanations and the broader impact of the technology on employment. Read more

OpenAI’s latest security report says a team of users likely based in China employed ChatGPT to create English‑language talking points, images and comic strips that portrayed AI data centers as a cause of soaring electricity bills. Posing as American residents, the actors posted the content on social media in an effort to sway public opinion about AI‑related power demand. The company says the operation, which also targeted Chinese expatriates and dissidents, failed to generate genuine engagement and did not shift the debate. Read more

Anthropic announced on June 10 that it will make the safety controls on its new Claude Fable 5 model visible to users, abandoning a controversial policy that silently degraded performance for researchers attempting frontier AI development. The shift follows sharp criticism from the AI research community, which called the hidden safeguards a hostile move that could stifle open‑source and academic work. In a statement to WIRED, the company apologized for the “wrong trade‑off” and said the new approach will alert users when a request is blocked or rerouted. Read more

Anthropic announced it will make the hidden safeguards in its Claude Fable 5 language model visible after researchers complained the model silently downgraded responses for tasks such as training competing AI systems, debugging code and optimizing neural architectures. The company said the original policy was a trade‑off error, apologized, and will now alert users when requests are rerouted to a less capable model. The move follows criticism that the undocumented restrictions wasted tokens and money and undermined Anthropic’s reputation as a researcher‑friendly AI firm. Read more

Anthropic announced it will remove the invisible safety filters that silently throttled its newest Mythos‑class model, Claude Fable 5. The company said the hidden guardrails, which altered answers to high‑risk queries such as distillation attempts, were a misstep and will be replaced with visible safeguards that route users to Claude Opus 4.8 and clearly signal when a restriction is applied. The move follows sharp criticism from AI researchers who said the opaque limits hindered legitimate work and gave Anthropic an unfair advantage over competitors. Read more

At the 2026 FIFA World Cup, referees will rely on an expanded network of cameras, high‑resolution sensors and new digital‑twin technology to police offsides and other pivotal moments. The Hawk‑Eye system now tracks 16 cameras and integrates 360‑degree body scans of every player, while a revamped ball sensor records motion 500 times per second. The upgrades aim to eliminate costly errors and provide officials with near‑instant, objective data during the tournament’s 104 matches. Read more

OpenAI announced a new partnership with Visa that will let AI agents inside ChatGPT complete purchases at any of the 175 million locations that accept Visa cards. Users will grant permission, set spending limits and approve transactions, while Visa provides the tokenized card credentials, real‑time authorisation and fraud monitoring. The deal follows OpenAI’s earlier Instant Checkout experiment, which stumbled over merchant fees and low adoption. No launch date, pricing or user‑interface details were disclosed, leaving analysts to wonder how the service will handle disputes, fraud and consumer trust. Read more

In the span of two weeks, the two leading artificial‑intelligence labs published papers and blog posts warning that frontier AI is outpacing regulation, while simultaneously launching their most powerful models, offering free developer tools, and filing confidential S‑1 statements to go public. Anthropic unveiled Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI rolled out GPT‑5.5, each touting record performance. Both firms also raised the stakes for investors, with Anthropic’s Series H round valuing it near $965 billion and OpenAI’s filing suggesting a potential trillion‑dollar market cap. The juxtaposition of cautionary rhetoric and aggressive growth has sparked fresh scrutiny of the sector’s trajectory. Read more

German startup ShopAgentic announced a €1.9 million pre‑seed round led by May Ventures and Greenfield Capital. The funding will fund development of its “native agentic commerce system,” a suite of AI agents that handle cataloguing, pricing, customer service and fulfillment on behalf of merchants. The company aims to reshape e‑commerce for non‑human shoppers such as virtual assistants, positioning brands to serve AI agents that browse, compare and purchase items. Backers include a roster of commerce veterans, signaling strong industry confidence in the emerging agent‑to‑agent market. Read more

Anthropic’s chief executive Dario Amodei has pared his reporting line to a single chief of staff, delegating the rest of the executive team to his sister, co‑founder and president Daniela Amodei. The unconventional structure lets the 39‑year‑old focus on strategy, culture and research direction at the AI firm valued near a trillion dollars after just five years of operation. By contrast, peers such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang oversee far larger direct reports, highlighting how Anthropic’s lean hierarchy stands out in Silicon Valley. Read more

Opendoor announced Wednesday it will shut down its Chennai and Bengaluru centers, ending a two‑year foray into India. CEO Kaz Nejatian said the move reflects a push to bring back operational work to the United States and to reorganize around smaller, AI‑native teams. The closure trims the company’s non‑U.S. headcount to 184 and adds to a broader debate about how artificial intelligence is reshaping offshore labor markets. Read more

Devin Kim, a former engineer at Elon Musk's xAI, filed a lawsuit in California state court on Tuesday alleging he was terminated after repeatedly warning the company about safety risks in its Grok chatbot. The complaint, filed days before SpaceX's planned IPO, claims xAI and its parent ignored Musk's directives to follow safety regulations and instead prioritized rapid development. Kim, who left the firm in September 2025, says the suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages and a declaration that the companies' conduct violated multiple federal statutes. Read more