AI News — June 12, 2026

      Business & Money
      (12)
    
      09:50
      It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe (TechCrunch AI +1)
    
      09:34
      Coinbase for Agents: Automating portfolio trading with AI (AI News +1)
    
      05:45
      The AI industry's platform trap is starting to look a lot like Microsoft's (The Decoder +1)
    
      13:32
      ‘There’s a huge market demand’: University of Utah approves new bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence (The Salt Lake Tribune +1)
    
      09:48
      ChatGPT Can Now Shop for You Through Visa Partnership (LAmag +1)
    
      12:09
      Quoting Andrew Singleton (Simon Willison)
    
      09:56
      olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop (Hugging Face)
    
      22:14
      Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living (TechCrunch AI)
    
      11:38
      Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation (TechCrunch AI)
    
      07:48
      Mistral AI seeks 3 billion euros to fund its European AI push (The Decoder)
    
      06:00
      Pinecone Brings AI Agents Directly to Enterprise Data with Microsoft OneLake Integration (InfoQ AI/ML)
    
      03:24
      Presentation: Moving Mountains: Migrating Legacy Code in Weeks instead of Years (InfoQ AI/ML)

      Policy & Regulation
      (11)
    
      08:10
      Google files first joint lawsuit with FBI over Chinese AI scam network, OpenAI blocks PRC influence clusters (The Decoder +1)
    
      20:36
      Anthropic says it has taken its latest AI models offline to comply with new export controls (AP News +1)
    
      17:30
      OpenAI under investigation by group of state attorneys general, source says (Reuters +1)
    
      14:38
      Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google (TechCrunch AI)
    
      23:27
      Anthropic is complying with a government order to pull its top AI models — and says the rationale is wrong (digitimes)
    
      14:44
      Samsung reverses years-long ban on external gen AI use (cio.com)
    
      12:37
      OpenAI Faces New Lawsuit Over Suicide Of Young Woman Who Used The Chatbot (International Business Times)
    
      10:55
      OpenAI sued by mother of Montréal woman who died by suicide (BetaKit)
    
      10:55
      Killer robots are here – we must finally decide whether to accept them (New Scientist)
    
      10:53
      Exclusive: U.S. bank regulators ramp up scrutiny of AI use at financial companies (Reuters)
    
      09:03
      Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman’s distrust of crisis lines (Ars Technica)

Security & Privacy (1)

14:30 Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen (Microsoft Research)

Research (1)

11:52 Research into how AI can help users understand skin conditions (Google Research)

Ethics & Philosophy (2)

12:40 Over half of Americans fear losing both their jobs and their independent thinking to AI, survey finds (The Decoder)

03:00 How to sparkle in conversation with strangers (New Scientist)

Fun & Weird (2)

11:03 Claude Fable 5 secretly throttled AI researchers, and the internet went wild (ZDNet AI)

08:45 How APS is using artificial intelligence to fight wildfires (Arizona Silver Belt)

      Other
      (12)
    
      04:00
      New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work (OpenAI +1)
    
      17:53
      OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context (Simon Willison)
    
      15:00
      NVIDIA Blackwell Leads on First Agentic AI Infrastructure Benchmark (NVIDIA Blog)
    
      17:00
      Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it (TechCrunch AI)
    
      13:10
      Prime Minister of the UK Vows to Unleash AI Tutors on 450,000 Poor Children (Futurism AI)
    
      11:34
      OpenAI kicks off the AI price wars with flexible rate-limit resets for its Codex coding agent (The Decoder)
    
      11:13
      Google Launches Colab CLI for Developers, Automation, and AI Agents (InfoQ AI/ML)
    
      11:10
      Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 costs twice as much for 5.7 percent more performance (The Decoder)
    
      23:27
      Is it OK to play AI songs on the radio? (BBC)
    
      22:00
      Dutch far-right party pays damages to court artist after changing image with AI (Guardian Tech)
    
      21:00
      Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive (Ars Technica)
    
      20:49
      AI chatbots are telling Israeli voters exactly what they want to hear (The Times of Israel)