Google has filed suit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, accusing it of using artificial intelligence to operate a large-scale phishing platform that has stolen an estimated $1.9 billion from victims across 95 countries since July 2023. The network deployed over one million fraudulent web domains and sent 2.5 million scam texts…

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Insider Brief Golden Analytics, an AI-native analytics platform, has raised a $14 million seed extension led by Insight Partners, bringing total seed funding to $21 million, coinciding with its public beta launch after drawing nearly 1,000 early access requests in the weeks following its April stealth launch backed by NEA and Madrona. Built in Bellevue…

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wRead Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Anthropic and the U.S. government are entangled again — and this time, it’s over blocking access to the company’s frontier models, not expanding them for federal use. After a U.S. order tied to a disputed jailbreak, Anthropic pulled its powerful…

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The US government yanked Anthropic’s newest models days after launch, while state attorneys general opened formal process against OpenAI. That turns frontier capability into something investors have to discount: a model can be state-of-the-art on Monday and policy-frozen by Friday. The market still wants the upside, but the asset now has a kill-switch.

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Four days after Apple confirmed that Siri AI would not launch in China, Huawei took the stage in Dongguan and declared HarmonyOS 7 the beginning of the agent era. The gap Apple could not fill, Huawei has moved into with an architecture built specifically for it. What HarmonyOS 7 actually changes The headline change is…

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Anthropic export controls turned an abstract policy fear into a live one last week: as of June 13, 2026, one US government directive took the company’s two most powerful AI models offline for users everywhere, including, briefly, Anthropic’s own foreign-born employees, and set off alarm bells across Europe and Canada about who really controls the…

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Consumers are showing a willingness to let AI agents take on more shopping-related tasks, according to new research from Accenture. The company’s 2026 Consumer Pulse Research, based on a survey of 25,590 consumers across 16 countries, found that 74% of respondents would trust a personal AI agent more than their best friend to make a…

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Insider Brief Google DeepMind researchers argue that AI progress is unlikely to stop at human-level capability and outline four potential pathways through which artificial superintelligence could emerge. The report identifies scaling, algorithmic breakthroughs, recursive self-improvement and large-scale coordination among AI agents as overlapping mechanisms that could drive systems beyond human performance across most domains. While…

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Insider Brief Researchers at Penn State found that people trust AI-powered fact-checkers about as much as human fact-checkers, though users view each as having different strengths and weaknesses. The study, published in Media Psychology, found participants viewed AI as better at identifying linguistic signals and scanning large volumes of content, while humans were trusted more…

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The transformation of healthcare through artificial intelligence is no longer a speculative proposition. It is happening at scale, in hospitals, in living rooms, in clinical trials, and in the benefit packages that hundreds of millions of workers select each year. The CEOs driving this shift are not simply technology founders who saw an opportunity in…

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