The US Commerce Department imposes sweeping export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over national security fears, barring all foreign nationals from access, as the powerful new models are simultaneously exposing a deepening enterprise cybersecurity crisis that could cost billions in damages.
Meta is rolling out an AI-powered search mode on Facebook that generates answers from public posts and user content, sparking reliability concerns over potentially misleading information, while simultaneously launching creative AI tools and global subscription plans starting at $3.99 a month.
A new poll of 18,000 people across 15 countries reveals a dramatic shift in global AI perception, with China now seen as the frontrunner over the US in key Western nations, as American optimism toward AI plummets from 39% to 31% and Chinese labs close the performance gap with cost-efficient, …
Facebook launches AI Mode, a revolutionary search feature powered by Meta AI that pulls real user opinions from across Meta's apps, alongside creative tools that let users virtually change their clothing and appearance using AI-generated photo presets.
Smart glasses sales explode 167% year-over-year in Q1 2026, with 2.25 million units shipped in a single quarter as Meta dominates with a 69.2% market share, while Google, Snap, and Chinese rivals intensify competition in a race toward mainstream adoption projected to hit 13.6 million units by year's end.
NVIDIA's GB300 NVL72 dominates the industry's first agentic AI benchmark, AgentPerf, delivering a staggering 20x more AI agents per megawatt than its predecessor, the HGX H200, as top inference providers race to deploy the powerful Blackwell architecture for real-world production applications.
Apple has secretly embedded a multi-AI framework into iOS 27's developer beta, allowing Siri to switch between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, but kept it hidden from WWDC due to EU regulatory pressure, OpenAI contract tensions, and a still-buggy Siri that lags behind rival chatbots by roughly six months.
Google Cloud launches the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a vendor-neutral, open specification that standardizes how AI systems share metadata and curated knowledge using simple markdown files with YAML frontmatter, requiring no proprietary tools, with reference implementations and full code now available on GitHub.
KPMG pulls its AI report after major organizations including UBS, the NHS, and Transport for London deny its claims, with research group GPTZero identifying the errors as AI hallucinations, raising serious questions about whether the consulting giant used unverified AI-generated content in a report about AI itself.
A coalition of state attorneys general has launched a major investigation into OpenAI, with New York issuing a subpoena targeting data practices, child safety, deceptive advertising, and model sycophancy, as the AI giant faces mounting legal pressure even while quietly pursuing a public offering.