The Art Directors Guild condemns Martin Scorsese over his advisory partnership with AI startup Black Forest Labs, accusing him of betraying human collaborators, while director Boots Riley speculates financial motives drove the deal — Scorsese defends the tool as a creative communication aid, comparing it to his past use of …
Databricks launches OpenSharing under the Linux Foundation as a vendor-neutral open standard for secure data and AI collaboration, backed by major players including OpenAI, SAP, and Stripe, expanding cross-platform support for AI models, agent skills, and unstructured data sharing across organizations.
Surging AI costs are driving companies toward cheaper, smaller models, with Coinbase's Brian Armstrong predicting 80% of workloads will migrate to models 99% cheaper within 18 months, threatening the core business models of AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic.
Anthropic launches two powerful Mythos-class AI models — Fable 5 for the public and Mythos 5 with lifted safeguards for cyberdefenders — pushing forward despite industry calls for a slowdown, backed by a $65 billion funding round valuing the company at nearly $1 trillion.
Apple unveils next-generation AI features powered by a Google Gemini partnership, bringing privacy-first intelligence to iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, and Vision Pro, with tools like Spatial Reframing, AI-powered Safari, and an upgraded Siri rolling out this fall across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS …
Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence in beta, connecting AI to Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and more to deliver deeply personalized recommendations and responses based on users' real data and past preferences.
Apple launches a reimagined Siri powered by Apple Intelligence, bringing personal context awareness, Visual Intelligence, and cross-device conversation sync to iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27, with developer testing now open and a public beta coming later this year.
Apple drops sweeping AI upgrades across its entire ecosystem at WWDC 2026, introducing powerful new Apple Intelligence features including AI-powered photo recomposition, smarter Safari tools, auto-fixing compromised passwords, and quasi-agentic capabilities that let users build extensions and shortcuts just by describing what they want.
Cohere launches North Mini Code, an open-source agentic coding model with a 30B mixture-of-experts architecture that uses only 3B active parameters, delivering up to 2.8x higher output throughput and 30% better latency than rival Devstral Small 2, now available on Hugging Face and via API under an Apache 2.0 license.
New York becomes the first state to require clear AI performer disclosures in advertisements, with fines up to $5,000 for violations, sparking a clash between SAG-AFTRA supporters and advertising industry groups warning of compliance chaos.