27 Jun 2026
Notion is closing Notion Mail on 22 September 2026, just 14 months after launch. The stated reason is striking: more than half of its users had already stopped opening the inbox, handling email through AI agents instead. Here's what Notion Mail users need to export before the deadline, and what the closure signals about the future of AI productivity tools.
26 Jun 2026
Anthropic has accused Alibaba's AI research team of running the largest recorded attempt to copy Claude's capabilities, using tens of thousands of fake accounts to generate nearly 30 million conversations it says were used to train a rival model. The company's most advanced models are now suspended globally as a result of related export restrictions.
26 Jun 2026
For years, AI models have been able to predict which parts of the brain activate when you hear a story. The problem: nobody could explain why. A new technique from Microsoft Research and three US universities translates those black-box predictions into readable, testable theories — and then verifies them in a brain scanner, uncovering tiny regions of the brain tuned to surprisingly specific concepts.
26 Jun 2026
The security chiefs of the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand issued a rare joint public statement this week with a blunt message: AI-powered cyberattacks are no longer a distant threat. Here is what they actually said, the five concrete steps they say cannot wait, and an honest look at the limits of the warning.
26 Jun 2026
Epoch AI analysed 1,604 job postings from six of China's leading AI companies — DeepSeek, Alibaba, ByteDance, MiniMax, Moonshot, and Z.ai — and found sharper signals than most reporting provides. The findings, published in June 2026, show continued Nvidia dependence alongside deliberate chip hedging, diverging business models, and a workforce built on young talent rather than experienced hands.
25 Jun 2026
OpenAI and Broadcom have announced Jalapeño, a custom processor built specifically for running large language models at scale. It is OpenAI's first chip and signals a deliberate effort to reduce its reliance on Nvidia. Here is what we know, what remains unverified, and why it matters if you use AI tools.
25 Jun 2026
Figma's annual Config conference this week brought code layers, built-in animation tools, AI-generated shaders, and smarter AI skills to the design platform. Taken together, the updates push Figma further into territory it once left to specialist tools — and give designers, product managers, and engineers fewer reasons to switch tabs.
25 Jun 2026
An open-source tool called Talos automatically re-analyses stored genetic test data each month as new scientific knowledge is published. In a study of 4,735 patients who had previously received inconclusive or negative results, it found 241 new diagnoses — all subsequently confirmed by accredited labs. The findings, published in Nature Medicine, suggest that for many families still without a diagnosis, the answer may already be in their data.
25 Jun 2026
The era of unlimited enterprise AI is drawing to a close. Companies from Uber to Walmart have begun capping staff access to AI tools — and leaked audio from one of the world's largest consultancies reveals the culprit is not who anyone expected.
25 Jun 2026
A Democratic House primary in Manhattan turned into the most expensive proxy fight yet over AI regulation — with the money on both sides coming from inside the AI industry. Here is who spent what, and why a local race matters for everyone.
25 Jun 2026
Oracle shed 21,000 workers in fiscal 2026 and told the US securities regulator why: AI deployment across its operations. That sentence in a legal filing carries a different weight than any earnings-call talking point.
25 Jun 2026
A leaked internal file suggests Madison Square Garden compiled a named list of the activists campaigning against its facial-recognition cameras — quoting their tweets and logging their contact details. It is a concrete look at what biometric surveillance at the door can quietly become.