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Lloyds Hires 300 AI Specialists, Plans Fewer Roles Later
Lloyds Banking Group is hiring 300 AI experts to build autonomous AI systems by September, a move that signals clear near-term investment but also foreshadows the kind of workforce reshaping now visible across the banking sector globally.
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Norway Bans AI for All Primary School Children
Norway is blocking children aged 6 to 13 from using AI tools in school starting August 2026, extending lighter restrictions to teenagers, and the move is part of a growing wave of government action on children and technology that businesses selling to schools, parents, or young consumers should follow closely.
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Reliance Launches AI Into Calls, Apps, and Homes for 500M Users
At its annual shareholder meeting today, Reliance launched a suite of AI services baked directly into phone calls, its mobile app, and a new smart home device, targeting its 500 million Jio subscribers, with a stock market listing now also formally in motion.
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SpaceX Is Now Public. OpenAI and Anthropic Filed Next.
SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history on June 12, raising $75 billion and instantly becoming a $2 trillion company, while OpenAI and Anthropic both filed confidential paperwork for their own listings, setting up the biggest cluster of AI-related stock market debuts ever.
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SAP and Google Let AI Agents Run Your Marketing
SAP and Google Cloud are connecting their platforms so that AI software can plan, execute, and adjust marketing campaigns automatically, with the first tools available to businesses in the second half of 2026.
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Anthropic Near Profit as Three AI Giants Race to IPO
Since OpenAI's leaked financials surfaced, the AI IPO race has accelerated sharply: SpaceX debuted at a $2 trillion valuation, OpenAI and Anthropic have both filed with regulators, and Anthropic has projected its first-ever quarterly operating profit, upending the assumption that frontier AI labs must lose money indefinitely.
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Prometheus Acquires AI Startup, Eyes $100B Industrial Fund
Since Prometheus announced its $12 billion raise on June 11, new details have surfaced about the company's first acquisition, its active push to assemble a $100 billion fund to buy traditional manufacturers, and the broader physical AI investment wave it is now leading.
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Snap Spins Out AI Video Team Into New Company
Snap has pushed its internal AI video team out into a separate startup called Dotmo, citing costs, as the company sheds non-core work and tries to reach profitability after years of losses.
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Baseten Raises $1.5B to Run AI for Less
Baseten, a startup that helps companies run AI models cheaply by routing tasks to lower-cost open-source options, is closing a $1.5 billion funding round at up to a $13 billion valuation, its third massive raise in under a year, signaling where serious infrastructure money is moving in AI.
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Perplexity's AI Agent Now Learns From Its Own Work
Perplexity has added a memory system called Brain to its Computer agent, which records what the agent did, what failed, and what corrections were made, then uses that history overnight to get better at the same tasks, reducing repeat effort and cost for regular users.
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OpenAI Hires Google's Top AI Researcher Before IPO
OpenAI has hired Noam Shazeer, the Google engineer who co-wrote the research paper that made modern AI possible, and a former White House AI policy official, as the company moves toward a public stock listing targeting a valuation near $1 trillion.
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FERC Orders Faster Grid Access for Data Centers
US energy regulators are pushing to speed up how data centers connect to the power grid, but the rule changes do nothing to fix the underlying shortage of electricity supply, and the costs are already showing up in higher bills for ordinary businesses and households across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.
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Amazon Plans to Sell Its AI Chips to Outside Buyers
Amazon is in early talks to sell its Trainium AI chips directly to outside companies for the first time, a move that would put it in direct competition with Nvidia and could reshape how businesses buy AI computing power.
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Retail AI Spending Rises, But Store Losses Hit $196B
A new industry report finds that U.S. retailers are spending more on AI tools than ever, yet in-store losses keep growing because most are buying the software in the wrong order.
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Tech Workers Launch $5M PAC to Counter AI Industry's $140M
A new political group backed by tech employees and unions is spending $5 million to support candidates who want rules on AI, going up against a much larger industry-funded group with over $140 million that is actively targeting those same candidates, and the first real test is a New York primary on June 23.
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Microsoft Sells OpenAI Models to Chinese Firms
Microsoft has built a major AI sales business in China, supplying OpenAI's models to companies like ByteDance through its cloud service, even as OpenAI and Anthropic refuse to deal with China directly, raising questions about whose rules actually govern AI access.
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SpaceX Debuts Public, OpenAI and Anthropic Both File for IPO
SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history on June 12, raising $75 billion and closing its first day up 19%, while OpenAI and Anthropic both filed confidential SEC paperwork within days of each other, setting up the biggest wave of AI company listings ever seen.
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UK to Scan Asylum Seekers' Faces to Guess Their Age
The UK government has signed a contract to use AI face-scanning to estimate the age of asylum seekers at the border, despite its own internal tests showing the technology gets it wrong by up to 4.6 years and performs significantly worse on the group it will most commonly be used on.
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France Builds Europe's Largest AI Infrastructure Push
France has moved from announcing AI ambitions to actively building data centers, deploying AI in major industries, and attracting over €109 billion in investment commitments, making it the most serious effort in Europe to create locally controlled AI infrastructure that complies with European data rules.
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Amazon Launches Quick Agents to Run Tasks While You Work
Amazon has added autonomous background agents to its Quick AI assistant, letting non-technical staff set up automated workflows across their business tools without writing a single line of code, putting it in direct competition with Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini at a lower price.
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