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Salesforce Buys Fin (ex-Intercom) for $3.6 Billion
Salesforce is acquiring Fin, the AI customer service company formerly known as Intercom, for $3.6 billion, a move that signals how seriously large enterprise software companies are betting their futures on AI agents replacing human support staff.
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US Bans Chinese Drones, Skydio Fills the Gap
Skydio, the only large-scale US drone manufacturer, now serves every branch of the American military, over 1,200 police and fire agencies, and hundreds of energy utilities, after the US government banned new foreign-made drones in December 2025 and eliminated its main low-cost competitor.
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India's Sarvam AI Raises $234M, Valued at $1.5 Billion
Sarvam AI, the Indian startup building AI tools for Indian languages and government services, has closed a $234 million funding round led by HCLTech at a $1.5 billion valuation, making it India's newest AI unicorn at a moment when the US government just proved why countries need their own AI.
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Huawei Launches HarmonyOS 7 as Apple Exits China AI
Huawei launched HarmonyOS 7 just days after Apple confirmed its new Siri AI will not be available in China, giving Huawei a clear opening in the world's largest smartphone market at exactly the moment the AI race in consumer devices is heating up.
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Consumers Let AI Agents Shop for Them, Bypassing Brands
A large Accenture survey of 25,590 consumers across 16 countries finds that most people are now willing to hand routine shopping tasks to AI agents, and the practical consequence is that brands lose the direct relationship with the buyer.
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Meta Tested Military-Grade Face ID on Its Glasses
Meta secretly built a face-recognition system into the app powering its Ray-Ban smart glasses, using software from a Pentagon supplier, and the code sat dormant on more than 50 million phones before being removed only after a press investigation.
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US Government Shuts Anthropic AI for the World, No End in Sight
The US government forced Anthropic to pull its two most powerful AI models for everyone on the planet after a disputed security claim, and one week later the models are still offline, leaving businesses worldwide to reckon with a new reality: cloud-based AI tools can vanish overnight by order of a foreign government.
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Companies Blame AI for Layoffs While Profits Hit Records
Tech companies are cutting tens of thousands of jobs, pointing to AI as the reason, but the evidence suggests pandemic-era overhiring and cost management are doing most of the work, and the wealth gap forming in real time is creating a level of public anger that businesses outside tech should be paying close attention to.
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Beijing Forces Meta to Return $2B Chinese AI Acquisition
China's government has ordered Meta to give back Manus, the AI startup it bought for $2 billion just six months ago, marking the first time Beijing has ever forced a buyer to undo a deal that was already closed, and signaling that no offshore restructuring trick will protect Chinese-built technology from state control.
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KPMG AI Report Pulled After Nearly Every Citation Was Fake
KPMG published a report praising AI adoption that turned out to be packed with AI-invented facts and fake citations, the latest in a series of similar failures at major consulting firms, raising a practical question every manager should now ask before trusting research from trusted names.
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42 State AGs Investigate OpenAI Ahead of Its IPO
A coalition of 42 US state attorneys general issued OpenAI a formal subpoena on June 12, demanding records on user data, children's safety, and how the chatbot handles vulnerable users, just days after the company filed for what could be one of the largest stock market listings in history.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-Realtime-2, Its Smartest Voice Model
OpenAI shipped GPT-Realtime-2 on May 7, 2026, a voice model that can reason through complex problems during a live spoken conversation, bringing the same intelligence level as GPT-5 to phone and voice agent deployments for the first time.
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Rocket Close Cuts Contact Center Load 30% With AI
Rocket Close, the title arm of Rocket Companies, built an AI assistant that answers order questions for its operations teams and cut incoming calls and emails to its contact center by 30%, showing how companies with complex, state-by-state rule sets can use AI to scale without adding staff.
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Mistral AI Seeks €3B Round at €20B Valuation
Europe's leading AI company is in early talks to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its price tag from just nine months ago, as European businesses and governments accelerate their shift away from American AI providers.
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Google Study: AI Helps People Name Skin Conditions
Google published peer-reviewed research showing AI tools nearly triple ordinary people's ability to correctly name a skin condition from a photo, but the harder problem, knowing how urgent the situation is and what to do next, remains largely unsolved.
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Oracle Spends Big on AI, Stock Drops on Cash Burn
Oracle beat its quarterly earnings targets but its stock fell 11% after it revealed a $23.7 billion cash deficit for the year and plans to borrow and sell shares to raise another $40 billion, leaving investors questioning whether the AI building boom will ever pay off.
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AWS Launches AI Tool to Read and Analyze Any Document
Amazon has released a managed service that can automatically read, sort, and extract meaning from millions of documents, including PDFs, contracts, and scanned files, cutting the manual review work that still consumes significant staff time and budget across most industries.
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Google Launches Open Format for AI Agent Knowledge
Google Cloud has released the Open Knowledge Format, a free, vendor-neutral standard for organizing internal business knowledge so that AI agents can find and use it reliably, addressing one of the most common reasons AI tools produce wrong or incomplete answers inside companies.
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Google Sues Chinese Network for AI-Powered Mass Fraud
Google has sued a Chinese criminal operation called Outsider Enterprise for using Google's own AI tool, Gemini, to build fake websites and send millions of scam messages, marking the first time Google has taken legal action over misuse of its AI for fraud, and a signal that AI-powered scams are becoming a serious threat to any business with customers or employees.
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Apple Designs New Siri to Help, Not to Flatter
Apple's rebuilt Siri, arriving with iOS 27, is deliberately designed to complete tasks and stop, rejecting the flattery-driven behavior that got ChatGPT and other AI assistants into serious trouble, and the distinction matters more than it sounds.
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