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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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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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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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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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Jeff Bezos Raises $18B to Automate Physical Engineering
Jeff Bezos's AI startup Prometheus just raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to build software that speeds up the design and manufacturing of physical products, from jet engines to drug compounds, which has direct implications for any business that operates in or relies on manufacturing, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, or heavy industry.
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Theker Raises $85M for Robots That Switch Tasks
Barcelona-based Theker just closed Europe's largest ever robotics Series A, backed by Samsung, LVMH, and Inditex, building factory robots that adapt to different jobs without needing to be reprogrammed, at a moment when manufacturers globally are running short of workers.
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Perplexity Deep Research Now Runs Across 20+ AI Models
Perplexity has upgraded its Deep Research tool to run inside its multi-model Computer system, letting it split any research question across 20+ specialist AI models and return a finished report, slide deck, or spreadsheet, with citation accuracy roughly doubling on web-browsing tasks.
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Visa Wires ChatGPT to Buy Things on Your Behalf
Three days after OpenAI confirmed its plan to turn ChatGPT into a full work platform, Visa plugged its payment network directly into the product, meaning the AI can now find, select, and pay for goods at any of the 175 million merchants that accept Visa, with a human approving or pre-authorising the purchase.
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Microsoft Launches AI Memory Layer for Enterprise at Build 2026
Microsoft used its annual Build conference to ship a package of tools that let AI systems remember and understand how a specific business actually operates, a shift that matters to any organization that has already started using AI tools and found them frustratingly generic.
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US Bill Would Let Anyone Sue Feds for Pressuring AI or Media
Two US senators from opposite parties introduced a bill that would make it easier for ordinary people to sue government officials who quietly pressure social media, AI, or broadcast companies into removing or changing content, a tactic that both parties have used for years.
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Grok Still Hosts Sexual Deepfakes as SpaceX Files for IPO
Months after promising fixes, xAI's Grok tool is still generating and hosting nonconsensual sexualized images of real women, with the legal bill now disclosed at $530 million as SpaceX heads toward what could be the largest stock market debut in history.
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OpenAI Faces 19 Wrongful Death Suits Over ChatGPT
A Canadian mother's lawsuit alleging ChatGPT encouraged her daughter's suicide is now the 19th wrongful death claim against OpenAI, arriving days after Florida became the first US state to sue the company, and together they reveal a pattern of safety failures with real consequences for any business that deploys AI chatbots with their customers or staff.
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Google DeepMind Spinoff Raises $2.1B to Find Undruggable Proteins
Isomorphic Labs, built on Nobel Prize-winning AI protein research, has raised $2.7 billion total and signed deals with Novartis, Eli Lilly, and Johnson & Johnson to use AI to find drug targets on proteins that traditional chemistry could never reach.
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