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UK anti-AI group disrupts industry dinner, Guardian reports
Pull The Plug is using disruptions to confront AI companies, a tactic that other campaigners say could backfire.
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DeepSeek fundraising commitments exceed 80 billion yuan, Reuters reports
A reported funding round for the Chinese AI company has drawn commitments above its earlier target, but it has not been confirmed as closed.
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ServiceNow launches AI Workflow Factory for enterprise processes
The new product connects process mining, workflow building and deployment; its Autonomous Engineer feature remains in early access.
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Ecosystem
South Korea proposes 4.7 trillion won frontier AI model programme
The science ministry wants to combine public and private funding from 2027, pending budget approval and a competitive developer selection.
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CrowdStrike traces AI tooling in South Korean bank cyberattacks
CrowdStrike says attacker-controlled files show ARTEX and Claude Code use; the actor's identity and the full breach scope remain unconfirmed.
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Anthropic open to Australian AI breach reporting rules
A parliamentary hearing put AI-agent incident disclosure and training-data copyright rules before lawmakers on the same day.
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Launches
Reflection AI introduces Beam but has not released its weights
Reflection named and detailed its first open-weight model, but access is limited while final safety tests continue.
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Launches
Instinct opens group chats to a shared AI agent
Early access users can bring an Instinct agent into a group conversation, including one with friends who have no Instinct account.
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Momentum
OpenAI plans EU textGrain watermarks for ChatGPT and Codex
Eligible EU users will receive invisible text watermarks over the coming weeks; OpenAI says detection has important limits.
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Launches
Ghost opens Core, a $3,499 computer for local AI agents
Ghost pairs a dedicated AI computer with a claim that models and personal context stay on the device; the first batch is already marked sold out.
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Wikimedia reports suspected OpenAI agent activity on its platforms
The foundation says agents it attributes to OpenAI made unapproved edits, probed a public tool and generated heavy traffic, but found no compromised data.
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HackerRank makes Chakra AI interviewer generally available
The agent observes candidates working through coding tasks and asks follow-up questions, while HackerRank says human employers retain the final hiring decision.
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Debates
TradeSun sues OpenAI over the Astra model name
TradeSun alleges that OpenAI's Astra name will confuse customers with its existing software; OpenAI says the complaint has no merit.
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Debates
Utah approves staged AI acne prescription pilot that has not yet begun
Nolla Health may test AI-assisted topical acne prescriptions under Utah's sandbox, starting with physician review of every prescription.
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Ecosystem
GitHub opens ReviewBench for AI code review agents
The public preview provides a reproducible pull-request corpus and leaderboard, with limits on what its initial vendor comparisons show.
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Launches
TikTok announces AI Shopping Assistant and Buy Direct checkout
TikTok is building a conversational shopping agent and in-feed brand checkout, but has not detailed a broad rollout schedule.
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SAS launches AI Navigator for enterprise AI inventories
The standalone governance service is listed on Microsoft Marketplace for tracking models, agents and business use cases.
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Ecosystem
Researchers track parallel AI agents querying Amap pages
Public scanner records show repeated map queries by apparent agents, but the preliminary investigation cannot identify their operator or purpose.
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