Facebook AI Mode Mines Public Posts With No Opt-Out
Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, turning billions of public posts into AI-synthesized search answers with no opt-out for the 2 billion daily users whose content powers it.
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Sarvam Raises $234M to Power India's Sovereign AI
Bengaluru-based Sarvam hit a $1.5 billion valuation after HCLTech put in $150 million, betting India can build its own AI stack and stop routing sensitive data through American clouds.
Salesforce Buys Fin for $3.6B to Boost Agentforce
Salesforce agrees to pay $3.6 billion for Fin, the AI customer service agent formerly known as Intercom, adding a proprietary model and 30,000 customers to Agentforce.
GLM-5.2 Ships MIT-Licensed, 1M Context, Zero Benchmarks
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 ships with 1M token context, 744B MoE parameters, and MIT license the day after Fable 5 goes offline - but no benchmark numbers at launch.
Grok Build Plugin Marketplace Launches With Six Tools
xAI ships an open plugin marketplace for Grok Build with six launch partners including MongoDB, Vercel, and Sentry, backed by SHA-pinned supply chain security and an open GitHub catalog.
Anthropic Blackout Forces Europe to Confront AI Reliance
The EU Commission has warned that Washington's Anthropic export ban is discriminatory against allies, as European politicians demand AI sovereignty and Dario Amodei heads to the G7 in France.
Microsoft Drops Claude Code as AI Budgets Run Out
Microsoft's Experiences and Devices division is pulling Claude Code from thousands of engineers by June 30, a move driven by token costs that already burned through Uber's entire 2026 AI budget.
AgentPerf - First Infrastructure Benchmark for Agents
Artificial Analysis released AgentPerf, the first agentic AI infrastructure benchmark, measuring concurrent agents per megawatt. NVIDIA Blackwell leads with 20x gains over Hopper.
42 State AGs Probe OpenAI Days After IPO Filing
A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, served via subpoena just five days after the company filed confidentially for a $1 trillion IPO.
US Export Order Forces Global Fable 5, Mythos 5 Shutdown
Commerce Secretary Lutnick ordered Anthropic to disable its two most powerful models worldwide - the first US export control directive ever issued against a commercial LLM.
Kimi K2.7-Code - Moonshot's Open-Weight Coding Leap
Moonshot AI ships Kimi K2.7-Code with 30% fewer reasoning tokens and a 21.8% gain on its own coding benchmarks, but the model still trails Claude Opus 4.8 on most tests in the same table.
Meta's Applied AI Unit Called a Gulag by Its Staff
Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI team, created in March with a join-or-quit mandate, is in revolt: 1,600+ employees signed a petition against keystroke surveillance, bathroom-stall flyers appeared across US campuses, and UK workers began organizing with UTAW.
