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Two major surveys from WordPress VIP and Gartner find a majority of US consumers are put off by AI labels in brand messaging, even as companies race to build AI visibility for search engines.
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Two major surveys from WordPress VIP and Gartner find a majority of US consumers are put off by AI labels in brand messaging, even as companies race to build AI visibility for search engines.

SpaceX signed a merger agreement to acquire Anysphere, maker of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock just four days after the company's record-breaking Nasdaq IPO.

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.

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.

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.

KPMG retracted its agentic AI report after GPTZero found that 40 of 45 citations were fabricated and case studies about UBS, the NHS, and Transport for London were invented.

Mistral AI is in talks to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its September 2025 price tag in under a year and cementing its status as Europe's most valuable AI company.

A hands-on review of all seven MAI models - from the April transcription and image launch to Build 2026's MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1-Flash, and the multimodal upgrades.

Microsoft's first in-house reasoning model, a 35B-active sparse MoE with 256K context, 97% on AIME 2025, and no distillation from third-party labs.

Anthropic opens Mythos-class capabilities to the public with Claude Fable 5 at $10/$50 per million tokens, days after calling for a global AI pause.

OpenAI's life sciences reasoning model gets a June update with global access and new NGS plugins - strong benchmarks, but still locked behind a Trusted Access Program with no public pricing.

OpenAI's Dreaming V3 replaces ChatGPT's flat memory with a hierarchical relational system, kicking off a four-way race for AI personalization dominance.