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Mark Lanier, the Texas trial lawyer who won a landmark $6 million verdict against Meta and Google in a social media addiction case in March, says AI was central to his preparation and execution throughout the five-week trial. Lanier told Business Insider that the technology let him compress 30 hours of work into 10, describing […] This story continues at The Next Web

Skoda has revealed the Peaq, its first seven-seat all-electric SUV and the most expensive car in the Czech automaker’s 130-year history. Built on the Volkswagen Group’s MEB platform at Skoda’s home plant in Mladá Boleslav, the Peaq stretches nearly 4.9 metres long and is designed to compete directly with the Kia EV9, Hyundai Ioniq 9, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Grassroots opposition to data center construction in the United States has reached a scale that is starting to reshape where and whether the AI industry can build. A new report from Data Center Watch, a tracker maintained by AI research firm 10a Labs, found that activists blocked or delayed at least 75 projects worth a […] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic’s Fable 5 spent three days as the most capable AI model ever released to the public. It topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, crushed OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 on coding benchmarks by double-digit margins, and gave paying subscribers access to Mythos-class reasoning for the first time. Then, on June 12, the US government ordered Anthropic to […] This story continues at The Next Web

General Motors shut down Cruise, its $10 billion robotaxi division, in December 2024. Eighteen months later, the company’s chief product officer says GM’s autonomous vehicles will eventually be capable of operating as robotaxis anyway. Sterling Anderson, the former head of Tesla’s Autopilot program, told Business Insider that GM’s personal autonomy strategy and the robotaxi business […] This…

Spotify has removed more than 57,000 fake podcast episodes and banned 3,500 accounts tied to illegal drug promotion after a US Senate investigation exposed the scale of the problem. The episodes, spread across more than 3,000 shows, used AI-generated audio to direct listeners to websites selling modafinil, opioids, and cryptocurrency on unregulated marketplaces. Senator Maggie […] This story…

NHS England is giving more than 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot in what will be the largest AI deployment in healthcare globally. The rollout follows a pilot across 90 NHS organisations in which 30,000 workers used the tool for administrative tasks. NHS England says the average participant saved 43 minutes […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI summary NHS England is deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff after a pilot with 30,000 workers saved an average of 43 minutes per day. The rollout is described as the largest AI deployment in healthcare globally, aimed at administrative tasks.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was reportedly the source of security concerns that led the US government to force Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reported that Jassy told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other officials that Amazon researchers used Fable 5 to obtain […] This story continues at The Next Web

KPMG has pulled a report titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI“ after multiple organisations said the claims it made about their AI usage were either untrue or misleading. UBS, the UK’s National Health Service, Swiss Federal Railways, and Transport for London all told the Financial Times that the report’s descriptions of their […] This story continues at The Next Web

A Tesla driver in Redmond, Washington, claims the car’s self-driving mode malfunctioned before it swerved into a residential garage door on Monday. The car smashed the door open and ended up lodged inside the garage. Police responded around 11 AM and are investigating. No injuries were reported. There were no indications of impairment. The driver […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI summary Drivers are using items like celebrity figurines to bypass Tesla's driver-attention monitoring systems. In a separate incident in Redmond, Washington, a Tesla on Autopilot allegedly malfunctioned and crashed into a garage door; police are investigating.

Microsoft has not ruled out spinning off its Xbox division into a separate company. The Information reported that options under consideration include turning Xbox into a wholly owned subsidiary, forming a joint venture with outside partners, or selling the business outright. No decision is imminent, but new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Microsoft CEO Satya […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI summary Microsoft is reportedly considering restructuring its Xbox division, which could include spinning it off into a separate company, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary, or selling it entirely. The company is also preparing significant layoffs within the division and reevaluating its next-generation console plans, known as Project Helix. According to a report from The Information citing multiple sources, no decision is imminent, and the division is experiencing low margins and high hardware costs.

Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the conclusion to the remake trilogy, will launch in spring 2027. That is just three years after the second game, Rebirth. By modern AAA standards, where five years or longer is typical, that is fast. Director Naoki Hamaguchi told Bloomberg the reason is simple: 95% of the development team stayed together […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI summary Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the conclusion to the remake trilogy, is set to launch in spring 2027, three years after the second game, Rebirth. Director Naoki Hamaguchi attributed this faster development time to 95% of the team staying together. Hamaguchi has also indicated he is not interested in working on another remake after this project.

Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update quietly fixes one of Windows Search’s longest-standing irritations. The search box now finds files with as few as two characters, down from the previous three-character minimum. Files named Q3, V2, or any other short label are no longer invisible. The update also changes how results are ranked. Local files […] This story continues at The Next Web

The FBI has revealed a 22,000 square-foot replica town on its Huntsville, Alabama, campus built to train law enforcement in simulating and investigating real-world cyberattacks. The Kinetic Cyber Range opened in February 2025 and has trained more than 1,400 students, including FBI personnel and partners from other federal and local agencies. The facility features fully […] This story continues at…

Andrew Yang thinks the biggest startup opportunity of the next decade is not building AI. It is lowering the cost of living for the people AI is about to displace. In a TechCrunch interview, the former presidential candidate and UBI advocate laid out a thesis: as AI compresses wages and eliminates entry-level jobs, the market […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI summary Andrew Yang stated in a TechCrunch interview that the next major startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living, not building AI. He believes that as AI displaces workers and compresses wages, startups should focus on reducing expenses like housing, food, and wireless. Yang compiled a list of items Americans overpay for and sees a gold rush in returning that money to consumers.

The US Justice Department has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring any changes to the deal. The agency said the merger “is not likely to harm competition or American consumers” after an eight-month antitrust review. No divestitures, behavioural remedies, or concessions were imposed. The deal combines two of Hollywood’s […] This story…

AI summary Das US-Justizministerium hat die Übernahme von Warner Bros. Discovery durch Paramount Skydance im Wert von 110 Milliarden US-Dollar ohne Auflagen genehmigt. Die Behörde erklärte nach einer achtmonatigen kartellrechtlichen Prüfung, dass der Zusammenschluss den Wettbewerb oder die Verbraucher wahrscheinlich nicht schädigen werde. Einige US-Bundesstaaten und internationale Regulierungsbehörden haben jedoch weiterhin Bedenken.

A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. New York’s attorney general served the company with a subpoena on Friday demanding documents on advertising, user engagement and retention, consumer and health data, its treatment of minors and seniors, deep-learning models, and internal […] This story…

AI summary Компания OpenAI готовится к выходу на IPO, однако столкнулась с масштабным расследованием со стороны 42 генеральных прокуроров штатов США. Расследование, о котором впервые сообщила Wall Street Journal, включает запрос документов по рекламе, вовлеченности пользователей, обработке данных и другим аспектам деятельности компании.

The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, in what appears to be the first time Washington has forced a commercial AI product offline. The directive, which Anthropic says it received at 5:21pm ET on 12 June, cites national security authorities and demands […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI summary The US government issued an export control directive ordering

Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches are physically destroying their homes. The lawsuit accuses SpaceX of negligence, gross negligence, and trespass based on the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984. One plaintiff showed Reuters her home in Port […] This story continues at The…