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AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

HUMAIN ONE: Saudi Arabia's PIF-Backed AI Firm Ships an Enterprise Operating System for Autonomous Agents, Built on AWS

Saudi Arabia's PIF-owned HUMAIN launched HUMAIN ONE on 4 May 2026 — a five-module platform billed as the industry's firs...

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AI Tools Desk

1 Jun

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

EU AI Act Omnibus: Annex III High-Risk Deadline Extends 16 Months, Annex I Gets 12, Nudifier Apps Banned from December 2026

A provisional political agreement reached on 7 May 2026 pushes Annex III standalone high-risk AI compliance to December...

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Priya Nair

1 Jun

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Illinois Passes First US Law Requiring Independent Audits of Frontier AI — a Narrower Claim Than It Sounds

Senate Bill 315 cleared the Illinois House 110-0 on 27 May 2026, making Illinois the first US state to require annual in...

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Priya Nair

1 Jun

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Colorado Scraps Its 2024 AI Act for a Lighter Disclosure Law — What the Retreat Signals for US AI Governance

Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 26-189 on 14 May 2026, replacing the state's 2024 AI Act with a narrower disclos...

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Priya Nair

1 Jun

AI & ML 2 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Baseten is in talks to raise US$1 billion at an US$11 billion valuation as inference money keeps flowing

Baseten, which rents Nvidia servers to companies running AI models, is in talks to raise US$1 billion at an US$11 billio...

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AI Tools Desk

1 Jun

AI & ML 2 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Viktor raises US$75 million to put an AI "coworker" inside Slack and Teams

A Warsaw-built startup called Viktor has raised US$75 million from Accel to grow an AI agent that lives inside Slack and...

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Maya Lin

1 Jun

AI & ML 3 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Waymo's newest robotaxi is Chinese-built, and it is already picking up riders

Waymo has started letting select riders into its next robotaxi, a minivan-style vehicle built on a Zeekr chassis from Ch...

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Amelia Wong

1 Jun

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 30 May 2026 —

Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 Six Weeks After 4.7 — Better Coding, Same Price, and a Pitch Built on Honesty

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on 28 May 2026, about six weeks after Opus 4.7. The headline numbers are incremental...

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AI Tools Desk

30 May

AI & ML 6 min

AI & ML · 30 May 2026 —

Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical Tells the World to Slow Down on AI

In his first encyclical, released 25 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV devotes the founding text of his papacy largely to artificia...

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Priya Nair

30 May

AI & ML 12 min

AI & ML · 22 May 2026 —

OpenAI Launches Self-Serve Ads Manager Inside ChatGPT — The Search-Advertising Era Just Ended

OpenAI launched a self-serve Ads Manager inside ChatGPT on 21 May 2026. Marketers can now create, manage, and optimise c...

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AI Tools Desk

22 May

AI & ML 8 min

AI & ML · 20 May 2026 —

xAI Pre-Announces Grok 5 with Reasoning Scores Above GPT-5.5 — Free for X Premium Subscribers

Elon Musk's xAI confirmed Grok 5 ships in June with GPQA Diamond scores above GPT-5.5 and a deeper reasoning mode the te...

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AI Tools Desk

20 May

AI & ML 12 min

AI & ML · 20 May 2026 —

Google Bets the Gemini App on Agents With 3.5 Flash and 24/7 Spark Assistant

At Google I/O 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash shipped with 4× the speed of frontier rivals and a new agent called Spark that runs...

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AI Tools Desk

20 May