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John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis for AlphaFold, is leaving Google after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. It is the second blow to DeepMind in weeks, coming right after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer departed for OpenAI, and it lands just before the anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro launch. Hassabis said AlphaFold "changed the world" and acknowledged their "extraordinary partnership."
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Cornell Tech researchers Tingwei Zhang, Harold Triedman, and Vitaly Shmatikov unveiled WARP, an attack that slips a roughly 13-word poisoned passage into ordinary Reddit-style comments to steer deep-research agents like ChatGPT's Deep Research and Google's Gemini toward scams and products that do not exist, with success rates between 38 and 62 percent. A single comment can influence a whole cluster of related queries. The team tested obvious defenses, including blocking user-generated sites and screening sources, and none worked without degrading the AI's answers.
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A fresh Pew Research Center study finds just 16 percent of Americans expect AI to have a positive impact on society over the next 20 years, with about 40 percent expecting a negative one, even as chatbot use among US adults climbed to 49 percent. Roughly two-thirds say AI is moving too fast, and most doubt the government will regulate it effectively. It is a striking gap between adoption and trust.
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xAI launched Grok as a free Microsoft 365 add-in for Word, working from a side panel to turn rough notes into polished text, fix grammar in place, and pull in live web research and X data. It follows Grok add-ins for PowerPoint and Excel released days earlier, effectively planting Elon Musk's chatbot natively inside Office. That puts xAI in direct competition with Microsoft's own Copilot on Microsoft's home turf.
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Nvidia priced a $25 billion investment-grade bond offering, its largest debt deal ever and first since 2021, drawing a staggering $85 billion in orders across maturities stretching to 2056. The sale, led by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley, signals the AI buildout has become a fixed-income story, not just an equity one. AI-related borrowers have now sold roughly $300 billion in bonds in 2026 alone.
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BCE's Bell AI Fabric teamed with Cohere, Hypertec, and Hive's BUZZ HPC on a roughly $220 million sovereign AI infrastructure deal, with compute coming from Bell's data center in Merritt, British Columbia and running on Nvidia hardware built in Canada. Cohere will use the capacity to run its enterprise models for government and business customers. Bell is calling it the largest AI compute project in the country.
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Israeli sovereign-AI cybersecurity startup Dream raised $260 million at a $3 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth from a year earlier. Founded in 2023 by former NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio, former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, and Gil Dolev, the company builds AI platforms to defend governments and critical infrastructure. The round, co-led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11, funds expansion across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.
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Eurocommerce, whose members include Amazon, H&M, Inditex, and Ikea, sent a letter to EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen asking that AI-generated advertisements be exempt from the AI Act's transparency mandate, which takes effect August 2 and requires labeling of deepfake-style content. The group argues routine marketing visuals not meant to mislead should not count as deepfakes, and warns blanket labeling would make disclosures so common they become useless. It is the first big retail pushback against the Act's disclosure rules.
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At Yale's CEO Summit this month, 40 percent of chief executives said they believe an AI market correction is imminent, while Bank of America advised clients on June 5 to take profits as technical signals flashed a near-term peak. Analysts point to Goldman Sachs' $539 billion AI capex estimate for 2026 and "circular financing," where Nvidia invests in OpenAI and OpenAI buys Nvidia chips, as warning signs. Most expect any reckoning to land in late 2026 or early 2027.
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SpaceX revealed technical specs for AI1, its first orbital data-center satellite, with a 70-meter wingspan wider than a Boeing 747, a 120 kW sustained compute payload peaking at 150 kW, and modular chip hardware to avoid relying on any single chipmaker. Musk likened its draw to a single Nvidia GB300 rack and said it is "much simpler than a Starlink satellite." Prototypes are slated for early 2027, with SpaceX filing for a megaconstellation of up to a million such craft.
