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Gartner: AI Servers to Drive 26% Data Center Energy Spike in 2026, as Cooling Startups and Grid Operators Race to Respond
Global data center electricity consumption is projected to reach 565 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2026, a 26 percent increase over the...
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The Next Smartphone War Is Agentic: OpenAI’s Phone Plans and Huawei’s HarmonyOS 7 Target the App-Free Future
Two separate developments this month point toward the same shift: smartphone makers are betting that AI agents, not app grids,...
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Microsoft Hit With Shareholder Lawsuit Over AI Spending as Florida’s OpenAI Suit Moves Forward
Two unrelated legal actions are putting fresh pressure on the AI industry’s biggest players this month: a shareholder class action...
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The “AI Off-Switch”: US Export Order Forces Anthropic to Disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Worldwide
On June 9, 2026, Anthropic made Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 generally available, describing the pair as its...
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UN Report: AI Data Centers Could Triple Energy Use by 2030, Straining Water and Land Resources
A new report from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), titled “Environmental Cost of AI’s...
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OpenAI Faces New Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Safety Failures, Seeks Mandatory Safeguards
OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman are facing a new lawsuit filed on June 11, 2026, in San Francisco County Superior...
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AI Talent Exodus: Ex-DeepMind and Meta Researchers Fuel $18.8B Startup Boom in 2026
A wave of senior researchers is leaving Google DeepMind, Meta, and other frontier AI labs to launch independent startups —...
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Microsoft’s June 2026 Windows Update Hardens desktop.ini Handling, Closing a Two-Decade-Old Shell Trust Gap — and Breaking Custom Folder Icons
Microsoft’s June 9, 2026 Patch Tuesday updates introduced a significant security change to how Windows handles desktop.ini, the small configuration...
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“Agentjacking”: New MCP Exploit Tricks Claude Code, Cursor and Codex Into Running Attacker Code via Fake Sentry Errors
Security researchers have identified a new attack class, dubbed “Agentjacking,” that exploits how AI coding agents process error reports from...
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Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Suspended Worldwide After US Export Control Order
Anthropic disabled both Mythos-class models for all customers globally just three days after launch, after the US Commerce Department cited...
