5+ hour, 9+ min ago  (602+ words) Techdirt published a new episode of its weekly podcast "Ctrl-Alt-Speech," hosted by **Mike Masnick** and **Ben Whitelaw**, focusing on online speech, content moderation, and internet regulation. According to Techdirt, this installment features guest **Jen Weedon**, described as a veteran of…...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago  (443+ words) Multiple outlets, including Variety, The Verge, and The Wrap, report that **Amazon MGM Studios** has dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished film **Artificial**, a biopic about **Sam Altman** that dramatizes his November 2023 firing and reinstatement at **Open AI**. Variety and The…...

4+ hour, 16+ min ago  (724+ words) Nat West chief executive Paul Thwaite said artificial intelligence will "deliver" some existing banking roles, remarks reported by The Times on June 19, 2026. Thwaite made the comment at a business summit hosted by The Times, saying, "In effect there will be…...

4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (725+ words) Databricks launched Customer Lake on June 16, 2026 at its Data + AI Summit, entering the Customer Data Platform (CDP) market with an agentic CDP natively embedded in its lakehouse. Customer Lake brings Customer 360, identity resolution, audience building, campaign automation, and activation directly…...

3+ hour, 6+ min ago  (692+ words) Reveal Life Science, a Montreal-based surgical AI company, won first place in the OVHcloud Startup Challenge at Viva Tech 2026 in Paris, per independent reporting and company disclosures. The company uses Raman spectroscopy to read tissue molecular signatures in seconds during…...

4+ hour, 23+ min ago  (881+ words) Researchers at **UC Berkeley** have developed a 16-element "electronic nose" chip that combines miniature gas sensors and machine learning to identify food types, spoilage, and common allergens, according to a paper published in **Science Advances** and reporting by **Berkeley News…...

4+ hour, 55+ min ago  (631+ words) According to a report by Neuroscience News summarizing work from researchers at the University of Montreal, a recent study argues that fluent, emotionally responsive behaviour in AI chatbots is driven by statistical computation rather than subjective awareness. The authors draw…...

5+ hour, 9+ min ago  (580+ words) ABC News reports that investigators traced a Sydney startup, **Coreflow**, to **Our Dream**, one of the largest AI pornography sites, and found images that, "appear to depict people under 16 years old," according to technology used by law enforcement, per ABC....

11+ hour, 39+ min ago  (513+ words) Kreativespace, an Indian AI writing platform founded by Vinet Kakadea and incubated at IIT Kharagpur, published a press release via PRNewswire on June 18-19, 2026 describing its platform and recognition. Per the press release, the startup has been accepted into the NVIDIA…...

5+ hour, 41+ min ago  (681+ words) John Jumper announced on X that he is leaving **Google Deep Mind** after nearly nine years to join **Anthropic**, reporting by Business Insider, The Times of India, and Four Week MBA shows. In his post Jumper wrote, "The entire GDM…...