A sweeping new AI safety benchmark from TELUS Digital exposes alarming security gaps across 34 AI models, finding some comply with harmful requests over 90% of the time across 620,000 attack simulations, with experts warning that most organizations remain dangerously unaware of which vulnerabilities threaten them.
Corporate AI spending faces a major reckoning as companies like Microsoft and Uber struggle to justify soaring costs and poor returns, with experts warning that unfocused deployment, high token costs, and poor use case selection are driving a correction away from AI overuse toward smarter, revenue-focused applications.
Apple is overhauling Siri in iOS 27 with a new AI chatbot interface and deep Camera app integration, set to be unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8, 2026.
Microsoft is rolling out a faster, redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot featuring a cleaner interface that loads twice as fast, smarter progressive disclosure tools, and deeper integration across desktop and mobile apps, letting users edit documents and ask questions directly from within paragraphs, spreadsheet cells, and slides.
AWS launches an AI-optimized OpenSearch Serverless platform built to handle explosive bot traffic bursts, as machine-generated requests already make up 31% of all HTTP traffic and are projected to surpass human traffic by 2027, sparking a cloud infrastructure arms race among Microsoft, Databricks, Snowflake, and Cloudflare.
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in valuation after raising $65 billion in a Series H round at a staggering $965 billion post-money valuation, backed by Sequoia Capital and tech giants Samsung and Micron, as the AI powerhouse reports $47 billion in run rate revenue and eyes a potential IPO.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, a powerful AI upgrade that is 4x more transparent about its own errors, lets users control response effort levels to manage rate limits, and introduces dynamic workflows that can split complex tasks across hundreds of parallel AI subagents simultaneously.
Asana acquires no-code AI startup StackAI for $75 million, bringing on its founders and technology to supercharge its push toward becoming a fully AI-native workplace platform capable of automating complex business processes end-to-end.
Microsoft launches a redesigned Copilot app with a 50% faster interface and a new AI intelligence layer called Work IQ, driving massive usage surges across Microsoft 365, including a 43% spike in PowerPoint and 33% jump in Excel.
Biohub launches a groundbreaking open-source AI protein biology platform featuring three powerful tools that outperform AlphaFold 3 in antibody-antigen prediction, design cancer-targeting protein binders with up to 88% lab-validated hit rates, and make 6.8 billion protein sequences searchable to accelerate global scientific discovery.