Trustpilot just partnered with Shopify to put its reviews where AI search engines are already looking
Trustpilot just partnered with Shopify to put its reviews where AI search engines are already looking

Trustpilot has struck a partnership with Shopify that will let the platform’s merchants display and manage Trustpilot reviews directly inside their online stores. The integration goes live on June 29 and is the Danish review company’s first native tie-…

A Tokyo startup and a Beijing security firm just launched AI tools to fill the gap Anthropic’s export ban created
A Tokyo startup and a Beijing security firm just launched AI tools to fill the gap Anthropic’s export ban created

Two Asian AI companies launched products this week that position themselves as alternatives to Anthropic’s suspended Mythos and Fable 5 models. Tokyo-based Sakana AI released Fugu, an orchestration model it says matches Fable 5 on key benchmarks, while…

FTC clears Musk to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh, the optical hardware company his data centers need
FTC clears Musk to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh, the optical hardware company his data centers need

The Federal Trade Commission has cleared Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers who build optical transceivers for AI data centers. The FTC granted early termination of its antitrust review on…

Ford had to rehire 350 engineers after its AI got vehicle quality wrong
Ford had to rehire 350 engineers after its AI got vehicle quality wrong

Ford has admitted that it had to rehire experienced engineers after its AI systems failed to deliver the quality the company expected. Charles Poon, Ford’s VP of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters that the automaker mistakenly believed it cou…

OpenAI releases its most powerful AI model to just 20 partners, each one approved by the US government
OpenAI releases its most powerful AI model to just 20 partners, each one approved by the US government

OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Sol, its most powerful model, to roughly 20 partners whose names were individually approved by the US government. The release is the first time an American AI company has launched a frontier model under a government-managed …

Xprize founder says global surveillance is a good thing because humans behave better when they are being watched
Xprize founder says global surveillance is a good thing because humans behave better when they are being watched

Xprize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis has joined a growing list of tech executives who believe global surveillance is a good idea, writing on X this week that “humans behave better when they’re being watched.” In a Substack essay titled “Visibility…

OpenAI told Cannes it is “clearly in the advertising business now.” The numbers say it is barely in the door.
OpenAI told Cannes it is “clearly in the advertising business now.” The numbers say it is barely in the door.

OpenAI made its debut at the Cannes Lions advertising festival this week, but it did not book a beach club on the Croisette alongside Meta, Amazon, and Google. Instead, the company summoned reporters and agency executives to a semi-secluded villa near …

France’s statistics department hit by cyberattack on staff directory
France’s statistics department hit by cyberattack on staff directory

The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cyberattack had exposed personal data belonging to about 12,800 current and former staff, along with members of the civil-serv…

Samsung’s $647bn home investment heads for the chip-starved southwest
Samsung’s $647bn home investment heads for the chip-starved southwest

Numbers in the trillions have a way of losing their edges, so it is worth holding this one still for a moment. Samsung is expected to announce plans to invest 1,000 trillion won, around $647.5bn, in South Korea over the next 10 years, according to loca…

The US government asks OpenAI to slow its next model’s release
The US government asks OpenAI to slow its next model’s release

Sam Altman told staff Washington wants GPT-5.6 released first to a short list of trusted partners, with access approved customer by customer. For years the debate over slowing down powerful AI models was a matter for company safety teams and outside cr…