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An internal Deloitte presentation projects that the consulting industry's classic hourly billing model will shrink to a thin sliver of the total market by 2035, replaced by AI agents. "Our model is toast," one consultant summed up the message. McKinsey and BCG are already searching for alternative revenue models. The article Deloitte tells its own consultants: AI is coming for the billable hour appeared first on The Decoder .

The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them. The article The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school appeared first on The Decoder .

HP has scaled its OpenAI Frontier integration across global operations to optimise enterprise workflows and accelerate output. The hardware manufacturer initiated testing of the platform in February 2026. Early pilot programs yielded verified operational gains in software engineering and cybersecurity remediation. Expanding these initial trials into an enterprise-wide operating model requires connecting access protocols, contextual […] The post HP accelerates enterprise workflows with OpenAI Fro

<p>Modern AI systems are, in effect, a universal adviser to help people do harmful things. We’ll need to harness AI for defense, too</p><p>Earlier this week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes – that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club – jointly released a <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/4523810/five-eyes-cyber-security-agencies-statement/">statement</a> warning of the increasing cyber risks of AI models: in particular, their ab

With AI-powered noise reduction, an automatic speech-focusing system, and a simple, effective hearing test, it’s a shame these aids don't come with a better app.

Security researchers at Mozilla's 0DIN platform have shown how a single compromised GitHub repo can take over a developer's machine the moment an AI coding tool like Claude Code runs its setup. The catch: the malicious code only loads at runtime via a DNS query, invisible in the repo, to scanners, and to the AI agent itself. The article Claude Code runs a GitHub repo's hidden malware without verification, giving attackers full control appeared first on The Decoder .

The All England Lawn Tennis Club is adding new AI-powered features to Wimbledon’s digital platforms through its ongoing work with IBM. The updates will be available through the Wimbledon app and wimbledon.com as first-round matches begin on Monday. They include an upgraded Match Chat assistant and a new feature called Key Moments. The features will […] The post Wimbledon adds IBM AI tools for live match coverage appeared first on AI News .

Natural language processing is reshaping professional communication on online platforms, enabling more relevant and personalised networking interactions. As AI-driven systems increasingly comprehend and generate human language, these technological advances affect how users pursue and maintain professional connections, presenting both opportunities and challenges in authentic relationship-building. Professional networking now relies on a growing ecosystem of AI-powered […] The post Advances in Na

Modern DevSecOps needs security checks that run before release day. Teams now write code, build services and deploy updates at a pace that manual review cannot match. That’s why they use automated testing, as it helps catch routine flaws before they reach production. The pressure has grown. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that […] The post Best Automated Security Testing Tools for Modern DevSecOps appeared first on AI News .

Samsung and SK Hynix, backed by the South Korean government, are pouring $590 billion into new chip factories and packaging centers as AI data center demand surges. According to Jefferies, memory prices could climb to 50 percent per quarter through 2027. The two companies control nearly 80 percent of the global HBM market. The article Samsung and SK Hynix plan $590 billion chip investment as AI demand sends memory prices soaring appeared first on The Decoder .

xFusion presented scalable enterprise AI computing models at ISC 2026, transitioning hardware from edge devices to data centres. Enterprise technology buyers attending the Hamburg exhibition sought practical production frameworks. Hardware selection processes regularly fail to account for physical operating limits. Relying on public APIs exposes proprietary commercial data. xFusion engineers responded with a four-tier hardware […] The post xFusion scales enterprise AI from edge workstations to l

Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work.

New partnership brings on-device deepfake detection to video calls on desktop SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2026 — Scam.ai today announced a partnership with Qualcomm and the launch of Halo, an on-device deepfake detection model for live video calls. Both announcements were made at Computex 2026 in Taipei, where Scam.ai was featured at Qualcomm’s booth as […] The post Scam.ai Announces Qualcomm Partnership, Launches Halo Deepfake Detection Model at Computex 2026 appeared first on AI News .

<p>In 1993, she squeezed a $333m settlement from a Californian energy company in a scandal over contaminated water. Three decades later, she has a new target in her sights – and it’s global</p><p>When Erin Brockovich woke to find 30 emails from people from the same town, she realised something was going on. People email Brockovich all the time because of what happened in 1993, when she was instrumental in suing Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on behalf of residents of the town of Hinkley

<p>Value of some chip manufacturers have tripled, or more, driving Asia Pacific stock markets sharply higher</p><p>Shares in chipmakers have surged in the first half of this year as investors piled into companies that make the hardware underpinning the AI boom, according to analysis.</p><p>Investors have driven up the value of semiconductor and memory chip manufacturers, whose profits have soared during 2026, at the expense of some large software companies, which have fallen out of favour this y

<p>Tech and AI stocks now make up as much as 12% of most balanced superannuation funds, experts say</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Artificial intelligence and technology stocks have become a driving force on Wall Street and, unbeknowns

<p>ChatGPT relieves me of my discomfort, but in doing so it robs me of contemplation, of the holy ground between question and answer</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/making-sense-of-it">Making sense of it</a> is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life</p></li></ul><p>As a person of faith raised in a religious household, I have a fairly clear picture of what prayer means to me. Prayer is the practice by which I draw close

Eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they've found a winner with Micron.

Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to location data from his iPhone, security camera footage, and witness testimony. But they also turned to his ChatGPT logs. Prosecutors said that […]

A survey paper by Tencent and several Chinese universities traces the path from chatbot to "digital colleague." AI systems won't become reliable coworkers, the researchers argue, until they finish entire tasks in persistent work environments instead of just generating answers. The key lies in combining persistent workspaces with reusable skills. The article AI won't become a real coworker until it stops answering and starts finishing tasks appeared first on The Decoder .

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is switching his company to Chinese AI models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7. An automated routing system picks the best model for each request based on task and price, and better caching pushed the hit rate from 5 to 60 percent. Coinbase has cut its AI spending in half even as token usage keeps climbing. The article Coinbase joins the rush to Chinese AI models as Western labs face a pricing stress test appeared first on The Decoder .

Researchers at Princeton University built CEO-Bench, a test where AI agents have to run a fictional software company for 500 simulated days. Most current models go broke, and a simple rule-based heuristic with no AI beats nearly all of them. The article Only three AI models finished above starting capital in a 500-day startup survival test appeared first on The Decoder .

360 founder Zhou Hongyi presents two AI security tools designed to compete with Anthropic's Mythos. One has already flagged 3,432 vulnerabilities. Zhou admits Chinese models trail Western ones by 20 to 30 percent, but compares Mythos to "cyber nuclear weapons" and calls for China to build its own strategic deterrent. The article Chinese cybersecurity firm builds AI tools to rival Mythos and frames the race as cyber-nuclear deterrence appeared first on The Decoder .

Sina Weibo's VibeThinker-3B has just three billion parameters but matches models like DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on math and coding benchmarks. Those models are up to 333 times larger. The secret isn't size but multi-stage post-training. The researchers propose a hypothesis based on their findings: logical reasoning compresses well into small models, but broad world knowledge does not. The article Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge does

Anthropic's AI model, Fable 5, could be available again within days. According to Axios, the Trump administration is close to lifting the restrictions imposed on June 12 over safety concerns. The Pentagon and NSA still need to sign off. The article Anthropic's Fable 5 could return within days as Trump administration prepares to lift restrictions appeared first on The Decoder .

About half of Claude users say AI can already handle 50 percent or more of their work tasks, according to a survey of roughly 9,700 users by Anthropic. In 12 months, 26 percent expect AI to cover 60 to 90 percent of their work. Early-career workers worry the most, while the heaviest users are the most optimistic about their career prospects. The article Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>As tech firms make huge profits and investors fear losing out, both are doing their best to hold off the day of reckoning</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/26/openai-ai-model-release-trump-us-sam-altman-gpt-anthropic-mythos">OpenAI staggers AI model release after White House request</a></p></li></ul><p>Every couple of decades, investors will ask themselves how long can the stock market keep climbing. Is it safe to buy more shares? Is their pension or equit

J.P. Morgan warns that there are "signs of investor exuberance" in AI markets. Just 42 AI companies in the S&P 500 account for 65 to 80 percent of the index's total profits. The semiconductor rally is flashing technical patterns last seen during the dotcom bubble, and leveraged chip ETFs have quintupled their market influence since early 2024. The bank sees multiple layers of concentration risk across markets, infrastructure, and the economy. The article J.P. Morgan sees a pile of red flags in t

Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has launched "Raise Us," a bipartisan nonprofit to prepare American workers for AI-driven job shifts. Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation are jointly funding the initiative. That the very companies driving the disruption are bankrolling the response will likely raise questions about independence. The article The companies most likely to automate your job are now funding a $1 billion program to retrain you appeared first on The Decode

<p>Two men in their 20s were found within five hours thanks to an artificial intelligence-powered drone, which used thermal imaging to locate them. Two hikers veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national park, New South Wales, on Tuesday, and were found about half a kilometre off the track. It was the first time the FRNSW drone’s AI detection system had been used to rescue missing people</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/27/ai-drone-rescue-kosciuszko

Anthropic has US approval to redeploy Claude Mythos 5 for organizations running critical infrastructure. The company is still negotiating broader access and the return of Fable 5, with no timeline set. The article Anthropic gets US approval to bring back Claude Mythos 5 appeared first on The Decoder .

Researchers from Renmin University and ByteDance have released iLLaDA, an 8B language model that generates text differently than ChatGPT. It matches Qwen2.5 at the base level but falls behind after fine-tuning. The article ByteDance's "iLLaDA" is a diffusion language model that keeps up with Qwen2.5 appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>Fire and Rescue NSW uses thermal imaging and a mobile phone red light to quickly locate men who veered off walking track near Jindabyne</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Two hikers who veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national

After weeks of negotiations, the White House permitted Anthropic to grant access to its most advanced AI model to a select group of US companies and government agencies.

As Anthropic tightens restrictions on access to Claude in China, users keep finding new workarounds, from proxy services to fake identities sourced on Telegram.

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.

OpenAI's new flagship GPT-5.6 Sol beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 in coding benchmarks, but the US government is forcing a restricted rollout. OpenAI isn't happy about it. The article OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol launches to rival Claude Mythos under government access rules it calls unsustainable appeared first on The Decoder .

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out of single-supplier risk. The goal is less of a […]

Epoch AI's new MirrorCode benchmark tests whether AI models can recreate complete programs without access to the original code. Claude Opus 4.7 leads with a 56 percent solve rate, rebuilding a 16,000-line toolkit in just 14 hours. But every model tested still fails on the most complex tasks. The article An AI model programmed nonstop for 19 days on a single MirrorCode task that cost $2,600 to run appeared first on The Decoder .

The White House asked OpenAI to delay the rollout of its GPT-5.6 AI models, two weeks after Anthropic had to take its most advanced AI models offline.