AI News — June 13, 2026
Daily news briefing for 13th June 2026. Track model releases, research breakthroughs, startup funding updates, and AI signals published on this day.
All Stories Published on June 13 (10)
Anthropic's safety warnings may have just backfired - the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI
Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model...
Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System
Researchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks globally.
KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations
Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI.
OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general
It's not clear which states are involved, but they're asking about everything from OpenAI's ad policies to its handling of health data.
The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones
Plus: AI bug hunting fuels Microsoft's biggest-ever Patch Tuesday, ShinyHunters ransomware gang exploits an Oracle zero-day, and more.
Rivian's CEO on Tesla's Cybertruck, Ferrari's Luce, and What Happens If the R2 Fails
RJ Scaringe, the CEO of Rivian Automotive, joined us for a wide-ranging interview about how his company's new electric SUV fits into the current EV industry...
Here's How AI Agents Can Protect EV Chargers
An AI agent system proposed by researchers in Spain promises to prevent energy theft and damage to EV chargers, as well as the critical energy infrastructure...
Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living
Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for - housing, food, wireless - and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.
Mozilla Data Collective seeks to build AI's data economy around trust
Generative artificial intelligence has a data problem. For years, the typical approach to building gen AI model has been to gather as much data as possible by scraping vast swaths of the internet, training at an enormous scale and dealing with the consequences later. The result has been...
Mistral reportedly seeking $3.5B funding round amid physics AI push
French foundation model developer Mistral AI SAS is reportedly in talks to raise €3 billion, or about $3.5 billion, from investors. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the round could value the company at €20 billion. That's nearly double the valuation it received after its most recent...