18 Jun 2026
Sports Journalists Asked Microsoft’s Copilot to Predict World Cup Matches, and the Results May Surprise You
AI has wormed its way into every crevice of the 2026 World Cup. It’s dreaming up sloppified soccer jerseys, collating thousands of on-field data points, and even guarding venues in the form of robot surveillance dogs that presumably can’t be bribed with sausage. Yet for all its busywork, AI remains blissfully ignorant on the one metric that matters: who wins and who loses.
18 Jun 2026
Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children
Even with genomic sequencing, many people with rare diseases never receive a clear genetic diagnosis. Roughly half remain undiagnosed after extensive testing and specialist review. Their medical data may contain clues but finding them can require sifting through thousands to millions of possible genetic variants, fragmented clinical records, and rapidly changing scientific literature. As new…
17 Jun 2026
Welcome to June 17, 2026
The Singularity has gone open source, and it speaks Mandarin. Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 packs 744 billion parameters (40B active) into MIT-licensed, 1M-context weights built for agentic coding, and Artificial Analysis crowned it the leading open model at 51, past MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro at 44.
17 Jun 2026
Microsoft’s Copilot AI Caught Letting Hackers Steal Your 2FA Codes Through a Single Click
Earlier this month, Meta’s AI chatbot support assistant feature was caught in an embarrassing cybersecurity incident: the bot was happily obliging when hackers asked it for access to other people’s Instagram profiles. The hackers didn’t have to put much effort into their work. After switching on a VPN, they simply asked the chatbot to change the email address associated with a target profile,…
16 Jun 2026
This Copilot vulnerability could expose emails, 2FA codes, and other sensitive data
It seems no matter how many safeguards are put on AI assistants and chatbots, crafty hackers will find a way around them. Just earlier this month, malicious actors tricked Meta's AI support into providing access to some of Instagram's largest accounts. This time, cybersecurity researchers at Varonis Threat Labs have uncovered a new three-stage vulnerability chain that "turns Microsoft 365 Copilot…
16 Jun 2026
Hackers turn Microsoft 365 Copilot into a one-click data theft tool
Varonis uncovered “SearchLeak,” chaining three flaws in Microsoft 365 Copilot to enable one‐click data theft
16 Jun 2026
Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges
REG AD SOFTWARE Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not! Microsoft is facing AI-related issues on multiple fronts. Disgruntled investors have flung a sueball at the company over its Copilot claims, while it is reportedly turning to other cloud vendors to help with AI-induced scalability issues at its coding collaboration tentacle, GitHub.
16 Jun 2026
Ex-Microsoft duo behind Security Copilot raises $100M seed to catch AI threats before they strike
Ent, an endpoint security company created by the team behind RiskIQ and Microsoft Security Copilot, has emerged from stealth with $100 million in seed funding. The round was led by Decibel, with Sequoia, Crosspoint Capital, Craft Ventures, Shield Capital, Felicis, and In-Q-Tel also investing. This is one of the biggest seed rounds in cybersecurity history. It shows that investors believe current…
16 Jun 2026
RiskIQ founders launch Ent Security with $100M to rethink endpoint defense
RiskIQ founders launch Ent Security with $100M to rethink endpoint defense
