19 Jun 2026
😺 OpenAI found 18 rare diseases
Your browser does not support the audio element. The strangest AI headline today was not a chatbot writing another email. It was OpenAI backing Rust maintainers because the future of AI apparently depends on the programming language your most intense engineer has been telling you about since 2018. That is the funny part of this cycle: the flashiest AI demos still run on deeply unflashy…
19 Jun 2026
Step into Midjourney's spa for a body scan
Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Midjourney has spent years turning text prompts into surreal images. But its next big image project is a little more personal: the inside of your body. The company just revealed a full-body scanner that lowers users through an ultrasound ring for fast body maps, and wrap
19 Jun 2026
L’Oréal accelerates generative AI content engine with fresh OpenAI deal
OpenAI’s advertising platform remains a building site, but marketers remain incredibly keen to forge alliances with the generative AI leader. L’Oréal is the latest to strike a deal, this week unveiling a partnership to give it a leg up in product discovery and to use the organization’s latest models in its CreAItech marketing production system. Subsidiary brand Maybelline is also set to integrate…
18 Jun 2026
OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO
OpenAI is bringing on some big names to the team in the lead-up to its public debut: Google DeepMind AI legend Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI policy official Dean Ball.
18 Jun 2026
AI’s free-for-all era may be coming to an end—as companies start counting the cost
Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here. In today’s issue: Business leaders are confronting AI spending. ChatGPT’s market share falls below 50%. Top Google Gemini executive leaves for OpenAI. Americans want legal protection around AI interactions. I’m in Paris this week at one of Europe’s largest tech conferences, VivaTech, where concerns about “sovereign AI” are front and center.
18 Jun 2026
Google DeepMind unveils a plan to protect itself from its own rogue AI agents
Google has developed a new plan to police the increasingly capable AI agents it uses within its own AI research organization, and the company is publishing the so-called road map to help other AI labs counter the potential threat of rogue AI agents.
18 Jun 2026
AI chiefs call for regulation collaboration at the G7 summit
Once the footwear company of choice for fleece vest types in the late 2010s, Allbirds is now an AI infrastructure company, naturally. The firm on Wednesday renamed itself Smartbird and appointed former AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as chief executive. BIRD shares popped 39% on the news, albeit from a low (sub $4) baseline, valuing the revamped company at about $48 million, or about one-thousandth the…
18 Jun 2026
QuEra's Libra fault-tolerant quantum computer due in 2028
QuEra Computing has announced Libra, its first fault-tolerant quantum computer, and plans to make the system available on Amazon Braket in 2028.
18 Jun 2026
Key facts: HSBC Agrees ASIC Settlement; Gemini Deal; HK Deposits +50%
HSBC Holdings (HSBA) agreed to settle ASIC proceedings over alleged scam protection lapses in Australia; settlement awaits approval by the Federal Court of Australia.
