Firm rents four Nvidia H200s to test ’80x cheaper’ DeepSeek claim

A call center consultancy rented four Nvidia H200s to run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash for Claude Code and found DeepSeek’s API cheaper.

Hostile threat warning startup Osavul raises €8.5M

A startup launched in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukrainewhose tech helps NATO and governments detect hostile threats before theyescalate has raised €8.5m in a Series A funding round, it said today….

Who owns AI risk at work? Business and tech leaders can’t agree, PwC survey finds

PwC research highlights a growing need for someone to own AI. Is an AI chief the answer?

Deepslate secures €7.7M for its European voice AI platform

Berlin-based voice AI company Deepslate has raised €7.7million in a seed round led by Munich-based technology investor 42CAP, withparticipation from Alstin Capital, existing investor SIVentures and se…

AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Canada’s national archive
AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Canada’s national archive

On 28 May and again on 9 June, AI agents carried out several simple hacking attempts against a search tool operated by Library and Archives Canada. Transluce, a nonprofit AI research laboratory, states that none of these attempts appeared to be success…

Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wedn…

Tokyo court rules the human voice is protected, in a TikTok AI clone case
Tokyo court rules the human voice is protected, in a TikTok AI clone case

A Tokyo court ruled on Wednesday that Japanese law protects the human voice. Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda had sued TikTok over videos he says used an AI clone of his voice. He won in part, as the court turned down his request to remove the videos, A…

Google is paying 100 publishers for AI answers, The Information reports
Google is paying 100 publishers for AI answers, The Information reports

Google is paying about 100 digital publishers when their content feeds its AI answers. For several small and mid-sized sites in the pilot, the payments come to less than a tenth of 1% of their advertising revenue, The Information reported on Tuesday. A…

300 publishers take their fight against AI stealth bots to Congress
300 publishers take their fight against AI stealth bots to Congress

Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI “stealth bots”. The News/Media Alliance, a trade body for news and magazine publishers, organised the trip, Digiday reported on Tue…

SpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports
SpaceXAI weighs one Grok and X plan, from free to $100, Bloomberg reports

SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artifi…