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Agents, Power, and the New AI Order
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Agents, Power, and the New AI Order

22 June 2026
Oyster's founder on remote work, AI and Hungary's startup potential
Industry

Oyster's founder on remote work, AI and Hungary's startup potential

Jack Mardack, co‑founder of Oyster, says remote work—more than artificial intelligence—is depressing junior hiring, while AI can help level regional competition.

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California directs lawmakers to craft protections for workers displaced by AI-driven tech layoffs
Regulation

California directs lawmakers to craft protections for workers displaced by AI-driven tech layoffs

California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered the state legislature to develop a plan to protect workers who lose jobs due to automation and artificial intelligence as major tech firms carry out widespread layoffs.

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NASA's ERNEST rover prototype demonstrates new suspension, gaits and autonomy for lunar and Mars exploration
Research

NASA's ERNEST rover prototype demonstrates new suspension, gaits and autonomy for lunar and Mars exploration

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has tested the ERNEST experimental rover in the Colorado desert, where it traveled about 26 km with minimal human intervention and reached roughly 1 km/h.

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Researchers find ChatGPT can generate violent and sexual images despite safeguards
Safety

Researchers find ChatGPT can generate violent and sexual images despite safeguards

Researchers at Mindgard found that the latest version of ChatGPT can produce images with violent and sexual content when given a commonly used prompt, even without explicit instructions to do so.

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Siemens launches Eigen Engineering Agent to automate PLC coding and project generation
Tools

Siemens launches Eigen Engineering Agent to automate PLC coding and project generation

Siemens introduced the Eigen Engineering Agent, an AI tool that directly integrates with TIA Portal to write PLC code, create HMI visualizations, configure devices, and self-validate outputs.

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Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: a large open-weights model for long-context agentic tasks
Model launches

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: a large open-weights model for long-context agentic tasks

Nvidia has unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550-billion-parameter open-weights large language model optimized for long-context, agentic workloads.

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Google escalates TPU sales to challenge Nvidia's AI-chip dominance
Business

Google escalates TPU sales to challenge Nvidia's AI-chip dominance

Google has moved from using its in-house Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) only for internal AI workloads to actively selling them to external customers, seeking to erode Nvidia's dominant position in the AI-chip market.

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Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI from Google’s Gemini team
Industry

Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI from Google’s Gemini team

Noam Shazeer, a key contributor to the Transformer architecture, has left Google’s Gemini project to join OpenAI.

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US export controls force Anthropic to suspend access to its new Claude models globally
Regulation

US export controls force Anthropic to suspend access to its new Claude models globally

Anthropic halted access to its newly launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide just days after their release after the US government issued an export‑control directive citing national‑security concerns.

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Three New Benchmarks Aim to Replace SWE-bench for Evaluating Agentic Software Engineering
Research

Three New Benchmarks Aim to Replace SWE-bench for Evaluating Agentic Software Engineering

Three recently released benchmarks — DeepSWE, ProgramBench and ITBench-AA — propose more demanding evaluations of agent-driven software engineering than the SWE-bench family.

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U.S. restricts foreign access and Anthropic pauses Mythos after model finds widespread software bugs
Safety

U.S. restricts foreign access and Anthropic pauses Mythos after model finds widespread software bugs

Anthropic temporarily took its Mythos AI offline and the U.S.

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Cursor introduces the /automate automation capability for agents
Tools

Cursor introduces the /automate automation capability for agents

Cursor announced a capability called /automate that allows agents to set up automated workflows using simple, natural language instructions.

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Evaluating Claude Fable 5: safeguarded responses, hidden fallbacks and benchmark distortion
Model launches

Evaluating Claude Fable 5: safeguarded responses, hidden fallbacks and benchmark distortion

Multiple independent evaluators found it difficult to measure Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 because safety classifiers either refused prompts or routed them to the weaker Claude Opus 4.8, and Anthropic requires prompts and outputs to be retained for 30 days.

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OpenAI launches partner network, targets consultant-driven deployment revenue
Business

OpenAI launches partner network, targets consultant-driven deployment revenue

On June 14, OpenAI announced a Partner Network with a $150 million commitment to certify 300,000 consultants by the end of 2026 and recruited major consultancies including McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Accenture, and PwC.

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ELTE and Bosch Highlight Human-Centred Robotics at Intelligent Robotics FAIR 2026
Industry

ELTE and Bosch Highlight Human-Centred Robotics at Intelligent Robotics FAIR 2026

The Intelligent Robotics FAIR 2026, organised by Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Informatics in collaboration with the Bosch group in Hungary, will run on June 18–20, 2026 at ELTE and the Bosch Budapest Innovation Campus.

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