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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
  1. 1
    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.

    Oyster's founder on remote work, AI and Hungary's startup potential
  2. 2
    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.

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

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

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

    Siemens launches Eigen Engineering Agent to automate PLC coding and project generation
  6. 6
    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.

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

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

    Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI from Google’s Gemini team
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    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.

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

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

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

    Cursor introduces the /automate automation capability for agents
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    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.

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

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

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