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24 Jun 2026

Chinese AI tools now rival Anthropic Mythos in vulnerability detection as gap narrows

China's 360 Security Technology unveiled Tulongfeng and Yitianzhen, AI-driven cybersecurity tools designed to match Anthropic's Mythos in finding software vulnerabilities. Separately, Zhipu AI's open-weight GLM-5.2 model reportedly performs on par with Mythos in bug detection, signaling that Chinese AI has closed the gap in this critical domain despite trailing in broader reasoning tasks.

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Flying Wedge Defence unveils FWD Supreme, India's first AI-piloted fighter jet concept

Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace has unveiled FWD Supreme, India's first AI-piloted fighter jet concept designed around a revolutionary Mobbing Doctrine. The technology demonstrator FWD Supreme Lite is scheduled for its maiden flight in Q3 2026, positioning India among an elite group of nations developing autonomous combat aircraft.

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MIT's ultrasound wristband lets users control robotic hands and play piano with 120ms delay

MIT researchers and the University of Southern California have created a wireless ultrasound wristband that tracks hand movements in real-time, enabling users to control a robotic hand or manipulate virtual objects. The device uses ultrasound imaging of wrist tendons and muscles, paired with AI, to capture all 22 degrees of freedom of human hand motion with less than 120 milliseconds delay.

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TECNO EllaClaw AI Agent Gets Cross-App Intelligence, 40+ Smart Skills in Closed Beta

TECNO has unveiled major upgrades to EllaClaw, its beta-stage mobile AI agent that can now shop, book rides, and manage device performance. The AI agent operates across multiple apps using persistent memory and includes over 40 Smart Skills for device optimization. Built under TECNO's Practical AI vision, EllaClaw uses a confirmation-first model to keep users in control while handling everyday tasks.

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NetApp StorageGRID 12.1 delivers 400% throughput boost for AI workloads at massive scale

NetApp has released StorageGRID 12.1 with enhanced support for AI workloads, introducing a federated global namespace that scales up to 10 exabytes. The update delivers up to 400% higher throughput and 12 TB/s performance to AI Factories, helping organizations manage rapidly growing unstructured data across distributed hybrid environments.

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Safe Pro Group secures $1.3M US Army subcontract for AI threat detection on autonomous vehicles

Safe Pro Group Inc. landed a $1.3 million US Army subcontract to integrate its AI-powered threat detection technology into autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles. The deal will see the company's SPOTD system deployed for real-time detection of explosive threats including landmines and cluster munitions during mobile operations, backed by a dataset of 2.8 million drone images.

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ChatGPT leak reveals GPT Bidi 1 voice model that listens and speaks at the same time

OpenAI is testing GPT Bidi 1, a new bidirectional audio model that allows ChatGPT to listen and speak simultaneously. The unannounced model has already started rolling out to select ChatGPT app users, suggesting an official release could happen this week. The upgrade promises to transform ChatGPT voice capabilities with natural acknowledgments, better context retention, and seamless interruption handling.

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Samsung Smart TVs introduce AI Shopping through Glance partnership on millions of screens

Samsung has partnered with Glance to bring agentic AI commerce to smart TVs across the United States. The integration transforms television screens into interactive shopping platforms, allowing users to browse products, create personalized feeds, and make purchases using voice commands or remote controls—all without needing a smartphone.

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MoEngage acquires Aampe, betting millions of AI agents will reshape marketing's future

Indian customer engagement firm MoEngage has acquired San Francisco-based Aampe in a multi-million dollar all-cash deal. The acquisition brings autonomous AI agents that personalize messaging for individual customers, moving beyond traditional audience segments. MoEngage aims to challenge rivals like Salesforce and Adobe while exploring more acquisitions in the US and Europe.

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VIAVI Solutions debuts Ultra Ethernet Transport validation for AI data center networks

VIAVI Solutions has launched the industry's first Ultra Ethernet Transport validation solution for AI networks, offering GPU-free testing capabilities for hyperscalers and cloud providers. The new VIAVI TestCenter offering validates AI back-end networks using the Ultra Ethernet Consortium's stack, addressing the challenge of scaling AI clusters to millions of endpoints without relying on physical GPUs.

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23 Jun 2026

ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 AI video model that generates 30-second 4K clips from 50 inputs

ByteDance revealed Seedance 2.5 at its Beijing conference, an AI video generation model that creates 30-second native 4K videos from a single prompt. The model accepts up to 50 multimodal reference inputs, a significant jump from its predecessor's 12. But copyright concerns loom as Hollywood studios previously forced delays over training data issues.

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AI shopping beat search on Prime Day, quietly threatening Amazon's discovery business model

AI shopping assistants converted 40% better than search, email, or social media during Amazon Prime Day 2026, marking the first time AI-referred shoppers became retailers' most valuable customers. The shift threatens Amazon's advertising business as product discovery moves from its marketplace to ChatGPT and other AI chatbots. Adobe Analytics tracked the reversal: AI traffic that once converted worst now performs best, rising 393% year-over-year in Q1 alone.

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Google Home and Gemini for Home roll out AI-driven improvements for voice and camera features

Google has released a comprehensive update for its Google Home ecosystem, bringing significant AI-driven improvements to both Gemini voice assistant capabilities and camera intelligence. The update includes faster voice commands for alarms and timers, enhanced sound detection that differentiates between dog barks and footsteps, and improved familiar face detection that now uses clothing patterns when faces aren't visible.

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Fake AI agent skill bypassed every security scanner and reportedly reached 26,000 agents

Security firm AIR created a fake AI agent skill that passed every major security scanner and reportedly reached 26,000 agents, including corporate accounts. The experiment exposed critical flaws in how AI agent skills are vetted, showing that scanners only check submitted packages while attackers can modify external links after approval. The demonstration highlights urgent security gaps in the rapidly growing AI agent ecosystem.

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China's LineShine supercomputer claims TOP500 crown with domestically designed chips

China's LineShine supercomputer has seized first place on the TOP500 list, achieving 2.198 ExaFLOPS using only CPUs and domestically designed chips. Built at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, it dethroned US El Capitan but ranked fourth on AI-specific benchmarks. Experts say the achievement highlights China's push for self-sufficiency in computing rather than dominance in AI workloads.

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