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News from The Deep View
The AI shift in cyber risk: why leaders must act now. Five Eyes cyber security agencies urge organisations to act on rapidly transforming cyber risk.
June 23, 2026
AI may soon be capable of completely dismantling our cybersecurity defenses. In a joint statement, the Five Eyes cybersecurity alliance, which includes intelligence agencies from the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, called for leaders to “act now” on AI’s cyber threats. The statement warned that AI models capable of taking down businesses and governments are mere months away.
The agencies said that frontier models are anticipated to “exceed current industry expectations,” fundamentally transforming both cyber offense and defense.
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News from The Deep View
AI film festival showed tsunami hitting Hollywood: How AI changes what it means to be a filmmaker
June 22, 2026
“I think we’re seeing a resurgence right now in the cinemas of indie filmmaking, and I think using AI tools … people that come together to make something that is just the glimmer in their eye,” said Gala Avary, a partner in General Cinema Dynamics, on the panel. “Suddenly, things that weren’t possible, like locations and permitting, all of a sudden you’re able to do those things with these AI tools.” …
“It’s just been incredible to see how fantastic the tools I’ve gotten that actually are usable,” Dave Clark, cofounder of AI film studio Promise and creator of Tairell Isn’t Real, one of the films shown at the festival, told The Deep View. “Now I can actually cut in a 4K generative AI shot against something I shoot on a camera.”
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News from Observer
How Yann LeCun’s Startup Challenges the Logic Behind Today’s A.I. Race. LeCun argues that today’s language-model obsession is too narrow to produce truly intelligent systems.
June 22, 2026
Meta’s former chief A.I. scientist, Yann LeCun… is building a multibillion-dollar startup under the premise that the race toward A.I. superintelligence is starting from the wrong place. Speaking at the VivaTech conference on June 17, LeCun shared more details about why he believes his startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs), is on a better path toward human-level A.I. Earlier this year, the Paris-based company raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation, giving LeCun and his team fresh backing to pursue an alternative to today’s generative A.I. models developed by tech giants.
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News from TNW
Microsoft turns to Chevron’s gas to power a Texas data centre: An off-grid bet in the Permian
June 22, 2026
….the project stands apart from the public network. The plant will make its own power on site. It will not draw from the Texas grid or lean on a local utility. Jeff Gustavson, Chevron’s president of New Energies, said…“We specifically designed this, in this part of the country, to avoid any of that [impact on the public],” he said… The Permian Basin is one of the world’s biggest oil fields. It pumps out so much gas as a byproduct that pipelines often cannot move it all….The plant, he added, “brings demand to the basin to use that gas and not waste it.”
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News from The Decoder
NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust
June 20, 2026
Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University, warns that a potential crash in the AI sector could be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble around 2000. In the podcast “Intangible Economy,” he explains that unlike the dot-com era, the AI industry needs massive investments in physical infrastructure and much of it is financed with debt. If a correction hits, the damage wouldn’t just fall on shareholders but could ripple out across society.
Damodaran also questions whether the AI business model can scale the way people expect. In his view, AI isn’t a traditional software business. Costs don’t automatically drop toward zero as more users come on board. Every additional use burns compute, similar to how Spotify pays for each stream.
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News from Digital Trends
OpenAI wants an all-knowing personal AI agent for everyone on Earth. The company is framing personal AGI as the mass-market endpoint of its AI race.
June 20, 2026
OpenAI is laying out a future where advanced AI reaches billions of people, not only the companies and governments racing to control it. Its latest plan centers on an AI for everyone, a personal AGI [Artificial General Intelligence]…. OpenAI is talking about more than a single app feature. It wants AI systems that help people pursue their own goals, create new knowledge, and share in gains that would otherwise sit inside research labs or large organizations.
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News from The Rebooting
A public radio station holds 100 events a year
June 19, 2026
Not that I’m a conspiracy theorist, but at a time when AI is as popular as a rash, I’m noticing an uptick of AI-for-good stories. This mom is using agents to manage her household, which one FN contributor noted is a perfect setup for a horror movie. The solution to AI slop has arrived in the form of Taste Labs, which is “building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste.” As Puck’s Dylan Byers would say, good luck with that.
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News from Reuters
Top US energy regulator pushes grids to overhaul data center power rules
June 18, 2026
The top U.S. energy regulator ordered the country’s electric grid operators on Thursday to consider new protocols to quickly connect very large energy users, such as data centers, without driving up costs and the risk of blackouts.
Data centers are pushing U.S. electricity use to record highs and requiring more electricity in large swaths of the country than grids can supply, sending regulators scrambling to develop ways to manage that explosive demand.
….The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission draft “show cause” orders direct the six regional grids under its jurisdictio… to justify or overhaul their process for powering large energy users. The aim, FERC said, is largely to speed up the connection of data centers while minimizing the impact on grid stability and power bills for Americans.
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News from AEI
A Peace Etched in Silicon: As an international megaproject, AI is achieving what decades of diplomacy could not.
June 16, 2026
Within a single 48-hour period in January, Israel and Qatar acceded to the same American-led diplomatic framework: Pax Silica, a coalition organized by Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg to secure the supply chains that underpin AI’s development. It was a remarkable feat. After decades of shuttle diplomacy struggled to put Jerusalem and Doha at the same table, the economics of AI had managed to effectively fast-track a sort of diplomatic normalization
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This issue of AI News Briefs was brought to you by David Isenberg of the Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire. Despite its tongue-in-cheek name, it provides true news of the shadow world of private military companies.
Example: From Wagner to Africa Corps: Touadéra finally submits to the new guard.
Published April 17, 2026 by David Isenberg
While his Sahel neighbours accepted the coming of the Russian-controlled Africa Corps to replace the Wagner group, CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadéra clung on to his trusted ex-Prigozhin security corps. An agreement has now…
Left, CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadéra; right, Vladimir Putin.
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