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The first study by the Oversight Board tested the 10 most widely used AI models. They refuse criticism of repressive regimes more than twice as often as they do for democracies — effectively exporting authoritarian states' censorship rules to users in Europe as well.

OpenAI enters the consumer electronics space with a screenless smart speaker powered by ChatGPT. Designed by Jony Ive, the device features a camera, moving parts, and a price tag between $200 and $300. Sales launch planned for 2027.

The banking sector is undergoing a fundamental shift from simple text generation to autonomous agents. Take the case of ConnectOne Bank, which cut task times by 60% thanks to nCino Agentic AI.

Elon Musk's xAI is suing one of its own users for the first time in history. A man from South Carolina faces allegations that he used the Grok chatbot to create child pornography. The case exposes the dark side of generative artificial intelligence.

Google is launching its Gemini AI assistant on European televisions with Google TV. TCL is first in line — the update is already rolling out in the UK and will arrive in the Czech Republic by the end of the year. Conversational movie search based on mood is a real step forward. But TCL TVs continue to send viewing data to servers in China — and adding Gemini doesn't change that.

At I/O Connect India 2026 in Bengaluru, Google launched a sovereign version of Gemini. The model runs in domestic data centers, data stays within India, and it adds support for 25 Indian languages, free educational courses, and AI models for healthcare.

OpenAI has unveiled a new family of GPT-5.6 models that uses its own "red team" (GPT-Red) to automatically uncover weaknesses. This leads to a drastic reduction in the success rate of prompt injection attacks.

North American manufacturers ordered $2.25 billion worth of robots as robotics moves from pilot programs to full-scale deployment. ABB brings physical AI to Roche laboratories, while startups showcase autonomous pallets and affordable humanoids for research.

Tiptap, a European developer platform, today launches its AI Toolkit into production beta — a tool that enables AI agents to edit documents directly within the editor. The first 100 developers get a free lifetime license.

Anthropic faces sharp criticism in Brussels. The European Parliament is demanding greater transparency around models capable of cyberattacks and questioning whether the company is truly prepared to cooperate on the safe deployment of AI.