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Kevin Carter/Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW June 12, 2026 01:44 PM ET VA’s Inspector General noted that the agency’s two internal chatbots “are not designed specifically for clinical use,” although they have been deployed for such purposes. * Veterans Affairs * Oversight The Department of
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In Brief 10:38 AM PDT · June 12, 2026 French AI lab Mistral AI is in early discussions to raise about €3 billion ($3.5 billion), Bloomberg reported Friday, citing anonymous sources. The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double the
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A year ago, enterprise leaders were asking whether AI could deliver operational value. Most have their answer. The question has moved on — and it’s harder: how do you scale AI without losing control of what you’ve built? That’s where most strategies hit their limits. Not at the
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Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is altering its strategy under the leadership of new CEO Asha Sharma, in the hopes of winning back gamers. This includes exploring more options to make the Xbox ecosystem more accessible to the masses. To that end, chief strategist, Mathew Ball, says that ads can
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New Relic, the Intelligent Observability Company, today released its 2026 State of AI Coding report, which reveals a central contradiction in the vibe coding era. While a staggering 94% of leaders rate AI-generated code as higher quality than human-authored code at the time of review, its deployment has triggered a
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* Japanese power giant reveals it lost drive containing data of millions of clients * Drive was left in an apparently unlocked cabinet * Nearly 11 million clients at risk, but no bank or card data was affected A Japanese energy giant has apologised after losing a physical storage drive containing the data
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In Brief 10:26 AM PDT · June 12, 2026 Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says uses AI in its campaigns to send
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Asus and MSI have become the first motherboard manufacturers to support AMD's new EXPO Ultra Low Latency BIOS feature, giving supported memory kits a quick, automatic overclock and timing tightening to enhance performance in games and other applications. In AMD's own testing, the update boosted most
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1440 minutes More than 350,000 spectators will watch 62 cars compete, day and night. The traditional group photo, with the 2026 entrants. Credit: James Moy Photography/Getty Images One of motorsport’s three biggest races takes place this weekend in France. It is the annual 24 Hours of Le
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“Unwilling to talk to you” “None of STAT’s FOIA requests have been completed, and some haven’t been acknowledged—despite HHS policy requiring a response with tracking and contact information within 10 days of submitting a request,” the journalists wrote. “That includes three STAT inquiries from September 2025. The
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Google loves telling us all the ways people are using its generative AI products to build new things, grow businesses, and save the world. Supposedly. Of course, people are also using AI for crime. Google has announced a new legal salvo aimed at a Chinese group called Outsider Enterprise, which
