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Archives for June 2026

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Meta reportedly still hasn’t agreed to allow the US government to review its AI models.

That’s according to a report from The New York Times, which says the White House officials are pressuring Meta to submit its AI models for evaluation, something OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and xAI have already agreed to do.

“While we are working through the details, we hope to sign the agreement soon,” Meta spokesperson Francis Brennan tells the NYT.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore
David Pierce
David Pierce
Today’s Vergecast: Why Big Tech can’t quit smart glasses.

A huge portion of the tech industry has decided that smart glasses are the next big thing. But why? Smart glasses are incredibly hard to make, hugely socially complicated, and require users to want to wear a gadget on their face. The Verge’s Victoria Song helps us figure out which features, if any, will make smart glasses worth all the trouble.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Superhuman is acquiring GPTZero, an AI content detector.

GPTZero will soon be available in the Superhuman Go AI assistant, which works in “1 million apps and websites,” says Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly. Superhuman adds that its authenticity tools “address both sides of the equation — understanding the provenance of what they read and using AI responsibly while writing.”

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Anthropic introduced “Claude Tag,” a new AI agent Slack integration. 

Claude can join as a member of a company’s Slack to write and merge pull requests, locate sales numbers, analyze data, take on tasks delegated to it, and more, the company wrote in a blog post. To use it, people will tag @Claude in the Slack channel.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The Cate Blanchett-led ‘Human Consent Registry’ launches today.

RSL Media — the nonprofit founded by Blanchett — is opening up access to a new registry that will allow people to set terms for how AI systems use their likenesses.

Through the registry, people can permit, prohibit, or require payment for AI systems to use their name, image, voice, and other attributes. It will soon let people signal how AI can use their creative works, characters, and marks, as well.

The Fitbit Air takes a smarter approach to the AI health dumpster fire

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Google Health remains a work in progress, but it could be so much worse.

Victoria Song
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Claude is down, or at least it was.

Anthropic’s most recent update on the outage is from about 10:25AM ET, saying “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” but that’s all we have for now, other than a dropping number of reports noted by Down Detector.

Of course, its own status dashboard shows this is a pretty common occurrence.

Claude uptime history showing frequent red and yellow indicating issues
Screenshot: Claude Status
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Gemini AI can fix your broken formulas in Google Sheets now.

A new “Fix” button gives Workspace users an option to have Gemini to diagnose and automatically resolve formula errors in Sheets.

As Android Police highlights it will pop up any time you click on a cell with an error in it, and show Gemini’s fix in the chatbot’s sidebar.

A screenshot of the Gemini “Fix” button in Google Sheets
Image: Google