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Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents

Consumers are showing a willingness to let AI agents take on more shopping-related tasks, according to new research from Accenture. The company’s 2026 Consumer Pulse Research, based on a survey of 25,590 consumers across 16 countries, found that 74% of respondents would trust a personal AI agent more than their best friend to make a […] The post Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents appeared first on AI News.

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The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg

What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that's hard to comprehend.

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The AI off switch: How Anthropic’s export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble

Anthropic export controls turned an abstract policy fear into a live one last week: as of June 13, 2026, one US government directive took the company’s two most powerful AI models offline for users everywhere, including, briefly, Anthropic’s own foreign-born employees, and set off alarm bells across Europe and Canada about who really controls the […] The post The AI off switch: How Anthropic’s export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble appeared first on AI N

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Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents

The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg

The AI off switch: How Anthropic’s export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble

As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?

As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future

Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown

SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?

OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general

A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews

Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order

Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts