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AI News Flash: Sony Group has strengthened and upgraded its football referee assistance technology Hawk-Eye ahead of this week’s World Cup, with the core goal of drastically reducing Video Assistant Referee (VAR) wait times and addressing long-standing fan complaints about the lengthy review process. Hawk-Eye uses multi-angle high-speed cameras to track ball and player movements, providing precise image analysis in real time to help on-field referees make faster decisions…

AI News Flash: Coinbase launches in-app AI agent ‘Coinbase Advisor’ registered as a licensed financial advisor with US SEC and CFTC, capable of automatically executing recurring purchases and fund allocation tasks without continuous human monitoring. Using ETH dollar-cost averaging as example, the agent automatically fetches 30 days of hourly price data, identifies the lowest historical price window, and sets up $20 daily market purchases for two consecutive weeks…

AI News Flash: Immunefi CEO Amador warns that the next three to four years will be a make-or-break period for the crypto industry. He says the whole industry will keep facing AI-accelerated infiltration until security teams can put AI’s defensive capabilities to work and build codebases attackers simply can’t crack. If the industry adopts crowdsourced security more broadly, letting more researchers turn AI into a defensive tool, this danger window could shrink.

AI News Flash: BEAT, the AI token from Audiera, has surged over 1,500% in the past month, massively outperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum. Three main forces are driving this rally. First is the platform’s revenue-burn mechanism: between June 1-8, Audiera reported weekly revenue of 772,045 BEAT tokens (about $2.87M at $3.712), while burning 770,545 tokens over the same period.

AI News Flash: GitHub recently rolled out a major upgrade to its Secret Scanning feature, with the core goal of significantly cutting false positive rates so the security alerts developers receive are more trustworthy and more actionable. The key improvement lies in strengthening the validation step — introducing context-aware large language model (LLM) reasoning so the system can draw on broader contextual information when determining whether a string is a real leaked credential…

AI News Flash: At the Nikkei Asia annual forum ‘Future of Asia 2026’ held in Tokyo on June 11, 2026, multiple cybersecurity industry experts warned in a panel discussion that the rapid spread of AI technology is broadly raising the level of cyberthreats across Asia. Experts cautioned that AI is not only making scams harder to spot, but deepfake technology has also expanded from individual-level use into enterprise scenarios, with real-world impact on organizations far exceeding what we’ve seen before…

AI News Flash: Anthropic’s newly released Fable 5 model has drawn heavy criticism since launch, with the core controversy centering on its overly strict safety guardrail design. When users ask about sensitive topics like bioweapons or cybersecurity, the model doesn’t just return a warning — it automatically downgrades and routes the conversation to an older, less capable model, marking the first time the AI industry has used a ‘downgrade routing’ mechanism to handle sensitive queries. Princeton AI researcher Sayash Kapoor says this is a rare case of a guardrail launch getting unanimous backlash across the industry.

AI news flash: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently gave an interview to Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, revealing a very rare management structure: he currently has only one direct report, his Chief of Staff, and all other members of Anthropic’s executive team report to his sister, co-founder and President Daniela Amodei, who handles day-to-day operations.

AI news flash: NTT, Japan’s largest telecom operator, has announced the launch of the ‘IOWN AI Fund,’ targeting emerging optical network technology for AI data centers — a direct challenge to Nvidia’s current dominance in the AI computing infrastructure market. NTT Senior Executive Vice President Tadao Yanase spoke publicly on June 10, emphasizing…

AI News Flash: OpenAI recently published a report exposing a foreign influence operation linked to the Chinese government (PRC) that is systematically using AI tools to intervene in US domestic public discourse. The report identifies several target areas: US tech policy debates, attempting to shape perceptions of the US-China tech competition; narratives around data center infrastructure, possibly aimed at influencing US views on AI compute investment and reg…