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Fox describes a secure agentic ad platform spanning planning, transactions, and activation. Here’s what it signals about automated media buying.

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Naver said AI Tab surpassed 3 million monthly active users within a month.

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Talent, innovation and skilling to make India a key contributor to global AI ecosystem: Arundhati Bhattacharya

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How Aerospace and Defense Manufacturers Are Earning Citations in ChatGPT and Perplexity Blue Point, United States -

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Now, the seafood chain’s 37-year-old chief executive officer says he’s planning “the greatest comeback in the history of the restaurant industry.” Damola Adamolekun, former CEO of P.F. Chang’s, became Red Lobster’s new CEO in September 2024. Before that, he worked with Fortress Investment Group as...

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Artificial intelligence emerged as a powerful creative partner rather than a replacement for human imagination at the 19th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) 2026, where a special section dedicated to AI-generated films drew attention for its innovative storytelling and artistic experimentation. The “AI Films” category featured works from filmmakers across the world who used artificial intelligence to explore themes ranging from history and mythology to memory, creativity and cinema itself. Festival organisers said the films demonstrated how AI can help creators bring complex narratives to life in ways that would be difficult through conventional filmmaking techniques. Among the highlights was Legends – The Eternal Flame of Mewar, directed by Deepak Vijay, which traces the history of Mewar through the voice of a wandering bard, covering eras from Bappa Rawal to Maharana Pratap and celebrating the kingdom’s legacy of courage and honour. Another notable entry, The Screenwriter by Laurent Cliquet, offered an intimate look into the mind of a writer, exploring the pressures and psychological challenges of the creative process. Xuan Li’s The Star Shepherd, inspired by a UNICEF visit to Malawi, used felt-animation techniques to tell a moving story about human connection and compassion. Mythological drama Kishkindha: Van Katha, directed by Aksht Verma, drew on various Puranic sources to recreate the politics, conflicts and journeys of the ancient Vanara kingdom. Talya Lotan’s Stonewall, The Making of blended interviews and behind-the-scenes footage to chronicle the making of an unfinished film about a Civil War general, blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction. Other films in the section included Karsh Jhaveri’s The Act of Killing Dreams, which explored the clash between traditional artistic values and emerging AI-driven creativity, and German filmmaker Mark Wachholz’s The Cinema That Never Was, a reflection on lost film histories recreated through generative technology. Indian entries The Echo Monastery by Rajesh Bhatia and Bharat Arora and The Legend of Birsa Munda by Samresh Shrivastav also attracted attention. While the former follows a grieving woman in Ladakh confronting memory and loss, the latter revisits tribal leader Birsa Munda’s resistance against colonial rule through AI-assisted animation. Festival organisers said the collection offered audiences a glimpse into the evolving future of filmmaking, showing how emerging technologies can be used to tell deeply human stories while expanding the creative possibilities available to filmmakers.

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A record rush to raise cash is bankrolling the AI build-out. But the companies tapping the market aren't all in the same financial shape.

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A randomized trial across 48 Sierra Leone classrooms found students using Google's Gemini AI gained 1.2 to 1.7 years of math progress in eight weeks, with engagement hitting 69%-far above the typical 5% for voluntary ed-tech tools.

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XstraStar today said the rapid evolution of AI-powered advertising formats inside generative search environments is creating a new requirement for brands to manage paid and organic AI visibility as an integrated strategy rather than separate marketing functions. Image: https://www.globalnewslines.com/uploads/2026/06/bb58ceeec3d1bd21119f228e403e6cf0.jpg Google Marketing Live

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The fashion e-commerce sector is leveraging technology, data and artificial intelligence to enhance customer experience, expand market access and promote sustainable consumption as the industry continues to grow at more than 20 percent annually.

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China unveils measures to boost 'AI plus consumption'

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June 18 (Reuters) - Meta ⁠Platforms has secured new agreements to get AI ⁠computing power from data center developer Crusoe, Bloomberg News ‌reported on Thursday, as it strengthens infrastructure required to support its AI expansion.

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A 21-year-old New Yorker was indicted on a federal cyberstalking charge after prosecutors say he used AI to create and spread fake nude images and racist posts about a Georgia student.

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June 18 (Reuters) - OpenAI on ⁠Thursday launched new usage analytics and updated spend controls ⁠for its ChatGPT Enterprise platform, designed to provide clients with ‌greater visibility and management over their AI deployments.

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Trevor Forrest, Senior Advisor to Science and Technology Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley, says artificial intelligence training will soon become mandatory for government workers across Jamaica’s public sector. The programme aims to help public servants understand AI, its ethical use and how it can improve efficiency within ministries, departments and agencies.

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As businesses race to solve how AI agents transact, the layer that governs their behaviour has been missing. Affinidi and CardInfoLink have now put it into live production. SINGAPORE, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CardInfoLink has deployed Agent Gateway on Agenzo, its agentic commerce platform for travel and hospitality merchants, making it what is believed to be the first commercial deployment in Asia to operate AI agents under an independent trust and governance layer. Every AI agent connecting to CardInfoLink's merchants does so through a governed, auditable channel, on open standards, without disrupting the payment infrastructure beneath it. CardInfoLink operates live merchant-acquiring infrastructure across Asia, with more than 15 years in payment processing. Affinidi is an active contributor to the Linux Foundation and the standards bodies shaping the next wave of digital trust infrastructure. With Agenzo, consumers can instruct AI agents to book a ride, a flight, or a hotel, confirming each purchase as they go. The Agent Gateway governs agent interactions in the background, creating a cryptographically verifiable record of all interactions and allowing only authorised agents to transact, with clear accountability established across all parties. All of this happens in the background, so the experience is unchanged for both the consumer and the merchant. For the business, the agent-readiness process is simplified for merchants by enabling faster implementation through simple configuration with no complex changes to existing systems. This allows them to open their services and products to AI agents through proper governance, and with trust handled at the system boundary rather than custom-built for every integration. As AI agents begin to act inside commercial systems, the open question is not whether they can transact but who is accountable when they do. In its 2026 Future of Fraud Forecast, Experian named the inability to distinguish legitimate agents from malicious ones as the top fraud threat to businesses this year, warning that machine-to-machine transactions are being initiated without clear ownership of liability. Gartner expects more than 40% of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by the end of 2027, citing escalating costs, unclear value, and inadequate risk controls. In January 2026, Singapore's IMDA introduced the world's first governance framework for agentic AI, calling for bounded AI agent autonomy, human accountability, and technical controls as the recommended baseline. Agent Gateway, part of the Affinidi Trust Fabric Suite, is built to meet that bar. "A shipping container reorganised global trade not because it was clever but because it was standardised. Agentic commerce needs the same: one trusted, standardised way for an AI agent to interact with a merchant. We run real infrastructure with real merchants and real consequences, so we could not add agents without it. The Agent Gateway gave us that, inside the systems we already use," said Hyman Zhu, Co-Founder of CardInfoLink. "AI Governance and payment processing are distinct problems and challenges, and they need separate infrastructure. The Agent Gateway is the layer that governs how an AI agent connects to the systems it acts on, independent of how the payment is settled. That layer has been missing from production. With CardInfoLink, it is now running, and every business putting agents to work will need it," said Glenn Gore, CEO of Affinidi. This deployment is the first live proof of an approach that the wider industry has been calling for, a layer that lets AI agents act inside real systems under governance built in from the start. For Affinidi, agentic commerce for travel and hospitality is the first commercial use of a trust layer built to span industries, from payments to healthcare and beyond. Both companies see it as the start of an agent economy that is accountable by default. About Agenzo Agenzo is the AI payment brand developed by Evonet and CardInfoLink. It focuses on helping AI agents complete payments in a safe, simple, and compliant way. Agenzo connects AI agents, merchants, wallets, payment networks, and acquirers. It allows an AI agent to understand a customer's payment intent, create an order, request payment authorisation, and complete the transaction through a trusted payment infrastructure. Agenzo has worked on agentic payment use cases such as travel booking, retail, EV charging, loyalty, QR payment, and merchant checkout. Its goal is to make AI-driven commerce easier for merchants, safer for consumers, and more practical for financial institutions and payment partners. About CardInfoLink CardInfoLink is a payment technology company founded in 2010. The company provides payment infrastructure, acquiring systems, gateway solutions, wallet technology, risk management tools, and payment security services for banks, payment institutions, merchants, and technology partners. CardInfoLink has served customers across Asia and supported many types of payment services, including card acquiring, QR payment, online payment, 3D Secure, settlement, dispute handling, and fraud prevention. Over the years, CardInfoLink has built strong experience in payment system development, cross-border payment connectivity, and financial-grade technology operations. The company continues to support banks, acquirers, PSPs, and merchants with reliable and flexible payment solutions. About Agent Gateway The Agent Gateway, part of the Affinidi Trust Fabric suite, is the trust and governance layer for agentic AI. Built on open standards to avoid vendor lock-in, it gives every AI agent a cryptographic identity, enforces policy at runtime, produces tamper-evident audit trails, and secures messaging across organisational and cloud boundaries. Agent Gateway is built for production workloads that demand multiple agentic flows within and across organisations, meeting the audit requirements of strict regulatory and governance models. Agent Gateway holds AI agents and human actors accountable, traceable, and auditable at scale, enabling businesses to extend their reach to more customers, more data, and more partners without sacrificing governance or control. To learn more, visit affinidi.com/trust-fabric. About Affinidi Affinidi is a Temasek-founded technology company building trust infrastructure for AI agents and the digital economy. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Singapore, with teams in Bangalore and Berlin, Affinidi provides builders and organisations with the tools to enable verifiable, privacy-preserving interactions between people, businesses, and the systems that serve them. Its technology spans governance infrastructure for AI agents, verifiable credential management, trust registries, and developer tooling, all built on open standards for full interoperability, to avoid vendor lock-in. An active contributor to the Linux Foundation, W3C, and the Decentralized Identity Foundation. Visit www.affinidi.com for more information.

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DH NEWS SERVICEParis, jun 18Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asserted that technology can lead to progress only if it is democratised and said AI means “All Inclusive” for India.His remarks at a global technology summit come against the backdrop of the US restricting the use of Anthropic’s latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) models for foreign [...]

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Adobe expands AI creative agent across Creative Cloud Tech in Asia Premiere is getting an AI Assistant by Scott Simmons - ProVideo Coalition ProVideo Coalition Adobe Firefly Graph for Enterprise Creative Workflows Adobe for Business Adobe’s new AI Assistant tackles the more boring side of editing inside Photoshop and Premiere Digital Camera World Adobe solves one of AI's most maddening problems amongst a ton of other announcements Creative Bloq

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Malaysia and Russia are looking to deepen cooperation in energy, digital technology and trade following talks between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a statement, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said both leaders discussed a wide range of bilateral issues, including opportunities to strengthen collaboration in the energy sector, [...]

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Renesas said the technology targets automotive, robotics, and industrial equipment applications. Terms were not disclosed.

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SK Hynix ships samples of next-gen memory; shares surge to record high

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OpenAI has launched its first official Partner Network, putting $150 million behind a plan to certify 300,000 AI consultants by the end of 2026. Here's what the move means for businesses building AI into their operations, and how it could affect the tools you use. The post OpenAI’s New Partner Network Bets $150M on Enterprise AI appeared first on Memeburn .

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(MENAFN - MeUp Ltd) The Bay Area captured 76% of U.S. AI funding in 2025. The other 24% is quietly building the infrastructure layer that the next decade runs on. In 2025, the world invested ...

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Few AI use cases elicit more outrage than writing: Using AI makes writing duller ... dumber ... robotic. It kills thinking ... creativity ... originality. It produces sameness and slop! Why it matters: All that's true — if you, as the teacher or writer, allow it to be true. Lazy AI outsourcing means lazy thinking and writing. Used with persistence and skill, AI can enhance both your thoughts and expression. I'm thinking and writing more and better than ever. But I want to be frank and useful about what I've learned about writing and the limits I've hit since turning myself into an AI lab rat : Caution 1: I'm 55, a writer by training, went in aware of AI dangers, and am a prolific writer with or without it. Anyone lazily letting AI do their thinking or writing is playing with fire: You're destined to create a mushy, "blah brain." Hope the tips that follow help you build a bionic brain instead. Caution 2, from Autumn, my wife, who's more of an AI skeptic: "Don't conflate the way you write and the utility of AI to convey information with soul writing that many of us need to live, breathe and understand the world around us. Living without that is like trying to live without air for many of us — it needs to be said somehow." Between the lines: As AI tools get more powerful, Axios will stay transparent with you about how we use them. (Our website includes a detailed explanation of how we use AI in our journalism.) This column captures my latest thinking on best practices. So here's the nitty-gritty of how I use AI for writing: Set rules based on your standards, not AI's. I write into the model's memory: My writing flows from my thinking. So challenge me, never flatter me; press me with wise skepticism. Then write like me — always in Smart Brevity — to match my style. Be very precise about the writing and editing style. I have mine wired into the AI memory (just tell it to commit style to memory) and in a skills document for my AI agents. My rules: short, sharp sentences ... clinical, fact-based emphasis ... context flagged as "Why it matters" ... and supporting points stacked in bullet form in order of importance. Pour in examples. You need to feed in the original work you're most proud of. It can be as simple as diary entries, memos or a school project. Make sure your writing and editing priorities are reflected in it. I've dumped in every Axios column, memo and strategic document, as well as four books (two unreleased). Let's pause for a second. Those are very clear parameters for writing and editing with AI. That will suffice for most people in most instances. I've taken my own AI journey much further. I'm doing this to test limits and capabilities. Advanced writing with AI: Create specific advanced skills. I use both projects (mainly in Claude, but increasingly in ChatGPT) and agents (in ChatGPT's Codex). Inside projects and agents, my thinking, writing and editing files are much more specific and richer. They're called skills or instructions, depending on the platform or use case. I detail a fact-checking skill to double-check data points, then move outside the agent for another fact-check with a safety-net skill. Interact with projects and agents a lot. You need to create a conversation loop, where you get better at fine-tuning the writing output, and the AI gets better at understanding your style. It definitely gets better with time. You want to find a mind meld that serves and betters you. Put it to the test. My laboratory is my Axios C-Suite newsletter, which I publish Saturdays for CEOs and other executives. I'm testing and using two main things: I have a project inside of Claude that knows everything I've written for this audience, plus my thinking about business and leadership, and the high standards I have for ideas and data. I have a similar agent that operates autonomously, powered by Codex, that constantly scans high-quality publications, data projects and research for relevant information. It writes up ideas in my style and delivers them via email before I wake up. The items are good, smart starters or enhancers — but they're never camera-ready, at least by my standards. Push and pull — a lot. Funny thing: I write naturally in an AI kind of way — direct, sparse, lots of dashes. And AI naturally writes a lot like me (and naturally loves Smart Brevity). So I find the output often excellent, well-documented and edited better than my favorite human editor, Mike Allen. It still does weird stuff, but rarely. It's wordier and less direct than I am. Increasingly, I find myself using its edits or proposed Jim-like phrases as naturally as the notes from Mike or any other human editor. Fun new test: I'm preparing to hike Kilimanjaro, so I'm doing a lot of rucking. I've been using Claude in voice mode to have long conversations about things I want to write. I have Claude keep detailed notes, pull out my best phrases and ideas, challenge my assumptions, help organize my thinking. Then we go back and forth by voice before producing a draft column. That's how I got both the idea and the output for my " Confessions of an AI lab rat " column. The end product was a hybrid of my thinking and my best phrases alongside Claude's real-time editing and editor-like pushback. The bottom line: I hope this inspires you to try some of these discoveries yourself. Let me know what you think: finishline@axios.com . 📈 If you're a CEO or on a CEO's team: Ask to join Jim's new weekly Axios C-Suite newsletter.

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