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Friday, June 12, 2026

Two-thirds of CIOs own accountability for AI systems they can't control, while unpatched critical flaws in Oracle PeopleSoft (100+ breached) and AMD AutoUpdate leave enterprises exposed. South Korea's $400M Coupang fine and Google's German court loss signal regulators won't let companies hide behind AI.

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Today's stories

CIOs plagued by growing AI accountability gap
South Korea hits Coupang with $400M+ fine for data breach that affected millions
Crusoe said it had "paused" a plan to build a Wyoming data center; sources: it failed to win customers including Google amid concerns about costs and timetable (Bloomberg)
Apollo Global has implemented a new risk assessment that categorizes software investments into 12 to 14 sectors to rank their susceptibility to AI disruption (Hannah Webster/Bloomberg)
Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A (Dan Primack/Axios)
Nvidia and Abridge, maker of an AI note-taking app for doctors, are training an AI model for clinical conversations using de-identified data and Nemotron models (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix
Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year
Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies
Google is held liable for false information from its AI
Oracle warns customers of a critical PeopleSoft flaw after ShinyHunters claimed breaches of 100+ organizations using PeopleSoft; Oracle has not issued a patch (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

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