# AI News Digest - 2026-06-12

1. Google DeepMind funded a $10 million multi‑agent AI safety research initiative with Schmidt Sciences, the UK government's ARIA, the Cooperative AI Foundation, and Google.org to support simulations and academic work studying risks that could arise when millions of autonomous AI agents interact online.

2. A German regional court ruled that Google's AI search overviews were the company's own words and held Google directly liable for false statements in those overviews, finding that prior limited-liability protections for search engine operators did not apply.

3. Prometheus, Jeff Bezos' AI startup, closed a $12 billion funding round at a $41 billion valuation after launching with $6.2 billion in seed funding last November, and it had not announced any products.

4. Google released DiffusionGemma, a 26‑billion‑parameter open model that generated text via diffusion rather than autoregressive token generation, which Nvidia reported ran at about 1,000 tokens per second on a single H100 GPU but produced lower-quality outputs and was presented as an experimental tool for developers.

5. OpenAI considered cutting API token prices to compete with Anthropic, a move that was reported to be part of an emerging price war over API tokens.

# References

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/11/1138794/google-deepmind-is-worried-about-what-happens-when-millions-of-agents-start-to-interact/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/11/1138794/google-deepmind-is-worried-about-what-happens-when-millions-of-agents-start-to-interact/)

[Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/11/1138794/google-deepmind-is-worried-about-what-happens-when-millions-of-agents-start-to-interact/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/](https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/)

[Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers](https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/jeff-bezos-ai-startup-prometheus-closes-12-billion-round-at-a-41-billion-valuation/](https://the-decoder.com/jeff-bezos-ai-startup-prometheus-closes-12-billion-round-at-a-41-billion-valuation/)

[Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closes $12 billion round at a $41 billion valuation](https://the-decoder.com/jeff-bezos-ai-startup-prometheus-closes-12-billion-round-at-a-41-billion-valuation/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/googles-new-open-model-diffusiongemma-generates-text-from-noise-instead-of-word-by-word/](https://the-decoder.com/googles-new-open-model-diffusiongemma-generates-text-from-noise-instead-of-word-by-word/)

[Google's new open model DiffusionGemma generates text from noise instead of word by word](https://the-decoder.com/googles-new-open-model-diffusiongemma-generates-text-from-noise-instead-of-word-by-word/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/openai-vs-anthropic-a-price-war-over-api-tokens-is-brewing/](https://the-decoder.com/openai-vs-anthropic-a-price-war-over-api-tokens-is-brewing/)

[OpenAI vs. Anthropic: A price war over API tokens is brewing](https://the-decoder.com/openai-vs-anthropic-a-price-war-over-api-tokens-is-brewing/)

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