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Fake AI Beat Real AI

The AI Secret newsletter highlights a viral human-run site, policy shifts from AI vendors, major platform PR, and emerging regulatory moves. Mihir Maroju, a 17-year-old from India, launched youraislopbores.me — a game where humans impersonate chatbots — attracting roughly 25 million unique visitors and 280 million visits in its first month. Anthropic plans to update Claude’s privacy policy (effective July 8) to allow age and identity verification including government IDs and live selfies, and to harden bans on suspected model-distillation abuse. Meta announced a program to provide free Meta AI glasses to every blind U.S. veteran, a move framed as both assistance and reputational shielding. The UK government, led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, proposed a broad under-16 social media ban that would force platforms to implement age verification methods. The newsletter frames these developments as shifts around access, identity, authenticity, and platform control with implications for how online audiences are verified and monetized.

Salesforce Acquires Fin for $3.6B

Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fin — the company formerly known as Intercom — for approximately $3.6 billion. Fin provides an AI customer-agent platform that resolves complex support queries across channels including live chat, email, WhatsApp, SMS, phone and Slack; its proprietary model is called Apex. The acquisition follows Intercom’s rebrand to Fin one month earlier and is expected to close in Salesforce’s fiscal Q4 2027. Salesforce said Fin’s packaged offerings and proprietary models will complement its Agentforce platform and provide faster time-to-value deployment options for SMB and commercial customers. The deal is Salesforce’s fifth announced acquisition in 2026 and third in June. (This record duplicates an existing signal that also reported leadership continuity and post-close operational plans.)

Salesforce to Acquire Fin for $3.6B

Salesforce announced a definitive agreement to acquire AI customer service platform Fin for about $3.6 billion. The deal, expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal 2027 year, is intended to accelerate the company’s agentic AI capabilities and complement its Agentforce offering. Fin provides an AI agent powered by its proprietary model Apex that can resolve queries across chat, email, WhatsApp, SMS, phone and Slack. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Fin CEO Eoghan McCabe commented that the combined resources will speed deployment of autonomous agents for customers of all sizes. Reporting notes Fin serves enterprise customers at scale (previous reporting cited >30,000 companies and an average end-to-end resolution rate of ~76%), and Salesforce’s largest prior acquisition was Slack for over $27 billion. The move occurs amid broader competitive pressure as AI agents reshape enterprise customer service.