LucidLink Corp., the maker of a cloud network-attached storage system based on object storage technology, today extended its distributed file system technology into agentic artificial intelligence with the public beta release of a Model Context… Read more: Exclusive: LucidLink launches MCP server to give AI agents shared access to distributed files

Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff involved. The New… Read more: Warp lands $60M to automate payroll, compliance and HR with AI

Salesforce Inc. is launching a new prepackaged artificial intelligence agent for customer service, enabling organizations to quickly build and deploy AI agents. Today Salesforce announced Help Agent, a prebuilt service agent set atop the Agentforce… Read more: Salesforce launches Help Agent to simplify AI customer service deployment

Apple bumped its prices across much of its product lineup today, in some cases adding hundreds of dollars to the cost of a new Macintosh. An entry-level MacBook Neo that cost $599 is now $699.… Read more: Apple ratchets up prices, blames the cost of memory

The electric car brand Polestar’s days in the US are seriously numbered. Today, the company revealed that the US Commerce Department has declined to authorize imports of new Polestars from model year 2027 onward as… Read more: Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027

How does a single cell build a brain with billions of precisely organized neurons? Researchers suggest that brain cells use their lineage—their cellular family tree—as a kind of positional map. Cells that come from the… Read more: Scientists discover how a single cell builds a brain with 170 billion cells

Researchers found that a rare liver cancer evades immunotherapy by luring immune T cells away from the tumor and trapping them in nearby fibrous tissue. An FDA-approved drug called AMD3100 freed those T cells to… Read more: FDA-approved drug may finally help immunotherapy defeat rare liver cancer

Vitamin B12 is needed in microscopic amounts, but a shortage can have major effects on health and energy. The vitamin was first linked to a lifesaving liver treatment for pernicious anemia nearly 100 years ago.… Read more: This common vitamin deficiency can mimic normal aging

Interpol’s latest Asia and South Pacific cybercrime assessment shows how phishing, ransomware, DDoS attacks, infostealers, and AI-enabled scams are raising security risks across APAC. The post Interpol: Cybercrime Hits 30% of Recorded Crime in Surveyed… Read more: Interpol: Cybercrime Hits 30% of Recorded Crime in Surveyed APAC Countries

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, today announced the appointment of Gavin Munroe to its board of directors. Munroe’s extensive experience as a technology leader in… Read more: F5 Announced the Addition of Gavin Munroe to its Board of Directors

New M-Files Agents go beyond retrieval, delivering governed, context-aware decisions, actions, and outcomes M-Files, the leader in context-first document management, launched new M-Files AI agents designed to empower organizations to put content to work with intelligent information… Read more: M-Files Expands Agentic AI With New Automation Agents

This reinforces ivision’s ability to help organizations build secure AI foundations, govern AI responsibly, and scale AI with confidence. ivision, a leading technology consulting and managed services provider, today announced it has earned four Microsoft… Read more: ivision Earns Four New Microsoft Advanced Specializations

All the Homo naledi skeletons in Rising Star Cave are female, and that probably didn’t happen by accident. In 2013, a team of anthropologists led by Lee Berger unearthed the remains of more than 20… Read more: Every Homo naledi we know of is female, and the implications are fascinating

The US Endangered Species Act compels the government to identify species at risk of extinction and devise plans to restore populations and the habitats they depend on. It has seen some spectacular successes, such as… Read more: New effort will get genome sequences for entire Endangered Species list

In February, police in Claremore, Oklahoma arrested farmer Darren Blanchard for speaking a little too long during a community meeting about data centers. The city charged Blanchard with criminal trespass, a crime with a $200… Read more: Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting

Europe is in the midst of its second big heat wave of the year, and it’s breaking more records. France just recorded its hottest day ever, with temperatures exceeding 44 degrees Celsius in some places.… Read more: The “sad inevitability” of Europe’s heat wave

A lot of ink has been spilled on the programmers who got replaced by AI agents. But it doesn’t sound like it’s a whole better for the ones who avoided getting the axe, either. According… Read more: Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code

This year, FIFA is providing an AI agent that any team can use. Is it enough to level the playing field or will future winners be determined by which team can afford the best tools?

Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, said today it has agreed to acquire GPTZero Inc., the startup whose detection tools tell teachers, editors and hiring managers when a piece of writing came from… Read more: Grammarly parent Superhuman buys AI detector GPTZero

Qualcomm Inc.’s stock jumped 14% in after-hours trading today after it shared a series of updates about its artificial intelligence roadmap. The company announced plans to acquire an inference software startup called Modular Inc. and… Read more: Qualcomm shares jump 14% on Modular acquisition, guidance upgrade

SK hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The South Korean company hopes to sell up to 17.79 million shares for $29.4… Read more: Memory maker SK hynix files for $29B US IPO amid AI demand

Agentic search startup Seltz Inc. said today it has bagged $12.5 million in seed funding to build a more optimal infrastructure so that artificial intelligence agents can find their way around the web. The round was led… Read more: Agentic infrastructure startup Seltz raises $12.5M to help AI agents search the web for answers

Artificial intelligence startup Ornn AI Inc. made a big splash today as it raised $33 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto-focused fund and others to build out a marketplace for computing power. The… Read more: Ornn raises $33M to help companies buy and sell AI compute as a commodity like oil

A new chip architecture from IBM can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a human fingernail—nearly twice the transistor density of the company’s previous generation of chip technology. The resulting… Read more: IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology

As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.

Five new solution accelerators get agencies to AI production outcomes faster, at lower cost, and with less risk than building or buying alone Presidio, a leading global digital services and solutions provider, today announced five… Read more: Presidio Unveils AI Solutions for Government and Education at AWS Summit

LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution The proliferation of datacentres and AI is increasingly at the forefront of environmental litigation around the world from Chile to Ireland, a… Read more: Datacentres facing increase in global climate-related legal cases, report finds

NTT DATA leveraging Cursor to strengthen its own engineering and delivery model. Enterprise-grade governance helps modernize and transform delivery with greater trust and control. NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology… Read more: NTT DATA and Cursor to Boost Enterprise-Grade Modernization, AI Governance

Modular’s AI-Native Platform to Advance Qualcomm’s Evolution as a Developer-First, AI Solutions Company Delivering Generative and Agentic AI from Edge to Cloud Creation of an Industry-Friendly Open Software Ecosystem to Scale AI Across Diverse Compute… Read more: Qualcomm Inks Agreement to Acquire Modular

Developer enhancements include Nebius Echo agent for controlling infrastructure, alongside a smoother day-to-day console experience New enterprise security and governance controls support sensitive workloads in regulated environments Nebius opens Nebius Builder Program in early preview… Read more: Nebius AI Cloud 3.6 Enhances Developer Experience

Content creation and online safety among new topics for 14- to 18-year-olds – but tweaks may be needed when social media ban comes in Scouts are introducing badges in content creation, digital communication and online… Read more: ‘More relevant than making fires’: Explorer Scouts launch badges for AI and digital age

Netwrix 1Secure SaaS platform now offers Agentic AI to secure data, identities and Copilot rollouts – providing insights within an hour Netwrix, a recognized leader in identity and data solutions, today announced new innovations within… Read more: Netwrix Enhances AI Governance Capabilities for Hybrid Microsoft Environments

OpenAI’s financial trajectory hinges heavily on infrastructure costs, a reality that drove the development of the new custom OpenAI Jalapeño chip. Developed in collaboration with Broadcom, the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) represents a direct attempt… Read more: The math behind the OpenAI Jalapeño chip

Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools to tackle complicated tasks, like analyzing a video and answering questions about it. But the way these highly fragmented systems… Read more: Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents

The US response to the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak has concluded with no cases among American passengers but plenty of questions on the responses from Trump administration officials. The US’s response to the outbreak ended… Read more: US ends hantavirus outbreak response with no answers on draconian quarantines

Three months ago, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency was making a major pivot from building a space station in lunar orbit to a base on the surface. This “Ignition” event followed an… Read more: 13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and Codex and the models those tools utilize, and Broadcom, an established silicon supplier, have announced a new chip called Jalapeño, designed specifically for large language model inference in data… Read more: OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale

It seems to some of us like just yesterday—even though the transition began more than half a decade ago—that gamers were getting adjusted to spending $70 on AAA game releases at launch instead of $60,… Read more: Hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will cost more than other AAA games

Mayor’s office grants extra 12 months to run pilot while London force procures long-term supplier The Metropolitan police have been granted a 12-month extension to a pilot project with the spy-tech firm Palantir while the… Read more: Met gets extension to Palantir AI project after Sadiq Khan blocked deal

Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models.

CCW showed agentic AI moving deeper into CX platforms. Here’s what IT leaders should know about governance, data, workforce planning, and rollout. The post Zoom, Salesforce, Dialpad, and Others Bet Big on Agentic AI for… Read more: Zoom, Salesforce, Dialpad, and Others Bet Big on Agentic AI for CX

A Federal Communications Commission proposal to collect more identifying information from phone users has drawn protests from privacy-focused groups and advocates for domestic violence survivors. The plan is ostensibly designed to thwart robocallers but could… Read more: FCC plans ID mandate that could block anonymous use of prepaid burner phones

Most people perceive a cork in a bottle of wine as a simple plug meant to keep the liquid in and the outside world out. In the recent study published in Science Advances, a team… Read more: Experimental wine bottle tracks oxygen moving through the cork

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay $50 million to subscribers of YouTube TV and DirecTV’s live TV streaming services to settle a lawsuit that claimed that Disney forced these services to raise their… Read more: Disney agreed to $50M settlement over claims it made live-TV streaming expensive

Slate provided flights from San Francisco to Los Angeles and accommodation so Ars could ride in the Slate truck. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. LOS ANGELES—Slate Auto has pulled a Disneyland. Let me… Read more: Underpromise, overdeliver? Hands-on with the $24,950 Slate auto.

International authorities and a raft of private technology companies say they have disrupted a cybercrime “assembly line” that allowed crooks to collect millions of login credentials and steal more than $47 million in ransom payments… Read more: One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime “assembly line”

Indie movie fans are upset about Google DeepMind’s $75 million investment in the studio, which comes as AI companies are deepening their influence in Hollywood.

Spending on government contracts with tech firms that use AI-powered tools to track immigrants has soared to record levels under Trump 2.0, report says A new report sheds light on the unprecedented growth of the… Read more: ‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools

The AI arms race between China and the US has researchers on both sides worried about a “Chernobyl moment.”

A few days after a Tesla plowed through a Texas home and killed a grandmother, the family sued the carmaker, alleging that the Model 3’s automated assist mode was defective. In a complaint filed this… Read more: Elon Musk denies Tesla’s Autopilot caused crash that killed grandmother

Google spent the last few years locked in a legal grudge match with Epic Games, which claimed that Google’s stewardship of the Play Store was anticompetitive. Now, the companies are thick as thieves, and Google… Read more: Google starts lowering Play Store fees, making good on Epic Games settlement

Formula E is in its final year for the current technical regulations, with a new single-seater EV set to be introduced at the start of next season, which begins in December in Saudi Arabia. The… Read more: Formula E reveals first calendar for GEN4 with lots of real race tracks

Pro- and anti-AI groups spent $24m on a congressional contest in New York, but it’s unclear to what end US politics live – latest updates When the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th congressional district… Read more: Big tech spent millions on a single US congressional race. It won’t be the last time

Canada’s new artificial intelligence strategy, AI for All, presents an ambitious vision for the country’s future. Artificial intelligence, the federal government argues, can boost productivity, strengthen competitiveness and create opportunity across the economy. But what… Read more: Are algorithms unfairly screening out immigrant job applications?

This morning, Slate Auto officially announced pricing for its Slate electric truck. Ars will have some time with a prototype later today, along with—hopefully—answers to many of our remaining questions. In the meantime, we decided… Read more: Slate Auto’s truck builder goes live for its $25k electric pickup

Midjourney is developing a 60-second full-body ultrasonic scanner and spa-like scanning locations, raising questions about health data and regulation. The post Midjourney Wants to Scan Your Body in 60 Seconds appeared first on TechRepublic.

The Army, Navy, and Air Force are once again requiring basic trainees to get vaccinated against influenza after the virus quickly swept through an Air Force base in Texas, sickening at least 222 recruits and… Read more: Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base

Alibaba Cloud’s fifth Japan data center expands its Tokyo region and brings Model Studio to local customers, but enterprise buyers still need to verify residency, compliance, and roadmap details. The post Alibaba Cloud Adds Fifth… Read more: Alibaba Cloud Adds Fifth Japan Data Center as AI Platform Push Expands

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000… Read more: AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption

Anthropic launched Claude Tag in Slack, giving enterprise teams an AI agent with shared context, admin controls, logs, and spend limits. The post Anthropic Launches Claude Tag, Bringing AI Agents Into Slack appeared first on… Read more: Anthropic Launches Claude Tag, Bringing AI Agents Into Slack

At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic’s CEO—a “weirdo,” per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown.

JumpCloud Inc. has appointed George Roberts, venture partner at OpenView and former executive vice president of North American sales at Oracle Corporation, to its board of directors. Roberts brings decades of experience scaling global technology organizations, driving… Read more: JumpCloud Names Seasoned Technology Sales Leader George Roberts to BOD

Scientists have discovered a tiny group of neurons in an ancient brain region that acts like a built-in focus filter, helping the brain ignore distractions and zero in on what matters most. When researchers temporarily… Read more: Scientists discover ancient brain cells that help block distractions

In the agentic era, intelligence must move to the data, not the other way around. New capabilities make database tuning up to 10x faster and lower analytics TCO by up to 58%—all governed natively at… Read more: EDB Unveils Agentic Database, Converged Analytics, and Governance

Behind closed doors and without expert input, the Trump administration issued a major policy change to how census data is released. Data experts are concerned the result will be less reliable public data related to… Read more: The Trump Administration’s New Census Data Rules Are a Policy Disaster

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness could arise in many different forms of life, even in beings built from radically different materials than… Read more: The universe may be hiding conscious minds stranger than we can imagine

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have discovered new evidence that the cosmic structures connecting the… Read more: Vast ‘Structures’ In Space Reveal the Universe Isn’t What We Thought

Fund manager Geoff Wilson says he did not watch full video and deleted it after ‘inappropriate associations were identified’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The fund manager Geoff Wilson,… Read more: Labor tax critic deletes anti-immigration AI video reposted from rightwing nationalist account

I am staring at a painted portrait of King Charles, who is wearing a red suit. The comically oversized and heavy Snap Specs I am wearing have basically created a digital version of the real… Read more: Snap’s AI Specs: LOL

In May, the White House announced that its new app would be automatically downloaded onto the work phones of millions of government employees. The problem: Federal workers hate it and can’t get rid of it.… Read more: White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can’t be uninstalled

There are some sights in this world that no photograph can truly capture. Think of the rolling ribbons of the aurora in the northern and southern skies, the depth and breadth of the Grand Canyon,… Read more: November launch set for space shuttle Endeavour’s towering display

For those of us who can’t drive due to disabilities, the drawbacks of these vehicles are vastly outweighed by the possibilities they offer The robotaxis are coming! The robotaxis are coming! Well, actually, they’re already… Read more: I was wary of driverless cars and their tech overlords – but they could give me a different future | Gabriel Stewart

For its 13 years in businesses, robot security company Knightscope has weathered a remarkable run of self-inflicted disasters. Founded “in response to the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook, the Boston bombings, and the attacks of… Read more: Failing Robot Cop Company Knightscope Now Publishing Bizarre AI Slop Fan Fiction About Its Robots Solving Absurd Crimes

A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires could not… Read more: Early humans were bringing fire into caves 1.8 million years ago

A hidden population of South African leopards has revealed a remarkable evolutionary story. Researchers analyzing entire leopard genomes discovered that the Cape Floristic Region’s leopards are not only much smaller than most African leopards, but… Read more: Why South Africa’s leopards shrank to half their normal size

Modular, one of the most promising chip software startups of the AI era, heads for a multibillion-dollar exit.

Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by… Read more: The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

The hackers that stole a large cache of data from Madison Square Garden called a low level employee and tricked them into letting the hackers into MSG’s systems, according to the hackers and 404 Media’s… Read more: How Hackers Broke into Madison Square Garden

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new twist in what happens when cells die. As dying cells break apart, they leave behind tiny “footprints of death” packed with newly discovered particles that help guide the immune… Read more: Scientists discover hidden “footprints of death” that may help viruses spread

We start this week with Matthew’s story about a fascinating paper that argues if LLMs are sentient, then by those metrics so is the classic game Age of Empires II. After the break, Matthew tells… Read more: Podcast: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II

About 1,600 workers signed petition against tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and computer screen content Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has paused a program that tracked employees’ computer activity amid data privacy concerns and a… Read more: Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns

A new survey commissioned by All About Cookies and Base44 survey reveals the vibe coding gap, and why the biggest barrier to building isn’t money or time. A new survey released today by All About Cookies, conducted… Read more: Study Finds AI Adopters Pulling Ahead of Americans

The Dialog society grades its attendees on a hidden scale, tackles issues from sex to world wars, and offers matchmaking What would happen if roughly 200 members of the global elite gathered every year for… Read more: The weirdest things a leak revealed about Peter Thiel’s secret club | Tayo Bero

Brain2 knows your company, does the work, and gets smarter every day. ClickUp today announced the launch of Brain2, a fundamental reimagining of its core AI platform. Brain2 is the first AI with full awareness of all of your… Read more: ClickUp Announced the Launch of Brain2: Your Company’s AI

Participation in Project QuiltWorks adds a remediation pathway to help customers address frontier AI risk with greater speed and confidence Presidio, a leading global digital services and AI solutions provider, today announced its participation in… Read more: Presidio Expands Frontier AI Security Efforts With CrowdStrike

The Global AI Show Riyadh 2026, taking place June 29-30, has unveiled its first lineup of thought leaders, policymakers, innovators, and global AI experts set to drive the direction of artificial intelligence and put it… Read more: Global AI Show Riyadh Unveils Star Speaker Lineup

Free platform and AI capability access, paired with hands-on engineering support, help fast-growing startups launch, scale, and stay reliable NEW RELIC NOW–New Relic, the Intelligent Observability Company, today announced New Relic for Startups, a program that… Read more: New Relic Announced the Launch of New Relic for Startups

Samsung Electronics is expanding employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, giving staff wider use of AI tools for technical and non-technical work. According to OpenAI, the deployment covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea… Read more: Samsung opens ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex access after AI restrictions

A court in Germany found that Google was responsible for what its chatbots say in search summaries. This is the accountability we need Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for… Read more: If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame? | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

Agreement spans six solution areas across Life Sciences and Healthcare, combining Apexon’s AgentRise platform with AWS AI and machine learning services; targeting 30-50 percent productivity improvements for BioPharma organizations Apexon, an AI-first technology services company… Read more: Apexon, AWS Ink SCA on Agentic AI for Healthcare

Anthropic launched a beta version of its Claude Tag feature for Enterprise and Team tiers, shifting its chat model into shared Slack channels. Moving away from traditional isolated chat boxes, users pull the artificial intelligence model into… Read more: Anthropic drops ‘workplace AI agents’ directly inside Slack

The writer who coined the word ‘enshittification’ tells us why AI will never deliver what it promises – and why it still appeals so much to those in power A “centaur”, in automation theory, is… Read more: ‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies

With the AI factory becoming a key focus in enterprise IT, hybrid architecture has become equally important as organizations seek to generate workloads on-premises, in the cloud and at the edge. This is why enterprises… Read more: Dell/AMD partnership: Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Dell Technologies World

The conversations at last week’s AWS Summit NYC 2026 showed that AI evolution is entering a new phase. From physical robots tackling labor shortages to agentic systems reshaping enterprise operations, the focus is shifting from experimentation… Read more: 9 ways AI is reshaping enterprise operations: Key insights from AWS Summit NYC

Orderful Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make supply chains more efficient, today announced that it has raised $35 million in funding.  The Series C round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies with participation… Read more: Orderful nabs $35M to streamline supply chain data management

Artificial intelligence played a prominent role at this week’s Bio International Convention in San Diego, the largest biotech event with vendors spanning the full ecosystem of companies in this industry. Today in a special address, Kimberly Powell… Read more: Nvidia bets on agentic AI to turbocharge biotech discovery

Upbound Inc. today released Modelplane, a new open-source tool for managing artificial intelligence inference clusters. San Francisco-based Upbound is backed by $69 million from Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund, Intel Capital and others. It’s best known… Read more: Upbound open-sources Modelplane to optimize inference clusters

Anthropic PBC today unveiled a new version of its chatbot Claude that lives inside Slack, where it operates like a virtual employee. It’s called Claude Tag, and it’s designed to work across entire organizations, helping… Read more: Anthropic debuts Claude Tag, a more capable AI teammate that lives within Slack

Free access to governed enterprise data, built for how developers actually work CData Software today launched three products for developers building AI applications on enterprise data: Connect AI Developer Edition (free), the CData Connect AI… Read more: CData Launches Connect AI Developer Edition, Python SDK, and CLI

Sandro Guedes appointed Global Director of Partnerships and Adriano Galvao to VP of Global Strategic Alliances Pipefy, a global leader in AI-driven business process orchestration, today announced that Sandro Guedes was named Global Director of… Read more: Pipefy Announces New Executives to Lead Partnerships and Strategic Alliances