This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss questionable analysis, mysterious parcels, and the Knicks… Read more: Behind the Blog: Landfillcore and Go Knicks
deepset, the company behind Haystack, the production-ready open-source AI agent framework and platform, today announced it has joined the HPE Unleash AI partner program to help government, defense, and regulated enterprises deploy production-grade AI systems… Read more: deepset Joins HPE’s Unleash AI Program to Accelerate Sovereign Agentic AI
Expanding access to Claude through Amazon Bedrock while combining enterprise AI capabilities with AWS operational expertise. Lyra Cloud Services (“LCS”), Evergreen’s newest addition to the Lyra Technology Group Portfolio, today announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic, expanding customer access… Read more: LCS Partners with Anthropic to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption on AWS
Robo.ai Inc. (NASDAQ: AIIO), a Nasdaq-listed UAE-based company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the equity interests of QC Capital Limited (“Quantum Core” or “QC Capital”). Under the… Read more: Robo.ai announces proposed acquisition of QC Capital
MSPAlliance® today announced a groundbreaking AI risk monitoring capability integrated into the Cyber Verify program. This new feature, available through the External Service Provider Dashboard (ESP), gives MSP organizations (and their clients) instant visibility into a… Read more: MSPAlliance Launches AI Risk Visibility in Cyber Verify
SAP and Google Cloud are deploying agentic commerce architecture to automate multi-agent marketing and retail operations at enterprise scale. SAP research indicates 78 percent of businesses consider AI essential for retaining customers in 2026. However,… Read more: SAP and Google Cloud deploy agentic commerce architecture
Scientists have uncovered a surprising connection between quantum gravity and an exotic quantum state of matter that could explain why the universe isn’t expanding wildly fast. The study suggests that the very shape of space-time… Read more: Einstein’s “biggest blunder” may finally have an explanation
A newly identified molecule called OLE helped restore the brain’s immune cells to a more protective state in Alzheimer’s models. The treatment reduced toxic plaque buildup and improved memory, raising hopes for a new therapeutic… Read more: Scientists reprogram brain immune cells to fight Alzheimer’s
Researchers developed a Wordle-solving strategy that succeeds 99% of the time by focusing on information gain rather than likely answers. The method uses Shannon entropy to identify guesses that reveal the most about the hidden… Read more: Researchers found a Wordle strategy that wins 99% of the time
OpenAI, a company currently fighting more than a dozen consumer safety and wrongful death lawsuits, just hired Noam Shazeer — a cofounder of the notorious AI companion startup Character.AI, which has settled a pile of lawsuits over… Read more: OpenAI Just Hired a Guy Accused of Terrible Things
Nadia Carlsten, AI and advanced computing industry leader, appointed president, CEO and board member Independent Director Lily Yan Hughes appointed as board chair Allbirds, Inc. name changed to Smartbird, Inc. Smartbird, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIRD), an AI… Read more: Smartbird Appoints New CEO to Advance AI Infrastructure Strategy
Australian enterprises remain dependent on foreign technology infrastructure, while major economies treat that dependency as a strategic liability. The post As the World Claims Tech Sovereignty, Where Does Australia Stand? appeared first on TechRepublic.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc# US54126826, June 2026). Download the complimentary excerpt here. The IDC MarketScape’s… Read more: Elastic Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2026
The race to build data centers in space is gaining momentum as AI drives unprecedented demand for computing power. Orbital facilities could tap into abundant solar energy and avoid many of the environmental challenges faced… Read more: SpaceX wants to build AI data centers in space. Will it work?
Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors… Read more: Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency
Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.
On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.
Law enforcement agencies across the world have rushed to integrate AI into their investigations, promising faster arrests and higher case closure rates. The rising number of wrongful arrests attributed to AI facial recognition systems, however,… Read more: Cop Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence
Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually linked to historic outbreaks. By analyzing ancient DNA from hunter-gatherer cemeteries in Siberia, researchers discovered early plague… Read more: Ancient DNA reveals plague was already killing humans 5,500 years ago
Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth. University of Oxford ancient DNA researcher Ruairidh… Read more: Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago
Alibaba Cloud opened two Paris availability zones as European enterprises weigh data sovereignty, resilience, and AI infrastructure needs. The post Alibaba Cloud Bets on France as Europe Seeks More Control Over AI appeared first on… Read more: Alibaba Cloud Bets on France as Europe Seeks More Control Over AI
The unified platform combines AI discovery, runtime security enforcement, shadow AI control, identity and privilege control, and continuous red teaming. Uniquely integrates AI security into a broader identity security architecture to manage human, machine, and AI identities… Read more: Securden Expands Identity Platform with AI Agent Security and Governance
Computer vision deployments are driving retail productivity gains as operators automate physical shelf tracking to protect eroding margins. This hardware deployment directly addresses the persistent in-store execution failures currently costing the industry billions. A study… Read more: Computer vision deployments drive retail productivity gains
The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal
In a viral essay about how ludicrous the idea that LLMs are conscious is, science fiction writer Ted Chiang asked us to consider Microsoft Word: “Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is… Read more: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
Anthropic updated Claude Design with design system imports, Claude Code syncing, canvas editing, and more export options for enterprise teams. The post Anthropic Adds Brand Controls, Code Sync to Claude Design appeared first on TechRepublic.
New hard gate architecture protects enterprises from hijacked agents and well-meaning rogue agents by requiring verified human biometric approval before high-consequence actions Token, the leader in biometric assured identity, today announced the expansion of its… Read more: Token Extends Biometric Assured Identity to Secure AI Agents
Agent Identity Security combines AI agent governance with a native PKI foundation, directly targeting ungoverned AI agents, enterprise security’s fastest-growing blind spot AppViewX today announced Agent Identity Security, a new product within the AppViewX platform that discovers,… Read more: AppViewX Announced the Launch of Agent Identity Security
Aembit on Tuesday announced support for Copilot Studio, extending its identity and access management capabilities to Microsoft’s enterprise AI agent platform. The integration, unveiled at Identiverse 2026, gives security teams the tools to manage what Copilot… Read more: Aembit Extends IAM for Agentic AI to Microsoft Copilot Studio
Powered by Google Cloud and Gemini, eiq360 gives organisations already invested in Google Cloud, or actively exploring it, a native way to design, deploy, and operate enterprise applications and business processes through natural language, without… Read more: EvoluteIQ Brings Its AI-Native Platform to Google Cloud with eiq360
Productivity guilt is the uneasy sense that time saved through technology has to be justified. Drazen Zigic / Shutterstock We have built tools that save us hours in work. So why do so many people… Read more: AI saves time – so why does it make us feel guilty?
New release delivers governed organizational knowledge through open MCP standards through Customer Intelligence, Project Portal, and Cognitive Equivalent Time reporting Innovative Solutions, the fastest growing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner that delivers AI and… Read more: Innovative Solutions Announced the Release of DarcyIQ Anywhere
HSBC has entered a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to develop and deploy artificial intelligence tools across its global operations. Announced at Google Cloud Summit London 2026, the agreement covers work in wealth management, financial… Read more: HSBC expands AI banking partnership with Google Cloud
The integration brings API discovery, governance, and automation into a single workflow Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, today announced the integration of Insomnia 13 with Kong Konnect, the unified API… Read more: Kong Announces Insomnia and Kong Konnect Integration
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.
Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world’s largest and most powerful organizations, including Oracle, Chevron, Lenovo, Federal Express, a NATO defense… Read more: Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
The United States government recently ordered AI company Anthropic to suspend foreign nationals’ access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, two of its most advanced AI models, citing national security concerns. Anthropic responded by disabling… Read more: Sovereign AI? Anthropic shutdown reveals Canada’s weakness
Whether you’re playing poker against a single opponent or find yourself in a bidding war over a home purchase with another prospective buyer, you are operating under conditions of imperfect information. You know what cards… Read more: In game theory, generalists sometimes win out over specialists
Whether you’re dodging Flock cameras on the freeway, ever-listening smartphones in your pocket, or AI bots at the drive-thru, it’s nearly impossible to avoid some type of AI-integrated device these days. Now it turns out… Read more: Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads
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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss questionable analysis, mysterious parcels, and the Knicks… Read more: Behind the Blog: Landfillcore and Go Knicks
deepset, the company behind Haystack, the production-ready open-source AI agent framework and platform, today announced it has joined the HPE Unleash AI partner program to help government, defense, and regulated enterprises deploy production-grade AI systems… Read more: deepset Joins HPE’s Unleash AI Program to Accelerate Sovereign Agentic AI
I’ve spent the better part of a decade working on personalization, search, and recommendations at scale, most recently at Netflix, and now in a new chapter at Zoctok. The through line has stayed the same… Read more: From prediction to decision: Smaller models will reshape how we build AI
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SAP and Google Cloud are deploying agentic commerce architecture to automate multi-agent marketing and retail operations at enterprise scale. SAP research indicates 78 percent of businesses consider AI essential for retaining customers in 2026. However,… Read more: SAP and Google Cloud deploy agentic commerce architecture
Welcome to Edition 8.46 of the Rocket Report! We don’t mention Starship in the body of this week’s report, so I’ll give a brief update here. The next test flight of SpaceX’s mega-rocket—Flight 13—could happen… Read more: Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars
OpenAI, a company currently fighting more than a dozen consumer safety and wrongful death lawsuits, just hired Noam Shazeer — a cofounder of the notorious AI companion startup Character.AI, which has settled a pile of lawsuits over… Read more: OpenAI Just Hired a Guy Accused of Terrible Things
AI is revolutionizing cyberattacks, as advancements in the tech allow bad actors to find and exploit unknown vulnerabilities in software across the web. If there were ever a time to shore up your security habits… Read more: Get Ready for a Catastrophic Leak That Reveals All Your Messages and Search History
MAJURO, Marshall Islands—Perched on the bow of an aluminum landing craft, Anne Cohen gazed a few yards ahead of the vessel toward a yellow robot gliding across the emerald Majuro lagoon. The unmanned surface vehicle,… Read more: As global warming threatens corals, scientists search for reefs that can take the heat
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Guardian readers in the US share concerns about how the SpaceX IPO and AI boom affect their retirement accounts Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire last week after SpaceX debuted on the stock market… Read more: ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
Depending on AI can also potentially decrease the ability to discern misinformation, research says A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the latest research to find that relying too much on chatbots… Read more: Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds
California first lady’s Miss Representation: Rise Up studies the backlash against women in the era of algorithms and deepfakes Life moves pretty fast. It is Monday lunchtime when Jennifer Siebel Newsom drops into the Guardian’s… Read more: Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors… Read more: Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency
WALLOPS ISLAND, Virginia—Just 10 months ago, NASA asked three companies if they could do something nobody had done before. Could they build and launch a satellite to save a $500 million astronomy mission at risk… Read more: A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
Taiwan’s existence as a self-governing democracy may depend heavily on having enough military drones to discourage any attempted invasion by China’s military. As the Taiwanese government aims to boost domestic production of military drones and… Read more: As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military
Independent advisors for the Food and Drug Administration on Friday voted 9–0 in support of approving Moderna’s seasonal mRNA flu vaccine, which a Trump appointee at the agency initially tried to block from even being… Read more: FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna’s mRNA after agency drama
Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.
Apple has updated its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds to patch a high-severity vulnerability that could be exploited by nearby hackers to eavesdrop on users. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-20701, allowed improper authentication in the firmware running… Read more: Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds
Jens Büttner/Getty Images A customer sends a WhatsApp message to a local store asking about a product. Within seconds, they receive an answer. The product they’re after is in stock. Or, if it isn’t, they’re… Read more: More than chatbots: why business AI agents are Big Tech’s next product battleground
Almost 20 years ago, Google pitched Android as the more open alternative to Apple’s walled garden. Last year, Google announced it would begin erecting its own walls through developer verification. The company has issued an… Read more: Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores
Three months ago, during a flashy event at its Washington, DC, headquarters, NASA announced that it was shifting the focus of its lunar plans from an orbital space station to a Moon base on the… Read more: NASA asks Northrop Grumman to stop working on lunar HALO module
Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.
On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.
Bernie Sanders has unveiled an aggressive plan to transfer trillions from leading AI firms to the public, and, to the likely horror of AI firms, it goes even further than expected to give Americans more… Read more: Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry
A businessman with ties to Chinese military contractors was among the overseas investors who acquired stakes in SpaceX while it was still a private company. An entity linked to the Qatari royal family also took… Read more: Before SpaceX IPO, investors in China secretly acquired stakes
In May, the federal government announced without warning that it would take apart a network of ocean monitoring systems that it had spent over $350 million to build. No reason was given for the decision… Read more: After Senate vote, Trump admin backs off plans to kill ocean monitoring
Law enforcement agencies across the world have rushed to integrate AI into their investigations, promising faster arrests and higher case closure rates. The rising number of wrongful arrests attributed to AI facial recognition systems, however,… Read more: Cop Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Ancient fossils have revealed that the earliest animals to walk on… Read more: A New Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary Theory
Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth. University of Oxford ancient DNA researcher Ruairidh… Read more: Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago
An angry customer is suing Anthropic on behalf of all users of its priciest subscription tiers. In a federal lawsuit filed Monday, Karl Kahn accuses the Claude AI maker of misleading customers about the usage… Read more: Anthropic Sued for Allegedly Ripping Off Its Highest-Paying Customers
The rise of chatbots disrupts traditional ideas of community. Ying-Chieh Lee/Kingston School of Art/betterimagesofai.org, CC BY Can technology really replace human relationships? As philosophy scholars who focus on human happiness and on artificial intelligence (AI),… Read more: People are marrying holograms and making friends with chatbots. But can AI bring true happiness?
Computer vision deployments are driving retail productivity gains as operators automate physical shelf tracking to protect eroding margins. This hardware deployment directly addresses the persistent in-store execution failures currently costing the industry billions. A study… Read more: Computer vision deployments drive retail productivity gains
The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal
In a viral essay about how ludicrous the idea that LLMs are conscious is, science fiction writer Ted Chiang asked us to consider Microsoft Word: “Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is… Read more: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how far AI can… Read more: ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, who served twice as a crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including during the final US space shuttle mission in 2011, has died at the age of 56. With… Read more: Cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, 56, is first former ISS crew member to die
If you Google “SCP-565” — an iconic entry in the collaborative fan fiction universe known as the “SCP Foundation” — the company’s AI Overviews describes the nonexistent entity as though it were entirely real, without… Read more: Google’s AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real
Citizens attend a City Council hearing in Pocatello, Idaho, to discuss the prospect of a new $2.6 billion data center in their community. Natalie Behring/Getty Images As the race to build data centers across the… Read more: How local communities are challenging Big Tech data centers’ noise, pollution and rising electricity bills
Salesforce has an internal dashboard which tracks each team’s use of AI, including which teams are using specific tools such as ChatGPT and how much, with the company also handing out digital badges that describe… Read more: Salesforce’s Internal AI Leaderboard Has Teams Competing for Little Trophies
America’s AI regulatory landscape just had a month that made legal counsel everywhere reach for stronger coffee. Colorado’s landmark AI Act, once celebrated as the country’s first comprehensive state AI law, was gutted and replaced… Read more: The US AI rulebook is being rewritten. Your compliance team can’t wait
AI has wormed its way into every crevice of the 2026 World Cup. It’s dreaming up sloppified soccer jerseys, collating thousands of on-field data points, and even guarding venues in the form of robot surveillance… Read more: Sports Journalists Asked Microsoft’s Copilot to Predict World Cup Matches, and the Results May Surprise You
In the early days of the US and Israeli war on Iran, situation monitors were abuzz at the revelation that the Pentagon had used top large language models to identify targets for annihilation via air… Read more: The US Military Has Been Using Elon Musk’s Grok AI to Bomb Iran
Productivity guilt is the uneasy sense that time saved through technology has to be justified. Drazen Zigic / Shutterstock We have built tools that save us hours in work. So why do so many people… Read more: AI saves time – so why does it make us feel guilty?
HSBC has entered a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to develop and deploy artificial intelligence tools across its global operations. Announced at Google Cloud Summit London 2026, the agreement covers work in wealth management, financial… Read more: HSBC expands AI banking partnership with Google Cloud
The three-martini lunch allowed us to mix business and pleasure, a phenomenon that is missing during the AI boom As a 46-year-old executive who now has both people and AI agents reporting to me on… Read more: Office workers of the world unite: it’s time to revive the three-martini lunch | Andrea Javor
Microsoft has quietly become the main supplier of OpenAI models in China, selling the technology to the country’s largest internet companies even as OpenAI and Anthropic keep their own models out of the market on… Read more: Microsoft sells OpenAI models in China. OpenAI and Anthropic won’t.
We’re about six weeks out from the debut of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the follow-up to 2021’s No Way Home. It’s been five years since Spidey graced the big screen, so naturally Sony Pictures has… Read more: Hulk, Punisher join Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer
As companies integrate AI and hire fewer employees, a shift toward a ‘gig economy’ will commence In 2024, the buy-now-pay-later company Klarna announced that it would cut hundreds of customer service roles and begin using… Read more: Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
The Food and Drug Administration this week cleared a second carcass-feasting fly species for use in maggot wound therapy, according to an announcement from Cuprina Holdings, a Singapore-based company that has dubbed its new therapeutic… Read more: Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.
Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40,000 server workloads off of VMware amid “abusive conduct” from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco filed a lawsuit in the UK’s High Court… Read more: Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom’s “abusive conduct”
Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world’s largest and most powerful organizations, including Oracle, Chevron, Lenovo, Federal Express, a NATO defense… Read more: Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
California state regulators say AT&T lied to the Federal Communications Commission in an attempt to shut off its old copper phone network without providing an adequate replacement. “AT&T asserts that California seeks to prohibit or… Read more: California says AT&T lied to FCC in attempt to shut off old phone network
Quantum computing news usually picks up near the end of the year, as companies try to provide evidence that they are hitting benchmarks on time. However, there have been interesting announcements as the summer starts… Read more: Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.
The Australian eSafety Commissioner recently launched a new campaign to raise awareness of sexual extortion, or “sextortion”. Targeted primarily at men, the campaign features AI-generated videos of attractive women attempting to lure men into financial… Read more: New study shows 1 in 7 people have been victims of sextortion – and AI is making it worse
This year, some of Australia’s biggest and best known companies – Telstra, National Australia Bank (NAB), Officeworks and Woolworths – have decided to cut jobs locally, while creating more overseas. Those will mainly be in… Read more: Australia risks losing its ‘corporate brain’ if more high-value jobs keep being sent offshore
The United States government recently ordered AI company Anthropic to suspend foreign nationals’ access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, two of its most advanced AI models, citing national security concerns. Anthropic responded by disabling… Read more: Sovereign AI? Anthropic shutdown reveals Canada’s weakness
Whether you’re playing poker against a single opponent or find yourself in a bidding war over a home purchase with another prospective buyer, you are operating under conditions of imperfect information. You know what cards… Read more: In game theory, generalists sometimes win out over specialists