Sharomka/Shutterstock Children are innately curious, and throughout any given day they come up with all manner of questions: Why don’t fish have hair? Why do flowers wilt so quickly? Their need to understand the world… Read more: ‘Alexa, tell me a joke’: how talking to AI impacts young children’s development

Earlier this month, Meta’s AI chatbot support assistant feature was caught in an embarrassing cybersecurity incident: the bot was happily obliging when hackers asked it for access to other people’s Instagram profiles. The hackers didn’t… Read more: Microsoft’s Copilot AI Caught Letting Hackers Steal Your 2FA Codes Through a Single Click

There is a trap buried inside every enterprise AI deployment, and the more useful the agent, the deeper you fall into it.  A paper published in April 2026 by researchers from Microsoft and Huazhong University… Read more: Is your most capable AI agent also your biggest data leak?

I bet you can imagine a researcher who runs an experiment, fails, and then forgets everything that led to the failure. The next attempt starts fresh, with no memory of what was tried or why… Read more: Can an AI agent run the entire scientific method without human supervision?

Scientists have digitally preserved the world’s most endangered marine mammal by creating highly detailed 3D models of a vaquita skeleton using advanced imaging technology. The virtual archive provides an unprecedented look at the species and… Read more: On the brink of extinction, the vaquita gets a digital lifeline

Scientists have discovered a new Amazonian spider with an astonishing disguise: it looks like a parasitic fungus. The species, Taczanowskia waska, mimics both the appearance and behavior of the fungus, helping it stay hidden from… Read more: Scientists discover spider that disguises itself as a parasitic fungus

Scientists have taken a surprising step toward unlocking regeneration in mammals, showing that the ability to rebuild complex body parts may not be lost after all—it may simply be switched off. Using a two-stage treatment,… Read more: Humans may have hidden regenerative powers

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be purchasing records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers from a data broker, potentially skirting a court order that banned ICE from sourcing such information, according to Senator Ron… Read more: ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

We start this week with Joseph’s story about the FCC’s wild proposal to require peoples’ government ID numbers to even get a phone plan. The FCC is doing it to curb robocalls, but also said… Read more: Podcast: The Government Wants to End Anonymity on Phones

Arriving six years after Google’s last smart speaker, the new HomePod-style device was redesigned to play host to Gemini’s chatbot.

An AI tool is no replacement for a doctor, and regulation is essential. But together, physicians and AI could prove beneficial A calf cramp should not be a brush with death. Mine almost was. For… Read more: I had a blood clot. An AI diagnosis may have saved my life | Gleb Tsipursky

New Integrations Bring Security and Governance Capabilities to the Leading Agentic Platforms Powering Autonomous Enterprise AI Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), a pioneer in digital identity and authentication solutions, today announced that it is extending its… Read more: Digimarc Expands AI Content Verification Across Ecosystems

The clock is ticking for Windows and Linux users to update cryptographic keys that protect their systems against firmware-based UEFI infections, a pernicious form of malware that loads before operating system and anti-malware protections start.… Read more: Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near

Has the allure of the Porsche Taycan waned? The four door electric sedan that thinks it is GT sold well for the first few years after its initial introduction in 2020, but sales began to slip… Read more: Native NACS ports, infotainment upgrade for MY27 Porsche Taycan

Government ministries are deploying Google Cloud generative AI across municipal agencies to automate council planning operations. Public sector administration handles vast volumes of unstructured data that delay infrastructure development. The UK central government established a… Read more: Google Cloud generative AI automates council planning operations

Unrestrained development of unsafe AI systems is leading to intolerable risks Stuart Russell is a computer scientist known for his contributions to AI and a new Guardian US columnist The AI company Anthropic has been… Read more: Will it take a ‘Chernobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate cyber weapons of mass destruction? | Stuart Russell

A character bearing that name appears in a remarkable number of chatbot-generated stories. He could be a messenger from the future – or a warning that generative AI is in danger of ‘model collapse’ Ever… Read more: The curious case of Elias Thorne – and what he tells us about AI inbreeding | Arwa Mahdawi

Scientists are beginning to explore a hidden world of thousands of food chemicals that go far beyond the nutrients listed on nutrition labels. This “nutritional dark matter” may hold the key to understanding disease risk,… Read more: Scientists say most of what’s in your food is still a mystery

A new technique could solve one of the biggest challenges in making future computer chips from ultrathin materials. Researchers found that coating molybdenum disulfide with oxygen or fluorine lets manufacturers remove just the top layer… Read more: New plasma trick could unlock smaller, more powerful computer chips

A clever nanoscale redesign may have solved one of superconductivity’s biggest problems. Researchers in Sweden discovered that by subtly sculpting the surface beneath an ultrathin superconducting material, they could make it stay superconducting at higher… Read more: Superconductivity breakthrough could unlock ultra-efficient electronics

Next-generation semantic intelligence platform accelerates enterprise AI modernization by 3X while ensuring strict compliance for regulated industries. Onix today announced the European launch of Wingspan, its next-generation enterprise agentic AI and semantic intelligence platform. Designed to help… Read more: Onix Announced the Launch of Wingspan in Europe

Enterprise AI platform recognized for unified approach to AI security and governance Airia, the control plane for enterprise AI, today announced it has been selected as a winner in the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards, earning… Read more: Airia Wins of AI Governance Platform Award in 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards

Lovelytics named C&SI Energy and Utilities Partner of the Year and Brickbuilder Partner of the Year, recognized for delivering category-defining, repeatable AI solutions that accelerate time-to-value Databricks Data + AI Summit – Lovelytics, a leading Databricks… Read more: Lovelytics Wins Two Databricks 2026 Partner of the Year, 5th Year Running

Agentic AI Trust Layer Secures Autonomous AI Agents Ceros, the agentic AI trust layer, launched today as the industry’s first trust layer purpose-built for autonomous AI agents.  Enterprises are adopting AI agents at record speed,… Read more: Ceros Launches Unified Identity and Governance for AI Agents

Othman Alghanmi / Unsplash Last Friday, US-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic received an “export control” directive from its government. The company was told it must block access to two of its most capable models,… Read more: The US government can shut off access to AI at will. What does this mean for Australia?

New integrations extend continuous authorization and policy enforcement into cloud and edge environments where AI agents are built, deployed, and operated Ping Identity, a leader in securing digital identities for the world’s largest enterprises, today… Read more: Ping Identity Expands AI Agent Security Across Major Clouds

An auto factory worker can remember the storage bin where she left a partly assembled component the night before, and quickly return to that spot to pick it up. But robots that may work side-by-side… Read more: Could AI tell you where you left your keys?

Mukesh Sharma/Unsplash If someone used a large truck to deliver one envelope across the street, what would your reaction be? You would probably say it worked, but it was wasteful. The envelope arrived, but the… Read more: Your AI habit is wasting precious resources. Here’s how to use it responsibly

Newly public SpaceX Corp. today announced plans to acquire Cursor, the developer of a popular vibe coding platform, for $60 billion in stock. The companies expect to close the transaction by the end of the… Read more: SpaceX to acquire vibe coding startup Cursor for $60B

Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Founded in 2023,… Read more: Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls

Major enterprise platform companies are racing to build tools for a new class of users: artificial intelligence agents. One example of this was apparent today with the latest releases from Databricks Inc. The company unveiled… Read more: The AGI moment? Databricks’ new releases zero in on support and deployment of AI agents

Big data company Databricks Inc. is getting into the agentic artificial intelligence coworker game with the launch of a new tool called Genie One, aimed at helping business teams orchestrate workflows and automate work-related tasks.… Read more: Databricks’ new agentic coworker Genie One brings AI automation to every part of the business

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) new virtualization software promotion will likely pique the interest of end users and resellers who are unhappy with Broadcom’s pricing of VMware. During its HPE Discover event in Las Vegas this… Read more: Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry

The Trump administration is trying to help Elon Musk’s xAI Corp. beat a Clean Air Act lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The US said the NAACP lawsuit… Read more: Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI’s gas turbines

Justice department urges judge to throw out suit brought by NAACP over xAI’s methane-gas turbines in Mississippi The Trump administration is coming to the defense of Elon Musk in a lawsuit over claims that his… Read more: Trump’s DoJ intervenes to back Elon Musk in datacenter pollution lawsuit

Last month, Anthropic announced a billing change that would have substantially increased costs for heavy users of its automation-focused Claude Agent SDK, including many third-party apps. On Monday, though, Anthropic abruptly announced it had paused… Read more: Anthropic “pauses” token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK

Amazon now has hundreds of flight-ready satellites standing idle in Florida, waiting to join the company’s low-Earth orbit Internet constellation, an Amazon official said Tuesday. “They’re built, and sitting in a payload processing facility waiting… Read more: Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered

Last week, we looked at a new study of the origin of complex cells, one that showed that our ancestors’ genomes were pieced together from bits and pieces of multiple species. It put a spotlight… Read more: Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes

When the US Department of Justice approved Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday, a DOJ press release said “a rigorous eight-month investigation led by the [Antitrust] Division’s career staff” showed that… Read more: US approval of Paramount/Warner Bros. deal surprised DOJ lawyers, report says

In May, the Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) marked its first anniversary with MIT Manufacturing Week, four days of events that attracted more than 800 registrants including students, faculty, industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and government… Read more: MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

SpaceX will buy Cursor parent Anysphere in a $60B all-stock deal, giving Elon Musk’s company a major AI coding asset days after its IPO. The post SpaceX to Acquire Cursor in $60B Stock Deal, Deepening… Read more: SpaceX to Acquire Cursor in $60B Stock Deal, Deepening Elon Musk’s AI Empire

Nvidia’s planned debt sale could top $20 billion, giving enterprise buyers another look at its cash flow, debt profile, and AI financing plans. The post Nvidia Eyes $20B Debt Sale as AI Cash Flow Soars… Read more: Nvidia Eyes $20B Debt Sale as AI Cash Flow Soars

As OpenAI files SEC paperwork ahead of an expected initial public stock offering, newly leaked financial documents show a company with quickly growing revenues that are currently being overwhelmed by even larger expenses. The audited… Read more: Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. It comes just two days after SpaceX’s… Read more: SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion

The Trump administration has abandoned its effort to halt wind energy projects across the United States and dropped its challenge to the court ruling that tossed President Donald Trump’s order freezing federal permitting and leasing… Read more: Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

Android 17 has been in testing since early this year, with the final beta hitting devices just a couple of weeks ago. Insofar as a mature operating system like Android still has big days, this… Read more: Android 17 starts hitting Pixel phones and watches today

The US Department of Defense has a lot of congressionally mandated homework to do every year involving hundreds of required reports on various national security topics. But Pentagon officials have been proudly describing a new… Read more: Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

OpenAI burned through a staggering amount of money in 2025. According to audited financial figures obtained by AI skeptic Ed Zitron, who shared them with The Financial Times, the net loss attributed to the ChatGPT… Read more: OpenAI Is Taking the “Crack Cocaine” Approach to Pricing

Salesforce will buy Fin, formerly Intercom, for about $3.6 billion to expand Agentforce with AI customer service agents and support automation. The post Salesforce Makes $3.6B Play for AI Customer Service appeared first on TechRepublic.

Will you be flagged at the border? Will your mortgage application be approved? During wartime, whose neighbourhood would a weapon system target? These are moral choices — about harm and fairness — and they used… Read more: Artificial intelligence raises profound moral questions — for all of humanity to answer

The US government crackdown on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hides a glaring truth: AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.

On Thursday, June 11, 2026, AI Now Co-Executive Director Dr. Sarah Myers West testified at a Hearing before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on “AI and the American Dream: Promoting Innovation, Affordability, and American Dominance”.… Read more: AI Now Co-Executive Director Sarah Myers West Testifies Before Senate Banking Committee

The so-called “AI race” is a tale of two polar extremes. On one end is the Silicon Valley model, where powerful, resource-heavy AI development wreaks havoc on the population, driven by what is arguably the… Read more: Consensus Grows That China Is Crushing the United States at AI

Switch to ChapsVision announced by PM comes amid concern about reliance on US-controlled technology France’s domestic intelligence service is to ditch AI data tools from the US tech giant Palantir in favour of a domestic… Read more: France to ditch AI data tools from Palantir for domestic provider

Physicists have solved a long-standing problem involving systems that appear to violate Newton’s third law, such as bird flocks and bacterial swarms. By adding carefully designed “imaginary partners” to their models, they can now simulate… Read more: Scientists found a way to explain bird flocks that “defy” Newton’s third law

A new study found that chronic wasting disease can sometimes spread silently, with infectious prions present even in animals that show no symptoms. While there is no confirmed human risk, researchers say the disease’s ability… Read more: New study explores potential cross-species spread of chronic wasting disease

The driving technology company Mobileye plans to launch a robotaxi service in an as-yet-unnamed US city in 2027, it said earlier today. The service will be vertically integrated, using Mobileye’s Moovit mobility platform to interact… Read more: Mobileye is entering the US robotaxi market with standalone service

AI investments by insurers are now expected to generate tangible business value beyond mere efficiency. According to findings in the 2026 Evident AI Index, insurers are now embedding AI technologies into workflows that directly influence… Read more: Insurers pivot AI strategy toward core risk underwriting

Here’s what GitMind ($50) actually does and why it matters for professionals managing information overload. The post At $50, GitMind Turns Info-Overload Into Organized Visual Knowledge appeared first on TechRepublic.

Microsoft’s June Windows 11 update adds Task Manager NPU visibility for supported AI PCs, helping IT teams verify hardware, drivers, and policy-sensitive changes before rollout. The post Windows 11 June Update Adds NPU Monitoring for… Read more: Windows 11 June Update Adds NPU Monitoring for AI PCs

Apple may still have more Macs planned for 2026, including the rumored Mac Studio, iMac, Mac mini, and high-end OLED MacBook updates. The post New Apple Macs Coming in 2026: Everything We Know So Far… Read more: New Apple Macs Coming in 2026: Everything We Know So Far

A new study has found that major AI models on the market routinely fail to comply with ethical and privacy regulations. The post AI Compliance Failures Put Australian Enterprises on Notice appeared first on TechRepublic.

India’s sovereign AI debate is moving from policy ambition to enterprise risk as US model access limits expose gaps in compute, cloud, governance, and infrastructure. The post India’s Sovereign AI Push Runs Into US Model… Read more: India’s Sovereign AI Push Runs Into US Model Access Limits

Meta AI Mode brings AI-generated answers to Facebook search using public posts, raising questions about reliability and source visibility. The post Meta’s New Facebook ‘AI Mode’ Pulls From Groups, Reels, and Posts appeared first on… Read more: Meta’s New Facebook ‘AI Mode’ Pulls From Groups, Reels, and Posts

Elon Musk firm adds startup behind Cursor app to its portfolio with xAI and reaches $2.8tn market capitalisation Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying the startup behind the AI-powered coding app Cursor for $60bn and has… Read more: SpaceX to buy AI coding firm Anysphere for $60bn and passes Amazon valuation

Greetings, Arsians, and welcome to the great Ars Technica 2026 reader survey! It has been almost four years since we last ran a big site-wide survey like this, where we ask our readers—you!—what you like… Read more: The Ars Technica 2026 Reader Survey: Let your voice be heard!

Collateral Management Firm Prioritises Agentic AI as Marconi Elevated to President & COO CloudMargin, the only collateral and margin management solution purpose-built for the cloud, announced today the appointment of Nico Busch, a veteran capital… Read more: CloudMargin Appoints New CPO Amid Organizational Changes

Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s governor, squares off with state lawmakers over the facilities powering an AI boom A controversial haunted house near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taps into its dark history every fall to scare tens of thousands… Read more: How the fight over US datacenters is scrambling this state’s politics: ‘We don’t want it’

Devices that monitor seniors for safety are appealing to worried loved ones and underresourced home care agencies.

The global editorial directors of WIRED and Architectural Digest on teaming up to help you understand how we live today, and what comes next.

Hackers have published data stolen from Madison Square Garden online for anyone to download, including what they say is customers’ personal information. A sample reviewed by 404 Media includes files mentioning specific sports teams, and… Read more: Hackers Publish Knicks and Madison Square Garden Data Online

Hackers have long targeted Roblox accounts to steal a player’s valuable items, which can sometimes be worth many tens of thousands of very real dollars. But that wasn’t enough for some. Now, hackers are taking… Read more: Hackers Are Hijacking Entire Roblox Games Now

Last Tuesday, Microsoft patched a vulnerability it rated as max critical in its M365 Copilot AI platform. On Monday, the researchers who discovered the vulnerability and reported it to Microsoft revealed how their proof-of-concept exploit… Read more: Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to seal 2FA code from users

Space is full of satellites and debris – data centers could one day join the mix. NicoElNino, NASA/iStock via Getty Images Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of… Read more: Building data centers in space is an intriguing idea on paper, but major engineering challenges must be solved

Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom. Employees have been roiling from multiple rounds of major layoffs. Last month alone, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company laid off a whopping 8,000 workers, roughly ten percent of… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

We have opened the AI Pandora’s box. Now we have to make the best of it On 9 June, Anthropic released its Fable generative AI model. Three days later, the US government classified it as… Read more: The Anthropic ‘Fable’ saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora’s box. What now? | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier

Enabling Production-Ready Robotics and Industrial Automation Applications for the Edge AI Era Aptiv PLC (NYSE: APTV), a global industrial technology leader, will showcase advanced solutions at Automate 2026 for powering robotics and automation applications, which… Read more: Aptiv Showcasing Next Generation Intelligent Edge Solutions at Automate 2026

Integration helps security teams monitor agent activity, govern MCP servers and tools, detect AI-specific threats and maintain audit trails across Claude Enterprise Zenity, the leading end-to-end security and governance platform for AI agents, today announced… Read more: Zenity Extends AI Agent Security and Governance to Claude Enterprise

New platform helps companies move AI agents out of test projects and into live operations, without building custom tools from scratch SoftServe, a digital engineering and technology services company, today released the SoftServe Agent Management… Read more: SoftServe Cuts AI Agent Deployment from Months to Four Weeks

The next gadget to bear the storied Commodore branding will be a flip phone. The name behind the bestselling desktop PC in history came back about a year ago. Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson, best known… Read more: Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers

New integration connects privileged identity access to sensitive data exposure intelligence in one unified view, prioritizing the highest-risk threats Delinea, the identity security control plane that secures access across human, machine, and AI identities, and… Read more: Delinea, Cyera Unite to Advance Data-Aware Identity Security

A Silicon Valley software maker and an ecommerce company reveal to WIRED how they are navigating the emerging challenge of “tokenomics.”

The European Union has published its AI content labelling playbook, a voluntary Code of Practice meant to help companies meet transparency rules that become law across the bloc on August 2 onwards. The European Commission released the… Read more: EU publishes its AI content labelling playbook ahead of the AI Act’s August deadline

New KeeperPAM capability automatically distributes rotated secrets to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud in a single rotation event with no manual steps or drift Keeper Security, the leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security and Privileged… Read more: Keeper Security Introduces Universal Secrets Sync

Recognition reflects Intellias expertise in delivering AI outcomes across industries Intellias, an AI-enabled product engineering and digital solutions partner, has achieved the AWS AI Services Competency. The designation places Intellias among a select group of… Read more: Intellias achieves AWS AI Services Competency

Rugged edge computing brand – Cincoze will participate in Automate 2026 in Chicago, USA, from June 22–25 (Booth #861). Under the theme of “Empowering Smart Automation with Edge AI,” Cincoze will present its complete range… Read more: Automate 2026: Cincoze to Showcase Edge AI Computing and Automation Solutions

Engineers will fine tune models, run experiments and engage directly with Polaris – HAI’s patented constellation model – during six month sprint Hippocratic AI, the generative AI company building the only model clinically safe and… Read more: Hippocratic AI Launches LLM Model Training Residency

Workload-optimized Nvidia Blackwell deployments designed to reduce AI inference costs by approximately 20% compared with standard reference architectures QumulusAI, a vertically integrated AI cloud infrastructure company, today announced it has secured more than $124 million… Read more: QumulusAI Signs More Than $124 Mn in AI Inference Infra Agreements

Trust3 AI today announced its acceptance into the NVIDIA Inception program, further validating its position as the one Control Plane enterprises trust to govern any data and any agent, across any framework or cloud. NVIDIA Inception… Read more: Trust3 AI Joins NVIDIA Inception Program to Boost Adoption of Data and AI

For years, enterprise content management was largely a publication tool. How do you get the right content, in the right format, to the right channel, without breaking workflows that span dozens of markets and hundreds… Read more: How AI-Powered CMS Platforms Are Transforming Enterprise Content Operations

With AI adoption accelerating, testing systems under adversarial conditions has become increasingly important. It enables organisations to identify vulnerabilities before deployment and strengthen overall system safety. Explore what AI red teaming is, why it matters… Read more: AI Red Teaming Explained: What It Is and Why You Need It

Tech is helping to identify and save new specimens and could open ‘genomic goldmine’ of fungi data The rise of AI and digitisation could be a turning point in the “race against extinction” faced by… Read more: AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists

In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.

Anthropic leaders flew to Washington, DC, to meet with White House officials on Monday. After high-level talks, they’re still split on the risk Claude Fable 5 presents.

Isar Aerospace still commands top position among a new generation of European rocket startups, but the company’s efforts to launch a critical test flight of its Spectrum rocket continue to encounter roadblocks. The latest delay… Read more: Key mission for Europe’s commercial space enterprise scrubbed again

In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale.

Although most Americans have eschewed seasonal COVID-19 vaccines, the updated shots continue to show significant protection against cardiovascular disease, especially for those over age 75 and those with underlying medical conditions. That’s according to a… Read more: COVID vaccines still protect against heart problems, large study finds

As anger at the tech industry boils over, college students across the United States are using their graduation ceremonies as a forum to voice their discontent. At Stanford University’s commencement over the weekend, hundreds of… Read more: Google CEO Humiliated by Graduating Stanford Students as They Walk Out of His Speech in Protest

The UK government announced today that it will ban social media for all kids under the age of 16 in rules expected to take effect in spring 2027. The ban will apply to platforms including… Read more: UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews

A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of physical exploits that siphon sensitive data out of the connected memory chips. Short… Read more: Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs