Imagine this: The US military begins tracking a mysterious spacecraft maneuvering near one of the Space Force’s missile-warning satellites more than 22,000 miles over the equator. This US satellite cost several billion dollars to build… Read more: Think tank games out how to respond to disaster scenarios in space warfare

Rocket Lab announced on Monday that it is acquiring the satellite communications company Iridium. The deal, made for cash and shares of Rocket Lab stock, values Iridium at about $8 billion. The deal pairs the… Read more: In a bold move, Rocket Lab acquires Iridium Communications

Color us officially intrigued by Wildwood, director Travis Knight’s forthcoming stop-motion animated fantasy film. Laika Studios released an extended teaser back in May, which has racked up nearly 90 million views. A full trailer is… Read more: Wildwood featurette lifts the veil on building its stop-motion world

Formula 1 raced at the Red Bull Ring in Austria this past weekend while the region sweltered under a heat dome. It was a weekend of unmet expectations: After such a strong performance in Barcelona,… Read more: F1 in Austria: Starts off exciting, then goes the opposite way

In May 2026, in his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas – signed on the 135th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum – Pope Leo XIV warned the world about the dangers of the promise of… Read more: Is the Pope’s AI encyclical a warning on Tech Messianism?

Generative artificial intelligence (AI), and especially large language models deployed as chatbots and digital assistants, are now part of everyday digital life. These models are being framed as a helpful assistant, a patient tutor, a… Read more: Could AI create a new form of inequality in South Africa?

New funding will accelerate development of Digital World Models and large-scale simulation environments for long-horizon AI agents Patronus AI today announced a $50 million Series B led by Greenfield Partners and unveiled its Digital World Models,… Read more: Patronus AI Raises $50M Series B, Launches Digital World Models

Comcast said it plans to separate its media businesses from its mobile and broadband networks in the latest reshaping of the US industry, sending shares in the group up more than 20 percent on Monday.… Read more: Comcast is splitting its media and broadband properties

Ninth Annual Program Honors the AI Innovators Shaping the Next Era of Global Innovation Edge Impulse, the leading platform for building, deploying, and scaling edge AI and machine learning models, today announced that it has… Read more: Edge Impulse Receives 2026 MLOps Innovation Award

I am standing just outside of the Yahoo Explorer’s Society, where the line for DJ Tiësto stretches well past Microsoft Gardens, out toward the Canva Creator Cabana and Influential Beach. Thankfully the line doesn’t cross… Read more: Inside Cannes, the Advertising Industry’s Biggest Party

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent to a car… Read more: NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

HP has scaled its OpenAI Frontier integration across global operations to optimise enterprise workflows and accelerate output. The hardware manufacturer initiated testing of the platform in February 2026. Early pilot programs yielded verified operational gains… Read more: HP accelerates enterprise workflows with OpenAI Frontier

AI is a factor in human well-being, whether harmful or helpful. EvgeniyShkolenko via Getty Images Artificial intelligence is reshaping relationships by providing conversation and companionship, and reshaping how people work. For children, it is making… Read more: 8 principles from human ecology can help AI work for human well-being

There’s no doubt that the broader public has turned against AI in a serious way. In the United States, a YouGov pol found that three-quarters of Americans think AI should be more heavily regulated, an… Read more: AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them

Modern AI systems are, in effect, a universal adviser to help people do harmful things. We’ll need to harness AI for defense, too Earlier this week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes – that’s… Read more: Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that | Bruce Schneier

Latest AI Breakthrough win underscores RWS’s leadership and innovation in enterprise AI translation RWS (AIM: RWS.L), a global AI solutions company, has won “Machine Translation Solution of the Year” at the 9th annual AI Breakthrough… Read more: RWS wins “Machine Translation Solution of Year” for consective third year

With 25+ years of technology, consulting, and operational experience, Fayh joins Caylent to turn AI-first services into a scalable, repeatable engine for enterprise growth Caylent, an AI-First Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner,… Read more: Caylent Appoints Eduardo Fayh as President and COO

Company to demonstrate how the new integrated Graphwise Platform structures data into a trusted Semantic Backbone to guarantee hallucination-free GenAI Key Takeaways: To help organizations maximize the ROI of their AI journey, Graphwise is launching… Read more: Graphwise Launches Pulse for Trustworthy Agentic AI

The All England Lawn Tennis Club is adding new AI-powered features to Wimbledon’s digital platforms through its ongoing work with IBM. The updates will be available through the Wimbledon app and wimbledon.com as first-round matches… Read more: Wimbledon adds IBM AI tools for live match coverage

“AI Processor Innovation Award” recognizes Corsair as the emerging infrastructure of choice for heterogeneous AI compute, deliver blazing fast token generation in concert with GPUs d-Matrix, the pioneer in low-latency AI inference for data centers, today announced… Read more: d-Matrix Corsair Inference Accelerator Awarded 2026 AI Breakthrough

Modern DevSecOps needs security checks that run before release day. Teams now write code, build services and deploy updates at a pace that manual review cannot match. That’s why they use automated testing, as it… Read more: Best Automated Security Testing Tools for Modern DevSecOps

Natural language processing is reshaping professional communication on online platforms, enabling more relevant and personalised networking interactions. As AI-driven systems increasingly comprehend and generate human language, these technological advances affect how users pursue and maintain… Read more: Advances in Natural Language Processing Are Changing Professional Networking

New partnership brings on-device deepfake detection to video calls on desktop SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2026 — Scam.ai today announced a partnership with Qualcomm and the launch of Halo, an on-device deepfake detection model for… Read more: Scam.ai Announces Qualcomm Partnership, Launches Halo Deepfake Detection Model at Computex 2026

xFusion presented scalable enterprise AI computing models at ISC 2026, transitioning hardware from edge devices to data centres. Enterprise technology buyers attending the Hamburg exhibition sought practical production frameworks. Hardware selection processes regularly fail to… Read more: xFusion scales enterprise AI from edge workstations to liquid-cooled data centres

Researchers have discovered that beneficial soil bacteria give plants an unexpected survival advantage in salty soils. Instead of helping plants keep salt out, the microbes stimulate the production of lignin, a natural compound that strengthens… Read more: These tiny soil microbes could rescue crops from salty farmland

The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under general anesthesia could still process language at a sophisticated level, distinguishing nouns, verbs, and adjectives while listening… Read more: Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness

Researchers have shown that ultracold atoms can be driven into a strange new quantum state called a fractional Fermi sea, where particles organize themselves in unexpected ways. The discovery points to a new phase of… Read more: Physicists create a strange new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea

Fish oil supplements successfully delivered omega-3s to the brain, but a two-year study found no meaningful benefits for memory, cognition, or Alzheimer’s-related brain changes. The results challenge the idea that fish oil pills can help… Read more: Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit

Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work.

In 1993, she squeezed a $333m settlement from a Californian energy company in a scandal over contaminated water. Three decades later, she has a new target in her sights – and it’s global When Erin… Read more: ‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres

Value of some chip manufacturers have tripled, or more, driving Asia Pacific stock markets sharply higher Shares in chipmakers have surged in the first half of this year as investors piled into companies that make… Read more: Shares in chipmakers underpinning AI boom rocket in first half of 2026

Scientists at UCLA have linked long-term exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos with a sharply increased risk of Parkinson’s disease. People exposed to the chemical near their homes were more than twice as likely to develop… Read more: Common pesticide linked to more than double the risk of Parkinson’s disease

Astronomers have finally cracked the mystery of the famous “Pink Planet,” a strange world 57 light-years away that has puzzled scientists for more than a decade. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers discovered that… Read more: James Webb uncovers exotic salt clouds on a mysterious pink world

German physicist Max Planck was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, earning the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of quanta.  There has never been a whisper… Read more: Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

Anyone who saw the blockbuster sci-fi film “Project Hail Mary” will remember Rocky, a creature unlike anything we’ve seen on Earth. The five-legged alien is composed of a rock-like material, hence its nickname, and comes… Read more: There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims

ChatGPT relieves me of my discomfort, but in doing so it robs me of contemplation, of the holy ground between question and answer Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it… Read more: AI claims to have the answers to life’s big questions. But sometimes not knowing brings us closer to the truth | Amy Galliford

Tech and AI stocks now make up as much as 12% of most balanced superannuation funds, experts say Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Artificial intelligence and technology stocks have… Read more: Australian with retirement savings? You probably own SpaceX

Under all the bluster of AI hype lies a real conundrum: companies are charging out-of-this-world prices for a tool that still can’t match the value of a competent human. As AI companies and their financial… Read more: Employees Are Using Their Jobs’ Super-Expensive AI Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable

After giddy business executives, cops are emerging as some of the AI industry’s most devoted disciples. Police officers are increasingly using AI-integrated tools on the job, though not without courting significant controversy. The error-prone nature… Read more: Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust

Astronomers studying the rare supernova SN 2021yfj discovered material from one of the deepest layers of a dying star, providing a rare look at its hidden interior. The finding confirms key theories about how massive… Read more: A rare supernova peeled back a star’s layers and revealed a hidden secret

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for what powers Yellowstone and other supervolcanoes. Instead of a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, a broad “mantle wind” may push hot rock beneath Yellowstone, generating magma… Read more: Yellowstone’s supervolcano may be fueled by something unexpected

Hawaii researchers are giving old fishing nets and recycled plastic a second life by mixing them into asphalt roads. Early tests found these roads didn’t release more plastic particles than standard pavement, with tire wear… Read more: Hawaii is turning ocean plastic and fishing nets into roads

I decided to combine my need to top the leader table with my daily step count – which is how I found myself walking 10 miles a day while reading out sentences in Japanese, German,… Read more: David Sedaris on his Duolingo obsession: ‘“Today is the last day,” I told myself – but I was powerless to stop’

Two newly confirmed “super-puff” planets are so diffuse that they are less dense than cotton candy, despite being about the size of Jupiter. Their rare orbital relationship and enormous, lightweight atmospheres could provide valuable clues… Read more: Astronomers found two rare super puff planets lighter than cotton candy

It’s 2026 and we’re still getting new “Toy Story” movies. In fact, we’re now on “Toy Story 5” — and the original was released in 1995, some 31 years ago. How long can Disney and… Read more: Tom Hanks Frets AI Could Voice Woody in Even More “Toy Story” Movies

Aging may trigger the appearance of specialized stem cells that supercharge the body’s ability to create new belly fat. The discovery reveals a potential biological driver of middle-age weight gain and a promising target for… Read more: Scientists discover what triggers belly fat as we age

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that yucked it up, went interstellar, controlled the weather, and sang our praises. First, the sounds of ape laughter have been gracing our planet… Read more: Scientists Think They’ve Uncovered the 15-Million-Year-Old Origin of Laughter

As tech firms make huge profits and investors fear losing out, both are doing their best to hold off the day of reckoning OpenAI staggers AI model release after White House request Every couple of… Read more: The AI bubble has further to run despite the looming crash

It seems to be the week for cheap EVs. Right after the production model of the Slate electric truck was revealed, complete with a bump in range, a new European entrant in electric mobility is… Read more: Apple and Audi alumni have made a luxe EV based on the moon buggy

For tech companies racing to be the king of the AI hill, there are few things more precious than raw, original data. To keep the large language models underlying our favorite AI chatbots up to… Read more: AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them

Many people reached out to me in the past asking about my local agent stack as well as how I set up my local agent stack. So, I thought it might be useful to put… Read more: Using Local Coding Agents

Two men in their 20s were found within five hours thanks to an artificial intelligence-powered drone, which used thermal imaging to locate them. Two hikers veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national park, New… Read more: Australian rescue team uses AI-powered drone to find lost hikers – video

An unbalanced stalker posed as an unwitting man’s fiancé, claiming they had a child together. To sell the act — and live out her obsessive fantasy — she used AI to edit images that showed… Read more: Deranged Stalker Uses AI to Edit Her Imaginary Baby Into Man’s Photos

As his new novel is published, the US author talks about nurturing the next generation of creatives, debating Sam Altman – and why he writes on a boat in San Francisco Bay At Dave Eggers’s… Read more: Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’

As a host of countries move to rein in social media use by children, could this be technology’s big tobacco moment? Continue reading…

Fire and Rescue NSW uses thermal imaging and a mobile phone red light to quickly locate men who veered off walking track near Jindabyne Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast… Read more: Hikers lost in Kosciuszko national park rescued within five hours by AI drone

After weeks of negotiations, the White House permitted Anthropic to restore access to its most advanced AI model for a select group of US companies and government agencies.

South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms. That ambitious goal was announced as the South Korean military seeks to… Read more: South Korea plans to train entire military as “drone warriors”

On July 1, it will be illegal for streaming platforms to play ads louder than the content being watched in California. As The Hollywood Reporter highlighted this week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill… Read more: Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

A  60-year-old man in Spain went to the doctor complaining of a headache that he couldn’t shake. It had started two weeks prior and was only getting worse. He also said he had noticed subtle… Read more: Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms.

A new study reveals that goldfish can do far more than survive in the wild—they can fundamentally reshape freshwater ecosystems. Researchers found they cloud water, damage food webs, and hurt native fish populations, sometimes triggering… Read more: From pet to pest, goldfish can wreck entire ecosystems

The battle between butter and margarine comes down to chemistry. Butter’s naturally occurring fats create rich flavors, golden browning, and flaky baked goods, while margarine’s modified plant oils offer consistency and a longer shelf life.… Read more: Butter and margarine look similar but their chemistry changes everything

In a heavily redacted court filing Thursday, The New York Times proposed to amend its copyright complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft to clarify a claim and allege that Microsoft actively encouraged OpenAI to steal NYT… Read more: NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

Scientists exploring ancient seafloor rocks in Morocco discovered mysterious wrinkle patterns where they were never expected to occur. These structures are normally linked to microbial mats in shallow, sunlit waters, yet the rocks formed hundreds… Read more: Scientists stunned by signs of ancient life in a place no one expected

According to Apple’s 2025 App Store Transparency Report, Russia is the runaway world leader in one category: Demanding that Apple remove apps from its App Store. In 2025, Russia asked that Apple remove 1,213 apps—many… Read more: Russian citizens told “switch to Android” after Apple blocks key Russian apps

Recently, my father called me in a panic. There were just a few minutes until Netflix would start streaming a live MMA event, and he couldn’t get into my account. For a while, my father… Read more: Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address

An advocacy group trying to investigate DOGE’s influence on the Federal Communications Commission accused the FCC of failing to comply with a public records request and of concealing Chairman Brendan Carr’s use of the Signal… Read more: FCC accused of hiding Chairman Carr’s messages with DOGE and Musk

Ford just admitted that it scrambled to rehire former employees and find new technicians after its AI systems simply weren’t good enough. “Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and adjusting the design… Read more: Ford Scrambled to Rehire Engineers After Sabotaging Itself With AI

As Europe bakes in the throes of a deadly heatwave, residents living near the continent’s largest data center in Slough, a town just west of central London, UK, are enduring extreme temperatures. As The Guardian… Read more: Massive Data Center Cooks Nearby Residents Alive Amidst Deadly Heatwave

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from June 22–26. The post AI Upgrades, Security Breaches, and Industry Shakeups Define the Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

Chinese AI models are undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic on price, but enterprise adoption depends on security, compliance, and data-governance trade-offs. The post Chinese AI Models Challenge OpenAI and Anthropic on Cost and Enterprise Risk appeared… Read more: Chinese AI Models Challenge OpenAI and Anthropic on Cost and Enterprise Risk

Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, and other devices as AI data center demand drives up memory chip costs across consumer electronics. The post Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads as Data Centers Drive Memory… Read more: Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads as Data Centers Drive Memory Shortage

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip signals a deeper push into AI infrastructure, but cost savings and independence from Nvidia still depend on scale. The post OpenAI’s New Custom Chip: 5 Things You Should Know appeared first on… Read more: OpenAI’s New Custom Chip: 5 Things You Should Know

Apple may skip the high-end M6 chips and shift premium Macs to AI-focused M7 processors, making the upgrade decision tougher for power users. The post Apple Overhauls Chip Roadmap, Ditches M6 Pro and Max for… Read more: Apple Overhauls Chip Roadmap, Ditches M6 Pro and Max for M7 Generation

Antibiotic resistance has loomed over humans since the moment we started using antibiotics. In the 20th century, the drugs downgraded potentially life-threatening bacterial infections to mere inconveniences—a miracle of modern medicine, it seemed. But the… Read more: Antibiotic “megacluster” discovery provides new strategy to fight superbugs

David Autor, the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, has been named head of the Department of Economics, effective July 1. “David is a world-class labor economist,” says Agustín… Read more: David Autor named head of the Department of Economics

Nearly a month has passed since the New Glenn rocket exploded on its launch pad in Florida, creating a massive fireball. It was likely the largest ever rocket explosion at the historic Florida spaceport, and… Read more: Ars Live: What’s the latest in the aftermath of the New Glenn catastrophe?

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 talking aloud to computers, Cannes, and “Engineering… Read more: Behind the Blog: Salesforce Beach

The White House asked OpenAI to delay the rollout of its GPT-5.6 AI models two weeks after Anthropic had to take its most advanced AI models offline.

Since the early 1980s, Earth scientists have understood that erosion and weathering of rock slowly removes CO2 from the atmosphere, regulating Earth’s climate on geological timescales. But recent studies have shown that erosion can also… Read more: Feedbacks upon feedbacks: Rock weathering and the climate

Volkswagen Group is considering what was previously unthinkable: closing up to four factories in Germany and instituting layoffs that would shrink the workforce by 15 percent. 2025 was a bad year for Europe’s largest automaker.… Read more: VW may close four factories to adapt to the future, report says

OPAQUE open-sources Agent Manifest, extending the governance framework created by AGT creator Imran Siddique OPAQUE is launching OPAQUE 3.0 to make independent AI verification an open standard for enterprises and regulators with support from TII,… Read more: OPAQUE Expands AI Agent Governance Toolkit

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has told investors that it plans to launch a new Starlink mobile service for US consumers, in a move that would upend the country’s multibillion-dollar phone network market. The company’s president and… Read more: SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US

The shockingly unpopular drive to pepper the United States with massive AI data centers isn’t just driving up electricity prices, wasting huge amounts of water, and reviving heavy-polluter power stations — it’s also making life… Read more: If There Wasn’t Enough Opposition to AI Data Centers Already, Now They’re Supercharging Inflation

It’s a stretch to think that the continent can build a top-tier model, but it has an advantage: Donald Trump.

Report finds adoption is no longer the challenge with precise AI use cases emerging and those most prolific and practiced in AI more likely to report revenue impact Bluehost, the SMB business platform that millions… Read more: Bluehost Launches Small Business AI Confidence Study

Global study of 1,100 business leaders reveals only 23% say their workforce is ready for AI – declining 6 points from 2025 Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced the release… Read more: Kyndryl: Workforce Readiness Drives AI ROI

Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Redpoint, Theory Ventures, Vine Ventures, CRV, A*, and Abstract Ventures, Sail is Building the First Infrastructure Platform Purpose-Built for Long-Horizon AI Agents Sail Research, the infrastructure company purpose-built for long-horizon… Read more: Sail Research Raises $80 Mn to Build Max-Efficiency Infra for AI Agents

Imagine working at a warehouse or office sometime in the near future, and you’re asked to help a new trainee learn the basics of their job. The catch: It’s a robot. To teach them, you… Read more: LLMs help robots understand vague instructions and focus on key details

Sam Altman announces limited preview of GPT 5.6 in move that echoes launch of Anthropic’s Mythos Business live – latest updates OpenAI is staggering the release of its latest AI model after a request from… Read more: OpenAI staggers AI model release after Trump administration request

SAP aligns fragmented commerce data structures to enable operational AI personalisation at the execution layer. Enterprise leadership routinely establishes objectives to anticipate customer requirements and deliver relevant interactions across digital touchpoints. However, the actual infrastructure… Read more: SAP aligns commerce data for AI personalisation

Welcome to Edition 8.47 of the Rocket Report! We have now very nearly reached the midpoint of 2026, a year in which several new US rockets were advertised as potentially making their debuts. But now,… Read more: Rocket Report: China may soon attempt booster landing; Rocket Lab does rapid response

In Q1 2026, AI companies absorbed $242 billion in venture capital. That’s 80% of all global VC funding for the quarter. The money is going to startups that have identified specific, high-value enterprise workflows and… Read more: 30 startups rebuilding enterprise software with AI agents

Dabarti CGI/Shutterstock Investigative interviewing – the process of obtaining accurate and complete accounts from victims, witnesses and suspects – is the lifeblood of the criminal justice system. When a crime occurs, someone usually knows something.… Read more: Investigative interviews are key to solving crimes – should AI be helping police with their inquiries?

Qatar has become the place where FIFA experiments with the next generation of football technology. The results are already visible across this year’s World Cup.

Expanded agreement extends Marmot across key enterprise functions, advancing a new operating model for AI-powered decision-making in Life Sciences Komodo also unveils new Marmot capabilities to move organizations beyond AI experimentation and into enterprise-wide intelligence… Read more: Komodo Scales AI Platform Through Alnylam Alliance

News summary: Entrust is introducing a new approach to helping prevent account takeover in the AI era, where attacks target high-risk moments beyond login. Entrust verifies the person behind the interaction by anchoring authentication in… Read more: Entrust Unveils AI-Focused Account Takeover Protection

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures A scientist who decoded the dictionary that a bird uses to communicate has won a $100,000… Read more: A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong

‘It’s all just rendered useless’ Something For Kate’s Paul Dempsey says as AI scrapes millions of songs to learn how to make music Paul Dempsey and Bernard Fanning are among big-name Australian musicians upset that… Read more: Australian musicians sound warning note after Nick Cave, Kylie and many more slurped into AI training tool

ThisisEngineering/Pexels “Just as we always suspected”, writes musician and writer Anna Goldsworthy in her new Quarterly Essay on AI, “the god that may destroy us is the god of ourselves.” This sentence captures the core… Read more: The true danger of AI may lie in its reflection of us, warns Anna Goldsworthy