
- Scientists found a way to explain bird flocks that “defy” Newton’s third law
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 - New study explores potential cross-species spread of chronic wasting disease
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 - Mobileye is entering the US robotaxi market with standalone service
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 - Insurers pivot AI strategy toward core risk underwriting
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 - At $50, GitMind Turns Info-Overload Into Organized Visual Knowledge
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. - Windows 11 June Update Adds NPU Monitoring for AI PCs
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 - New Apple Macs Coming in 2026: Everything We Know So Far
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 - AI Compliance Failures Put Australian Enterprises on Notice
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 Push Runs Into US Model Access Limits
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’s New Facebook ‘AI Mode’ Pulls From Groups, Reels, and Posts
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 - SpaceX to buy AI coding firm Anysphere for $60bn and passes Amazon valuation
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 - The Ars Technica 2026 Reader Survey: Let your voice be heard!
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! - CloudMargin Appoints New CPO Amid Organizational Changes
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 - How the fight over US datacenters is scrambling this state’s politics: ‘We don’t want it’
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’ - My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching
Devices that monitor seniors for safety are appealing to worried loved ones and underresourced home care agencies. - What Do We Need From Our Homes Right Now?
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 Publish Knicks and Madison Square Garden Data Online
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 Are Hijacking Entire Roblox Games Now
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 - Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to seal 2FA code from users
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 - Building data centers in space is an intriguing idea on paper, but major engineering challenges must be solved
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 - Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
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 - The Anthropic ‘Fable’ saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora’s box. What now? | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier
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 - Aptiv Showcasing Next Generation Intelligent Edge Solutions at Automate 2026
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 - Zenity Extends AI Agent Security and Governance to Claude Enterprise
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 - SoftServe Cuts AI Agent Deployment from Months to Four Weeks
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 - Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers
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 - Delinea, Cyera Unite to Advance Data-Aware Identity Security
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 - ‘Pretty Crazy’ Token Usage Is Testing Bosses’ Bet on AI
A Silicon Valley software maker and an ecommerce company reveal to WIRED how they are navigating the emerging challenge of “tokenomics.” - EU publishes its AI content labelling playbook ahead of the AI Act’s August deadline
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 - Keeper Security Introduces Universal Secrets Sync
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 - Intellias achieves AWS AI Services Competency
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 - Automate 2026: Cincoze to Showcase Edge AI Computing and Automation Solutions
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 - Hippocratic AI Launches LLM Model Training Residency
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 - QumulusAI Signs More Than $124 Mn in AI Inference Infra Agreements
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 Joins NVIDIA Inception Program to Boost Adoption of Data and AI
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 - How AI-Powered CMS Platforms Are Transforming Enterprise Content Operations
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 - AI Red Teaming Explained: What It Is and Why You Need It
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 - AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists
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 - DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
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 Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5
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. - Key mission for Europe’s commercial space enterprise scrubbed again
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 - Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’
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. - COVID vaccines still protect against heart problems, large study finds
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 - Google CEO Humiliated by Graduating Stanford Students as They Walk Out of His Speech in Protest
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 - UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews
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 - Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
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 - Father’s Day Tech Gifts on Sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart
Shop curated Father’s Day 2026 tech deals on headphones, wearables, tablets, earbuds, smart glasses, and more from Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart today. The post Father’s Day Tech Gifts on Sale at Amazon, Best Buy,… Read more: Father’s Day Tech Gifts on Sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart - CEOs Now Being Forced to Reverse Course, Cut AI Spending
The era of AI maximalism is grinding to a halt. It was only months ago that CEOs were forcing employees to use AI as much as possible for tasks like coding. But at some point… Read more: CEOs Now Being Forced to Reverse Course, Cut AI Spending - Fox’s $22B Roku acquisition aims to expand its reach into smart TVs, advertising
Fox Corporation has agreed to buy Roku Inc. for $160 per share, an approximate enterprise value of $22 billion, the firms announced today. The acquisition would unite Fox’s broadcast channels, including Fox, Fox News, Fox… Read more: Fox’s $22B Roku acquisition aims to expand its reach into smart TVs, advertising - A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation
The upper stage from a commercial Chinese rocket that launched last week has broken apart in space, spreading debris in a heavily trafficked part of low-Earth orbit home to the International Space Station and a… Read more: A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation - Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021
Chipmaker Nvidia is planning to sell $25 billion of investment-grade debt in the US on Monday, its first bond sale in five years, in a test of investor appetite for further exposure to the AI… Read more: Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021 - Google Bug Hunter Claims $500K From AI-Assisted Vulnerability Pipeline
A researcher known as Brutecat says an AI-assisted pipeline helped map and test more than 1,500 Google APIs. Google has not confirmed the $500,000 payout total. The post Google Bug Hunter Claims $500K From AI-Assisted… Read more: Google Bug Hunter Claims $500K From AI-Assisted Vulnerability Pipeline - Siri AI Supported Devices: Full List of iPhones, iPads, Macs, and More
Apple’s Siri AI upgrade could bring smarter app actions and personal context, but only newer devices will support the features at launch. The post Siri AI Supported Devices: Full List of iPhones, iPads, Macs, and… Read more: Siri AI Supported Devices: Full List of iPhones, iPads, Macs, and More - Good news—we have extra time before the Sun ends life on Earth
It’s a bit worrying when a scientific paper begins, “How long will life on Earth survive?” But in this case—a study by Jacob Haqq‐Misra of Blue Marble Space and Eric Wolf at the University of… Read more: Good news—we have extra time before the Sun ends life on Earth - 20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again
The release of macOS 27 later this fall won’t quite close the book on the Intel Mac. The last handful of models that could run macOS 26 Tahoe will be eligible for security and Safari… Read more: 20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again - UK Weighs Under-16 Social Media Ban for 2027
The UK’s proposed under-16 social media ban could bring stricter age checks, teen defaults, and feature limits for social and AI platforms. The post UK Weighs Under-16 Social Media Ban for 2027 appeared first on… Read more: UK Weighs Under-16 Social Media Ban for 2027 - Disclosure Day’s Delusion Is That People Would Think Alien Videos Are Not AI
*This article contains spoilers for Disclosure Day* Disclosure Day a perfectly entertaining, fun blockbuster movie built around the wildly flawed premise that the human race could be brought together by being shown blurry videos of… Read more: Disclosure Day’s Delusion Is That People Would Think Alien Videos Are Not AI - Dataiku Makes Cobuild Generally Available
Dataiku Cobuild closes the enterprise AI execution gap, transforming plain-language business intent into inspectable, governed AI projects that teams can trust from the start Dataiku, the Platform for AI Success, today announced the launch of Dataiku… Read more: Dataiku Makes Cobuild Generally Available - Automate 2026: Teradyne Robotics Unveils Production-Ready AI Applications
Moving past conceptual hype, the company will showcase deployable physical AI solutions – from electronics manufacturing to logistics. Teradyne Robotics, the company behind Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), will demonstrate how physical AI is transforming industrial… Read more: Automate 2026: Teradyne Robotics Unveils Production-Ready AI Applications - AI robots can go rogue – a researcher on how easily it happens
Frame Stock Footage/Shutterstock Earlier this year in Beijing, a humanoid robot crossed a half-marathon finish line in a blistering 50 minutes, 26 seconds. The feat immediately lit up global headlines for shattering the human world… Read more: AI robots can go rogue – a researcher on how easily it happens - F1 in Spain: An old-fashioned strategy fight can still be thrilling
Formula 1 raced in Spain this past weekend. The Barcelona-Catalunya circuit is one of F1’s purpose-built race tracks, with a number of fast corners and a track surface that’s more abrasive than usual. That means… Read more: F1 in Spain: An old-fashioned strategy fight can still be thrilling - Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks
Ten days ago, in a moment of very high drama in orbit, NASA directed its astronauts living on the International Space Station to briefly seek emergency refuge in a Crew Dragon spacecraft. Since then, neither… Read more: Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks - It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. The study suggests… Read more: It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests - Meta’s Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe
Now that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a metaverse has collapsed in on itself, the billionaire has moved onto his next money pit: a wildly expensive “Superintelligence” unit. But those who’ve survived several brutal… Read more: Meta’s Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe - Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn
A federal judge has rejected Meta’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit from Strike 3 Holdings, the company that owns popular sites like Blacked, Vixen, and Tushy, for scraping its porn videos. The decision shows Meta’s… Read more: Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn - ComplianceCow Showcases AI-Powered CCM 3.0 in ServiceNow IRM
Live webinar shows GRC teams how to go from plain-language prompt to production-ready compliance control in minutes ComplianceCow, an agentic automation platform for enterprise security GRC teams, will host a live webinar on June 22,… Read more: ComplianceCow Showcases AI-Powered CCM 3.0 in ServiceNow IRM - AI in the Boardroom: 98% of Mid-Market Companies Debating AI-Assisted Decisions
A new Board Intelligence survey reveals that 98% of mid-market company boards are actively discussing or implementing AI to assist in high-level decision-making. The post AI in the Boardroom: 98% of Mid-Market Companies Debating AI-Assisted… Read more: AI in the Boardroom: 98% of Mid-Market Companies Debating AI-Assisted Decisions - JumpCloud Launches Agentic IAM on Google Cloud
New Service Hosted on Google Cloud Provides Discovery, Registration, and Governance of All Agentic Access for the Enterprise. JumpCloud Inc. is deepening its collaboration with Google Cloud to launch Agentic IAM, an extension of its unified identity… Read more: JumpCloud Launches Agentic IAM on Google Cloud - ChatSee.ai Raises $6.5M led by True Ventures
The funding will be used to expand engineering and accelerate enterprise deployments ChatSee.ai, which provides the failure intelligence layer for autonomous AI systems, today announced a $6.5 million funding round led by True Ventures, with… Read more: ChatSee.ai Raises $6.5M led by True Ventures - Scientists turned red lettuce green and something surprising happened
Researchers used genome editing to block the production of red pigments in lettuce, causing other beneficial plant compounds to build up instead. The lettuce continued to grow normally, pointing toward a new way to create… Read more: Scientists turned red lettuce green and something surprising happened - This strange material can become strong or fall apart in seconds
Scientists have found that staple-shaped particles can tangle together to create a material that is both strong and flexible. Unlike conventional materials, these particles can be locked into a sturdy structure or rapidly unraveled using… Read more: This strange material can become strong or fall apart in seconds - Cold Cannon Is the All-in-One Cold Email Platform for Teams
This deal consolidates warmup, sequences, AI reply drafting, and inbox tools into one for $60 (reg. $169). The post Cold Cannon Is the All-in-One Cold Email Platform for Teams appeared first on TechRepublic. - AI schools like Alpha promise efficiency, but can’t replicate the messy process that helps kids learn
Students often learn best when they take risks and struggle to get it right, including on the playground. Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images A child at a playground tries to climb, jump… Read more: AI schools like Alpha promise efficiency, but can’t replicate the messy process that helps kids learn - The OPSEC Rave Wave (with Imani Thompson)
This week, I’m thrilled to be joined by Imani Thompson. Imani is a digital security trainer and host of a series of events called Cache Me Outside, where she and partner orgs help people understand… Read more: The OPSEC Rave Wave (with Imani Thompson) - AI use by the US government is ballooning. And the lack of transparency is troubling | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneider
The list of government AI use cases has ballooned by 70% since Biden left office and includes many plans to hand over sensitive governmental functions to AI On 14 April, the Trump administration quietly acknowledged… Read more: AI use by the US government is ballooning. And the lack of transparency is troubling | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneider - HarmonyOS 7 steps into the AI gap Apple left open in China
Four days after Apple confirmed that Siri AI would not launch in China, Huawei took the stage in Dongguan and declared HarmonyOS 7 the beginning of the agent era. The gap Apple could not fill,… Read more: HarmonyOS 7 steps into the AI gap Apple left open in China - NowVertical Appoints Andre Garber as Interim CEO of the Company
Garber to Provide Interim Stewardship as the Company Transitions to New Leadership to Lead an Exciting Phase of Growth NowVertical Group Inc. (TSX-V: NOW) (“NowVertical” or the “Company”), a data and AI solutions and services… Read more: NowVertical Appoints Andre Garber as Interim CEO of the Company - Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents
Consumers are showing a willingness to let AI agents take on more shopping-related tasks, according to new research from Accenture. The company’s 2026 Consumer Pulse Research, based on a survey of 25,590 consumers across 16… Read more: Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents - Graham Platner’s victory reveals a winning midterms playbook | Pepper Culpepper
Voters want someone they trust to change the economic deal Graham Platner’s victory in the Maine Democratic primary, despite controversies that would sink more conventional candidates, shows us that voters are not simply rejecting incumbents.… Read more: Graham Platner’s victory reveals a winning midterms playbook | Pepper Culpepper - Saviynt, Zscaler Deepen Partnership to Advance Zero Trust
Deep technical collaboration between the two companies and participation from Zscaler Ventures in Saviynt’s recent Series B financing brings identity security and inline enforcement closer together, delivering advanced AI Security, Privileged Access Management, and Identity-Centric… Read more: Saviynt, Zscaler Deepen Partnership to Advance Zero Trust - PhoenixAI Raises $80M Series B Led by Sky9 Capital for Agentic AI Database
The database built for AI agents. PhoenixAI, the Agentic AI Database, today announced an $80 million Series B funding round led by Sky9 Capital, with participation from Atypical Ventures and Olive Technology Ventures, and previous… Read more: PhoenixAI Raises $80M Series B Led by Sky9 Capital for Agentic AI Database - XTIUM Launches XTAI — XTIUM Trusted AI
An End-to-End, Security-First AI Services Portfolio, from AI Readiness to Managed Copilot to Autonomous Agent Operations, from one accountable partner XTIUM, a global managed services provider delivering secure digital workplaces, managed security, cloud, network, and unified… Read more: XTIUM Launches XTAI — XTIUM Trusted AI - Botanu Debuts With Findings on Enterprise AI Spending and ROI
Botanu, founded by a former McKinsey AI strategist and a longtime enterprise AI engineer, says the fix for “AI sticker shock” isn’t spending less. It’s seeing where AI actually creates value. The founders call it… Read more: Botanu Debuts With Findings on Enterprise AI Spending and ROI - Andrew Hastie compares AI to cold-war nuclear arms race and warns Australia may fall behind
Liberal MP says Australia risks sovereignty and strategic independence being ‘constrained by the AI superpowers reshaping the global order’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Liberal MP Andrew Hastie says… Read more: Andrew Hastie compares AI to cold-war nuclear arms race and warns Australia may fall behind - Airia Offers a Secure Alternative to Third-Party Meeting Tools
Airia Meetings delivers meeting intelligence within a controlled, compliant AI environment—eliminating data sovereignty risks posed by standalone transcription vendors Every day, enterprises expose sensitive data to third-party meeting transcription tools with little visibility into where… Read more: Airia Offers a Secure Alternative to Third-Party Meeting Tools - Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app. - Oxford physicists just made Schrödinger’s cat even stranger
Oxford physicists have created an entirely new type of Schrödinger’s cat-like quantum state using components that are themselves highly quantum in nature. The advance could open new possibilities for more resilient quantum computers and deeper… Read more: Oxford physicists just made Schrödinger’s cat even stranger - The AI off switch: How Anthropic’s export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble
Anthropic export controls turned an abstract policy fear into a live one last week: as of June 13, 2026, one US government directive took the company’s two most powerful AI models offline for users everywhere,… Read more: The AI off switch: How Anthropic’s export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble - Scientists crack a decades-old CO2 problem and triple fuel production
A new catalyst design could significantly improve the conversion of CO2 into methanol, an important fuel and chemical feedstock. Researchers separated key reaction steps across different catalyst sites, avoiding a long-standing trade-off between speed and… Read more: Scientists crack a decades-old CO2 problem and triple fuel production - Honey bees have their own personal flight paths and fly them with stunning precision
Researchers tracked honey bees in the wild using a drone-based system and found that each bee follows its own highly consistent flight path. Some repeated their routes so precisely that they flew only centimeters from… Read more: Honey bees have their own personal flight paths and fly them with stunning precision - Beneath our feet lies a fungal superhighway stretching 68 quadrillion miles
Beneath our feet lies a vast hidden fungal superhighway that helps sustain much of life on Earth—and scientists have now mapped it for the first time. Researchers estimate that these underground networks stretch an astonishing… Read more: Beneath our feet lies a fungal superhighway stretching 68 quadrillion miles - Why the US government shut down Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model
Minh Connors / Getty Images On June 12, artificial intelligence (AI) lab Anthropic suspended access to its latest Claude models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, which had been released three days earlier. The move came… Read more: Why the US government shut down Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model - Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook | Max von Thun
The European Commission has unveiled its plans for digital sovereignty. Its proposals betray a disappointing lack of vision Beti Hohler is a Slovenian national who lives in the Netherlands. Like tens of millions of other… Read more: Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook | Max von Thun - Woman’s Death Blamed on Hospital’s AI System
As AI finds its way into hospital systems around the world, the case of one Brazilian woman makes it clear that the tech doesn’t have to diagnose patients to determine whether they live or die.… Read more: Woman’s Death Blamed on Hospital’s AI System - Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated
Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmer jumped from the 150-foot tower of his abbey in the small English town of Malmesbury, wearing a pair of crude wings he’d fashioned from… Read more: Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated - Domain-Specific AI Should Focus on Workflows Rather Than Modeling
Having worked on AI for health in the past few years, contributing to Med-Gemini and AMIE, I have witnessed a quite significant shift in the type of research that is required. Typically, domain-specific AI research… Read more: Domain-Specific AI Should Focus on Workflows Rather Than Modeling - Consulting Firm’s Report on How Awesome AI Is Found to Contain Idiotic AI Hallucinations
A new report that was supposed to be a shining panegyric to how useful AI is was caught loaded with fake claims that appear to be AI hallucinations, the Financial Times reports — a blunder… Read more: Consulting Firm’s Report on How Awesome AI Is Found to Contain Idiotic AI Hallucinations - ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
Our favourite music, clothes and books used to be markers of individuality – but the algorithm has made us all sheep. Meet the style rebels fighting back What are you into? What floats your boat?… Read more: ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion - Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace | Heather Stewart
As such technology advances quickly, firms should not lose sight of what qualities humans bring to jobs A robot magician called D4YRL was rejected as a member of the Magic Circle last week, for being… Read more: Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace | Heather Stewart - Ancient Denisovan DNA still shapes human immunity today
Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ancestors of Near Oceanians interbred with at least three… Read more: Ancient Denisovan DNA still shapes human immunity today
