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

Anthropic’s critics argue it’s rapidly accumulating power. The company says that’s what responsible AI development looks like.

Amazon-owned MGM Studios’ decision to drop the OpenAI movie is just part of AI and film industries becoming increasingly intertwined. On Uncanny Valley, we take a look at where this is all headed.

The Federal Communications Commission was roundly criticized today for proposing to scale back or eliminate E-Rate, a $2 billion-a-year Universal Service program that provides discounts for telecom services and equipment in schools and libraries. FCC… Read more: FCC may kill $2B program that connects schools and libraries to Internet

Microsoft ended official support for Windows 10 in 2025, but the company may have a harder time than expected putting the operating system out to pasture. After promising a year of optional extended update support,… Read more: Microsoft adds another year to Windows 10 extended update program

For most of human history, our view of “close to the Sun” was defined by the orbit of Mercury, with its 88-day orbit and barren, baking surface. But from the moment we started discovering exoplanets,… Read more: Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect

Anthropic has accused the Chinese firm Alibaba of launching the largest attack yet attempting to clone Claude, as China races to match the capabilities of Anthropic’s leading model following Mythos’ release and subsequent restriction from… Read more: Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack

Google Finance is not a new product—it has been around for 20 years, long enough that it initially relied on Flash to display charts and graphs. The website has gotten a few major updates over… Read more: Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026

In February 2024, Notion bought Skiff, an encrypted email and productivity software startup. Within a year, Notion shut down Skiff’s email service (taking @skiff.com email addresses with it). And in April 2025, the San Francisco-based… Read more: Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

Voice actors have been waging a fierce battle with the entertainment industry over training AI to synthesize their voices, effectively allowing them to reproduce their likenesses in perpetuity. Not even underage performers are safe from… Read more: Peppa Pig Owner Demands Child Actors Sign Away Voice Rights to AI

Over the past 80 years, America’s bold, sustained investment in scientific research, and the discoveries, ideas and innovations that flowed from it made America a world leader. The nation’s scientific leadership has been essential to our… Read more: MIT in the media: Exploring how curiosity-driven science is an essential ingredient in America’s success

Microsoft’s July Windows 11 update adds practical fixes for update pausing, recovery, Bluetooth, Widgets, File Explorer, and more. The post Microsoft’s July Windows 11 Update Focuses on Fixing Everyday PC Frustrations appeared first on TechRepublic.

For years, Japanese investment group SoftBank has been all-in on the AI gold rush. In early 2025, mere weeks into his second term as president, Donald Trump announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure project, dubbed… Read more: Softbank CEO Who’s Invested $64 Billion in OpenAI Says It’s “Blasphemy” to Mention the AI Bubble

There’s something grating about finding out that the customer service representative on the other end of the line is an AI agent, not an actual human. If it hasn’t happened to you, it’s certainly happened… Read more: Customers Are Ditching Companies That Force Them to Talk to an AI Agent

According to DuckDuckGo’s AI search feature, US President Donald Trump passed away earlier this month from rabies. As the AI feature explains, Trump was apparently predeceased by Vice President JD Vance, who also died from… Read more: DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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