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The Conversation reports on a new generation of AI toys, exemplified by ChattyBear, that can tell stories, chat about a child's interests, play games, and discuss current events, powered by generative engines such as…
Pudu Robotics exhibited its latest commercial service robots and platform work at BEYOND Expo 2026 in Macao, where founder and CEO Felix Zhang joined a featured session, according to PRNewswire and the company. Pudu and…
Microsoft executives referenced a long-rumored Copilot Super App during the Microsoft Build 2026 keynote on June 2, but the company did not show a live demo on stage, per GeekWire. CEO Satya Nadella told the audience,…
Business Insider reports that a cluster of recent coding-focused model releases from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google sharply improved AI developer tools and changed how many engineers work, producing a mix of higher…
Edinburgh-based Wordsmith has raised a $70 million Series B led by Highland Europe and Index Ventures, bringing total funding to $100 million in about 24 months, according to Business Insider and the company. Founded by…
**Astera Labs** (Nasdaq: ALAB) used Computex 2026 to showcase its **Scorpio X-Series 320 Lane Smart Fabric Switch**, which the company calls the industry's largest open, memory-semantic `PCIe 6.0` fabric switch. The…
Per designboom, Sonar+D 2026 turned Barcelona's Llotja de Mar into a program of installations and talks foregrounding robotic performance, embodied AI personas, and ritualized interaction. Reported highlights include…
Google laid out five water-stewardship commitments, headlined by a goal to replenish more water than it uses at its data centers by 2030, as reported by The Verge, Axios, and Engadget. The company says it will replenish…
On June 1, 2026, GitHub moved all Copilot plans to usage-based billing, replacing premium request units with `GitHub AI Credits` consumed by token usage, the company said in its changelog and a blog post. GitHub says 1…
Pudu Robotics and Shenzhen Culture and Tourism Industry Development (Shenzhen CTID) have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to build what they describe as the world's first full-scenario robot-serviced hotel, on…
Anthropic has posted hiring listings for a new "AI & Rule of Law" team within its Anthropic Institute, per the company's Greenhouse job posting and independent coverage by IBTimes UK. The San Francisco role lists a…
Microsoft has unveiled `Majorana 2`, a topological quantum chip it says has qubits about 1,000 times more reliable than its first Majorana chip from last year, according to Microsoft and reporting by The Next Web and…
At Snowflake Summit 26, Collibra and Snowflake announced an expanded integration that pushes governed business context into the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, according to a joint PR Newswire release. The companies describe a…
San Francisco's housing market has accelerated alongside the region's AI-driven wealth surge, according to reporting from Redfin, The New York Times, Fortune, and others. Redfin says the San Francisco metro median home…
Microsoft is testing a one-click control to uninstall on-device AI models in a Windows 11 Insider Experimental build (**26300.8553**), according to reporting by Neowin, Pureinfotech, and gHacks based on a hidden…
PYMNTS, recapping a PYMNTS On Air discussion with Visa's Avery Miller and Braze's Kipp Johnson, reports that AI is reframing loyalty as a real-time, transaction-by-transaction contest rather than a static rewards…
In a Trellis blog post, the company said it is adding **RadixAttention** - a radix-tree-based **KV cache** that speeds the **prefill** phase of LLM inference - to its on-hardware inference stack for laptops,…
A YouGov survey of U.S. clothing shoppers finds limited appetite for AI in apparel discovery: just **6%** would use general AI such as `ChatGPT` or `Gemini` to find new clothing, and **6%** would use AI chat tools built…
Acer announced two head-worn devices in its May 29 refresh: the **Acer AR Vision GR0**, a wired augmented-reality display, and the **Acer GI0** AI glasses, a wireless smart-glasses product that uses Google `Gemini` for…
Netskope launched the **Netskope One AI Command Center**, an addition to its Netskope One AI Security suite that combines AI discovery, risk intelligence, and automated response in one console, according to Help Net…
Retailers are reporting a fast-rising form of return fraud in which shoppers and organized crime rings use generative AI to fabricate damage photos and doctor receipts, according to Retail Gazette's reporting of data…
At Build 2026, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman unveiled seven new in-house models, led by MAI-Thinking-1, the company's first reasoning model. Per Microsoft, it is a mid-sized sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC that the metric most likely to decide the AI race is what he called "token value per watt per user" - how much economic value a company extracts from the energy its models…
Reuters reports that South Korea's Science Ministry said the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) secured access to Anthropic's cybersecurity model Mythos through Project Glasswing, the initiative aimed at using…
Yuvi Lab, an Israeli startup founded by IDF reservist Moti Malka, has launched a free, web-based AI environment that lets children aged six and up build games, apps and learning modules, according to The Jerusalem Post…
At its Build developer conference in San Francisco on June 2, **Microsoft** introduced **MAI**, a family of seven in-house models led by its first reasoning model, `MAI-Thinking-1`, and an agentic coding model,…
Photos circulating on social media show Russian Ural and KAMAZ military trucks painted in high-contrast black-and-white "dazzle" patterns, in what several defense outlets (The War Zone, Defense Express, Business…
Agent Threat Rules (ATR) is a new open detection format for AI agent security threats, reported by Help Net Security. ATR rules are **YAML** documents that follow a versioned schema; each declares the attack pattern it…
Inc42 published a feature arguing that selling AI to enterprises is no longer won by flashy demos: startups must clear procurement hurdles, build trust, prove ROI, and address risk concerns. The piece centers on **KOGO…
Chinese AI developer **DeepSeek** is preparing to raise about **50 billion yuan** (roughly **$7.4 billion**) in its first external funding round, at a valuation reported between **$52 billion and $59 billion**,…
Google is testing two **Search Console** features for its generative AI Search experiences, per a Google blog post and reporting by Search Engine Journal and Search Engine Land. The first is a visibility toggle that…
Indian IT stocks fell sharply on Wednesday after a three-day rally. Per The Economic Times, **TCS** dropped 7% to Rs 2,280 and **Infosys** fell about 4% to Rs 1,222 on the day, with **HCL Tech**, **Wipro**, and **Tech…
Google is adding an opt-out toggle in **Search Console** that lets publishers exclude their sites from its generative-AI Search features, **AI Mode** and **AI Overviews**, while keeping a normal presence in regular…
Per JNS, Hadas Lorber, director of the US-Israel Project at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and former head of the Foreign Policy Division at Israel's National Security Council,…
Job postings that mention both physical security and data centres have nearly quadrupled since early 2020, based on Indeed data cited by Business Insider and reported by India Today. India Today also cites LinkedIn data…
Market commentator Sandip Agarwal said he turned positive on the **IT sector** about six weeks ago, after roughly a year of caution, and expects a meaningful earnings recovery, per an ET Now interview reported by…
Google has begun rolling out its June 2026 **Android Feature Drop**, a bundle of personalization and safety updates for Android phones. The headline additions are cross-platform **`Quick Share`** that now interoperates…
According to Sifted, London-based **Gigaton** has raised a **$26 million Series A** led by **Plural**, with reported participation from investors including 2150, Semapa Next, Planet A Ventures, Cambridge Enterprise…
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia's GDP grew **0.3%** in the March quarter 2026, down from **0.9%** in the December quarter, and **2.5%** over the year. The ABS attributed the slowdown to…
In The Conversation, Michael Vardon argues that Australia lacks the granular, public data needed to judge how much water and electricity new AI data centres will use. The article notes OpenAI's Sam Altman has said…
The arXiv paper arXiv:2606.03030, "Do Matching Mechanisms Work with LLM Agents?" by Yukihiro Hoshino, Ayato Kitadai, and Nariaki Nishino, asks whether standard matching mechanisms still work when allocation decisions…
According to the arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.02650, "Using Machine Learning to Enhance Hyperparameter Optimization in Pandemic Modeling: Case study of COVID-19 Dynamics in Ghana," the authors integrate machine learning…
New York lawmakers are advancing what would be the first statewide moratorium in the United States on new large-scale data centers, with a Senate floor vote expected before the legislative session ends, according to…
A preprint posted to arXiv (2606.02867) on June 1, 2026, introduces the Epi-LLM framework, which combines agent-based modeling, data from real-life 'epigames,' and large language models to simulate how people might…
Per the arXiv paper arXiv:2606.03118, "Learning to See via Epiretinal Implant Stimulation in silico with Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning," the authors introduce `rlretina`, a reinforcement-learning environment…
Oil prices rose for a third straight day on June 3, 2026, after fresh missile exchanges between the United States and Iran raised supply risk, with West Texas Intermediate up about 3.2 percent near $96.73 a barrel and…
Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Chris Godwin initially did not believe reports that longtime teammate Mike Evans had signed with the San Francisco 49ers, suspecting the news was AI-generated, according to ESPN. Godwin…
Australia-listed DXN has secured a binding A$8.8 million (about US$8.8 million) contract with an undisclosed US-listed neo-cloud operator to deliver a 1.36-megawatt AI high-performance-computing modular data centre,…
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has overtaken Mukesh Ambani to become Asia's second-richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bloomberg reports Zhang's net worth climbed to about $92.8 billion, also…
India's financial press reports the country's data-centre sector is entering a multi-year expansion driven by digitalisation, cloud adoption and rising AI demand. Citing brokerage Nomura, the Economic Times says India's…
