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Asian shares plunged Friday as traders sold to lock in gains from recent AI-driven rallies, the Associated Press reports. Tokyo's **Nikkei 225** shed **5%** and Seoul's **Kospi** plunged **8.4%**, per the AP. Hong…
Airwallex raised **$320 million** in a Series H round that values the fintech at **$11 billion**, according to reporting by CNBC and DealStreetAsia. The round was led by Addition with participation from investors…
An op-ed published at **juancole.com** on **2026-06-26** frames recent violence in **Gaza** as an **"AI-driven genocide"** and warns of public desensitization, according to the article. The piece states that **Israeli…
**Four in five banks** use AI to manage operational risks, and cyber risk use cases are growing across the sector. Governance concerns and doubts about ROI give some pause for deeper deployments and investment decisions.
whichllmmodel.com provides a web-based comparator and local finder that ranks text LLMs for on-device use based on user hardware inputs. The tool accepts GPU VRAM, system RAM, desired context length, and quantization…
Firefly's AIBOX-9075 is an industrial Edge AI box built around the Qualcomm DragonWing IQ-9075 SoC, delivering up to 200 TOPS for on-device inference, per CNX-Software (June 26). The system includes 36GB LPDDR5 ECC…
At the second Pax Silica Summit in Washington DC on June 25-26, 35 countries signed the Declaration on AI Opportunity, per ANI/The Print/Hindustan Times. India, which formally joined Pax Silica in February 2026, raised…
Pandaily and other outlets report that **DeepSeek** is intensifying hiring for its newly formed **Harness** team and exploring self-built data-center capacity in Inner Mongolia. Pandaily reports the company launched an…
India's IT secretary, **S. Krishnan**, said the United States assured New Delhi that access to artificial intelligence technologies, once provided, will not be cut off (PTI; Hindustan Times). Krishnan was speaking on…
NVIDIA published an AI blueprint that demonstrates using **Graph Neural Networks** and GPU-accelerated inference to detect fraud rings by mapping connections among accounts, devices and transactions, per NVIDIA's…
According to CNBC, SoftBank Group plunged about **11%** on Friday, leading a broad selloff in Asian technology stocks as markets tracked losses in the U.S. (CNBC). CNBC reports the weakness spread to semiconductors,…
The Information reports that Google is pressing news publishers who join a pilot for "AI-powered article overviews" to grant broad rights over how Google uses their content, including rights to use the material to train…
Police arrested 28-year-old Taiwan national Yen-Tsen Yeh on suspicion of acting as a cash mule in an investment scam that used an AI-generated deepfake video, reports Tokyo Reporter citing Fuji News Network and the…
LS GreenLink USA, a subsidiary of South Korea's LS Cable & System, has begun vertical construction on a 201-meter (660-foot) Vertical Continuous Vulcanization (VCV) tower at its Chesapeake, Virginia manufacturing…
Per a June 17, 2026 GitHub engineering blog post, **GitHub Copilot** received two harness-level improvements to reduce token consumption in agentic sessions. GitHub VP of Product Joe Binder describes extended **prompt…
**datasette-export-database** **0.3a2** adds on-demand export capability for a mutable `SQLite` database. The release enables exporting a copy of a writable `SQLite` database on demand, providing a straightforward way…
The **New York State Legislature** passed the **Responsible Data Center Development Act** (S10642) on June 5, 2026, imposing a one-year moratorium on the siting, construction, or commencement of operations of data…
North Carolina lawmakers and state officials are advancing new electricity rules for large data centers as AI-driven demand strains the grid. The state's Energy Policy Council Load Growth Task Force met to examine…
Albertsons Media Collective announced a new integration with Criteo, the commerce intelligence platform, that places eligible sponsored products inside Albertsons' AI-powered conversational search product carousels,…
Three June 2026 policy actions are reshaping federal cybersecurity against AI-accelerated threats. President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 (Promoting Advanced AI Innovation and Security) on June 2, directing CISA…
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chief Data Officer and Deputy Chief AI Officer Basia Sall said on June 25, 2026 that AI has shortened some NRC licensing reviews that once took four years to as little as nine months,…
Anthropic sent a letter dated June 10, 2026 to Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott and Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren alleging that operators affiliated with Alibaba's Qwen AI lab conducted what Anthropic called…
For the first time, the US government has preemptively asked an American AI lab to hold back a commercial model, a precedent that turns national-security review into a live variable in enterprise access planning. The…
According to a Zscaler blog post, ThreatLabz red team tests found critical flaws in **100%** of tested enterprise AI systems, with a median time to first critical failure of **16 minutes** (ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security…
Per a GlobeNewswire press release, Scaled Cognition raised **$100 million** in a Series A round led by **Khosla Ventures** on June 25, 2026. The press release and coverage by The Next Web and FinSMEs say the startup is…
PR Newswire and AlleyWatch report that **Neurometric AI** launched an automated token engineering platform and raised **$4 million** in a pre-seed round earlier this spring. AlleyWatch says the round included investors…
Micron delivered a record Q3 2026 quarter with sales of **$41.46 billion**, up 346% from **$9.3 billion** a year earlier, beating analyst estimates of **$36 billion**, per multiple reports including CNBC and Tom's…
Adobe announced on June 25 that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Topaz Labs, an AI company focused on video and image enhancement models, according to an Adobe press release. Adobe said the transaction…
IBM unveiled the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology on June 25, 2026, using a new 0.7nm "Nanostack" 3D transistor architecture (also called 7 angstrom). The chip packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a…
BlackBerry reported Q1 FY2027 revenue of **$152.9 million**, up **26%** year over year, beating estimates, per multiple reports including BNN Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance. QNX segment revenue reached **$72.3 million**…
Two startup executives addressed local concerns about AI data centers at a SPUR panel on June 24, 2026 in San Francisco, per CCPulse/Bay City News. Panelists included **Chris Lander**, vice president of XFRA at…
Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) signed a **$5.2 billion** 15-year lease for **Delta Forge 2**, a new 210 MW AI Factory campus in the southern U.S., with an investment-grade hyperscaler, according to company press…
InsiderMonkey reports that Situational Awareness ranks **Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT)** among its under-the-radar AI and data-center stock picks, citing a reported stake value of **$142.2 million**. Per InsiderMonkey,…
Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad told Ottawa city council on June 24, 2026, that the utility is fielding an unprecedented volume of large-load electricity connection requests, with data centres accounting for roughly 60…
Story Protocol has rebranded as the DATA Foundation and is shifting from a general intellectual-property focus to infrastructure for AI training data, according to CoinDesk and Cointelegraph. CoinDesk reports the group…
Apple raised U.S. prices for several Macs and iPads on June 25, 2026, after saying higher memory and storage costs could no longer be absorbed. The 1 TB MacBook Pro moved from $1,699 to $1,999, while the 128 GB iPad Air…
Microsoft's Business Central 2026 Wave 1 release ships four AI agents for finance workflows: the Payables Agent, Sales Order Agent, Expense Agent, and Agent Designer. ERP Software Blog reports these operate as…
PYMNTS reports that a bill introduced June 25 in the U.S. House would require developers of **frontier AI models** to report models' dangerous capabilities, security breaches and safety incidents to the **Secretary of…
Senate Commerce Committee Chair Senator Ted Cruz will convene a markup on AI legislation next month, Politico reports. Cruz told Politico, "This markup is designed to move legislation that has a real chance of passing…
Bloomberg reports that Apple is accelerating its Apple silicon roadmap and will skip higher-end M6 Pro and M6 Max variants, moving the Pro/Max performance tiers into an M7 family focused on on-device AI and heavier GPU…
Last week's **Identiverse 2026** in Las Vegas centered on identity for non-human and agentic AI, with vendors and practitioners debating ownership, lifecycle, and enforcement at scale. Forrester reports that Ping…
Hospitality Trends reports that US hospitality and leisure deal activity slowed in 2026, with overall deal volume down approximately 2.5% over the past six months versus the prior period. The publication says…
Hospitality Trends reports that the US lodging industry shows renewed growth in 2026, with **RevPAR** projected to rise **2.9%** year-over-year, after a **0.2%** decline in 2025. Per the same report, early 2026 monthly…
According to a BusinessWire press release, **Float Financial** closed a **CAD 85 million** all-equity Series C led by **Inovia Capital**. Betakit and The Globe and Mail report **CAD 75 million** of the round has closed,…
Business Insider reports that Ford has credited a mix of veteran engineers and updated AI tools for a recent quality improvement. Executives told reporters the automaker had hired, promoted, or brought back about…
On May 11, 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov resigned after 19 moves in the sixth and final game of his rematch against IBM's chess computer `Deep Blue`, according to The New York Times and History.com. The…
The Regional Court of Munich I ruled in May 2026 (case no. 26 O 869/26) that Google is directly liable for false claims in its AI-generated search summaries, per The Decoder and DW News. The court concluded that AI…
According to Sail Research's announcement and an official press release, the San Francisco startup raised **$80,000,000** in combined Seed and Series A funding. The company said its seed was led by **Sequoia Capital**…
CryptoSlate reports that crypto mergers and acquisitions reached **$7.23 billion** in Q2 2026 and **$2.14 billion** in Q1 2026, bringing first-half deal volume to **$9.37 billion**, a roughly **26x** increase versus the…
According to Google's blog post by Brittany Mennuti on Jun 25, 2026, Google is rolling out educator-led AI features that integrate with learning management systems via `Gemini LTI`, beginning with `NotebookLM`. The blog…
