Humanoid robots and large funding rounds dominated robotics news in June 2026, with Agility Robotics announcing a SPAC merger to go public, NEURA Robotics raising up to $1.4B for physical AI, and Stan…
Xiaomi chief designer Li Tianyuan said at the Future AI Mobility Summit that the company's cars are becoming AI-powered partners that understand drivers, completing a 'human-car-home' ecosystem. The Y…
Ferrari and BMW have begun replacing copper wiring with aluminum in their electric and hybrid vehicles, challenging the demand thesis that has driven copper prices to record highs. The shift, driven b…
Hyundai factory workers in South Korea voted to strike over fears that humanoid robots could replace them, demanding a say in automation decisions and a performance bonus of about $27,000 per worker. …
Domo founder Josh James was arrested for DUI after crashing his BMW into a mailbox, and the company faces a cash crunch with $137 million in debt, forcing it to seek a sale. The once-$2.8 billion soft…
BMW's AI platform now processes 16.6 billion daily requests from 24.5 million connected vehicles, handling 184 terabytes of data and 100 million API calls with sub-second latency. The platform support…
Mistral released OCR 4 on June 23, a document-processing model that returns structured data with bounding boxes, block types, and confidence scores, targeting enterprise back-office tasks like invoice…
Lincoln's Nautilus midsize SUV enters its third model year with a 48-inch panoramic display and standard BlueCruise hands-free driving, offering a practical luxury option starting at $53,995. Sales fe…
A Canadian BMW dealership was forced to honor a $27,162.79 CAD offer for a used X3 after its AI chatbot mistakenly quoted that price to a customer. The chatbot, named Quinn, misinterpreted the amount …
Kevin Warsh, the new Federal Reserve chair, held his first press conference, drawing comparisons to Alan Greenspan and an AI evangelist by avoiding macroeconomic forecasts. The stock market has risen …
Reply has achieved the AWS Business Value Realization Competency, recognizing its ability to help customers deliver measurable business outcomes from AWS investments. The company's approach combines t…
Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built Sound Shield, an AI acoustic drone detection system using €100-150 sensors that consume 1W each. The system identifies drones by engine sound and is pitched fo…
Companies across manufacturing, logistics and construction are increasingly deploying physical AI-powered robots to cope with persistent labor shortages, with the Manufacturing Institute projecting 2.…
Mistral is in early-stage funding talks to raise approximately €3bn ($3.5bn) at a valuation of roughly €20bn, nearly doubling its September valuation of €11.7bn. The Paris-based AI startup, positionin…
Adyen trained a Transaction Foundation Model on 51 trillion tokens using Ray, while Xoople, Criteo, and BMW shared their own scaling AI stories at Anyscale's Ray Day London event. The event highlighte…
Google's 2026 Android Show previewed new Android 17 features including deeper Gemini AI integration, an upgraded Android Auto interface, and a custom widget creator, but the demonstrations focused hea…
A developer rescued a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) assistant from memory leaks and deployed it on a Render free-tier instance with a 512MB RAM limit. The engineer re-engineered the pipeline by…
Airbus signed a partnership agreement with Mistral AI on 28 May 2026 to deploy artificial intelligence across its commercial aircraft, helicopter, defence and space operations. The deal grants Airbus …
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch rejected Pope Leo XIV’s call to “disarm” artificial intelligence, arguing Europe must develop its own advanced AI capabilities to counter threats from rivals and adversaries.…
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch warned Europe has roughly two years to build independent AI infrastructure or risk becoming a "vassal state" under US influence. The French startup is constructing a 10-me…