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A Pew Research survey of 5,119 US adults found that 49% have used an AI chatbot, up from 33% in 2024, with ChatGPT leading at 44% adoption. However, 71% believe AI threatens data privacy, and two-thir…

AI is driving a resurgence in augmented reality (AR) by enhancing utility, improving form factors, and reducing costs, with smart glasses sales surging 167% year-over-year in Q1 2026. Manufacturers li…

Shopify's Spring '26 release introduced Agentic Storefronts and the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard backed by major companies that allows AI agents to search catalogs, build carts,…

HBM costs have grown from 52% of AI chip component costs in Q1 2024 to 63% in Q4 2025, with total AI chip component spending rising from $22 billion to $52 billion. Reasonix released an open-source te…

The United States now accounts for more than half of the global credit impulse, adding roughly $800 billion in net new credit over the past year, driven primarily by artificial intelligence spending, …

South Korea's exports surged 60.4% year-on-year in the first 20 days of June, driven by a semiconductor boom that saw chip shipments rise 169.4% in May. The AI chip rally is pulling capital from crypt…

A valuation analysis of the Magnificent Seven tech stocks as of June 2026 finds Microsoft and Meta are the most attractively valued, while Tesla is overvalued by every metric. NVIDIA's growth justifie…

China blacklisted 56 American companies in retaliation for Washington's export controls on Anthropic's AI models, escalating the AI trade war into a mutual conflict. Anthropic revealed the trigger for…

Microsoft and Chevron signed a 20-year, 2.67 GW natural gas deal for a West Texas data center, highlighting energy security as a key AI constraint. Samsung deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex compan…

Microsoft will resume automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible Windows devices with Microsoft 365 desktop apps starting June 2026, according to updated deployment documentat…

Micron reports earnings on June 24 with 81% gross margin guidance and multi-year HBM contracts, testing whether the market values it as an AI infrastructure play rather than a cyclical memory supplier…

OpenAI announced on June 11, 2026, its acquisition of Ona, the cloud execution platform formerly known as Gitpod, to provide Codex agents with persistent, customer-controlled environments. The deal ad…

Amazon MGM is dropping Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about OpenAI, a move widely seen as corporate meddling in distribution. The decision follows Amazon's deepening ties with OpenAI rival Anthro…

Jim Cramer reported that memory shortages, particularly in high-bandwidth memory (HBM), are causing hyperscale cloud providers like Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms to underperform memo…

A debug comparison between a base OLMo3 600M model and an Engram memory variant showed the grafted model achieved lower training and evaluation cross-entropy loss and faster gradient norm stabilizatio…

Enterprise AI spending is facing a reckoning as companies report massive bills from uncapped usage, with one client spending $500 million on Anthropic's Claude in a single month. A PwC survey found 56…

Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday update KB5094126 fixed 208 security vulnerabilities but introduced a cascade of bugs across all Windows versions, including Recycle Bin display glitches, BitLocker …

Amazon security VP Eric Brandwine argues that human-in-the-loop AI oversight fails because humans stop paying attention, citing normalization of deviance and alarm fatigue. Google, Microsoft, and IBM …

Fiona Fung, manager of the Claude Code and Cowork teams at Anthropic, revealed that Anthropic engineers now ship 8x more code per quarter than in 2021-2025, attributing the productivity surge to AI to…

Signal president Meredith Whittaker warned on June 20 that AI agents like Microsoft Copilot are surveillance infrastructure disguised as productivity tools, arguing that their access to personal data …