The U.S. Commerce Department denied Polestar authorization to sell connected vehicles from model year 2027 onward under the Connected Vehicle Rule, which restricts Chinese-linked software and hardware…
Micron Technology shares surged 19% on June 25, 2026, pushing its market capitalization above Meta Platforms for the first time after reporting fiscal Q3 2026 revenue of $41.5 billion, beating estimat…
Mistral launched OCR 4, a document understanding system with bounding boxes and 170-language support at $4/1000 pages. Baidu open-sourced Unlimited-OCR, a 3B-parameter MIT-licensed model for multi-pag…
IndiaMART plans to double its spending on artificial intelligence tools every six months to combat fake listings and improve content moderation, Chief Product Officer Amarinder S Dhaliwal told Reuters…
Meta paused its employee surveillance program, the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), after a security misconfiguration exposed sensitive worker data—including tax and medical information—to all emplo…
China launched three regional venture capital guidance funds, each exceeding 50 billion yuan ($7.1 billion), to back early-stage hard tech startups in semiconductors, AI, quantum computing, and other …
Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire RISC-V AI chip startup Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion, a move that would give Qualcomm Jim Keller's Blackhole silicon and an open-source inference stack. Th…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the AI Environmental Transparency Initiative on June 23, demanding that AI companies publicly disclose the full environmental footprint of their data cen…
Banco Santander has opened negotiations with labor unions in Spain over a voluntary early retirement scheme affecting 2,000 to 3,000 employees, roughly 10-15% of its Spanish workforce, as part of a br…
A European Central Bank survey of over 5,000 euro-area firms found that more than 70% use artificial intelligence, but only 7% use it intensively, with researchers noting that deep integration driving…
Qualcomm announced an agreement to acquire AI infrastructure company Modular Inc. for about $3.9 billion, aiming to strengthen its AI software capabilities with Modular's open, AI-native platform that…
SK Hynix plans to raise approximately $29.4 billion through a Nasdaq listing of American Depositary Receipts, issuing 17.79 million new shares as AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory chips surge…
Micron Technology briefly surpassed a $1 trillion market capitalization in late May 2026 after its shares jumped roughly 19%, driven by UBS raising its price target to $1,625 and investor expectations…
The proliferation of AI-generated science images is eroding public trust in visual evidence, as researchers use AI tools to create, edit, and fabricate scientific visuals. Recent retractions of papers…
Anthropic's AI assistant Claude tested SearchZee, a private, ad-free web search engine, by running real-world queries and evaluating result quality. Claude reported that SearchZee delivered relevant, …
Legal tech firm Legion LegalTech Corp sued the U.S. government on June 23, 2026, challenging a Commerce Department order that required Anthropic to disable its advanced AI models for foreign nationals…
The Trump administration is pressing Meta to voluntarily submit its AI models for government review before release, according to Reuters. Meta is the only major U.S. AI developer that has not yet agre…
Legal-tech startup Legion sued the U.S. government over a Commerce Department directive that prompted Anthropic to disable access to its top-tier AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, causing immediate harm…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the U.N. AI Environmental Transparency Initiative on June 23, calling on major AI companies to measure and publicly disclose their carbon, wa…
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a persistent Slack integration that lets teams summon an AI agent by typing "@Claude," available in beta for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers. The feature kee…