Tech companies including Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are expected to spend roughly $700 billion this year on AI data centers, but the U.S. faces a shortage of skilled trades workers, needing…
A new interactive tool, Wage Against the Machine, ranks AI task purchasing power by country, showing that one hour of work in India ($2.20/hr) buys 91 tasks with Luna Max, while in Switzerland ($55.60…
Anthropic's Claude team aired a 90-second World Cup ad juxtaposing dystopian imagery with questions about AI safety, sparking debate over the company's shift from a flagship safety pledge to nonbindin…
AI is giving software its quartz moment, according to Camilo Nova, CEO of an unnamed company, who draws a parallel between the 1969 Seiko Quartz Astron 35SQ and the current AI shift. The quartz watch,…
Anthropic announced that users on its Pro, Max, and Team plans can now record a screen walkthrough of a task in the Claude desktop app, which Claude Cowork will turn into a reusable skill. The feature…
Proton CTO Bart Butler said on The Verge's Decoder podcast that no company will go to jail for users, as the company balances privacy with legal compliance. Proton, which transitioned to a nonprofit s…
A developer argues that for certain workloads—especially those involving private data, frequent small tasks, or low-latency requirements—local AI processing is a better default than cloud APIs. The se…
Salesforce has committed billions to expanding its agentic AI capabilities across Europe, with a $1 billion investment in Italy and a $2 billion commitment in France, as it races to become the dominan…
Proton launched Lumo 2.0, a major update to its zero-access encrypted AI assistant, introducing advanced reasoning models, multimodal capabilities including image recognition and generation, enhanced …
Samsung Group plans to invest $646 billion over the next decade in semiconductors and AI data centers, marking one of the largest corporate investment commitments in South Korea's history. The investm…
Public-private partnerships are essential to scale emerging technologies like AI, quantum computing, and biotech beyond the lab, according to a new analysis. The U.S. leads in private AI investment bu…
Qatar's prime minister appeared to snub US Vice President JD Vance during US-Iran peace talks in Switzerland, walking past him without acknowledgment to greet Pakistan's prime minister instead. The in…
Callista Gingrich, US Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein and wife of Newt Gingrich, was mocked on social media for a 'robotic' video message welcoming fans to the 2026 World Cup as the USMNT …
Prem AI, a developer of private AI infrastructure for sovereign data solutions, is raising $100 million in a Series A funding round, according to Bloomberg. The round would be a massive leap for the c…
Proton Mail launched Easy Switch for Business, a tool that lets companies migrate emails, calendars, and contacts from Google Workspace to Proton with no downtime, citing privacy, compliance, and juri…
Korea's drug safety watchdog completed its first international joint review of a biopharmaceutical product alongside European and global regulators under the OPEN framework, easing regulatory bottlene…
Thousands of protesters gathered in Geneva on Sunday to demonstrate against the G7 summit, with U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders set to meet in Evian-les-Bains, France. The demonstrators,…
Qatar earned its first-ever World Cup point with a 95th-minute equalizer by Boualem Khoukhi, stunning Switzerland 1-1 in the Bay Area's World Cup opener at Levi's Stadium. The draw came after Switzerl…
TanStack released the Beta of TanStack AI, a framework-agnostic and provider-agnostic AI toolkit, on June 9, 2026. The update delivers stable core APIs, documented protocols, and first-class support f…
OpenAI updated its privacy policy to include region-specific versions for users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the Republic of Korea. The policy outlines how the c…