OneRobotics, the parent company of SwitchBot, has acquired smart lighting company Nanoleaf for approximately $40 million. Nanoleaf CEO Gimmy Chu stated the company will remain independent and that the…
Google committed to replenish more water than it uses at its data centers by 2030, publishing five water stewardship pledges on June 3, 2026. The company also promised to invest in local water infrast…
Google is pledging to replenish more water than its data centers consume by 2030, announcing five new water stewardship commitments amid growing public opposition to the AI industry's environmental im…
In June 2026, attackers exploited Meta's AI-powered support chatbot to take over high-profile Instagram accounts, including the Obama White House account, by convincing the AI to perform account recov…
Microsoft announced seven new MAI models at its Build conference, including the flagship MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model built with clean data lineage and no third-party distillation. The company relea…
Microsoft announced seven new MAI models at Build 2026, including a reasoning model, a coding model, and an image generation model, signaling a shift toward building specialized, production-oriented m…
Microsoft will host its Build 2026 developer conference on June 2-3 in San Francisco and online, with CEO Satya Nadella delivering the keynote. Unnamed sources told The Verge that the company plans to…
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Thinking-1, a 35-billion-parameter reasoning model, and MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5-billion-parameter coding model, at Build 2026. MAI-Code-1-Flash is integrated into GitHub Copilot a…
Microsoft announced seven new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a flagship reasoning model called MAI-Thinking-1. The company said the medium-sized model matches leading models on key softwa…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opened Build 2026 with a keynote centered on AI, unveiling the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local model development, Windows updates including native Coreutils and expande…
Microsoft launched Microsoft Scout, a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw, that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams to help employees with tasks such as calend…
Microsoft Research published a paper showing LLMs corrupt 25% of documents during delegated workflows, while Microsoft also canceled Claude Code licenses for thousands of internal developers, citing c…
OpenAI added voice interaction and image-upload capabilities to ChatGPT, and Meta previewed conversational AI characters for social feeds, according to a report by Casey Newton in Platformer. The upda…
Dozens of TikTok sellers are using AI-generated influencer personas to promote dropshipped products, including belt buckles and crochet bags, with identical items found on the fast-fashion site Shein …
SpaceX filed an S-1 for an initial public offering that could become the largest in history, with valuations reported between $1 trillion and $1.75 trillion and potential proceeds exceeding $50 billio…
AI-generated influencers posing as Black small business owners are being used to sell mass-produced products from fast-fashion site Shein at inflated prices on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. The Ver…
Shift, a startup offering free professional home cleaning in New York, is recording every cleaning task via head-mounted cameras to train future robot agents. The company trades spotless apartments fo…
Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman published re-created renders showing a redesigned Siri with a pill-shaped chat bubble emerging from the Dynamic Island, a new "Search or Ask" swipe-down gesture, and a s…
Adobe released the Firefly AI Assistant (beta), a conversational tool that performs multistep image- and design-editing tasks by invoking capabilities from Photoshop, Illustrator, and other Adobe apps…
AI-generated writing is increasingly infiltrating everyday communication and professional spaces, from personal texts and work emails to literary magazines and opinion sections, according to an editor…