Aker ASA sold Cognite to Schneider Electric for $3.1 billion, netting a 20x return on its investment, and is reinvesting the proceeds into Nscale, a European AI infrastructure provider, becoming its l…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot facility in Austin called Robot Park to collect teleoperation data from its Apollo 2 humanoid robots for Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics AI models. The company …
DRAM and NAND contract prices surged up to 98% in Q1 2026 as Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron shifted production to high-bandwidth memory for AI, squeezing conventional chip supply. TrendForce forecasts …
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on June 30 the central bank sees no immediate need to adjust interest rates, even as rising oil prices complicate inflation. The Monetary Policy Committee h…
DeepSeek launched DSpark, an open-source speculative decoding module that boosts AI inference speed by up to 400% on existing chips, potentially reducing demand for Nvidia's high-end accelerators. The…
BlackRock downgraded emerging-market equities to neutral and upgraded short- and medium-term euro-area government bonds to overweight in its mid-year outlook, citing concentration risk from AI-related…
Amazon Web Services committed $1 billion to a new Forward Deployed Engineering program, sending small teams of engineers to work directly with clients for 45-day engagements to build custom AI systems…
Google DeepMind launched the Nano Banana 2 Lite, officially branded as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image, on February 26, 2026, ranking fifth in text-to-image leaderboards with an Elo score of 1,255. The mo…
Phantom has acquired the team behind Ventuals, a platform for permissionless perpetual futures on private company valuations, to bolster its on-chain trading capabilities. The Ventuals team, led by CE…
Pump.fun has deprecated its Tokenized Agent launch option as of June 30, 2026, after community backlash over toxic player-versus-player dynamics. The Solana-based token launchpad removed the feature, …
Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Sonnet 5, codenamed "Fennec," on OpenRouter, according to reports. The model, which was rumored for a February 2026 launch that did not materialize, is now nea…
A developer accused Anthropic of embedding hidden detection logic in Claude Code version 2.1.91 that silently identifies users connecting through Chinese proxies using obfuscated Unicode tricks and da…
Google's NotebookLM now generates 60-second vertical videos from user notes, using its Nano Banana 2 Lite model for narrated slideshows. The feature, called Short Video Overviews, is available only to…
OpenAI released GeneBench, a benchmark of 103 multi-stage genomics problems, revealing that top AI models like GPT-5.5 Pro achieve only a 33.2% pass rate, with 60% of problems below 20% for current mo…
Anthropic launched Claude for Life Sciences, a suite of AI tools automating scientific research from hypothesis to regulatory submission. The platform scored 0.83 on Protocol QA, beating the human bas…
China's official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.3 in June, beating expectations, driven by AI-fueled high-tech exports, while domestic demand remained weak. The high-tech manufacturing PMI surged to 53.…
Google's 2025 Environmental Report shows total greenhouse gas emissions reached 11.5 million tons of CO2-equivalent in fiscal 2024, a 51% increase from 2019, driven by AI workloads. Data center electr…
Purdue researchers tested 24 deepfake detection systems and found commercial tools generally performed better as AI identity fraud raises new risks for crypto KYC. The study found Incode's DeepSight a…
Anthropic released a beta version of its Claude Desktop app for Linux, expanding the AI assistant beyond Windows and macOS. The app includes Chat, Cowork, and Code interfaces, with official support fo…
Microsoft unveiled the Majorana 2 quantum chip at Build conference on June 2, claiming a 1,000-fold improvement in qubit reliability, while President Trump signed two executive orders on June 22 to ac…