China's official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.3 in June 2026, beating expectations as AI-driven demand boosted high-tech manufacturing to 53.5, while the broader economy remained fragile due to a slug…
South Korea's KOSPI surged 68% in Q2 2026, its best quarterly performance since 1998, driven by semiconductor giants Samsung and SK Hynix riding the AI wave. However, volatility spiked with 20 single-…
California Governor Gavin Newsom partnered with Anthropic on June 29 to deploy the Claude AI assistant across state agencies, cities, and counties at a 50% discount. The deal includes free workforce t…
Samsung Electronics shares surged up to 6.51% on June 1 after reports it began shipping samples of its next-generation HBM4E high-bandwidth memory chips to global customers, driven by strong AI demand…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at the Microsoft Build conference on June 2, a desktop PC with 20 CPU cores, 128GB unified memory, and 1 petaflop of AI compute, enab…
X launched official hosted Model Context Protocol servers, giving AI agents direct access to over 200 API endpoints without local setup. The primary server at api.x.com/mcp enables real-time data acce…
Upbit, Korea's largest crypto exchange, will list Gensyn ($AI) in KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs starting June 30, 2026. The decentralized AI compute token, backed by a16z and Galaxy Digital, gains …
Mozilla's 0Din security team demonstrated a new attack that exploits Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant, by embedding malicious prompts in Git repositories. When developers open a poisoned r…
Base44, the Wix-owned vibe coding platform, launched its proprietary large language model Base 1, becoming the first app-creation tool to deploy a homegrown model in production. The move aims to contr…
China's official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.3 in June, marking four consecutive months of expansion, driven by a surge in exports of AI-related hardware. However, the employment sub-index remained i…
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas argued that US export controls on advanced chips are inadvertently accelerating Chinese AI innovation, citing DeepSeek's advances in memory-efficient models. He warn…
Digital Realty paid $27 million per megawatt for three leased AI data centers, setting a new valuation benchmark for stabilized AI infrastructure. The price dwarfs typical lease valuations of $400,000…
Ionic Digital, the Bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure company, filed for a direct listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker IOND. The company, which acquired Celsius Mining's assets …
Tencent is aggressively buying back its own shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after its market capitalization lost $309 billion, driven by investor concerns over AI spending. The company repurcha…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics secured a 454 billion won contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) to a global tech firm, driven by surging demand from AI servers that require up to 25,000 M…
BC.Game Esports is pursuing four-time Major winner Emil 'Magisk' Reif to join its Counter-Strike roster alongside s1mple and electroNic. The crypto-backed organization, owned by BC.Game Casino, aims t…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, Luna) to 20 trusted partners on June 26, 2026, with public launch expected by July 2026. The Sol variant shows enhanced cybersecurity capabilities, influenc…
The US Commerce Department partially lifted a ban on Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model, restoring access to over 100 vetted US entities while keeping the Fable 5 model completely restricted. The original …
Meta contractors posed as children to test rival AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing widespread safety failures in protecting minors. The FTC launched formal inquiri…
Chamath Palihapitiya's AI software development company 8090 raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures. The startup targets regulated industries like healthcare and insurance, using AI …