Moca Network, backed by Animoca Brands, launched a program on June 17 allowing $MOCA token stakers to burn their Staking Power for LLM tokens to fuel AI agents on the Minds platform, running until Aug…
Nvidia has become the most-discussed asset on finance-focused Reddit communities in 2026, surpassing Bitcoin which ranks seventh. Bitcoin mentions on general Reddit exceed Nvidia, but on finance-speci…
Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of Talen Energy with a Buy rating and $499 price target, citing nuclear power demand from AI and data centers. The stock trades near $406, implying 23% upside, with 14…
South Korea's Kospi and Japan's Nikkei 225 hit record highs on June 18, 2026, driven by surging AI chip demand. SK Hynix joined the trillion-dollar club, while Samsung and Tokyo Electron led gains, wi…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, instructing investors not to poach its employees as it issues equity to retain its 150-person team. The round v…
BE Semiconductor Industries raised its long-term revenue target to €1.5-1.9 billion from over €1 billion and lifted gross margin guidance to 64-68%, citing surging demand for hybrid bonding from AI da…
Arizona's data center industry, the second-largest in the US, is consuming 1.5 GW of power and 385 million gallons of water annually, with projections of tripling electricity use and water consumption…
Dream, an Israeli AI cybersecurity startup co-founded by former NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio, raised $260 million at a $3 billion valuation, nearly tripling its valuation in a year. The company uses AI …
Klarna is shifting customer service to gig workers after its AI chatbot failed to fully replace human agents, piloting a hybrid model where AI handles two-thirds of inquiries and contractors handle th…
China is building a platform to debut new AI consumer products as part of its 'AI Plus' initiative, with over 70 domestic companies developing AI wearables like smart glasses. The initiative aims to e…
China's 618 shopping festival in 2026 hit a record 855.6 billion yuan in GMV, but weak consumer demand persisted as platforms stretched promotional windows. AI integration became central, with Alibaba…
AirTrunk, the Blackstone-backed hyperscale data center operator, is negotiating with banks for a $3 billion loan to fund a new data center project in Australia. The deal underscores the capital-intens…
Emily Dalton Smith, Meta's head of product for AI for Work, left the company after just two months in the role, effective June 17. Her departure adds to leadership turbulence as Meta pivots aggressive…
Portugal coach Roberto Martínez defended keeping 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo on the field for the full 90 minutes of a 1-1 World Cup draw with DR Congo, despite Ronaldo's ten-match goal drought in m…
BNP Paribas blocked employee access to Anthropic's Claude AI models for staff in Asia, joining Goldman Sachs and other banks tightening controls on third-party generative AI tools in the region. The m…
Midjourney announced a new medical division, Midjourney Medical, featuring a concept for a full-body ultrasonic scanner that uses sound waves and water immersion instead of radiation or magnets, with …
Gallup research finds tech workers who rarely use AI are three times more likely to have been laid off than those who use it at least monthly. The Q1 2026 data shows 31% of tech workers fear job elimi…
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) will meet with Anthropic on June 19, 2026, days after the US Department of Commerce ordered the company to suspend access to its advanced AI models …
The European Union is deploying 19 specialized AI supercomputing hubs under its AI Factories initiative, backed by €10 billion in funding from 2021 to 2027 and an additional €20 billion InvestAI fund,…
A prominent Google researcher has left for OpenAI, intensifying the talent war between the two AI giants. The departure follows a trend of brain drain from Google, which invented the transformer archi…