A global SAP Emarsys survey of over 10,000 consumers found that 66% have switched from a previously loyal brand due to cost, with true brand loyalty dropping to 29% in 2025. AI shopping tools are acce…
A federal lawsuit filed June 25 in California accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology of colluding to fix DRAM prices, causing a 700% price surge since 2022. The complaint alleges the compani…
MIT-affiliated researchers Charles Ye, Jasmine Cui, and Dylan Hadfield-Menell demonstrated that attackers can trick frontier large language models into providing dangerous instructions, such as cocain…
Cook County Sheriff's investigators discovered $1.3 million in stolen data center supplies in two trailers at a Chicago truck yard, tracing the thefts to Alabama and Florida. Organized cargo theft rin…
Scientists at NTU Singapore and Waseda University have created 3D-printed diving suits for Madagascar hissing cockroaches, enabling them to walk underwater for up to three hours. The suits use a chemi…
Two-thirds of planned U.S. data centers are moving to rural areas, driven by AI compute demand and proximity to high-voltage power lines, but local opposition has blocked or delayed $64 billion in pro…
California struck a first-of-its-kind deal with Anthropic to make its Claude AI assistant available to all state agencies and local governments at half the standard enterprise rate, bypassing a Pentag…
Pudu Robotics and Shenzhen Culture & Tourism Industry Development Co. Ltd. announced plans to open the world's first fully robot-run hotel on West Artificial Island in Guangdong Province, China, with …
Meta relied on Google's Gemini models for customer service, ad tools, and content moderation until Google imposed capacity limits in March 2026, forcing Meta to ration AI tokens and shift workloads to…
A roundup of 20 tech gadgets and upgrades, including AI-powered smart glasses, robot lawn mowers, and smartphone gimbals, highlights products designed to solve real problems with clever engineering. T…
Nearly 400 local newspapers across 33 states sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York, alleging the companies illegally scraped copyrighted articles—including paywalled content—to train …
TIDAL will allow fully AI-generated music on its platform but will block it from earning royalties, effective June 29. The policy, which also includes AI badges and removal of fraudulent content, aims…
Apple plans to adopt OLED panels covering approximately 95% of the BT.2020 color gamut across future MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and iMac lines, according to a TrendForce report. The upgrade will enable cr…
DeSoto County, Florida, voted to draft a one-year moratorium on new data center applications after DCIP Group proposed a gas-powered hyperscale facility on 800 acres, with water usage estimates rangin…
TikTok creator Plonk is teaching viewers how to blind AI-powered surveillance cameras from Flock Safety, a network used by roughly one-third of U.S. law enforcement agencies. His satirical videos prom…
Google's Chrome 149 introduces a 'Select from screen' tool for Gemini, allowing users to drag a box around content on a tab and feed it directly to the AI side panel without copying or describing. The…
Stanford University's BurgerAI system, trained on 2,216 recipes, designed burgers that beat the Big Mac in a blind taste test of 101 diners in San Francisco. Two AI-generated recipes scored higher on …
A former journalist and software worker, David Streever, was tracked down by ICE agents at a hotel near JFK Airport after sending a critical email to the acting ICE director. The agents visited his ho…
The European Commission designated Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act on June 25, 2026, citing lock-in effects and AI bundling concerns. The designati…
Texas faces a looming infrastructure crisis as data center demand surges, with ERCOT receiving grid-connection requests totaling 439 gigawatts—five times the state's peak demand. Analysts warn that wa…