AI-driven demand for chips and data-center equipment pushed manufacturing PMIs above 50 in China, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia in June 2026, according to Reuters. However, the…
The Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to create a 'cosmic movie' of the sky, capturing repeated images to track time-domain changes. This long-term survey will generate multi-epoch dataset…
The Linux Foundation launched Akrites, a coalition including Anthropic, AWS, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and others, to defend open-source software from AI-driven vulnerability discovery. The grou…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto urged the national police (Polri) to master artificial intelligence and technology to combat narcotics, cybercrime, and other threats, signaling a strategic push …
KKR and SK Inc. launched a $1.3 billion renewable energy platform in South Korea, with KKR taking a 51% stake and management control. The platform starts with 1.7 GW of operating capacity and targets …
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has committed up to 1 trillion yen ($6.2 billion) over five years to back Noetra, a physical AI consortium led by SoftBank, Sony, NEC, and Honda,…
Ford, Commonwealth Bank, and IBM are rehiring staff after AI-driven layoffs backfired, with Ford re-employing 350 engineers to fix quality problems and Commonwealth Bank reversing cuts to 45 customer …
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto urged the National Police (Polri) to master artificial intelligence and maintain public trust during the 80th Bhayangkara Day ceremony. He emphasized that trust i…
Anthropic restored its Fable 5 AI model globally on July 1 after the US government lifted export controls that had suspended access on June 12. The controls were triggered by a reported jailbreak, whi…
Newly appointed South Korean Prime Minister Han Seong-sook vowed on her first day to accelerate AI investment and deregulate advanced industries, aligning with the government's 800 trillion won semico…
Brookfield Asset Management said India's data-center expansion, driven by AI application growth, presents a major renewable-energy investment opportunity. The firm, already a top India infrastructure …
Panasonic Holdings' stock has more than doubled this year, giving it a record market valuation of ¥11.5 trillion ($71 billion), driven by rising demand for electronic components and batteries used in …
Siteline found that AI agents frequently fail to extract list prices from B2B websites due to client-side JavaScript rendering and pricing pages behind contact forms, forcing agents to rely on stale t…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe compared frontier AI capabilities to digital nuclear weapons at the AWS Summit, prompting heightened regulatory scrutiny. The U.S. government imposed export controls on Jun…
South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources denied rumors that it urged Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to form a government-led think tank for channeling chipmaker profits, calling the r…
AWS announced a $1 billion investment to create a Forward Deployed Engineering organization that embeds its engineers inside customer teams to build and run production agentic AI systems. The initiati…
UpDoc debuted the first FDA-cleared patient-facing clinical LLM on June 25, 2026, for insulin management in type 2 diabetes. The device, cleared via 510(k) K253281, provides voice or text insulin titr…
The U.S. Department of Commerce lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, restoring access for over 100 U.S. organizations. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick determined…
Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini image model, capable of text-to-image generation in about four seconds at $0.034 per 1K-resolution image. The release als…
An opinion essay published in Bay Area alt-weeklies proposes a method to create a nonviolent resistance AI advisor by uploading Gene Sharp's texts into Claude Projects or Google NotebookLM. The approa…