Genesys acquired Pinkfish on June 30, 2026, gaining a 25,000-tool MCP ecosystem and 500-plus integrations to enable autonomous multi-step task execution by virtual agents in its contact-center platfor…
A blog post on zettelkasten.de reports that junior software engineering roles are being reduced as senior engineers oversee AI agents, and that degrees are perceived as devalued because students deleg…
8090 Labs, an AI software factory startup founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, raised $135 million in Series A funding led by Salesforce Ventures to automate software delivery for regulated enterprises. T…
X Square Robot closed a Series C financing round on June 29, 2026, pushing its valuation above $2.8 billion. The startup has received backing from major Chinese tech firms including Alibaba, ByteDance…
Writer Benjamin Hollon reports in a personal essay that he is repeatedly asked about AI when he tells people he is a writer, a conversation he finds exhausting and unproductive. He expresses serious t…
Richtech Robotics launched a 24/7 interactive livestream allowing users to chat with its humanoid robot ADAM in real time, developed on NVIDIA's Isaac platform with Jetson Thor compute. The company al…
UBTech Robotics unveiled the Cruzr Y1, a wheeled humanoid robot designed to automate box handling, palletizing, and other logistics tasks in warehouses. The new hardware expands options for integratin…
Stathera Inc. closed a $55 million Series B financing round led by Maverick Silicon to scale production of its MEMS-based silicon timing components for AI data centers. The oversubscribed round brings…
Public standard-setting bodies have failed to produce harmonized technical standards for the EU AI Act, missing an August 2025 deadline and prompting the European Commission to stagger implementation …
Cynomi released a report on June 30, 2026, analyzing MSPs' top AI questions from Reddit, Perplexity Deep Research, AlsoAsked, and its own community. The report found MSPs are most concerned with handl…
ServiceTrade acquired Mura, an agentic AI platform for field-service billing and collections, to expand its Stella suite with Stella Invoice and Stella Collect. The acquisition aims to accelerate cash…
Call-centre stocks slid after Concentrix lowered its 2026 revenue guidance and reported a drop in operating income, with shares falling 21% and Teleperformance dropping 13% on no company-specific news…
Nvidia canceled a planned quad-die version of its Rubin Ultra AI accelerator, shifting to a dual-die design due to manufacturing execution concerns. The change moves from highly integrated CoWoS-L pac…
Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter large language model with a 1-million-token context window, trained from scratch on a 50,000-chip domestic compute cluster. The …
Managed service providers in 2026 face rising consolidation, compliance burdens, and AI adoption pressures, according to Cloudtweaks. MSPs are investing in automation and security tooling to manage op…
Red Canary built an AI triage agent that uses a graph of orchestrated subagents to handle reported phishing emails, achieving 94% accuracy according to the company's engineering blog. The system combi…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot training facility called Robot Park in Austin to collect task data from its humanoid fleet, including the newly unveiled Apollo 2. The facility supplies data to G…
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, described as high culture's most influential AI artists, created 3-D-printed sand sculptures for the Venice Biennale that proved too heavy for the 18th-century palazzo.…
Henning Larsen partnered with Krea on May 29, 2026, after a bottom-up sandbox trial led staff to select Krea as their preferred AI creative tool. The firm now uses Krea for image-to-image workflows co…
Dataland, described as the world's first AI arts museum, opened in downtown Los Angeles on June 20, 2026, occupying a 25,000-square-foot space in The Grand LA complex. Its inaugural exhibition, "Machi…