Hundreds of protesters gathered near the Vancouver Art Gallery on June 27, 2026, opposing proposed AI data centres in a partnership between Telus and the federal government, with a petition gathering …
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, 2026, citing a reported jailbreak, marking the first forced removal of a widely-deployed front…
Woolworths plans to upgrade its Everyday loyalty AI assistant Mandy into a fully agentic system, following the rollout of its shopper-facing Olive assistant which now handles over 70% of contact-centr…
China's LineShine supercomputer, powered entirely by indigenous LX2 CPUs, claimed the #1 spot on the 67th TOP500 list at ISC'26 with 2.198 Exaflops, surpassing El Capitan by 20%. However, the system l…
A blog post proposes using reinforcement learning on a timestamped internet cache to train a superhuman forecaster, aiming to solve the data-leakage problem in AI forecasting benchmarks. The proposal …
Stanford University's 2026 AI Index reveals the United Arab Emirates and Singapore lead in generative AI adoption at 54% and 61% respectively, while the United States ranks 24th at 28.3% despite leadi…
Indian entertainment companies investing heavily in AI for scriptwriting and visual effects face copyright uncertainty as the current legal framework, anchored to human authorship, may not protect AI-…
Chinese chipmaker Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong and has asked prospective IPO investors to commit to purchasing its AI semiconductors, according to a report…
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said at the Bloomberg Tech conference that the company is prioritizing organic growth in AI over acquisitions, citing surging AI revenue. Broadcom expects its AI business could e…
NVIDIA raised $25 billion in investment-grade bonds on June 15, 2026, drawing $85 billion in orders, its first debt issuance since 2021. The company reported $216 billion in fiscal 2026 revenue and $4…
Pure Storage rebranded as Everpure in early 2026, dropping 'Storage' from its name to target data leadership and AI buyers, alongside acquiring data intelligence firm 1touch and reporting a record $1 …
Developer tryfonaskam released PILA, an open-source imitation learning agent that learns to play the browser racing game PolyTrack by training on screen captures and human keyboard inputs. Implemented…
Researchers at the University of Ottawa, led by Dr. Karim Alghoul, developed UbiMyTherapist, a proactive AI therapist for wearables that uses heart rate variability, speech tone, and text to detect em…
Hospitals are deploying AI-based intimate partner violence (IPV) screening tools that analyze electronic health records without patients' knowledge, raising governance and consent concerns. A 2026 NIH…
Persistent Systems, through its subsidiary Galaxy Germany Holding SE, announced a voluntary public takeover for all shares of Nagarro at EUR 81 per share, a 140% premium over the undisturbed closing p…
Persistent Systems and Nagarro announced an all-cash takeover offer at EUR 81 per share, valuing Nagarro at approximately EUR 1 billion. The merger creates a $2.9 billion digital engineering entity wi…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that record-high public debt, financial fragilities, and uncertainty over AI investment durability are increasing global economic risks. The BIS cautioned…
Mozilla's 0DIN researchers demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit that uses a clean GitHub repository to trick Anthropic's Claude Code agent into executing a reverse shell, compromising developer sys…
Yousuf Imran, a former Google Cloud account executive earning nearly $1 million in 2025, left the company in April 2026 to found Mangosteen Studio, an AI product lab for sales tools. Imran cited the e…
ActivTrak's 2026 State of the Workplace report, analyzing 443 million hours of digital activity across 163,638 employees, found that AI adoption correlates with increased workload and interruptions: e…