Polaroid launched a global campaign, 'The Best of Summer Is Analog,' featuring a billboard on New York's Coney Island Beach that reads 'Go jump in some water before the data centers drink it all up.' …
Movate and MelodyArc announced a strategic partnership to integrate MelodyArc's AI workflow orchestration into Movate's Applied AI platform, Mova iO. The press release claims the integration can reduc…
Coca-Cola China launched a World Cup marketing campaign featuring a real-time interactive AI avatar of Chinese football icon Fan Zhiyi, developed with Baidu Yijing. The avatar is available 24/7 for lo…
Wonderful, a Netherlands-based enterprise AI agent platform backed by $300 million in funding, expanded its Singapore operations and appointed Alexander Kleinberg as General Manager. The move aims to …
Majesco released a thought leadership report, Strategic Priorities 2026, finding that insurers using AI, generative AI, and agentic AI achieve lower expense ratios and better performance. The report s…
CMOs are increasingly taking control of AI strategy and budgets, with BCG's Mark Abraham noting they are in the "driver's seat" for AI decision-making. A survey by Ad Age found about one-third of CMOs…
Elon Musk confirmed the name 'Starmind' for SpaceX's proposed AI satellite constellation, which aims to deploy up to one million satellites as an orbital compute layer for AI inference. Two prototype …
Insurance Journal reports that insurers are shifting focus from debating generative AI's role to identifying signals for scaling pilots. Executives at Carrier Management's InsurTech Summit said readin…
The US government issued an export-control directive suspending access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals, forcing Anthropic to disable the models for all customers. …
The Government of India launched the Prime Minister Research Chair (PMRC) scheme to attract Indian-origin researchers back to premier institutions, targeting 120 fellows over five years in strategic a…
South Korea's NC AI completed development of VARCO 3D 2.0, a next-generation 3D generative model that scored 0.449 on the Uni3D shape-similarity metric, outperforming open-source competitors Trellis2,…
Hydrix has been engaged by US-based Quantanosis Ai to support the preliminary development of a next-generation robotic stroke treatment platform that combines advanced robotics, artificial intelligenc…
Legal tech firm Legion LegalTech Corp sued the U.S. government on June 23, 2026, challenging a Commerce Department order that required Anthropic to disable its advanced AI models for foreign nationals…
A vendor-commissioned study by Commerce and PayPal found 64% of 1,000 UK online shoppers are interested in agentic AI shopping assistants, but only 21% currently use AI for shopping. 46% believe brand…
Greek robotics startup Acumino raised $11.7 million in seed funding to scale commercial deployments of its hardware-agnostic physical AI for dexterous industrial automation tasks. The company was sele…
An Associated Press feature profiles a wave of startups and researchers shifting focus from language models to 'world models' that learn physical space and interaction. Computer scientist Louis Castri…
The Trump administration is pressing Meta to voluntarily submit its AI models for government review before release, according to Reuters. Meta is the only major U.S. AI developer that has not yet agre…
Techdirt contributor Timothy Geigner published a June 23, 2026 opinion piece accusing Kotaku of dogmatic AI coverage, citing articles by Zack Zwiezen and Rebekah Valentine that pre-judge AI use in gam…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned that increasingly capable AI agents could make it harder for small businesses to win customers, potentially deepening market consolidation. Prince said small busin…
Meta announced the Meta Glasses starting at $299, developed with EssilorLuxottica but without Ray-Ban branding, featuring an integrated camera and open-ear speakers powered by Meta AI. The glasses off…