Alibaba.com reported that 71% of applicants to its CoCreate Pitch competition are solo founders, up from 40% last year, with 89% of them citing AI tools as essential for filling capability gaps in ind…
A European retail association has asked EU tech chief Virkkunen to exempt AI-generated advertisements from disclosure requirements in the EU AI Act, arguing that ads not intended to mislead users shou…
Seshadri Sen of Emkay Global Financial said the AI narrative is pressuring Indian IT stocks, keeping valuations under pressure despite no clear earnings damage. He prefers domestic consumption and ind…
GitHub announced the staged retirement of GitHub Models, its free AI playground, effective June 16, 2026, with new customers no longer able to enable the feature. Existing users retain access for now,…
Rathesh Prabakar, a 26-year-old senior software engineer in Bengaluru, used ChatGPT to accelerate his job search after resigning from a billing company in October 2025. He secured a new role at a prod…
Accessibility practitioners Aaron Gustafson, Jessie Lorenz, and Carie Fisher at Microsoft Build urged teams to embed accessibility early in AI development, warning that AI accelerates existing process…
A PYMNTS Intelligence report from May 2026 reveals consumers embrace AI for product discovery and comparison but resist delegating payments and irreversible purchases to autonomous agents, demanding h…
Healthcare AI has moved from pilot projects into operational use across scheduling, drug dispensing, patient communications and diagnostic decision-making, pulling nonclinical financial actors such as…
Runway's AI Festival at Lincoln Center on June 11 screened 10 AI-generated short films, with the $50,000 Grand Prix awarded to Robert Gaudette, a Toronto nonprofit worker with no formal film training,…
Android Authority reports that an open-source Android app called PlayTranslate, released on GitHub, offers realtime overlay translation for games by reading 23 in-game languages and translating them i…
Amazon sued Perplexity AI in November 2025, alleging its Comet browser accessed Amazon.com accounts without authorization in violation of the CFAA. In March 2026, a federal judge granted a preliminary…
Infineon Technologies is increasing AI-related investment to €2.7 billion this fiscal year, up from a prior €2.2 billion, and projects data center revenue to rise from €1.5 billion in fiscal 2026 to €…
Gartner's 2025 CDAO Agenda Survey found only 55% of data and analytics teams rate governance effective, compared to 85% for building analytics, highlighting a significant capability gap. At the Gartne…
At the APOS conference in Bali, executives outlined eight themes shaping Asia's entertainment industry in 2026, centering on scalable IP, sport, vertical content and government incentives. JioStar's J…
Microsoft is shifting Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and testing a self-hosted version of DeepSeek V4 as a lower-cost alternative to Anthropic and OpenAI models, with a roughly 57x price gap pe…
OpenAI expanded its self-serve Ads Manager to the U.K. in beta, making it the fifth market after the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and added cost-per-click (CPC) buying alongside CPM. The …
NYU Stern professor Aswath Damodaran warned that fast-tracking SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic into the S&P 500 overlooks their financial losses and founder-controlled governance, posing risks for passi…
OpenAI expanded its ChatGPT advertising pilot to South Korea, the sixth market after the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Ads appear only on Free and Go tiers for adult users, labeled as spo…
Sungkyunkwan University researchers led by professors Jo Sae-byeok and Yang Woo-seok developed a semiconductor synapse that strengthens or weakens memory by changing light wavelength, using disorder i…
Humanoid robots demonstrated at the Robotics Summit in Boston can mix cocktails, run marathons, and fold laundry, but most remain teleoperated or restricted to scripted tasks, according to AFP-JIJI re…