LG CNS and Doosan Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding on June 18, 2026, to collaborate on agentic AI, robotics, data centers, and cloud services. The partnership aims to integrate LG CNS's Agen…
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) co-founder Tang Jie declared on June 18 that China will reach Fable-class AI capability before 2027, countering Elon Musk's estimate of Q1 2027. The prediction follows a U.S. Commerce …
SpaceX unveiled the AI1 orbital data-center concept, a craft with an interchangeable compute payload averaging 120 kW and peaking at 150 kW, powered by a 150-kilowatt solar array and cooled by 110 squ…
PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, analyzing over one billion job ads across 27 countries, finds the average wage premium for AI-skilled workers has reached 62%, up from 57% the prior year. Jobs req…
Amazon is exploring selling its custom Trainium AI chips to third-party data centres, according to Bloomberg and TechCrunch. AWS AI chief Peter DeSantis confirmed early-stage talks, noting that extern…
Alibaba Cloud launched a new cloud region in France with two availability zones in Paris, expanding its global footprint to 105 availability zones across 32 regions. The region is designed to comply w…
Gradial, a Seattle-based startup officially named Panorama Artificial Intelligence Corp., raised $65 million in a Series C round led by Insight Partners at a $675 million valuation. The company builds…
OpenAI launched credit usage analytics and updated spend controls for ChatGPT Enterprise on June 18, 2026, enabling admins to track consumption by user, product, and model via the Global Admin Console…
IGM Financial announced a multi-year restructuring to simplify operations and increase investment in artificial intelligence, taking a $95 million Q2 charge for severance and CEO transition costs. The…
IT Security News reports a new exploit chain called AutoJack that converts AI browsing agents into remote code execution vectors by abusing trust in localhost, missing authentication, and unsafe param…
Lenovo announced the AI Host Mini, a compact mini PC launching in China on July 1 for CNY 2,999 ($440), featuring a domestic Cixin P1 ARM chip with 45 TOPS AI performance and Ubuntu Linux with over 8,…
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, proposing a one-time 50% tax on the stock of major AI companies to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund. The fund,…
Anthropic plans to shift to token- and credit-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK after developers raised concerns about unpredictable costs, while The Clearing House unveiled plans to move regulat…
Prem AI, a Lugano-based startup enabling enterprises to run AI models on their own servers, is seeking $100 million in a Series A round at a valuation of at least $500 million, Bloomberg reported. The…
Florida-based public safety technology company Aurelian has deployed an AI call-taker named Ava to answer police non-emergency phone lines, take reports, and route complaints. Aurelian CEO Max Keenan …
Peter Harris published a Hackster.io project on June 12, 2026, demonstrating natural-language control of a Raspberry Pi 4 using Cursor AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The project uses Orbit O…
Everpure vice president Hope Galley and World Wide Technology technical solutions architect Justin Field said production-ready AI requires clean, governed, and well-understood data, not just high-perf…
A LessWrong linkpost published June 18, 2026 reports that reinforcement learning applied to realistic scenarios targeting beneficial traits produced broad improvements across dozens of alignment bench…
Doosan Group is aligning its portfolio with AI hardware and data-center supply chains, with its electro-materials arm reporting a 53.2% year-on-year sales increase to 617.3 billion won in Q1 2026 and …
Snap launched SPECS, a new augmented reality glasses product, signaling continued Big Tech investment in AR wearables as a potential smartphone successor.…