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China opened its first dedicated photonic computing laboratory in Shanghai, a joint venture between Shanghai Jiao Tong University and startup Lightelligence, signaling Beijing's bet on light-based chips as a strategic wo…
London Tech Week 2026 concluded its 12th edition on Friday, drawing over 30,000 attendees from 130 countries to Olympia and fringe events across the city. The UK government announced a £1.1bn AI Hardware Plan and a £200m…
One hundred days after American and Israeli missile strikes on Iran, Rep. Liccardo argues China is winning the war the U.S. started, despite America's military superiority in every engagement. China benefits from the con…
MX Linux 25.2, a distribution that avoids systemd and AI integration, offers users an alternative to modern computing trends. The release emphasizes traditional Linux philosophy without AI features or systemd dependencie…
Microsoft is considering spinning off its Xbox gaming division, a move that would separate the console brand from the tech giant amid a demanding 30% profit margin target that far exceeds the gaming industry's average of…
Elon Musk, who became the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s IPO, told entrepreneur Peter Diamandis that money “will stop being relevant” in a future where AI and robots produce goods and services beyond human dem…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Friday in Rome that South Korea and Italy are "optimal partners" for business cooperation, capable of building a "new industrial order" together. Lee spoke at a business roundtab…
A coalition called Safe AI Now (SAIN) displayed a giant inflatable caricature of Elon Musk in Times Square on June 11, 2026, bearing the slogan "SpaceX's Grok makes AI child porn" to protest alleged harms from the AI mod…
Google filed a civil lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime operation Outsider Enterprise, alleging the group used Gemini and other AI tools to generate phishing code and deploy scam text messages. The operation sent 2.5 mil…
Mozilla added an AI "kill switch" to Firefox, with only 1% of users disabling the feature entirely and 3% turning off some AI features selectively. The company launched Smart Window in beta, offering three hosted AI back…
Kevin O'Leary is pushing to build a massive data center to meet America's growing need for compute power in the age of AI. The project faces significant opposition and regulatory hurdles, which O'Leary argues must be ove…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, its new best publicly available model, alongside a 319-page system card detailing safety restrictions and performance trade-offs. The model introduces additional safeguards including 30…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO is expected to make him the world’s first trillionaire, but his actions as head of the Department of Government Efficiency directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Musk knowin…
Billionaire Peter Thiel has backed a new AI-powered tribunal called Objection that allows wealthy individuals to challenge news articles they disagree with, with the first case targeting a Hollywood Reporter journalist's…
A survey of nearly 52,000 Americans by Anthropic found that 64% fear job losses from AI and 56% worry about losing their ability to think independently. Daily AI users expressed significantly less concern, yet most respo…
Community opposition groups have blocked or delayed $130 billion in data center projects across 40 states this year, according to Data Center Watch. The 188 organized groups are using environmental reviews, public hearin…
A new PwC report finds that artificial intelligence is driving up U.S. healthcare costs, with one of its most widespread uses being to justify higher medical bills. AI note-taking tools are documenting more specific diag…
U.S., French, and Italian authorities seized the domains CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com, which hosted thousands of AI-generated nude images of famous women without their consent, including politicians, royalty, and entertaine…
Only 1% of Firefox users have activated the browser's AI kill switch, which Mozilla added after community demand for control over artificial intelligence features. Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo said the feature's value…
Ukrainian drone manufacturer Aero Center revealed that fully autonomous drones killed Russian soldiers during a battlefield test two years ago, marking a potential first in warfare. The drones were preprogrammed to activ…