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Unconventional AI, a two-month-old chip startup founded by Naveen Rao, raised $475 million in seed funding at a $4.5 billion valuation to develop hardware that could cut AI inference power consumption by 1,000 times. The…

A user expresses frustration that VSCode and other frequently used software are deteriorating in quality, contrary to expectations that AI would improve development and bug reporting.

Microsoft's Business Central 2026 Wave 1 release deploys four AI agents for finance—Payables, Sales Order, Expense, and Agent Designer—operating with human oversight in SaaS-hosted deployments only, requiring cloud migra…

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced the NO FAKES Act, a bipartisan bill to regulate AI-generated deepfakes by establishing federal standards for licensing voice and visual likeness, holding platforms liab…

US hospitality and leisure deal activity slowed in 2026, with volume down 2.5%, but transactions concentrated in premium segments like luxury hotels, wellness resorts, and gaming platforms. Premium hotel segments now rep…

A developer argues that the definition of 'done' for AI-built apps must shift from a local preview to a live URL accessible to others. The developer notes that while AI tools make it easy to create functional prototypes,…

Microsoft is transforming its software development lifecycle into an agentic platform where AI agents collaborate across planning, coding, security, and operations. The company reports that 62% of its developers say AI h…

Barnes & Noble's CEO warns that AI-written books may already be on store shelves, as publishers HarperCollins and Harlequin sign AI deals. The development comes amid a survey showing 53% of Americans fear AI threatens hu…

Public.com integrated its Model Context Protocol server with ChatGPT, enabling users to analyze portfolios, research stocks, and execute trades across stocks, options, crypto, and bonds through natural language conversat…

Apple plans to skip the M6 Pro and Max chips and fast-track the M7 generation by up to six months, according to a Bloomberg report. The shift aims to accelerate on-device AI performance amid competition from Nvidia, AMD,…

The US lodging sector is projected to see RevPAR grow 2.9% in 2026, reversing a 0.2% decline in 2025, as demand outpaces supply by the widest margin since before the pandemic, according to Hospitality Trends citing PwC d…

Sakana AI released Fugu, a language model that acts as a coordinator routing tasks to multiple frontier LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, returning a single answer and bill. The system hides vendor seams and aims …

Google retired two Gemini image preview models, gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview and gemini-3-pro-image-preview, on June 25, 2026, forcing developers to migrate to generally available replacements immediately or face broke…

The US Census Bureau raised income thresholds for nonemployer businesses in 2022, revealing a surge in solopreneurs. Multiple data sources show solo founders are growing faster than employer businesses, with AI filling c…

More than half of Americans are actively trying to circumvent AI customer service chatbots, with 43.9% yelling 'human' or 'person' to escape, according to a Parloa study. The survey of 1,001 US adults found that 25.9% ra…

Float Financial closed a CAD 85 million all-equity Series C led by Inovia Capital, bringing its total funding to CAD 300 million. The company plans to use the capital to advance its AI platform Float Intelligence, expand…

Unconventional AI emerged from stealth with $475 million in seed funding and unveiled Un0, an image-generation system built on neuromorphic hardware that the company claims can cut energy use by up to 1,000 times compare…

Apple plans to skip high-end M6 Mac chips and instead focus on an AI-focused M7 line, according to a Bloomberg report. The shift prioritizes artificial intelligence capabilities over raw performance for future Macs.

Anthropic's Claude is gaining paying consumers, with credit card data showing a 75% revenue increase since January 2026, while DataCamp reports Claude is now its most searched term and demand for Claude courses outpaces …

Z.AI's open-weight GLM-5.2 (Max) model climbed to second place on the Code Arena frontend leaderboard by June 16, scoring up to 1,595 points and beating Claude Opus 4.7 (Thinking) by 29 points. The 744B+ parameter Mixtur…