Z.ai's GLM-5.2, with a 1-million-token context window and MIT license, launched days after the U.S. ordered Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 model.

New contracts for Google's next-gen AI processor and Neuralink's brain chip mark a turning point for Samsung's long-struggling foundry business.

Terzan 5, long classified as a star cluster, has been reclassified as a "bulge fossil fragment" with four generations of stars.

The enterprise AI agent tool is now generally available worldwide with usage-based pricing as Microsoft explores lower-cost model options.

The tournament's custom layer-1 blockchain handles digital collectibles and ticket tokens, with transaction volume spiking 24 times above normal levels.

The company's 2026 Creators' Toolkit Report surveyed 16,000 creators globally and found generative AI is now standard practice, not a novelty.

The Italian Competition Authority is investigating whether Apple gives iCloud an unfair advantage over rival cloud services on iOS and iPadOS.

The earbuds, originally planned for early 2026, will now launch alongside a 20th anniversary iPhone and second-gen foldable device.

CEO Evan Spiegel pitched the standalone Specs as the future of computing, with preorders open and fall shipments planned for the U.S., U.K., and France.

The deal marks Databricks' third security acquisition this year as it challenges CrowdStrike and Cisco's Splunk.

Henna Virkkunen said Europe is "not a security risk," urging cooperation on frontier AI as Brussels accelerates its digital sovereignty push.

Sensor Tower's 2026 report finds Google Gemini and Anthropic's Claude are rapidly gaining ground as the AI assistant market expands.

The Reuters Institute's 2026 report found 54% of people now get news from social media or video platforms, surpassing television for the first time.

The Bureau of Meteorology says the phenomenon forming in the tropical Pacific may shatter temperature records in the second half of 2026.

The new WAF feature uses open payment protocols to return pricing and licensing terms to AI agents at the network edge.

The investment includes a sovereign chatbot for state employees as Europe and Canada accelerate efforts to reduce dependence on U.S. AI providers.

Meta says the milestone puts the platform halfway to Zuckerberg's goal of 1 billion users, just three years after launch.

Prime Minister Lecornu also announced 655 million euros in new AI funding and a sovereign chatbot rollout for one million civil servants.

AI coding tools have overwhelmed GitHub's infrastructure, forcing Microsoft to buy cloud capacity from rival Amazon Web Services.

Audited figures reported by the Financial Times reveal the ChatGPT maker spent $34 billion in 2025, with revenue tripling to about $13 billion.

The Chinese AI startup's unusual deal structure gives investors no voting rights and imposes a five-year lock-up to preserve founder control.

Over 140 manufacturers are competing in a market where prices have plunged and real-world demand remains uncertain.

The framework would require AI developers to disclose model architectures and training data when built on free and open-source software.

The Korean chipmaker will fabricate Neuralink's fourth-generation brain implant on its 4nm process, deepening ties with Elon Musk's ventures.

MEXT's software makes cheap flash storage perform like DRAM, aiming to cut data center memory costs as AI workloads surge.

The trio demonstrated the first EUV-patterned 2D-material transistors at 50nm pitch on production-sized wafers, a key step beyond silicon.

Libra, designed with 256 error-corrected logical qubits, will be the first fault-tolerant quantum computer available via the cloud, QuEra says.

The feature uses the Muse Spark model to synthesize answers from public posts, Groups, and Reels in natural language.

Former Netflix executive Victoria Furniss launched ARIAM, uniting creative industries to advocate for AI transparency and intellectual property protections.

Starmer and Carney are set to confront the Trump administration at the G7 summit over export controls that disabled Anthropic's top AI models.

Developers found a dormant framework in Apple's new software that would let users choose third-party AI providers inside Siri.

Prime Minister Starmer announced the sweeping prohibition Monday, calling it "a big moment for our country," with enforcement expected by spring 2027.

Access Now, Amnesty International, and a coalition of civil society organizations called on governments and tech firms to stop using AI for military targeting.

The deal adds Fin's autonomous customer service AI and 30,000 customers to Salesforce's growing Agentforce platform.

Anthropic sent staff to Washington for talks as its top models remain offline, while Chinese AI and decentralized tokens rallied Monday.

The company partnered with Rank One Computing, a defense contractor with CIA and FBI ties, to prototype the technology, Wired reports.

Independent researchers say the automaker's self-reported statistics inflate the safety performance of its Full Self-Driving system by roughly three times.

SemiAnalysis found Huawei's Kirin 9030, built without EUV lithography, achieves logic density on par with TSMC's N6 node but trails in performance.

The agreement will fund a massive data center campus in Ekibastuz deploying 100,000 next-generation Nvidia chips, with commercial operations planned for 2027.

As Nvidia pitches its export-friendly Vera CPU to Chinese clients, ByteDance is negotiating with domestic chipmakers to reduce its reliance on U.S. technology.

The three-tier program aims to certify 300,000 consultants by year's end as the AI company accelerates its push into enterprise markets.

Face scans and digital IDs are among the age verification tools proposed to enforce restrictions on platforms including TikTok and Instagram.

Microsoft's CEO published an essay arguing companies must build their own "token capital" rather than depend on a handful of dominant AI models.

Canada's prime minister said the sudden export restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 should push allied nations to diversify away from U.S. AI providers.

Scientists presented a non-invasive prenatal test that detects up to 99% of genetic variants found through amniocentesis, using only a maternal blood draw.

The DOE finalized its fusion roadmap, startups hit plasma milestones, and suppliers are scaling up to meet what the Financial Times calls a $73 billion opportunity.

The tool lets developers swap and combine agents like Claude Code and Codex without rewriting code, enforcing controls at a shared layer.

Researchers recommend long-read genome sequencing as the global first-choice diagnostic for rare genetic disorders, citing higher diagnosis rates.

The developer beta introduces an agent-first AI architecture, a translucent "Liquid Glass" UI, and a claimed 15% performance boost.

The U.S. ordered Anthropic to cut foreign access to top AI models days after the EU proposed sweeping legislation to reduce dependence on American tech.

Amazon's chief executive spoke with Treasury Secretary Bessent about Anthropic's security risks before the Commerce Department ordered the models disabled.

Researchers plan to extract motherboards from old smartphones and link them into computing clusters, aiming to cut hardware manufacturing emissions.

The devices keep time using oscillations within atomic nuclei, offering a path to far more stable and compact timekeepers than today's atomic clocks.

ShinyHunters exploited a critical zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft to steal data from over 100 organizations, mostly U.S. universities, before a patch existed.

A new report found Musk's amplification of anti-immigrant content drove 64 million views as violent unrest gripped Northern Ireland's capital.

Weeks after Tesla launched FSD in China, drivers are buying figurines and LED screens for as little as $10 to bypass driver monitoring.

Commerce Secretary Lutnick directed export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, forcing Anthropic to shut off access for all users.

A meta-analysis of 140 studies found social disadvantage consistently accelerates biological aging, with effects visible as early as childhood.

The Munich court treated AI-generated summaries as Google's own speech, not search results, in a case that could set precedent for AI liability worldwide.

Sygnia says the group Velvet Ant replaced core authentication software across multiple hosts, capturing credentials and bypassing passwords undetected.

In an internal memo, the CEO pledged stability and said he does not expect further companywide layoffs this year.

The strategy, announced at the company's developer conference, targets 1,200 device categories across more than 20 industries as Huawei builds a self-sufficient ecosystem under U.S. sanctions.

Using 24,000 ultracold atoms, a University of Birmingham scientist created the first experimental evidence that time can emerge from within an isolated system.

The State Department pledge, announced Wednesday, brings total direct U.S. Ebola response funding to roughly $270 million as the DRC outbreak widens.

The engine is supplying electricity to Spain's national grid from Bermeo, marking a milestone in hydrogen-powered generation.

Viewers in Mexico, India, and South Africa were locked out of the tournament opener as Vix, Zee5, and SABC+ all buckled under demand.

More than 100,000 users reported problems with Facebook on Friday morning, with Instagram and Messenger also affected.

The Paris-based AI startup would nearly double its September 2025 valuation as it competes against U.S. and Chinese rivals.

Craig Federighi said Apple deliberately rejected the chatbot companion model, designing Siri AI as a utility focused on tasks, not emotional engagement.

Astronomers say the remnant, if confirmed, would be one of the closest ever found to the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's center.

European defense groups are shifting from proprietary systems to commercial 5G networks, further sidelining Chinese vendors from NATO's telecom market.

The hacking group breached over 100 organizations, mostly U.S. universities, before Oracle issued an emergency advisory on June 10.

Four indirect greenhouse gases excluded from climate policy frameworks account for about 0.3°C of current warming, researchers report.

The chipmaker's first standalone data center CPU targets a market where its share fell to zero under U.S. export controls.

Niantic Spatial used roughly 30 billion player-generated scans to build a GPS-free positioning system now partnered with a defense contractor, Trouw reports.

Scientists mapped Earth's hidden mycorrhizal fungal infrastructure, finding it stores roughly 11% of global human-caused CO2 emissions annually.

René Mayrhofer called himself a pacifist and said Google's management "lost its moral compass" by providing AI models for classified military work.

The new "Coinbase for Agents" platform connects assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to user accounts for autonomous trading and payments.

A red-teamer says he bypassed the model's safety classifiers using multi-agent techniques and leaked its 120,000-character system prompt.

The deal adds secure, sandboxed cloud environments for running fleets of AI coding agents at scale across enterprise deployments.

The agency said the event developed over the past month and could rank among the largest since 1950, with 100% confidence it will persist through fall.

The underground observatory published its first results in Nature, measuring neutrino oscillation parameters with precision 1.6 times better than all prior experiments combined.

The search giant is diversifying its TPU supply chain as TSMC capacity tightens, according to a report by The Information.

Researchers say three children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy showed sustained motor improvement over one year using the LEAPER platform.

Wafer prices have surged as Beijing delays export licenses for a material critical to the optical chips powering next-generation AI infrastructure.

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the CoPoS technology, designed for ultra-large AI processors, will enter mass production sooner than expected.

Multiple agencies have confirmed El Nino conditions, with forecasts warning the event may rival or exceed historic peaks set in 1877 and 2015.

An internal memo instructs staff to sunset the Chinese-founded AI platform after Beijing ordered the acquisition reversed in April.

Chinese scientists used a deep-sea submersible to uncover nearly 500 skeletal remains stretching 1,200 kilometers across the ocean floor.

The "ITScape" vulnerability lets malicious ARM64 guest VMs break out and run commands on the host with full kernel privileges.