The multimodal model unifies vision and language into a single agent, marking Alibaba's second major AI release in two weeks.

A study of seven ultra-hot Jupiters found their magnetic field strengths are comparable to planets in our own solar system.

Knowledge workers now make up 20% of Codex users and are growing three times faster than developers, according to a new OpenAI report.

Samsung retained its lead with 38.5% market share as contract prices are projected to jump another 58-63% in Q2 2026.

China's largest automakers are converging on 2027 for all-solid-state battery vehicles, with BYD planning limited production and SAIC already deploying semi-solid packs.

The chip designer disclosed the exclusive EMIB-T commitment at Goldman Sachs Taiwan Day, with mass production targeted for late 2027.

Malaysia began enforcing its ban on June 1, as the Maldives, the U.K., and other nations advance similar restrictions on children's social media access.

Lip-Bu Tan is delivering a keynote in Taipei today, backed by Nvidia's $5 billion investment and a multiyear Google Cloud chip deal.

Daraxonrasib is the first drug to produce median survival beyond one year in previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer.

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won announced the expansion at Computex, citing a global chip shortage expected to last through 2030.

At Computex 2026, the Nvidia CEO outlined a multi-generation AI PC chip partnership with MediaTek and plans to hire thousands in Taiwan.

Humanity, Worldcoin, and Near Protocol rallied sharply as the Claude chatbot maker's confidential SEC filing fueled AI sector enthusiasm.

Jensen Huang said at Computex in Taipei that Nvidia has secured supply for "very robust growth" in GPUs and CPUs but remains constrained.

Rene Haas argued at Computex 2026 that CPUs are harder to restrict than GPUs, days after Washington moved to close a chip export loophole.

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, scientists tracked dust rotation around the young star AB Aurigae over four years, revealing clues to planet birth.

Rene Haas told Bloomberg that surging data center and AI demand could push the company past its end-of-decade sales target ahead of schedule.

The UN weather agency declared an 80% chance of El Nino this summer and over 90% probability it persists through November.

The RTX Spark superchip, unveiled at Computex 2026, pairs a Blackwell GPU with a Grace CPU for AI-powered Windows laptops arriving this fall.

About 16% of expected cancer diagnoses were absent in seven high-income countries during the first nine months of the pandemic, with prostate cancer hit hardest.

The partnership, pending German regulatory approval, would mark Uber's first commercial autonomous ride-hailing operation in Europe.

The new stack includes NemoClaw blueprints, OpenShell runtime, and Nemotron models to build secure, long-running enterprise AI agents.

The Long March 12B rocket launched Monday, deploying 18 satellites for China's Starlink-rivaling internet constellation.

Geedge Networks is building tools to flag potential government critics before they speak, according to a New York Times investigation.

The stellar bar inside gas-rich galaxy GN20 is the earliest such structure ever directly detected, challenging models of how galaxies evolve.

Data presented at the ASCO annual meeting show the personalized mRNA vaccine cut recurrence or death risk by 49% over five years.

The fitness app is requiring authentication for public profiles and charging for API access to combat AI scraping before going public.

A secret project called Marlin pays contract developers up to $280 per task to evaluate and improve Anthropic's AI coding tool.

CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a 550-billion-parameter open-weights AI model alongside a new CPU and consumer superchip in Taipei.

Unveiled at GTC Taipei, the modular software standardizes how companies design, build, and operate large-scale AI data centers.

Masayoshi Son made the claim a day after announcing a $87 billion AI data center investment in France, SoftBank's largest in Europe.

Alpamayo 2 Super is a 32-billion-parameter reasoning model designed to accelerate level 4 autonomous driving development worldwide.

The tools, announced at GTC Taipei, let AI coding agents orchestrate robotics, autonomous vehicle, and digital twin workflows.

Counterpoint Research now forecasts a 13.9% drop to 1.08 billion units, worse than its February estimate, as a memory chip crisis deepens.

No approved vaccines exist for the Bundibugyo strain driving a deadly outbreak in the DRC and Uganda, prompting emergency funding for three candidates.

CEO Jensen Huang showcased Nvidia's first custom processor at Computex Taipei, with OpenAI and Anthropic already among its early adopters.

The system combines vision reasoning, world simulation, and action prediction in a single model to help robots and autonomous vehicles navigate the real world.

Thirteen firms backed the European Commission's initiative days before it unveils its Tech Sovereignty Package on Wednesday.

CEO Jensen Huang announced Nemotron 3 Ultra, enterprise agent software, and a Windows-based AI supercomputer at the company's keynote.

The Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot combines a Unitree body, dexterous hands, and Nvidia's AI software stack for academic labs.

A Financial Times investigation found Iranian hackers are using Western AI tools to develop malware, craft phishing messages and target U.S. and Israeli networks.

The first Surface with a Blackwell RTX GPU and full CUDA support targets creators and AI professionals, with a fall 2026 launch.

Nvidia claims the rearchitected apps will run up to twice as fast on the new Arm-based superchip, with RTX Spark PCs arriving this fall.

Nvidia's CEO used his Computex keynote to counter "Saaspocalypse" fears, saying agentic AI will expand — not replace — the enterprise software market.

At GTC Taipei, Nvidia unveiled new DRIVE Hyperion partnerships spanning Asia, Europe, and the Middle East to build level 4 robotaxi fleets.

The world's largest chip foundry is using NVIDIA accelerated computing to improve lithography, defect detection, and fab operations.

CEO Jensen Huang called the five-rack AI system "the largest product launch, probably in the history of Taiwan," with shipments starting this fall.

The deskside AI supercomputer, built with Microsoft, can run trillion-parameter models locally and ships from major OEMs in Q4.

The Chinese AI startup says its new model combines frontier coding, a million-token context window, and native multimodality in a single open-weight package.

The air-cooled inference chip uses LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, offering up to 480 GB capacity at lower cost than Nvidia and AMD rivals.

Nvidia's CEO used his Computex 2026 keynote to argue AI is boosting coding jobs, not eliminating them, citing rising GitHub activity as evidence.

Phase 3 results presented at ASCO show a regimen costing roughly $230 a month nearly doubled median survival compared with standard chemotherapy.

Trial data presented at ASCO show the drug shrank or eliminated tumors in nearly half of patients who had exhausted standard treatments.

Researchers used quantum light states to match the effect of far more powerful conventional lasers, a potential leap for ultrafast science.

Ivonescimab plus chemotherapy showed significant overall survival benefit over standard immunotherapy in squamous lung cancer, according to results presented at ASCO.

Xu Zhijun said Washington's sanctions forced China's semiconductor self-reliance, days after Huawei unveiled a roadmap to match 1.4nm chip density by 2031.

A Nature study demonstrates monolithic 3D chip integration with near-perfect yields, offering a path beyond traditional transistor shrinking.

Visits to the privacy-focused engine's AI-free search page have surged since Google replaced traditional results with AI-generated experiences at I/O 2026.

Two trials show Merck's immunotherapy drug delivering zero relapses in bowel cancer and sustained survival gains in endometrial cancer.

Chinese researchers are presenting a record 95 studies at this year's cancer conference, including a first-ever headliner slot for a China-only trial.

Young Liu told shareholders AI demand has eliminated the industry's traditional mid-year slowdown, projecting 30% growth in Foxconn's own capital spending.

The system lets autonomous drones hunt and destroy all targets on a battlefield, even when communications are jammed and visibility is blocked.

Japan's finance minister said the move is "a big step forward" in defending the country's financial sector against AI-enabled attacks.

The TikTok parent is pursuing multiple custom chip projects as Beijing steers Chinese tech giants away from Nvidia and toward homegrown silicon.

The project combines GitHub Copilot, chat, Cowork, and a new Autopilot layer into one app, targeting an end-of-summer launch.

An internal memo outlines targets of 10 million device sales in the second half of 2026 and a new business-focused wearables service.

All six OpenAI products — ChatGPT, API, DALL-E, Codex, Sora, and login — failed simultaneously Friday before being restored, with no root cause disclosed.

A severe storm caused power failures at Microsoft's West US 2 data centers Friday, disrupting dozens of Azure services and Copilot for thousands of users.

The chipmaker has invested in Coherent, Lumentum, Marvell, Corning, and Ayar Labs since March to replace copper connections with light-based alternatives.

New research identifies a CO2 level that triggered dramatically amplified ice sheet responses to warming, raising questions about future sea-level rise.

The system autonomously analyzes satellite imagery and identifies air targets without human intervention, using a multi-agent AI framework.

Major companies are cutting back AI tool access and scrapping usage incentives as runaway token spending outpaces productivity gains.

Three tech companies laid off a combined 2,400-plus workers this month, with each CEO explicitly naming AI as the primary driver of the cuts.

Russia's "New Health Preservation Technologies" initiative spans gene therapy, bioprinting and mini-pig organ cultivation, led by Putin's daughter.

The three astronauts landed in Inner Mongolia on Friday after their mission was extended by a month due to a malfunctioning spacecraft.

The company replaced "KiroRank" with a new metric after employees inflated usage on trivial tasks, a practice known as "tokenmaxxing."

WithSecure uncovered GreyVibe, a threat group using generative AI tools across phishing, malware development, and espionage campaigns since August 2025.

Researchers built molecular clocks from gene activity in over 11,000 samples spanning four species, revealing shared aging signatures.

The "School of Football" videos showcase the humanoid robot's physical AI skills as Hyundai prepares to deploy Atlas across U.S. auto plants starting in 2028.

Sea ice loss triggered a sustained collapse in nitrate levels essential for plankton, threatening the entire Arctic food chain and carbon absorption.

In a post-I/O interview, Sundar Pichai told The Verge he "very much" disagrees that Google will stop sending traffic to publishers.

The 12-layer chips deliver speeds up to 16 Gbps and 48 GB capacity, over 20% faster and 30% larger than the previous generation.

The Australian data center operator sold bonds and secured loans to fund GPU purchases for a Microsoft AI facility in Texas.

The tech giant announced a $10 billion quantum computing investment and a $5 billion open-source security initiative on the same day.

Iron-rich immune cells in pigeon livers act as an internal compass, solving a decades-old mystery about how birds sense Earth's magnetic field.

A senior executive said surging AI power demands have made efficiency, not raw computing power, the top priority shaping future chips.

Appeals Centre Europe says Meta provided evidence in fewer than 100 of 4,600 wrongful ban complaints it reviewed.

Manufacturers have agreed to only a 12-fold expansion, leaving optical component supply roughly 50% below projected AI data center demand.

European Commission representatives plan to meet Anthropic in person after weeks of stalled negotiations over access to the powerful cybersecurity AI model.

The company said it will release its powerful vulnerability-finding AI to all customers in coming weeks, accelerating a previously longer timeline.

The Xuanji A3, already in mass production, supports L3 and L4 self-driving and will power BYD's God's Eye driver-assistance system.