Tech & Science

Trump officials deny G7 allies access to Anthropic AI

The chief executives of the world's most powerful artificial intelligence companies are gathering alongside heads of state at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, where AI governance has emerged as a central issue — complicated by a fresh U.S. export…

OpenAI burned $3.7B in Q1 2026, over half its revenue

OpenAI spent $3.7 billion during the first three months of 2026, more than half of its $5.7 billion in revenue for the period, according to documents the company shared with shareholders, The Information reported on Tuesday.

Intel’s 18A-P chip process enters risk production on schedule

Intel announced on Tuesday at the 2026 VLSI Symposium in Honolulu that its 18A-P process node has entered risk production on schedule, marking a milestone in the chipmaker's effort to rebuild its contract manufacturing business and attract external customers.

Single gene therapy shot extended mouse lifespan by 20%, study finds

A single injection of gene therapy extended the lifespan of elderly mice by more than 20%, according to a study published in Molecular Therapy by researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The findings mark the first demonstration that a…

Zhipu AI surges after launching open-source rival to Claude and GPT

Beijing-based AI company Z.ai released GLM-5.2 on June 13, positioning its most powerful open-source model as a direct alternative to closed proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The release came hours after the U.S.…

Samsung lands Google and Neuralink chip deals amid TSMC crunch

Samsung Electronics has secured chip manufacturing contracts from both Google Alphabet Inc. and Neuralink, capitalizing on capacity constraints at rival TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited to inject new momentum into its long-struggling foundry business.

Webb and Hubble confirm new class of Milky Way relic

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a new class of objects within the Milky Way called "bulge fossil fragments," with the stellar system Terzan 5 serving as the prototype. The…

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, weighs DeepSeek V4 as cheaper engine

Microsoft is considering a fine-tuned version of DeepSeek V4 to power a cheaper tier of its Copilot Cowork enterprise agent, according to a report published Tuesday by Axios. The move comes as the company shifts Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing…

FIFA World Cup tops 1 million fans as Avalanche blockchain powers ticketing

FIFA's 2026 World Cup, the largest in the tournament's history with 48 teams and 104 matches across 16 cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, has become the most ambitious experiment in merging blockchain technology with live global sport.…

Adobe report finds 75% of creators call AI essential

Adobe on Tuesday released the second edition of its Creators' Toolkit Report, a global survey of more than 16,000 content creators that found generative AI has crossed a threshold from novelty to standard practice. Among creators who use the technology,…

Italy opens first national DMA probe into Apple’s iCloud

Italy's Competition Authority (AGCM) on Tuesday launched an investigation into Apple over its compliance with the European Union's Digital Markets Act, marking the first time the Italian watchdog has opened a probe under the bloc's landmark big tech rulebook.

Apple delays camera AirPods to late 2027 amid AI struggles

Apple is planning a sweeping product launch for late 2027 that will bundle camera-equipped AirPods with a 20th anniversary iPhone and a second-generation foldable device, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. All three products are currently being tested internally with iOS…

Snap unveils $2,195 consumer AR glasses, defying activist pressure

Snap on Tuesday unveiled its first consumer-targeted augmented reality glasses at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California, pricing the standalone device called Specs at $2,195 as the company bets its future on life beyond the smartphone.

Databricks acquires Panther Labs to deepen cybersecurity push

Databricks on Tuesday announced it has agreed to acquire cybersecurity startup Panther Labs, deepening its push into security operations as it seeks to challenge incumbents like CrowdStrike and Cisco's Splunk platform.

EU tech chief rejects US security rationale for Anthropic AI model shutdown

The European Commission has mounted a forceful response to the Trump administration's export control directive that forced Anthropic to shut down its most advanced AI models for non-American users, with Brussels warning Washington against treating allies as security threats and…

ChatGPT’s market share falls below 50% for first time

OpenAI's ChatGPT has lost its majority hold on the AI assistant market for the first time, with its "True Audience" share dropping below 50% in March 2026, according to Sensor Tower's State of AI 2026 report released on Monday. The…

Social media overtakes TV as top news source worldwide

Social media and video platforms have surpassed television as the world's leading source of news for the first time, according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism's 2026 Digital News Report, published Tuesday. The milestone shift arrives alongside…

Australia warns El Niño could become strongest in 70 years

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has warned that an El Niño weather pattern developing in the tropical Pacific may strengthen into one of the most intense occurrences in the past seven decades, with approximately half of climate models indicating it could…

AWS lets publishers charge AI bots for content access

Amazon Web Services Amazon.com, Inc. has launched a new capability within its Web Application Firewall that allows content owners and publishers to charge AI bots and agents for accessing their protected web content, marking a step toward formalizing the economic…

France pledges €655M for AI after Anthropic ban rattles allies

The Trump administration's abrupt shutdown of Anthropic's most advanced AI models has set off a wave of urgent responses from allied governments, with leaders in Europe and Canada warning that reliance on U.S. artificial intelligence exposes them to unilateral access…

Threads reaches 500 million monthly users, rivaling X

Meta announced Tuesday that Threads, its short-form social network launched three years ago as a competitor to X, has reached 500 million monthly active users — putting the platform halfway toward CEO Mark Zuckerberg's stated goal of 1 billion users.

France drops Palantir after US AI ban, citing digital sovereignty

France's domestic intelligence agency DGSI will terminate its contract with U.S. data analytics firm Palantir and shift to French company ChapsVision, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Tuesday, part of a sweeping push to assert digital sovereignty as Paris pledges…

Microsoft turns to AWS to keep GitHub running amid AI overload

Microsoft has begun purchasing cloud capacity from rival Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. Web Services to keep its GitHub platform running as AI-powered coding tools overwhelm its infrastructure, according to a Business Insider report citing two people familiar with the plans. The…

OpenAI’s leaked financials show $39B loss ahead of IPO

OpenAI lost roughly $39 billion in 2025 while spending $34 billion to maintain its lead in the artificial intelligence race, according to audited financial figures reported by the Financial Times on Monday, just over a week after the company confidentially…

DeepSeek raises $7.4B in first funding round at $50B-plus valuation

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has closed its first-ever external funding round, raising more than 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) at a valuation exceeding $50 billion, according to a report by The Information on Tuesday. The deal employed an unusual…

China’s humanoid robot boom sparks EV-style price war fears

A wave of new companies flooding into China's humanoid robotics sector is raising alarm among founders and investors who fear the industry is heading toward the kind of destructive price competition that battered the country's electric vehicle market. Caixin reported…

Yale proposes copyleft rules for AI trained on open-source code

Researchers at Yale's Digital Ethics Center have introduced a novel licensing framework that would require AI developers who train models on open-source code to make their architectures and training data publicly available, extending a decades-old principle from the free software…

Samsung wins first Neuralink contract for brain chip

Samsung Electronics has secured its first chip development contract from Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, marking another expansion of the Korean tech giant's relationship with Musk-linked ventures.

AMD acquires MEXT to tackle AI memory bottlenecks

Advanced Micro Devices announced Monday that it has acquired MEXT, a startup specializing in AI-driven memory optimization technology, as the chipmaker moves to address memory bottlenecks that have become a growing pain point for data center operators scaling AI workloads.

ASML, TSMC and imec achieve 2D transistors on 300mm wafers

ASML, TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, and Belgian research hub Imec have jointly demonstrated a manufacturing-compatible integration flow for transistors built with two-dimensional materials on industry-standard 300mm wafers, achieving contact pitches as small as 50 nanometers. The results, presented…