Tech & Science

EU set to accuse Meta of addictive design on Instagram, Facebook

The European Commission is preparing to issue preliminary findings accusing Meta of using exploitative design techniques on Facebook and Instagram that keep young users hooked, according to Bloomberg News. The move would mark a new front in an ongoing Digital…

China’s LineShine claims world’s fastest supercomputer title, ending US reign

The 67th edition of the TOP500 list, released Tuesday at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany, confirmed AMD's continued dominance in high-performance computing even as China's LineShine supercomputer claimed the top position for the first time in nearly a…

Samsung’s HBM4 chip sales top $1B four months after launch

Samsung Electronics has crossed the $1 billion revenue mark for its sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory chips, known as HBM4, just four months after becoming the first company in the world to begin mass production in February, according to industry sources reported…

Nvidia now powers over 80% of world’s top supercomputers

The 67th edition of the TOP500 list, unveiled at the ISC High Performance 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany, on Sunday, cements Nvidia's dominance in supercomputing. The company's technologies now power more than 400 of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers —…

UN chief urges AI firms to disclose environmental costs

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday urged major artificial intelligence companies to publicly disclose the full environmental footprint of their data centers and commit to powering operations exclusively with renewable energy by 2030, launching a new transparency initiative during…

CATL launches sodium-ion storage system with 30-year lifespan

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited launched its Tener sodium-ion energy storage system on Monday at a product release event in Munich, Germany, marking what the company calls a new era for grid-scale battery storage built without lithium.

Tencent begins testing AI assistant Xiaowei inside WeChat

Tencent confirmed on Monday that it has begun limited testing of a new AI assistant called Xiaowei inside WeChat, embedding artificial intelligence directly into China's dominant super app as the company works to close a gap with domestic rivals in…

Gallup finds tech workers who skip AI face triple layoff risk

Nearly every corporate leader surveyed by consulting firm Mercer expects artificial intelligence to eliminate jobs at their companies within two years, according to the firm's 2026 Global Talent Trends report — a finding that underscores growing alarm about AI's reshaping…

Meta suspends employee tracking program after data leak

Meta has suspended its Model Capability Initiative, a controversial AI training program that recorded employees' keystrokes and mouse movements, after an internal security incident exposed sensitive worker data across the company.

Wikipedia won’t let AI edit articles, cofounder says

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Monday that the platform will not permit artificial intelligence to directly edit its articles, citing persistent problems with AI-generated falsehoods that make the technology too unreliable for an encyclopedia relied upon by hundreds of millions…

IBM launches AI security service through OpenAI’s Daybreak program

IBM International Business Machines Corporation on Monday announced it has joined the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, integrating frontier AI capabilities into enterprise security operations as organizations face an escalating wave of AI-driven cyber threats. Alongside the partnership, IBM launched…

Study finds 641 new schizophrenia-linked genes

Researchers have identified 641 previously unrecognized genes associated with schizophrenia by mapping how gene networks communicate across the brain, a finding that could reshape the search for targeted treatments of one of psychiatry's most complex disorders.

Study links faster biological aging to rising cancer in younger adults

People born in more recent decades are biologically older than previous generations were at the same age, and this accelerated aging is linked to a higher risk of developing cancer before age 55, according to a study published Monday in…

Nvidia unveils AI science software suite at ISC 2026

NVIDIA on Monday unveiled a suite of AI-powered software tools aimed at accelerating scientific discovery, from chemistry and materials simulation to the search for dark matter, as the ISC High Performance 2026 conference opened in Hamburg, Germany.

OpenAI expands cybersecurity push with new model and partners

OpenAI on Monday announced a broad expansion of its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative, releasing a full version of its specialized GPT-5.5-Cyber model, an updated Codex Security plugin, a new partner program for security vendors, and an open-source protection effort called "Patch…

Five Eyes warns AI models capable of major cyberattacks are months away

The cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a rare joint statement on Monday warning that frontier AI models capable of causing major cyber damage are mere months from public availability, urging organizations worldwide to act immediately.

Nvidia says hot-water cooling approach can end AI’s data center water crisis

Nvidia used London Climate Action Week on Monday to declare that the data center industry's mounting water crisis has a solution: cooling AI chips with liquid warm enough to fill a hot tub.

Cloudflare outage knocks X, Reddit, Zoom offline worldwide

A widespread internet disruption rippled across some of the world's most-used platforms on Monday, June 22, after Cloudflare, the infrastructure provider whose network carries roughly 20 percent of global web traffic, reported increased error rates and latency across multiple services.

Nvidia launches Halos safety system for robotics

Nvidia on Monday unveiled Halos for Robotics, a comprehensive safety framework that extends the company's autonomous vehicle safety technology to robots and physical AI systems operating alongside humans in factories and warehouses.

Dell unveils AI server built on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips

Dell Technologies unveiled the PowerEdge XE8812 server on Monday at the ISC High Performance 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany, marking the first major hardware platform built on Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin NVL4 architecture.

Nvidia’s Huang calls China a top tech hub at Beijing expo

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a video address at the opening ceremony of the fourth China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Monday, describing China as "one of the world's great centers of technology and industry" and praising the…

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputing platform at ISC 2026

NVIDIA unveiled its Vera Rubin accelerated computing platform for scientific supercomputing on Monday at ISC High Performance 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, positioning a single rack of the new system as capable of rivaling machines on the TOP500 list of the…

Nvidia unveils 35 AI supercomputers across Europe

NVIDIA announced Monday at ISC High Performance 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, that a record 35 AI supercomputers are under development across Europe, representing the continent's largest one-year expansion in supercomputing infrastructure.

Zhipu AI tops HK$1 trillion after open-source model rivals US leaders

Zhipu AI's market capitalization surpassed HK$1 trillion on Monday after its open-weight GLM-5.2 model emerged as the highest-performing open-source large language model in the world, scoring within a single point of Anthropic's flagship on key coding benchmarks while priced 72…

US AI curbs push European firms to diversify providers

Restrictions on access to certain American artificial intelligence services are prompting major European companies to accelerate their efforts to spread risk across multiple AI providers, reinforcing the push for domestic alternatives on the continent.

Tesla offers up to 5x TSMC salaries to poach engineers for chip plant

Tesla is offering salaries three to five times higher than those at TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited to lure experienced semiconductor engineers for its ambitious Terafab chip manufacturing project, according to a report from Taiwan's Economic Daily News published…

JD.com boss warns robots will replace 700,000 couriers

Liu Qiangdong, the founder of JD.com, has warned that robots will replace the company's 700,000 delivery workers "sooner or later," according to the Financial Times, as China's largest retailer accelerates its push into autonomous logistics and embodied intelligence.

Bain uses AI to clone software of takeover targets

Bain & Company has been using generative AI to rapidly build working replicas of software products belonging to potential acquisition targets, fundamentally altering how private equity investors assess whether a deal is worth pursuing.

Google taps MediaTek to build next-gen Triggerfish AI chip

Alphabet is developing an upgraded version of its TPU v9 artificial intelligence chip, codenamed Triggerfish, with Taiwan's MediaTek once again serving as its exclusive design partner, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities.

Nadella warns AI industry against power concentration

Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, is pushing for a fundamental reset of the artificial intelligence industry, warning that the public will not accept a future in which a handful of companies dominate the world's most powerful AI systems.