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Neura Robotics raises $1.4B from Nvidia, Amazon, Tether

German humanoid robotics startup Neura Robotics announced on Wednesday a Series C financing round of up to $1.4 billion, marking one of the largest funding rounds for a European robotics company. The investment includes participation from Nvidia, Amazon Amazon.com, Inc.,…

Mastercard launches payment system for AI agents

Mastercard on Wednesday unveiled Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a payment framework designed to let AI agents and connected machines authorize, coordinate, and settle transactions autonomously across the company's global network — including payments worth fractions of a cent.

10 scientists win 2026 Kavli Prizes for work on dark matter, twistronics, and neurons

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on Wednesday named ten scientists as recipients of the 2026 Kavli Prize, honoring breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. Each prize carries a $1 million award shared among its laureates.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei manages just one person

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic, directly manages just one person at the artificial intelligence company — his chief of staff, Avital Balwit. The unconventional arrangement places Anthropic at the opposite end of the spectrum from peers like…

Semiconductor market tops $300B in quarterly revenue for first time

The global semiconductor market surpassed $300 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, reaching $319 billion in the first quarter of 2026, according to new research from Omdia published on Tuesday. The 27% quarter-over-quarter increase represents the highest such…

BYD launches 1,500kW Flash Chargers in UK and Germany

BYD officially unveiled its Flash Charging network in the UK on Monday, introducing chargers capable of delivering up to 1,500 kilowatts of power — roughly four times faster than the quickest EV chargers currently available in Britain.

Miasma supply chain attack toolkit surfaces as open source on GitHub

Days after the Miasma worm compromised 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in one of the most aggressive software supply chain attacks to date, security researchers have flagged the appearance of the attack framework's source code on GitHub itself — lowering the…

Yale team builds brain-computer interface users learn in under an hour

A team of Yale University researchers has built a noninvasive brain-computer interface that allows users to control an avatar in a virtual reality game using only their brain activity — and learn to do so in under an hour. The…

SK Telecom, NTT and Chunghwa Telecom launch $500M AI fund

SK Telecom, Japan's NTT and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom announced on Wednesday the creation of a joint $500 million investment fund targeting next-generation AI technologies, in what is being described as one of the largest jointly managed investment vehicles between South…

Google-SpaceX cloud deal signals Azure upside, BNP says

Google's Alphabet Inc. decision to pay SpaceX $920 million per month for AI computing capacity is sending a bullish signal for Microsoft's Azure cloud business, according to BNP Paribas analyst Stefan Slowinski, who argues the deal underscores demand that remains…

New zero-day hits Windows Defender hours after record Patch Tuesday

Hours after Microsoft released its largest-ever Patch Tuesday update on Tuesday, a security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse published a new proof-of-concept exploit called RoguePlanet that grants SYSTEM-level privileges on fully patched Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems through a…

TSMC posts record May revenue as AI chip demand surges

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported May 2026 revenue of NT$416.98 billion, a 30.1% increase from the same month a year earlier, according to the company's official disclosure on Tuesday. The result, which also marked a 1.5% rise from April, set…

May was world’s second-hottest on record, Copernicus reports

The world experienced its second-hottest May since records began, with an unusually early and severe heatwave scorching Western Europe as climate extremes become the "new normal" on the continent, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service reported on Wednesday.

First cannabis-based chronic pain drug wins approval in Germany and Austria

German biopharmaceutical company Vertanical announced on Monday that Exilby (VER-01), a cannabis-derived oral tincture, has received marketing authorization in Germany for the treatment of chronic low back pain with a neuropathic component, making it the first cannabis-based medication explicitly approved…

SpaceX targets late 2027 for orbital AI tests ahead of record IPO

SpaceX is pushing to demonstrate space-based artificial intelligence computing infrastructure by late 2027, ahead of the "as early as 2028" deployment timeline disclosed in its IPO filing, according to Reuters. The accelerated schedule emerged during investor presentations ahead of the…

First person treated with cell-rejuvenating gene therapy for glaucoma

Life Biosciences on Monday announced that the first participant has been dosed in its Phase 1 clinical trial of ER-100, a gene therapy designed to reverse cellular aging in patients with vision loss — marking the first time partial epigenetic…

Meta to use off-platform activity to personalize feeds and AI

Meta announced on Sunday that it will begin using activity data shared by third-party businesses — such as online purchases and games played on other websites — to personalize Facebook and Instagram feeds and AI responses, extending beyond its longstanding…

OpenAI and Anthropic both call for global AI watchdog

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published a blog post on Monday calling for the formation of an international organization to oversee frontier AI development, including the ability to slow progress "when needed" so that safety and…

Google opens Gemini 3.5 Live Translate API to developers

Google Alphabet Inc. on Monday unveiled Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a speech-to-speech translation model that delivers near real-time audio translation across more than 70 languages. The model generates translated speech continuously as a person talks, rather than waiting for them…

Apple opens Xcode 27 to Google’s Gemini AI models

Google Alphabet Inc. and Apple are deepening their AI collaboration with a suite of developer tools unveiled at WWDC 2026. Starting with preview releases available Monday, Apple developers can access cloud-hosted Gemini models through Apple's Foundation Models framework and use…

EU orders Meta to open WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots

The European Commission on Tuesday ordered Meta to restore free access to WhatsApp for competing AI assistants within five working days, marking the EU's first interim antitrust measure in 17 years and capping a six-month regulatory battle over control of…

UK rejects White House warning against under-16 social media ban

The Trump administration has formally urged the British government not to ban social media for children under 16, submitting a response to a UK public consultation through the US Embassy in London that warned such restrictions could damage freedom of…

Musk says orbital AI data centers need no ‘magic’ ahead of SpaceX IPO

SpaceX released a roughly 31-minute video on Monday in which CEO Elon Musk and engineer Ian Dahl laid out plans for AI satellites designed to function as computing nodes in orbit, positioning the concept as central to the company's future…

Nvidia and LG partner to build AI factory for robots

NVIDIA and South Korea's LG Group announced a sweeping strategic partnership to build an AI factory ecosystem spanning robotics, autonomous driving, data centers, and GPU cloud services. The collaboration, formalized during a meeting between NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and LG…

EU rejects Apple’s bid to exempt Siri AI from DMA rules

Apple and the European Commission are locked in a public standoff over the company's decision not to launch its revamped Siri AI assistant on iPhones and iPads in the European Union, with each side blaming the other for the delay.

Taiwan weighs new AI chip export curbs to align with US

Taiwanese authorities are considering tighter export controls on AI chip sales to China, aiming to close loopholes that have allowed advanced semiconductors to be diverted from the island to Chinese buyers, according to a Bloomberg report on Monday.

Anthropic says Mythos turned patches into exploits in minutes

Anthropic's Mythos Preview AI model can transform newly disclosed software vulnerabilities into functional exploits in hours rather than weeks, according to new research the company shared exclusively with Axios on Sunday. The findings underscore how advanced AI is compressing the…

Apple unveils group subscriptions and bundles at WWDC 2026

Apple used the opening day of its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday to announce a suite of new App Store capabilities aimed at helping developers grow subscription businesses, including group purchases, cross-developer bundles, and enterprise volume buying — changes that…

Harvard, Princeton map every neuron in fruit fly nervous system

A large international team led by Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published the first complete wiring diagram of all neuronal connections in the central nervous system of an adult fruit fly, a milestone that reveals motor control operates…

OpenAI outlines ‘third phase’ plan, files for IPO

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published a blog post on Monday declaring the company is entering its "third phase," shifting its ambitions from research breakthroughs and product launches toward making advanced AI universally accessible and safe.