OpenAI says Codex approach up for 99.8% of its AI work

OpenAI published a research paper on Wednesday detailing how its Codex platform has evolved from a developer-focused coding…

Crypto M&A funding surged 26-fold in six months, CryptoRank data shows

Crypto mergers and acquisitions reached $9.37 billion in the first half of 2026, driven by traditional finance players…

New cell death mechanism found in Alzheimer’s brains

Researchers at King's College London have identified a previously unknown form of programmed cell death called karyoptosis in…

PetroChina, Sinopec weigh resuming Iran oil buys after U.S. waiver

China's major state-owned refiners are considering restarting purchases of Iranian crude oil for the first time since 2019,…

Gold, silver and Bitcoin slide as hawkish Fed unwinds ‘debasement trade’

Gold fell below $4,000 per ounce on Wednesday for the first time since November 2025, silver breached $60…

Microsoft raises Xbox prices as memory shortage hits tech hardware

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will raise Xbox console prices worldwide starting August 1, citing the ongoing…

Gold falls below $4,000 as AI rally and Iran deal erode safe-haven demand

Spot gold fell below $4,000 per ounce on Wednesday, June 24, for the first time since November 2025,…

IMF says energy prices fell after US-Iran deal but normalization will take time

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that energy and commodity prices have fallen since the US-Iran agreement…

Apple to skip M6 Pro and Max chips, jump to M7 in 2027

Apple is breaking from its established chip cadence by forgoing higher-end versions of its upcoming M6 processor and…

Google’s Android alert system warned Venezuela before twin earthquakes hit

Millions of Android smartphone users in Venezuela received early warning notifications seconds before two devastating earthquakes struck the…

Euro drops to lowest level since mid-2025 as US inflation hits 4.1%

The euro slid to its weakest point against the US dollar in over a year on Wednesday, touching…

FIFA allows rainbow flags at World Cup despite Iran, Egypt objections

FIFA has confirmed that fans will be permitted to bring rainbow flags into Seattle Stadium for Friday's World…

Insurers slash war premiums for Strait of Hormuz ships

Insurers have cut war-risk premiums for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz by more than half, as oil…

Allianz CIO warns SpaceX bond sale signals ‘bubble territory’

SpaceX completed a record $25 billion inaugural bond sale on Tuesday, less than two weeks after its historic…

Brazil to raise up to $735M in first Latin American panda bond

Brazil announced plans to raise up to 5 billion yuan ($735 million) through its first-ever sovereign panda bond…

Cambridge team uses base editing to study gene function in human embryos for first time

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have used base editing for the first time to study gene function…

AI race shifts to ‘world models’ as startups and tech giants invest billions

A new front is opening in the artificial intelligence race as researchers, startups, and tech giants pivot from…

Paris court orders TotalEnergies to account for consumer emissions

A Paris court ruled on Thursday that TotalEnergies must account for the greenhouse gas emissions linked to its…

DeepSeek plans to double its 170-person team after raising $7.4B

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek announced plans to at least double the size of all its departments, marking…

BMW deploys Figure 03 robots as Figure AI’s fleet surpasses its human workforce

Humanoid robotics startup Figure AI has crossed a threshold that until recently belonged to science fiction: the company…

Google makes AI coding strike team permanent to chase Anthropic

Google Alphabet Inc. is reorganizing its months-old AI coding strike team, broadening its focus beyond coding tools to…

AI unlocks full text of sealed Herculaneum scroll

Researchers working with the Vesuvius Challenge announced on Wednesday that they have virtually unwrapped and read the full…

EU moves to designate AWS and Azure as gatekeepers under DMA

The European Commission on Thursday issued preliminary findings that Amazon Web Services Amazon.com, Inc. and Microsoft Azure should…

Google Play Store opens external billing June 30

Google Alphabet Inc. is set to implement sweeping changes to its Play Store billing model on June 30,…

Kioxia targets spring 2027 US listing after 900% stock surge

Kioxia Holdings, the Japanese flash memory maker that has become the most valuable company on the Tokyo Stock…

Meta targets 90% AI replacement of human moderators

Meta is rapidly replacing human content moderators with large language models across its platforms, with AI systems already…

SK Hynix files for $29B Nasdaq listing amid AI stock selloff

A broad selloff in technology stocks deepened on Tuesday, June 23, as investors reassessed the sustainability of hundreds…

Apple pulls VK apps from App Store, drawing Kremlin rebuke

Apple removed apps belonging to Russia's largest social media company VK from its App Store on Thursday, prompting…

Apple hikes Mac and iPad prices up to $1,300 amid memory chip crisis

Apple on Thursday raised prices across its Mac and iPad lineups, with increases of $100 to $300 per…

Gartner warns AI coding costs will top developer salaries by 2028

Enterprise spending on AI coding tools is on track to exceed the average software developer's salary by 2028,…