Ronaldo joins Messi in record sixth World Cup appearance

Cristiano Ronaldo became the second man in history to appear at six FIFA World Cups on Wednesday, starting…

AI chiefs join G7 leaders to discuss global standards

The chief executives of the world's most powerful artificial intelligence companies sat down Wednesday with heads of state…

ASML CEO warns of supply strain from Musk’s Terafab

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet warned Wednesday that the chip equipment maker must guard against supply constraints as it…

Anthropic CEO joins rival AI leaders at G7 summit

Anthropic has vaulted past OpenAI to become the world's most valuable AI startup after closing a $65 billion…

G7 leaders push ‘trusted partners’ plan for access to restricted US AI models

As the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, drew to a close on Wednesday, leaders from the world's wealthiest…

UK quantum sensor clears key hurdle in dark matter search

Researchers at Imperial College London have demonstrated for the first time that a prototype quantum sensor can cancel…

Ghost particle traced to star-forming galaxy 11B light-years away

Astronomers have linked a high-energy neutrino detected by the IceCube Observatory in Antarctica to a distant, dust-choked galaxy…

Von der Leyen signals no third term as EU chief

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen does not intend to run for a third term when her…

G7 summit wraps up with pledges on debt, Ebola, development reform

The 52nd G7 Summit concluded Wednesday in Évian-les-Bains, France, after three days of talks that produced joint declarations…

Bezos says colonizing the Moon is key to saving Earth

Jeff Bezos took the stage at VivaTech in Paris on Wednesday to argue that colonizing the Moon is…

Trump says Anthropic talks ‘going fine’ at G7 AI lunch

President Trump told reporters at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, that negotiations with Anthropic are "going fine,"…

Imperial Roman villa unearthed near Rome after illegal dig

A lavish Roman villa from the imperial era has been uncovered at Castel di Guido, about 19 kilometers…

Google opens pre-orders for its first smart speaker in six years

Google Alphabet Inc. on Tuesday began accepting pre-orders for the Google Home Speaker, a $99.99 device that marks…

Odyssey ML raises $310M to build AI world models

Odyssey ML, a startup developing AI systems that simulate the physical world, has raised $310 million at a…

EU cyber agency to meet Anthropic amid Fable 5 export ban fallout

The U.S. Commerce Department's unprecedented use of export controls to force Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI…

AMD, Google, BYD, Tesla eye Samsung for chip production

Samsung Electronics is drawing growing interest from several of the world's largest technology companies for contract chip manufacturing,…

Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks

Chinese AI startup Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu AI, released GLM-5.2 as an open-weights model on June 16,…

Microsoft confirms work on patch for Defender zero-day

Microsoft has formally acknowledged a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, now tracked as CVE-2026-50656…

Mistral pitches open-source AI after US ban on Anthropic models abroad

The French AI startup Mistral is seizing on a wave of European anxiety over U.S. export controls to…

Tech giants pledge $915M more for carbon removal

Frontier, the advance market commitment backed by some of the world's largest technology companies, announced on Wednesday that…

OpenAI unveils method to predict AI behavior before release

OpenAI on Monday published a new pre-deployment safety method called Deployment Simulation, designed to predict how AI models…

Samsung builds world’s first 3D stacked transistor at record 42nm pitch

Samsung Electronics announced on Tuesday that its Semiconductor Research Center has demonstrated the world's first 3D Stacked Field-Effect…

Apple eyes 1.4nm chips for 2028 iPhones, considers Intel as supplier

Apple is planning to equip its high-end 2028 iPhones with chips built on a 1.4-nanometer process, marking the…

Stellantis, Wayve, and Uber team up on global robotaxi plan

Stellantis, Wayve, and Uber announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding on June 17, 2026, to jointly develop and…

Top AI CEOs meet with G7 leaders amid European sovereignty fears

The heads of the three most powerful frontier AI labs — OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and…

Plutonium from ancient cosmic explosion found on Pacific Ocean floor

Debris from a cataclysmic cosmic explosion more than 100 million years ago is still falling on Earth today.…

Yale team finds third galaxy with no dark matter

A Yale-led team of astronomers has confirmed that a faint dwarf galaxy 67 million light-years from Earth contains…

Messi ties all-time World Cup goal record with hat trick

Lionel Messi scored his first-ever World Cup hat trick on Tuesday night, leading Argentina to a 3-0 victory…

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…

Haaland scores twice in World Cup debut as Norway rout Iraq

Erling Haaland needed just 29 minutes to announce himself on the World Cup stage, scoring twice and adding…