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Meta is building data centers in tents to keep up with AI compute demand
Six 125,000-square-foot rapid-deployment structures outside New Albany, Ohio, powered by 200 MW of off-grid gas turbines.
Apple to unveil Gemini-powered Siri rebuild at WWDC 2026
The conversational Siri overhaul, an AI agent app store, and Visual Intelligence upgrades headline Apple's developer conference Monday.
Google defends evaporative cooling as Microsoft, OpenAI retreat from it
Seven in ten Americans now oppose new data centers, and water is the top concern. The industry is splitting on how to answer.
TSMC says it can't keep up with AI chip demand even with $165B US buildout
CEO C.C. Wei warns of bottlenecks as TSMC pours $165B into Arizona and plans three more US plants to chase a $1T market by 2027.
Hello Robot ships Stretch 4 at $30,000, betting on home deployment over humanoids
The Martinez, California startup is shipping a wheeled home-assistance robot in cardboard boxes while rivals chase humanoid moonshots.
Platforms label AI content but refuse to let users filter it out
YouTube, Meta, TikTok, and Spotify decline to add an AI toggle as 20% of YouTube videos shown to new users qualify as generative slop.
Nvidia adds 18 games to GeForce NOW in June, led by Neverness to Everness
The cloud gaming service kicks off June with 10 titles this week, including Hota Studio's surreal open-world debut and a Gothic 1 remake.
Jeff Bezos backs Flourish, a $2.5B neuro-AI startup chasing the brain's algorithm
Thomas Reardon's New York lab raised $500M to build Cortex AI, a synthetic brain targeting 50 watts versus the 600+ watts of a single training chip.
AI-drafted lawsuits surge as courts weigh chatbot privilege and liability
Self-represented filings jumped from 11% to 16.8% of federal civil cases, with AI-written share rising from 1% to 18% in three years.
Amazon's next-gen Proteus warehouse robot takes spoken-language commands
The autonomous floor robot drops its code-only interface for natural-language tasking, with a European rollout planned for the first half of 2027.
Endava rebuilds software delivery around OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT Enterprise
The IT services firm is rolling agents into its delivery pipeline, betting that AI-native workflows replace the billable-hour model that built the industry.
OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs sign letter pushing DNA screening law to block AI bioweapons
Altman, Amodei, Hassabis and Suleyman want Congress to require gene synthesis providers to vet every order and customer.
Lovable signs multiyear Google Cloud deal for 5x usage jump
The Stockholm vibe-coding startup will lean harder on Claude and Gemini, and plug into Wiz and Google's enterprise agent marketplace.
Sam Altman to urge US lawmakers against requiring AI model approvals
The OpenAI chief plans to tell Congress that a federal pre-clearance regime for frontier models would slow US AI development.
UN researchers say AI will double data center power and water use by 2030
A new UN analysis projects AI workloads will push global data center electricity and water consumption to twice today's levels within five years.
xAI moves to unmask Grok deepfake plaintiffs in California federal court
Four pseudonymous claimants say revealing their names would invite doxing; xAI argues the case lacks the privacy interests that justify anonymity.
Google releases Gemma 4 12B, sized to run locally on a 16GB laptop
The new mid-weight Gemma slots between mobile and workstation variants, with model weights just under 18GB available on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
Gemini Spark and the $99/month productivity pitch hit a wage problem
A senior editor argues Google's new Gemini agent solves problems the tech industry created — while wages stay flat and yachts get bigger.
Google Labs launches Dreambeans, an AI app that turns your data into daily cartoons
The iOS and Android app pulls from Gmail, Calendar, Photos, YouTube and Search History to generate 10 to 14 illustrated stories a day.
Nvidia and Unitree pair Thor chip with H2 Plus humanoid in US-China robot blueprint
Jensen Huang's blueprint puts a Thor T5000 brain inside a 6-foot, 150-pound Chinese-built body — and undercuts rival humanoids on price.
Amazon's search bar now generates AI images of products you can't buy
The in-app feature surfaces invented clothing and home goods as you describe them, letting shoppers tap an image to find real lookalikes.
Nvidia unveils GraspGen-X, LCDrive and NitroGen foundation models at CVPR
Three new physical AI models target zero-shot robot grasping, faster autonomous-vehicle reasoning, and gameplay-trained embodied agents.
AethexAI raises $3M to build voice AI for Africa and Middle East dialects
Two ex-Goldman and Meta founders built sub-2B-parameter models from scratch to handle latency and dialects that ElevenLabs and Deepgram weren't designed for.
Amazon will show AI-generated product images in search results
The retailer is inserting synthetic product photos beneath autocomplete to help shoppers translate vague queries into visual search filters.
Nvidia ships physical AI agent skills at CVPR, anchored by 32B Alpamayo 2 Super
New agent skills built on Cosmos 3 automate scene reconstruction, simulation and policy training for AVs, robots and vision AI.
One year in, Alexandr Wang's TBD Lab ships Muse Spark as Meta plays AI catch-up
Mark Zuckerberg's $15B bet on a 28-year-old outsider has produced one model and a lot of internal friction.
Microsoft squares up against OpenAI at Build 2026 with seven in-house models
Mustafa Suleyman wants Microsoft counted alongside Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic — and is shipping models, agents, and a super app to prove it.
Coralogix raises $200M at $1.6B valuation to monitor AI agents
The observability vendor closed a Series F just 11 months after its $115M Series E, betting agentic software needs its own watchdog layer.
Meta rolls out Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram
After nearly two years of testing in India and Mexico, Meta's customer-service AI is going worldwide with token-based pricing for large accounts.
India IT stocks tumble on AI disruption fears, TCS plunges 9%
Tata Consultancy Services leads the rout as investors reprice India's outsourcing giants against a backdrop of agentic AI eating services revenue.
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