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South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers

Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in Sunoo, a matchmaking company based in Seoul, a year ago. In a move typical of anxious South Korean parents

Worldmodeldata lands £7M to turn gaming data into AI training

Cambridge-basedstartup Worldmodeldata has raised £7 million in seed funding as it emerged fromstealth. The round was led by Iona Star Capital, a London-based venture capitalfirm focused on early-stage

France’s Skello secures €200 million to grow its AI tools for frontline workforce management

Paris-based Skello, an AI-powered HR management solution for frontline teams, announces a €200 million investment in order to accelerate its European expansion and its ongoing investments in AI. The i

Shampoo and cookies get an AI makeover as consumer giants rewire their labs

The AI story has mostly been told through chips, data centres, and the companies building the models. It is now being told through the shampoo aisle. The world’s largest makers of everyday goods, the

The UN says AI is moving faster than the rules, and it has a report to prove it

The United Nations has put a number of its concerns about artificial intelligence into a single document, and the headline finding is not subtle. AI capabilities, the organisation says, are accelerati

Samsung heads for an 18-fold profit jump as AI memory demand runs hot

Analysts expect around 86 trillion won in second-quarter operating profit, a third straight record, as DRAM and NAND prices climb. Samsung Electronics is on course for one of the strangest earnings co

Is the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ a myth? The real cost of AI-built software

Before replacing SaaS subscriptions with internally built AI software, executives should evaluate the full lifecycle cost of ownership rather than focusing on development cost alone. The key question

From Grid Constraints to Energy Abundance: How Envision's Gobi X Could Power Europe's AI Future [Sponsored]

At VivaTech's tenth edition, the question was no longer whether AI reshapes the physical world, but how nations can secure the infrastructure that powers it. Envision's Mission Gobi offers Europe one

‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre

Suspicions grow in Lanarkshire that local people have been misled on supposed benefits of the huge development Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise Wh

Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise

Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’ ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI data

Sherpa.ai raises $18M to support data-sovereign AI development

Sherpa.ai, a company specialisingin artificial intelligence for data privacy and security, has raised $18million in a funding round to accelerate the development of its AI platform forenterprises and

Some of the nation’s rich are letting AI teach their kids

Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy,

AI-native startups hire fewer juniors and more elites, Harvard study finds

Startups built around AI hire fewer entry-level workers than their peers, according to a working paper from Harvard Business School and INSEAD, first reported by Business Insider. The firms are leaner

AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper

Exclusive: Foreign secretary warns of combined risks of AI, climate crisis, irregular migration and foreign interference Artificial intelligence poses a “Hiroshima”-style risk to humanity if governmen

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

US control of frontier AI hangs over NATO’s Ankara summit

Donald Trump arrives at next week’s NATO summit in Ankara holding unusual leverage, because the US decides which allies get access to the world’s most advanced AI, Politico reports. The alliance meets

Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI

I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google "Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And thing

NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services

Update in England expected to reach about 200,000 patients over the next year as part of £10bn package to overhaul NHS systems The NHS will begin using AI on its app to direct patients to the appropri

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?

Doctors’ soaring use of AI scribes prompts Australian government warning over privacy

Exclusive: With the technology fast becoming popular in GP surgeries, regulators are monitoring its implementation and potential pitfalls Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get o

Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage

As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.

Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment

Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical It was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Sta

The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself

Fanfiction communities are trying to hunt down writers who haven’t written works with their own hands. | Image: Álvaro Bernis / The Verge Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off,

How AI is changing language

As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson refl

The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

 A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible

It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve left the body. When surgeons attempted it a few years ago, the n

UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears

Exclusive: National Crime Agency and safety watchdog issue guidance amid rise in explicit material online AI prey: why watchdogs are telling parents to protect children from nudification apps Parent

Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs

At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, an

The Download: a smoking “endgame” and a new Elizabeth Bear story

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporti

A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered

A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions. | Image: Midjourney Medical Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scann

Starling Bank to axe 130 jobs

Starling Bank is set to cut around 130 jobs, as it looks to simplify its operations and cut duplication amid an AI push across the UK challenger bank. The cuts follow a dip in profits and revenues at

London’s geoSurge raises €10 million to help brands understand AI-generated outputs

geoSurge, a British DeepTech AI company helping brands shape how they are represented inside generative AI systems, announced a €10 million ($12 million) Seed round to expand its global research and e

Takeda signs US$600M AI drug discovery deal with Insilico

Takeda has entered a strategic collaboration with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine to use AI in early-stage drug discovery across the Japanese pharmaceutical company’s therapeutic areas. The companie

Pytorch: the software layer underpinning Europe's AI ambitions

Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models

The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway.

As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is different from mine. The seven-year-old is learning about AI at school. The five-year-old is given internet-based homework

3,000% bonuses but a growing wealth divide: South Korea grapples with its AI chip boom

Powered by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korea is seeing a surge in wealth, but there are questions over who gets to share in the profits When South Korea’s most high-profile divo

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.

Microsoft Bets on Humans to Scale AI

Microsoft Frontier Company is the latest example of how experts are necessary to achieving returns on AI investments.

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But lo and behold.

Newly discovered PamStealer isn't your typical macOS malware

The discovery underscores the increased effort being poured into Mac infostealers.

Prompt: The Next AI Challenge Isn't the Model. It's the Organization.

AWS's $1 billion investment in embedded AI engineers reflects a broader shift as enterprises focus less on choosing models and more on putting AI to work.

Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket

Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

Achieving operational excellence with AI

Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos—a structured way to bring order to messy, sprawling operations. Le

OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI

Why software is the solution to the AI energy crisis

The AI energy crisis is not what it seems like. You may not know, Stanford research found that advanced economy power grids run at an average utilisation of just 30%. While research from Duke Universi

NVIDIA BioNeMo accelerates Anthropic Claude Science

Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life sciences research. Anthropic has launched the public beta of Claude Science, an AI workbench b

Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

Teaching AI to run with the turbines

Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfolding far from consumer-facing tools. In in

The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying

Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now

Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.

BidScript reports up to 50% higher tender win rates as it secures €701k pre-Seed funding

Manchester-based BidScript, an AI-native, tender management platform aiming to help businesses find, qualify, manage, write and submit bids for public and private sector contracts, has announced it ha

OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom 

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin

Why California’s carbon manure math doesn’t add up

Something stinks in California’s climate policies. Years ago, the state set up a system that pays cattle farmers across the country to turn the methane emitted from cattle manure into natural gas, enc

Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office

Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office and Google Apps with AI.

T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.

The latest AI news we announced in June 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.