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South Korea announced a massive government-backed investment plan totaling 1 trillion across three pillars: semiconductors, AI data centers, and physical AI robotics, to position the country as a lead

Yi Whan-woo / The Korea Times: South Korea unveils plans for new AI data centers backed by ~$357.5B from SK Group, GS Group, and Naver, targeting 8.4GW initially and 18.4GW by 2035 — President Lee Jae

Agentic security company Straiker Inc. today revealed that it has raised 64 million in new funding to expand a platform built that secures the artificial intelligence agents now spreading across enter

Chris Metinko / Axios: Straiker, which develops tech for securing enterprise AI agents, raised a 64M Series A, bringing its total funding to 85M — Straiker, which secures AI agents, raised a $64 milli

In the agentic era, the role of the database has fundamentally changed. It is no longer a passive repository; it’s a critical context engine designed to ground generative AI apps, models and power aut

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that broad geofence surveillance constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. The ruling does

We recently announced the preview of the BigQuery AI.AGG() function. With AI.AGG(), you can use natural-language instructions within a single line of SQL to summarize or synthesize information over mi

Written by: James Sadowski, Alden Wahlstrom Introduction Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russia influence ecosystem has evolved from a tool of war back into a global s

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 inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful

Financial Times: The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back — FCA eases capital and disclosu

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains for illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches; last week, ACE, UEFA, and more shut down 44 domains linked to PirloTV — The

A think tank conducted research examining how the Space Force should respond to space warfare scenarios, with experts envisioning various ways satellites and spacecraft might be used in gray-zone or w

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: Tidal adopts an AI policy that blocks wholly AI-generated music from earning royalties and removes AI-generated music that impersonates artists — TIDAL is in

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to 'protect artists' and 'inform listeners.' Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal wil

Learn how TrueFoundry AI Gateway exports OpenTelemetry traces to Arize AX so teams can trace, evaluate, and monitor production LLM and agent traffic without embedding a vendor SDK in every service. Th

Many organizations today are floating in a ton of data. This is good for powering AI agents, but less favorable when it comes to identifying which signals from all of that data actually matter. The so

Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Scott Gatreau, Director of Information Security, at Turner Industries, a privately owned industrial contractor that provides construction, maintenance, and fabricatio

The U.S. Department of State is offering up to $10 million for information identifying or locating members of the UNC5792 and UNC4221 hacker groups linked to Russia's intelligence and military service

Coal generation hit an all-time monthly low of 39.3 TWh in April 2026, and solar subsequently overtook coal in the US electricity mix for the first month on record in May 2026. Coal's share of the US

Vercel increased the maximum package size limit for Vercel Functions from its previous threshold to 5GB, enabling developers to deploy larger applications and dependencies. This enhancement expands th

The Vercel Open Source Program Spring 2026 cohort announcement highlights selected open source projects that have been accepted into Vercel's sponsorship and support initiative for the spring 2026 per

Bloomberg: Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~4B in combined yearly revenue; Verizon will pay 625M to BT — Verizon Communications Inc. and

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Waymo and Uber quietly ended their partnership in Phoenix in May; Uber says it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city — Waymo robotax

Amazon Web Services’ new mandate is turning agentic hype into practical applications for the public sector. That will be the focus of the company’s upcoming event, AWS Summit Washington, D.C. Kicking

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: WhatsApp rolls out username reservations globally, allowing users to claim a unique name before the privacy-focused feature launches later this year — Following years of antic

A featurette showing Laika's process for crafting the stop-motion film, featuring nearly two-and-a-half minutes of the studio's crew building out the world in perfect detail. The featurette reveals ne

xAI's Grok audio models are now accessible through the Vercel AI Gateway, expanding the platform's capabilities for developers to integrate advanced audio processing into their applications. This inte

Wired: A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including “transfer station” sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users — As Anthropic tightens restricti

Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic — Andreou, who onc

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: An analysis of US payroll data across 730+ occupations: employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is now shrinking by 3.8% per year — Last August, a

Alistair Gray / Financial Times: Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $502M for using Optis' wireless patents — Battle

Bloomberg: Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; the 360 MW Nvidia DSX AI factory campus is developed with DayOne — Firmus Technologies Pty Lt

Jackson Chen / Engadget: Australian government says it plans to double the maximum penalty for any social media company breaking its minimum age law and grant more powers to enforcers — The fine can n

New York Times: Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent scouting, is embracing AI-powered scouting apps that assess players by analyzing video clips and more — Recruitment apps powere

China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from

With organizations reorganizing themselves to put artificial intelligence at the center, we’ve seen a shift from information being valuable to being a means of achieving intelligence, which is far mor

Within hours of the first U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran in February 2026, hacktivists went to work launching massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Both pro- and anti-Iranian groups targete

New York Times: Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ people in Venezuela, giving them seconds or up to two minutes notice before two powerful earthquakes struck — Jose Flores was driving w

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: GPT-5.6 system card indicates Sol is well below the level of most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could be released without del

Hack Your Summer I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who want

HP Inc. has launched a strategic partnership with OpenAI called Frontier, aimed at integrating OpenAI's AI capabilities into HP's products and services. The partnership likely focuses on enhancing HP'

Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raised ~1B at a ~5B valuation, including from Mercedes-Benz, which has a handful of Apptronik's Apollo robots in its factories — Jeff Carden

Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Jefferies: memory prices are expected to rise 40-50% in Q3 2026 and 30-40% in Q4, as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide meaningful near-term relief — Memory price

This article discusses recent open-source AI model releases and developments from three companies—Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside—and their contributions to expanding the broader AI ecosystem. It likely

Marton Eder / Bloomberg: Letter: Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to boost bloc independence from US and Chinese tech — Austria is pu

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