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SK Hynix ships first 12-layer HBM4E samples to AI customers

18-06-2026 10:07 via thenextweb.com

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it had begun shipping samples of HBM4E, its next generation of high-bandwidth memory for AI, to major customers. The number that matters is the one the chipmaker is leading with: a 12-layer stack reaching 48GB of capacity, running at up to 16Gbps per pin, with power efficiency improved by […]
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Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO

19-06-2026 23:42 via thenextweb.com

President Donald Trump said in a pretaped Axios interview that he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat, marking a sharp reversal from the administration’s aggressive posture toward the AI company over the past three months. Asked whether he considers Anthropic a threat, Trump replied, “Well, not now. But a week ago, maybe.” […]
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Asus is charging $4,799 for an RTX 5080 gaming laptop that costs more than last year’s RTX 5090 model

19-06-2026 23:11 via thenextweb.com

Asus has quietly added an RTX 5080 configuration to the ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) in the US, and the price is $4,799. That is $200 more than the 2025 ROG Zephyrus G16 with a more powerful RTX 5090 GPU and 64GB of RAM, which is currently available on Amazon and Newegg for $4,599. A newer […]
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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years

19-06-2026 22:24 via thenextweb.com

John Jumper, the Google DeepMind vice president who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating AlphaFold, is leaving the company after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. Jumper announced the move on X on Thursday, saying he would take some time to recharge before starting at the Claude maker. Both Google DeepMind and […]
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NASA’s new rover prototype drove 16 miles in a week, 10 times faster than anything it has on Mars

19-06-2026 21:52 via thenextweb.com

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has built a rover prototype that covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving, making it roughly 10 times faster than any rover the agency currently operates on Mars. The four-wheeled machine, called ERNEST, reached speeds of up to 0.6mph during a field test in California’s Colorado Desert in March 2026. […]
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Amazon has dropped its nearly finished Sam Altman film, four months after investing $50B in OpenAI

19-06-2026 21:23 via thenextweb.com

Amazon MGM Studios has dropped Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Variety and Deadline reported on Thursday. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield as Altman, had tested well with early audiences and was being shown to other studios the same day Amazon confirmed it would not release it. The decision […]
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Sony’s $7.85M PlayStation Store antitrust settlement has been preliminarily approved

19-06-2026 20:52 via thenextweb.com

A US federal court has preliminarily approved a $7.85 million settlement in an antitrust class action alleging that Sony monopolised the market for digital PlayStation games by eliminating competition from third-party retailers. The settlement, approved on 8 April, covers approximately 4.4 million PlayStation owners in the United States, according to court filings. The case, Caccuri […]
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Norway is banning generative AI in elementary schools starting this autumn

19-06-2026 20:34 via thenextweb.com

Norway will ban the use of generative AI tools by elementary school children starting from the new school year in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced on Friday. The ban applies to students in first through seventh grade, covering ages six to 13, according to Reuters. Støre said at a press conference that […]
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17 fusion startups have now raised over $100M each, and the total keeps climbing

19-06-2026 20:25 via thenextweb.com

The number of fusion startups that have raised more than $100 million has reached 17, according to a TechCrunch tally published Thursday, with total private investment in the sector now exceeding $13 billion. Two of the most recent rounds, Helion Energy’s $465 million raise and Focused Energy’s $240 million Series A, both closed in June […]
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The bet against bigger models: Aether AI lands $20mn for causal AI

19-06-2026 19:22 via thenextweb.com

Most of the AI industry is betting that bigger models mean smarter machines. A new startup is betting the opposite. Aether AI, based in San Diego, has raised a $20mn seed round to chase a different idea entirely. Its founder thinks the next leap will not come from scale. It will come from teaching machines […]
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A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware

19-06-2026 19:11 via thenextweb.com

AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links that shuttle data between them are running out of road. So the industry is racing to move that traffic onto light instead. HyperLight, a startup spun out of Harvard, has […]
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France just put another €13bn into the funding model the rest of Europe wants to copy

19-06-2026 19:00 via thenextweb.com

France has found another €13bn for its tech sector. And it barely cost the state a thing. The money comes through Tibi, a programme that nudges French insurers and pension funds to back venture and growth funds instead of safer, lower-yield assets. The finance ministry announced this third phase at VivaTech on Friday. The goal […]
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Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust.

19-06-2026 18:46 via thenextweb.com

Hackers are not really breaking in any more. They are walking through doors we hold open for them. This past week made the shift plain. Two campaigns showed that the things developers trust most, open-source code and AI tools, have become the easiest way to attack them. 1,000 poisoned packages The first is a group […]
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The UK’s top data and AI regulator has quit, a first in the office’s 40-year history

19-06-2026 18:30 via thenextweb.com

The UK’s top data and AI regulator has resigned. It is the first time it has ever happened. John Edwards stepped down as information commissioner on Friday, with immediate effect. His exit followed a months-long workplace investigation. He said his position had become “untenable”. What he admitted Edwards was careful in his statement, posted on […]
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Google’s AI is confidently telling people that horror fan-fiction monsters are real

19-06-2026 18:10 via thenextweb.com

Google’s AI is having trouble telling horror stories from real life. Ask it about certain online monsters, and it will describe them as documented fact. According to a report by Futurism, Google’s AI Overviews repeatedly present entries from the “SCP Foundation” as real. The SCP Foundation is a vast collaborative fan-fiction project. Its “anomalies” are […]
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Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI hires Trump’s AI-policy architect and Google’s transformer pioneer

19-06-2026 17:54 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI is hiring for its stock-market debut on two very different fronts. One is the research lab. The other is Washington. This week, the company said Dean Ball will join on 6 July to lead a new team called Strategic Futures. Ball is not a researcher. He is a policy operator, and until recently he […]
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Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos for ‘first-class groveling’, new book claims

19-06-2026 17:43 via thenextweb.com

A new book paints an unflattering picture of how Silicon Valley’s most powerful men handled Donald Trump’s return to power. According to its authors, they grovelled. And Trump, they write, mocked them for it behind their backs. The book is “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump”, by the New York Times reporters […]
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A startup says it cracked the maths bottleneck holding back AI. It finally has the receipts.

19-06-2026 17:27 via thenextweb.com

A Miami startup says it has cracked a maths problem that has made AI models slow and power-hungry for almost a decade. The claim was bold enough to draw comparisons with Theranos. Now, though, the company has independent test results that back much of it up. The startup is called Subquadratic. It came out of […]
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As Jio files for India’s biggest-ever IPO, it’s planning a Starlink rival in orbit

19-06-2026 17:13 via thenextweb.com

At its annual shareholder meeting on Friday, Reliance unveiled two things at once: paperwork for what could be India’s biggest-ever stock-market listing, and a plan to put a Starlink rival into orbit. Jio Platforms, the digital and telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, filed draft papers for an initial public offering widely expected to […]
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Google is using Nvidia’s own playbook to break its grip on AI chips

19-06-2026 16:59 via thenextweb.com

To build a serious rival to Nvidia, Google has reached for Nvidia’s own playbook. A Wall Street Journal investigation lays out how Google is using financial guarantees and what the industry calls “circular financing”, the very tactics that helped make demand for Nvidia’s chips unstoppable, to win data-centre customers for its own silicon. The clearest […]
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Immigrant-focused VC Geek Ventures returns with larger checks

19-06-2026 16:50 via thenextweb.com

Immigrant founders have long played a significant role in U.S. technology, but access to early-stage capital often still depends on local networks, customer introductions and proximity to established investors. That gap has created room for a small number of venture firms focused on immigrant, diaspora and cross-border founders, a category that has grown in recent years. […]
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The US says one of ASML’s top chip tools is in China. ASML says it isn’t.

19-06-2026 16:38 via thenextweb.com

The US has accused the one company on Earth that makes the machines behind cutting-edge chips of letting one slip into China. It has not shown its proof, and the company says it never happened. In a series of recent meetings, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ASML’s senior leaders that Washington believes one of its […]
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Bernie Sanders’ AI bill would hand the public half of OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI

19-06-2026 16:23 via thenextweb.com

Bernie Sanders has turned a talking point into a bill, and it goes further than anything Silicon Valley or the White House has put on the table. On Thursday, the Vermont senator introduced legislation that would hit the largest AI companies with a one-time 50 per cent tax on their stock, paid in shares rather […]
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AI’s memory crunch just killed a phone. Even Apple flinched.

19-06-2026 16:09 via thenextweb.com

For a year, AI’s hunger for memory chips was a price story: your next laptop or phone would cost more. This week it became a product story. Nothing has scrapped its planned CMF Phone 3 Pro, with a co-founder saying the company could not build a budget phone that felt like “a genuine step forward” […]
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A city hit pause on AI data centres. Amazon responded by investigating its own engineers.

19-06-2026 15:37 via thenextweb.com

The backlash against AI data centres used to be a local zoning story. This week, it became a fight inside Amazon. Three Amazon engineers, Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani and Liesl Wigand, say the company placed them under investigation after they testified to Seattle’s city council in favour of regulating data centres. They have filed a […]
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Big Tech spent two years warning AI would take your job. Now its bosses say the opposite.

19-06-2026 15:15 via thenextweb.com

For two years, the people building AI told us it was coming for our jobs. This month, the same people started saying it will create them. Speaking in Paris, Jeff Bezos said AI would cause “a labour shortage”, not mass unemployment, and would unlock almost endless demand for builders and entrepreneurs. Days earlier, Sam Altman […]
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AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.

19-06-2026 14:47 via thenextweb.com

The videos are everywhere, and the offer is always the same. Let AI do your homework, and you will not get caught. According to a New York Times investigation, TikTok and YouTube are now full of tutorials selling students two kinds of tool. Humanisers rewrite AI-generated text so it no longer reads like a chatbot. […]
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Warren raises €10M to fix Belgium’s broken workplace pensions

19-06-2026 14:33 via thenextweb.com

The typical Belgian works for about 40 years and retires with a workplace pension worth less than a second-hand car. Warren, a Ghent-based fintech, wants to fix that. The company has raised €10mn in a seed round led by Motive Ventures, the venture arm of transatlantic investor Motive Partners. F Capital joined, alongside returning backers […]
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The world thinks China is winning the AI race. It just doesn’t trust the winner.

19-06-2026 14:25 via thenextweb.com

Ask people around the world who is winning the AI race, and a surprising number now answer: China. In 11 of the 15 countries polled for a new report by the London consultancy Public First, a clear majority said they believe China is now ahead of the United States on AI capability and innovation. The […]
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Two AIs just matched or beat doctors on diagnosis. The catch: none of the patients were real.

19-06-2026 14:02 via thenextweb.com

Two AI systems have matched, and in places beaten, doctors at diagnosing patients and planning their treatment. Then again, none of the patients were real. The results, published in Nature this week, are some of the strongest evidence yet that specialist medical AI is closing in on human clinicians. They are also a textbook case […]
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