26 Jun 2026
Epoch AI analysed 1,604 job postings from six of China's leading AI companies — DeepSeek, Alibaba, ByteDance, MiniMax, Moonshot, and Z.ai — and found sharper signals than most reporting provides. The findings, published in June 2026, show continued Nvidia dependence alongside deliberate chip hedging, diverging business models, and a workforce built on young talent rather than experienced hands.
25 Jun 2026
OpenAI and Broadcom have announced Jalapeño, a custom processor built specifically for running large language models at scale. It is OpenAI's first chip and signals a deliberate effort to reduce its reliance on Nvidia. Here is what we know, what remains unverified, and why it matters if you use AI tools.
25 Jun 2026
Figma's annual Config conference this week brought code layers, built-in animation tools, AI-generated shaders, and smarter AI skills to the design platform. Taken together, the updates push Figma further into territory it once left to specialist tools — and give designers, product managers, and engineers fewer reasons to switch tabs.
25 Jun 2026
An open-source tool called Talos automatically re-analyses stored genetic test data each month as new scientific knowledge is published. In a study of 4,735 patients who had previously received inconclusive or negative results, it found 241 new diagnoses — all subsequently confirmed by accredited labs. The findings, published in Nature Medicine, suggest that for many families still without a diagnosis, the answer may already be in their data.
25 Jun 2026
The era of unlimited enterprise AI is drawing to a close. Companies from Uber to Walmart have begun capping staff access to AI tools — and leaked audio from one of the world's largest consultancies reveals the culprit is not who anyone expected.
25 Jun 2026
A Democratic House primary in Manhattan turned into the most expensive proxy fight yet over AI regulation — with the money on both sides coming from inside the AI industry. Here is who spent what, and why a local race matters for everyone.
25 Jun 2026
Oracle shed 21,000 workers in fiscal 2026 and told the US securities regulator why: AI deployment across its operations. That sentence in a legal filing carries a different weight than any earnings-call talking point.
25 Jun 2026
A leaked internal file suggests Madison Square Garden compiled a named list of the activists campaigning against its facial-recognition cameras — quoting their tweets and logging their contact details. It is a concrete look at what biometric surveillance at the door can quietly become.
25 Jun 2026
Nvidia's new data-centre design can cool AI chips with almost no water — a genuine efficiency leap. But "the water challenge is largely solved" is a bigger claim than the evidence supports. Here's what it covers, and what it leaves out.
25 Jun 2026
General Motors installed about 50 collaborative robots at its flagship Detroit EV plant months after laying off 1,300 workers. The headline writes itself — robots took the jobs. The real story is more tangled, and more useful.
25 Jun 2026
AI "virtual staging" now furnishes, repaints and reshapes rooms that look nothing like the real thing. Renters keep arriving to homes that don't match the pictures — and regulators are starting to act. Here's how the tools work and how to spot them.
25 Jun 2026
OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak security programme with "Patch the Planet", aiming AI not just at discovering vulnerabilities in software the world runs on — Linux, cURL, Python, FreeBSD, Chrome — but at fixing them. Real patches are landing. So is a flood of AI-generated noise the same maintainers can barely handle.