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Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.2 under an open MIT licence
China's Zhipu AI shipped GLM-5.2, a large mixture-of-experts model with a one million token context window, under a permissive MIT licence.

The best Prime Day 2026 tech deals still live before it ends tonight
Amazon Prime Day 2026 ends tonight. Here are the tech deals reviewers actually rate, still in stock, with the real prices and who each one is for.

OpenAI built its own chip to stop paying Nvidia so much
OpenAI revealed Jalapeno, its first custom inference processor built with Broadcom, as it signs giant compute deals and tries to cut the cost of ...

Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro can now read 2 million tokens at once
Gemini 3.5 Pro is reaching general availability with a 2-million-token context window and a Deep Think reasoning mode, the largest context window in ...

Police just seized 106 servers from a botnet that ran for a decade
Law enforcement disrupted SocGholish, an access broker tied to Evil Corp, seizing 106 servers and cleaning 15,000 hijacked WordPress sites pushing ...

SpaceX just paid $60 billion for Cursor, the coding tool your developers cannot quit
SpaceX is buying Anysphere, maker of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock. The biggest startup acquisition on record, four days after the ...

Hackers claim they stole 8.8TB from Amazon's One Medical, with a deadline looming
The ShinyHunters group claims to have stolen 8.8TB from Amazon-owned One Medical and set a 22 June deadline. One Medical has confirmed a separate ...

Ariane 6 sets a European payload record with 36 Amazon satellites and upgraded boosters
On June 17, 2026, an upgraded Ariane 64 launched 36 Amazon Leo satellites, setting a new payload record for European rockets at 22 tonnes. The mission ...

NASA names the Artemis III crew, and what the mission actually does might surprise you
Four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, including ESA's Luca Parmitano as the first European on an Artemis crew. But the mission won't land on the ...

The largest commercial comms satellites ever are now in orbit, and they talk to your phone
AST SpaceMobile launched three BlueBird Block 2 satellites on June 17, 2026. Each one spans around 2,400 square feet of antenna and is designed to ...

Astrobotic is joining Voyager Technologies in a $300 million deal, and its Moon base mission continues
Lunar lander company Astrobotic has agreed to be acquired by defence tech firm Voyager Technologies for up to $300 million. NASA's Moon Base II ...

ChatGPT's market share just fell below 50% for the first time
ChatGPT hit 46.4% of the AI assistant market in May 2026, the first time below 50% since its 2022 launch. Gemini is at 27.7%. Claude reached 10.3% ...

China is spending $295 billion on AI infrastructure. Here is what that actually means.
China's National Development and Reform Commission is finalising a five-year, $295 billion plan to build a nationwide AI data centre network. Nvidia ...

The bosses of Anthropic and Google DeepMind pitched G7 leaders on a shared AI rulebook
At the G7 summit in France, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis pitched a US-led coalition to coordinate AI safety standards and ...

A Pacific Ocean rock just confirmed an ancient neutron star collision from 100 million years ago
Plutonium-244 found in a ferromanganese rock from the Pacific Ocean floor traces to a kilonova that happened roughly 100 million years ago. Published ...

The man who helped invent every AI chatbot just joined OpenAI
Noam Shazeer co-invented the Transformer, built the architecture tricks that make AI cheap to run, and just left Google for OpenAI. Here is why it ...

NotebookLM turns your own documents into a research assistant you can actually trust
NotebookLM is Google's free AI tool that answers questions using only the documents you upload, with citations, plus an audio overview feature.

OpenAI just gave its security AI a significant upgrade
GPT-5.5-Cyber now scores 85.6% on CyberGym, up from 81.8%. OpenAI updated its Daybreak cybersecurity platform today. Here is what changed and what it ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope launches August 30, eight months ahead of schedule
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is confirmed for August 30, 2026, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. With 100 times Hubble's field of view, it will ...

Sony's Xperia 1 VIII is here, and it just outran the Pixel in benchmarks
Sony's Xperia 1 VIII launched in Europe on 19 June 2026 with Android 16 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, beating the Pixel 10 Pro XL in benchmarks.

Soundcore's new earbuds put an AI note-taker in the charging case
The Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Max costs $229.99 and its case has a 1.78-inch AMOLED screen plus an AI Note-Taker that records and summarises meetings.

China's Tianwen-2 has arrived at the asteroid that might be a piece of our Moon
China's Tianwen-2 probe reached quasi-moon asteroid Kamoʻoalewa on June 7, 2026. It's now mapping the surface before attempting the first-ever sample ...

Typeahead adds AI autocomplete to every app on your Mac for a one-time fee
Typeahead is a $79 one-time purchase that puts AI autocomplete at your cursor in any Mac app. Local processing, no subscription, works offline. Here ...

Waymo just recalled nearly 4,000 robotaxis after some drove into freeway construction zones
Waymo is recalling about 3,900 robotaxis with a software fix after 13 incidents where cars drove into freeway construction zones in Phoenix and San ...

The man who helped invent every AI chatbot just joined OpenAI
Noam Shazeer co-invented the Transformer, built the architecture tricks that make AI cheap to run, and just left Google for OpenAI. Here is why it ...