23 Jun 2026
DeepMind Chief Demis Hassabis says Google’s still winning AI talent
In an industry where a single breakthrough algorithm or architectural tweak can unlock billions in revenue, individual researchers have attained the kind of leverage and celebrity traditionally reserved for star athletes.
Reed Albergotti
2026
23 Jun 2026
Robot Memory Is The Next Big Robotics Frontier
Robotic memory getty Last week, MIT researchers introduced DAAAM , short for Describe Anything, Anywhere, at Any Moment. While the name is a bit long, the idea is simple: give robots a memory of the places they visit.
Ron Schmelzer
2026
23 Jun 2026
SpaceX raises $25 billion in debt sale less than two weeks after IPO
SpaceX employees go to work at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne on the day of their company's IPO, in Hawthorne, California, June 12, 2026. Mike Blake | Reuters Less than two weeks after its record IPO, SpaceX has raised $25 billion in a debt sale, CNBC has confirmed.
Lora Kolodny, Seema Mody
2026
23 Jun 2026
Tesla claims driver ‘manually overrode self-driving’ in deadly Texas crash
Tesla is pushing back on claims that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system caused a fatal Texas crash, where a speeding Model 3 barreled into a home, killing a 76-year-old woman inside.
Emma Roth
2026
23 Jun 2026
As top talent leaves Google DeepMind, some question if the lab can remain at the forefront of AI development
Welcome to Eye on AI. In today’s issue: Google DeepMind loses top AI talent, raising questions about its status in the AI race
Jeremy Kahn
2026
23 Jun 2026
Google's Secret Crisis: Why Search Volume Is At An All-Time High But The Company Is Panicking
Caught between ChatGPT’s billion users and a growing anti-AI backlash, Google risks losing ground on both fronts Google has never processed more searches. Sundar Pichai says query volume is at an “all-time high,” according to recent earnings remarks. Yet ChatGPT has reportedly surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, and DuckDuckGo is seeing surging installs for a feature that does the exact…
Al Landes
2026
23 Jun 2026
Ubotica raises $11 million to scale maritime-intelligence platform
Ubotica Technologies founders (from left) Chief Technology Officer Aubrey Dunne, CEO Fintan Buckley and Chief Financial Officer John Bourke with a model of the Open Cosmos CogniSat-6. Ubotica worked with Open Cosmos and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Dynamic Targeting, a 2025 demonstration of satellite autonomy.
Debra Werner
2026
23 Jun 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, a tool that works like a virtual employee within Slack
Anthropic has released a version of its popular chatbot Claude that operates like a virtual employee. Claude Tag, the new product, works across organizations within Slack to complete various tasks for teams.
Beatrice Nolan
2026
23 Jun 2026
KLA Corporation, onsemi, and Nova Shares Are Falling, What You Need To Know
What Happened? A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after a report that South Korea's SK Hynix is slowing its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) expansion rattled the AI-chip complex.
Kayode Omotosho
2026
