24 Jun 2026
‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
The first time the factory supervisors handed garment worker Lalita* a head-mounted camera, she burst out laughing. “The way people mount a CCTV camera on a wall, they mounted one on us,” she says. The 32-year-old had been working at the garment factory on the outskirts of Delhi for nearly a year when management asked workers on her line to strap small cameras to their foreheads before starting…
23 Jun 2026
Kunal Shah: The Indian entrepreneur taking charge of WhatsApp
Kunal Shah, founder of Indian fintech start-up Cred, has taken over as head of WhatsApp
23 Jun 2026
Blockchain data provider Allium raises $40M in funding
Blockchain data provider Allium raises $40M in funding Allium Inc., a startup that provides financial institutions with data about the cryptocurrency market, has raised $40 million in funding. Amplify Partners led the Series A round. Allium stated in its announcement of the deal today that Kleiner Perkins and Theory Ventures participated as well. The raise follows two years in which the company’s…
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.
23 Jun 2026
Meta is building a prediction markets app to rival Polymarket, Kalshi: report
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is quietly developing a prediction markets app that could challenge industry leaders Polymarket and Kalshi, according to a report.
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…
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.
23 Jun 2026
‘Real, Actual Villains’: What’s Driving the Remarkably Bipartisan Backlash to Data Centers
This month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, unveiled a set of sweeping recommendations to rein in rampant data center development, urging Texas lawmakers to aggressively regulate the tech industry in a state that has a reputation for welcoming new development with open arms. At the same time, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, the Democratic leader of a…
23 Jun 2026
Robotics: Engineering the future of intelligent machines
A robot is a machine that can carry out complex tasks automatically, helping people with work that is repetitive, detailed or potentially hazardous. From factory floors and hospitals to disaster zones and space exploration, robotics improves productivity, precision and safety across industries, while driving discovery, innovation, new markets and global competitiveness. The U.S. National Science…
