18 Jun 2026
JPMorgan Analysts Say Broadcom Stock Is a 'Buy.' What to Know.
JPMorgan analysts have reiterated a “Buy” rating on Broadcom (AVGO) stock, reflecting growing confidence in the company’s positioning within the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure buildout.
18 Jun 2026
Blaming China for Datacenter NIMBYism Is Cope
Last week, congressmembers amplified a claim that Chinese propaganda is driving anti-datacenter sentiment in the United States. And recently OpenAI exposed a Chinese influence operation that used ChatGPT to make anti-datacenter AI slop. Someone in China’s deep state clearly thought it was a good idea to push narratives that throw sand in the gears of America’s domestic AI buildout. But blaming…
18 Jun 2026
AI chiefs call for regulation collaboration at the G7 summit
Once the footwear company of choice for fleece vest types in the late 2010s, Allbirds is now an AI infrastructure company, naturally. The firm on Wednesday renamed itself Smartbird and appointed former AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as chief executive. BIRD shares popped 39% on the news, albeit from a low (sub $4) baseline, valuing the revamped company at about $48 million, or about one-thousandth the…
18 Jun 2026
Robotic teleoperation data startup XDOF launches with $70M in funding
Robotic teleoperation data startup XDOF launches with $70M in funding Robotics training infrastructure startup XDOF said today it has raised $70 million in funding to try to solve one of the biggest challenges in artificial intelligence: teaching machines the skills they need to safely navigate and work in the real world.
18 Jun 2026
Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children
Even with genomic sequencing, many people with rare diseases never receive a clear genetic diagnosis. Roughly half remain undiagnosed after extensive testing and specialist review. Their medical data may contain clues but finding them can require sifting through thousands to millions of possible genetic variants, fragmented clinical records, and rapidly changing scientific literature. As new…
17 Jun 2026
Spacex Rally Adds Nearly $900bn, Pushing Valuation To $2.65tn, and Overtaking Both Amazon and Microsoft
SpaceX’s stunning post-IPO surge is rapidly turning into one of the most remarkable market stories in recent history, with investors continuing to pour money into Elon Musk’s aerospace and artificial intelligence empire despite billions of dollars in losses and unanswered questions about its valuation.
17 Jun 2026
Welcome to June 17, 2026
The Singularity has gone open source, and it speaks Mandarin. Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 packs 744 billion parameters (40B active) into MIT-licensed, 1M-context weights built for agentic coding, and Artificial Analysis crowned it the leading open model at 51, past MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro at 44.
17 Jun 2026
AI's Catastrophic Risk Isn't Rogue Machines, It's Cognitive Surrender
This post is part of a series of student essays produced in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Read more in the series here . In the beginning, the Bible says God created man in His own image. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,” Genesis tells us, “and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living…
17 Jun 2026
Amazon has lagged OpenAI and Anthropic, but AI chief sees path to catch up in 'coming year'
Amazon 's top artificial intelligence executive told CNBC on Wednesday that he hopes the company will be able to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier models in the "coming year" after falling behind the two leading labs.
