17 Jun 2026
How AI could help criminals to steal personal data
Over the last few years, an elite group of software companies have been locked in a headlong sprint to see who can develop the most powerful generative AI models. And while the rate of progress has been quite astonishing, some of the consequences are profoundly alarming.
17 Jun 2026
LVMH Announces the Winners of Its 2026 Innovation Awards
LVMH Group has announced the winners of its LVMH Innovation Award, “which recognizes the most innovative and high-potential startups helping to reinvent the luxury industry”, according to the group’s press release. The three winners were named on Wednesday at tech conference Vivatech in Paris.
16 Jun 2026
Alibaba Is Building Qwen-Robot: The Operating System for the Robot Economy
In brief Alibaba unveiled the Qwen-Robot Suite, a trio of AI models designed to handle robot navigation, manipulation, and physics-based world simulation through a unified software stack. The company says its models top multiple robotics benchmarks, using millions of training samples and tens of thousands of hours of open-source robot data. Real-world robot deployment remains years away.
16 Jun 2026
Four moves to stay ahead amid geopolitics, tariffs and supply chain disruption
As global markets convulse under the pressure of geopolitical uncertainty, tariffs and supply chain disruption, the temptation is to wait for clarity. Yet according to experts from Bain & Company, that passive approach is one that comes with a strategic cost.
16 Jun 2026
Q&A: A look at forward-deployed engineers, AWS style
So, what exactly are FDEs — are they techy lone rangers like the ones OpenAI, Google and Microsoft are hiring? Turns out it’s not so much about individual engineers who swoop in to design and roll out AI deployments; it’s more about a team of engineers working together at customer sites. At least, that’s the view at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In fact, according to Taimur Rashid, managing director…
15 Jun 2026
Taiwan firm unveils next-gen humanoid robot for real-world operations
AI-powered brain enables reasoning and planning, while 3D vision, LiDAR, and sensors support balance and real-time interaction. A Tawniese firm has unveiled its first humanoid robot capable of interacting with the physical world.
14 Jun 2026
Reve 2.0 Review: The Best AI Image Generator for Layout Control
In brief Reve 2.0 debuted at #2 on the Arena text-to-image leaderboard, behind OpenAI’s GPT Image 2 and ahead of Google’s Nano Banana 2. Instead of turning a prompt into prose, Reve builds a structured “layout” first, then renders natively at 4K. In our hands-on tests, it led on control, price, and permissiveness while quietly dropping prompt details its rivals would have caught.
13 Jun 2026
How rich is a trillionaire? Elon Musk can sponsor IPL for 17,000 years, spend Rs 1 crore daily for 23,500 years
When most people hear the word 'trillion', it is difficult to grasp just how large that number really is. A million sounds huge. A billion sounds almost unimaginable. But a trillion is an entirely different scale. The question has taken centre stage after Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, a milestone driven by soaring valuations of his companies, including Tesla, SpaceX and xAI.…
11 Jun 2026
Friday essay: despite the AI hype, some experts warn of a bubble – what happens if it pops?
In the last few years, the hype around artificial intelligence has become stratospheric. Riding a wave of venture capital, tech leaders promised us AI would revolutionise work , boost productivity and lead to incredible new breakthroughs. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, set a new record when it attained US$110 billion in investments several months ago – and its CEO, Sam Altman, recently claimed…
