17 Jun 2026
'A neoliberal nightmare': my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk's answer to traffic jams
It’s another blindingly bright day in Las Vegas but I’m 30ft underground and strapped in for a rocket ride to the future. Actually, it’s a Tesla ride to the future, and not a self-driving one. And it’s pretty slow – my driver tells me the speed limit down here is 30mph. It’s also pretty short: the journey is over in a matter of minutes.
17 Jun 2026
Is SpaceX Really Worth Trillions? Let Grok Explain.
Tech Tech Elon Musk’s company isn’t being overvalued at a number that’s completely untethered to reality—it’s a lesson in how to be a business alpha Getty Images/Ringer illustration Last week, Elon Musk’s space exploration company, SpaceX—which also includes xAI, an artificial intelligence business; X, a social network; and Starlink, a satellite-internet service—enjoyed a blockbuster IPO on the…
17 Jun 2026
BRIDGE: benchmarking large language models for understanding real-world clinical practice texts
The BRIDGE benchmark systematically evaluated the performance of 95 large language models (LLMs) on real-world clinical data on tasks spanning the patient care continuum. This benchmark, which is being continuously updated, provides a field reference for improving how LLMs understand clinical texts.
17 Jun 2026
HONOR Announces Upcoming Magic V6 Launch, Crafted for Excellence
HONOR, a global AI device ecosystem company and foldable industry leader , announced the upcoming launch of the HONOR Magic V6 , crafted for excellence .
17 Jun 2026
QuEra, AWS target fault-tolerant quantum computing on Amazon Braket by 2028
Planned Libra system aims to feature more than 256 error-corrected logical qubits and target Megaquop-scale performance June 17, 2026 By Have your say – QuEra QuEra Computing and Amazon Web Services (AWS) say they plan to make a fault-tolerant quantum computer available through Amazon Braket in 2028, setting one of the quantum industry's most concrete timelines to date.
17 Jun 2026
The end of thinking alone: AI shifts HE to networked cognition
GLOBAL While universities debate whether students are using artificial intelligence to write essays, a far more consequential transformation is unfolding. AI is not merely changing how students complete assignments; it is beginning to reshape the very architecture of cognition that underpins modern education.
17 Jun 2026
The Boring Company just doubled its tunneling power in Nashville
The Boring Company's Prufrock MB2 tunnel boring machine has completed commissioning and is ready to launch in Nashville as part of the Music City Loop project, with MB3 shipping in August 2026.
16 Jun 2026
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed.
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.
