16 Jun 2026
Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone
AI runs at the speed of light. More and more, that light is made in Texas. Coherent broke ground today on an expanded manufacturing building in Sherman, Texas. The company makes the lasers, optical components and compound semiconductors that wire AI systems together — and runs what it calls the world’s first 6-inch indium phosphide fab.
@NVIDIA, Brian Caulfield
2026
16 Jun 2026
OpenAI Just Started Selling What Your Consulting Business Sells
On May 11, 2026, the open source AI consulting competition for small business advisers was implemented. A new AI consulting business for big firms called OpenAI Deployment Company was established by OpenAI with over $4 Billion in backing . TPG leads the partnership, with Advent, Bain Capital and Brookfield serving as co-lead founding partners. In addition, OpenAI agreed to acquire UK-based AI…
Terdawn Deboe
2026
16 Jun 2026
‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What
Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a United States government export-control directive barring “any foreign national” from using the services.
@wired, Lily Hay Newman
2026
16 Jun 2026
QuEra’s Libra Fault-Tolerant Quantum System Heading To Amazon Braket Service
The rapidly evolving quantum computing industry has quickly spun through two critical stages and now has solidly moved into a third one, according to Yuval Boger, chief commercial officer at QuEra. The first stage was showing that a quantum system – even one with as few as five qubits – could be built. Once that was proven, the next question facing system makers was whether they could correct…
Jeff Burt
2026
16 Jun 2026
Splunk Inc (Acquired) Stock (US8486371045): Security focus after critical Splunk Enterprise RCE flaw
Splunk Inc (Acquired), now operating as part of Cisco's security and observability franchise, has moved back into the cybersecurity spotlight after disclosure of a critical remote-code-execution vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise deployments, tracked as CVE-2026-20253.
Redaktion ad-hoc-news.de
2026
16 Jun 2026
Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges
REG AD SOFTWARE Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not! Microsoft is facing AI-related issues on multiple fronts. Disgruntled investors have flung a sueball at the company over its Copilot claims, while it is reportedly turning to other cloud vendors to help with AI-induced scalability issues at its coding collaboration tentacle, GitHub.
Richard Speed
2026
16 Jun 2026
WWDC 2026: Apple reveals devices eligible for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate and watchOS 27
At WWDC 2026, Apple unveiled its next-generation software lineup , including iOS 27 , iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate and watchOS 27. While the updates introduce the new Liquid Glass design language and expanded AI capabilities, Apple also confirmed which devices will receive the latest software.
Ravi Hari
2026
16 Jun 2026
AI Boom Is Creating Jobs in the Trades—But Locking Out Junior Workers
AI is creating jobs in places most people don’t expect — and quietly making it harder for new workers to break in. The boom is real, but the benefits aren’t spreading evenly. Here’s what’s actually changing in 2026 and why the debate is getting louder.
@memeburn
2026
16 Jun 2026
Should The U.S. Follow China’s Auto Industry Playbook?
New cars are ready to be launched at a SAIC General Motors joint venture production base in China in last year. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Russell Flannery
2026
