Summary of Week 24 – June 8-12, 2026
CoreWeave announced the industry‑first bring‑up and validation of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 GPU, while its new sandboxes aim to speed reinforcement‑learning and model evaluation at scale. In parallel, Weka and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure demonstrated a 10× boost in concurrent AI inference users and token throughput on OCI H100 nodes without adding GPUs. Anthropic raised a record $65 billion in Series H financing, pushing its post‑money valuation to roughly $965 billion, and acquired Fractional AI to deepen its enterprise AI services. Financially, CoreWeave posted $2.1 billion Q1 revenue (112 % YoY), NetApp reported $6.93 billion FY26 revenue, and Marvell posted $2.418 billion Q1 27 revenue, underscoring rapid growth across the AI‑focused cloud and hardware sector.
Nscale Secures $790 Million in Financing to Support AI Infrastructure Buildout in Norway
Nscale announced an additional $790 million financing package from ABN AMRO, DNB, Eksfin, Nordea and SEB to accelerate its AI data center build‑out in Narvik, Norway. The deal includes an uncommitted accordion feature that could fund a 115 MW expansion, making the site...
Liberia’s First Utility-Scale Solar Plant Begins Operating
Liberia has commissioned its first grid‑connected utility‑scale solar plant, the 20 MW Mount Coffee Solar Park in Montserrado. Built on the site of the 88 MW Mount Coffee Hydropower Station, the plant aims to improve electricity reliability and affordability. President Joseph Boakai...
Rubrik Forward 2026: Rubrik Now Available as AI Agent
Rubrik announced Rubrik AI, an agentic‑first extension to its Security Cloud and Agent Cloud platforms that automates threat detection and response at machine speed. The solution introduces a single autonomous agent that reasons over data, identity and deployed workloads, while...
Compliance Tech Is Becoming a Strategic Priority, as AI Expands in HR
Norwest Venture Partners’ Q1 2026 market analysis shows $2.8 billion flowing through 97 HR‑tech deals, highlighted by ADP’s $1.2 billion acquisition of WorkForce Software and Workday’s $1.1 billion purchase of Sana. The report warns that as AI agents proliferate across hiring, performance management...
Compliance Tech Is Becoming a Strategic Priority, as AI Expands in HR
A new Norwest Venture Partners market analysis spotlights compliance technology as an emerging strategic priority for chief HR officers, especially as artificial intelligence expands across HR functions. In Q1 2026, $2.8 billion flowed through 97 HR‑tech transactions, underscoring heightened investor interest....
AI Use by the US Government Is Ballooning. And the Lack of Transparency Is Troubling | Nathan E Sanders and...
On April 14 the Office of Management and Budget revealed that the U.S. federal government now has 3,611 active or planned AI use cases, a 70% jump from the previous year. The inventory spans sensitive areas such as grant funding,...
Google Chromebook Marks Its 15th Anniversary — Slow Feature Rollouts and a Canceled Steam Beta Leave It Largely Stuck in...
Google marks the 15th anniversary of Chromebooks, a line that dominates K‑12 education but remains peripheral in consumer and premium markets. Feature rollouts were slow—Google Play Store arrived in 2016, Linux support in 2018, a Steam gaming beta in 2019...
Google Expands Smart Bidding Exploration, Adds Promotion Mode
Google is rolling out several updates to its Smart Bidding and budgeting suite, including an expanded Smart Bidding Exploration feature, a beta Promotion Mode, and revised target optimization for budget‑constrained campaigns. Exploration now lets advertisers set a ROAS tolerance, delivering...
A Satellite Just Learned to Find Things on Its Own — Here’s What that Means
In April, Loft Orbital’s Yam‑9 satellite demonstrated the first in‑orbit use of a vision‑language model, Google DeepMind’s Gemma 3, to autonomously locate targets based on natural‑language queries. The AI runs on a Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX GPU, enabling real‑time image triage...
LinkedIn Shares Data On Who Sees Creator Posts
LinkedIn has added two analytics metrics that split post impressions into in‑network and out‑of‑network percentages. The breakdown appears in the discovery section of post analytics, letting creators see how much of their reach comes from existing connections versus new audiences....
EA Rolls Out Advertising Platform with Enhanced Offerings for Brands
Electronic Arts announced the launch of EA Advertising, a unified platform that lets brands create, run, and measure in‑game marketing across its portfolio, including flagship sports titles. The service offers branded challenges, vanity items, and dynamic placements, with analytics supplied...
PM-WANI Reforms to Enhance Adoption of Public Wi-Fi, Boost Internet Accessibility: Experts
India’s Prime Minister’s Wi‑Fi Access Network Interface (PM‑WANI) scheme received a suite of regulatory tweaks in May, introducing QR‑based authentication, short‑duration data sachets and standardized hotspot names. These changes lower entry barriers for public data offices (PDOs) and their aggregators,...
Faster, Leaner, Smarter: How AI Lets Small Firms Compete with BigLaw
AI is reshaping legal services, with small firms adopting generative tools faster than legacy firms. In the UK, AI is projected to generate about $3 billion in productivity gains by 2026, saving each solicitor roughly $15,000 annually and freeing up 140‑240...
Cold Cannon Is the All-in-One Cold Email Platform for Teams
Cold Cannon launched an all‑in‑one cold‑email platform targeting sales teams, agencies, and freelancers. The Starter Lifetime Subscription, now $59.99 (down from $169), bundles unlimited warm‑up, multi‑step sequencing, AI‑assisted reply drafting and 100,000 AI reply drafts. The web‑based tool supports major...
Drone Cleaning 101: A New Tool for Solar O&M Takes Soiling Losses (and Fall Risk) Off the Roof
Cleaning drones are emerging as a new option for solar panel operations and maintenance, using heavy‑lift UAVs equipped with water‑spray systems to clean arrays from above. By removing the need for crews on rooftops, they cut fall‑risk exposure, speed up...
What ChatGPT 6 Means for OpenAI Now That Microsoft and Google Walk Away
OpenAI unveiled GPT‑6, targeting the “goblin incident” flaws and expanding persistent memory introduced in GPT‑5.5. The model adds larger context windows, redesigned reward pipelines, and advanced memory to boost personalization. OpenAI backs the launch with the Stargate infrastructure project, allocating...
Samsung's Next Foldables and Smartwatches Are One Step Closer to Launch
Samsung’s upcoming foldable phones and smartwatches have cleared FCC certification, signaling an imminent launch. The filings list the Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, several Galaxy Watch 9 variants, and the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, confirming the rumored July 22 Galaxy Unpacked event...
Agentic Commerce And The New Rules Of Google Ads via @Sejournal, @Tonyadam
Agentic commerce is reshaping Google Ads as AI agents now act as buyers, completing checkout on behalf of shoppers. During Cyber Week 2025, AI agents accounted for roughly $67 billion in global sales, about 20% of orders. Google’s new “Buy for...
Scottish Offshore Wind Farm Stake Changes Hands in $208m Deal
Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) agreed to sell its entire 17.5% stake in the 588 MW Beatrice offshore wind farm for about £155 million ($208 million). The transaction, priced at a 4% discount to the December 2025 valuation, is part of TRIG’s plan to realise...
EA Rolls Out Advertising Platform to Let Companies Market "Directly Into Gameplay"
Electronic Arts announced EA Advertising, a platform that embeds dynamic, real‑time brand placements—such as stadium signage, in‑game challenges, and reward‑driven objectives—directly into its titles. The service leverages a custom SDK built for the Frostbite engine, giving advertisers granular targeting and...
Palo Alto Warns of Exploitation of VPN Bypass Exploits (CVE-2026-0257) in PAN-OS Flaw
Palo Alto Networks confirmed active exploitation of CVE‑2026‑0257, a PAN‑OS flaw that lets attackers forge GlobalProtect VPN cookies and bypass authentication. The vulnerability affects GlobalProtect portals and gateways when the same certificate is used for HTTPS and cookie encryption, a...
UK Government Launches Legal AI Scheme
The UK Ministry of Justice announced AI Growth Labs, a government‑backed programme to test and accelerate legal‑tech AI tools, launching this summer. The initiative targets conveyancing and broader legal services, aiming to modernise a sector contributing roughly $51 bn annually. An...
French Government Messaging Platform Breached by Mysterious ‘Misere’ Hacker
On June 7, 2026 the French government’s secure messaging platform Tchap was breached, affecting 73,467 of its 825,000 registered users. The hack, claimed by an unknown actor calling itself “misere,” reportedly exfiltrated 13.5 GB of files and 640,000 chat messages. French digital...
What We’ve Been Building at Smart Marketer in 2026 (And Where We’re Headed)
Smart Marketer’s first half of 2026 was a sprint of product launches and channel expansion. The agency rolled out a free Axon Masterclass for mobile‑game advertising, added TikTok Shop to its client services, and introduced Thumbstop, an AI‑powered ad‑creative generator....
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ChatGPT's Personal Finance Tools Raise Privacy Concerns as Users Link Financial Accounts
OpenAI has rolled out a personal‑finance add‑on for ChatGPT Pro, letting subscribers link accounts from over 12,000 institutions through Plaid. The read‑only integration can generate budgeting insights, expense breakdowns and scenario planning for a $100‑a‑month fee, with plans to extend...
The World Cup Security Buildout Won’t End when the Games Do
Drone incursions at NFL stadiums have surged from 67 in 2018 to 2,845 in 2023, prompting heightened security concerns. For the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the U.S. government pledged more than $1 billion, including a $500 million Counter‑Unmanned Aircraft Systems grant, to...
China Airlines Launches Cargo AI Customer Service Bot
China Airlines has launched an AI‑powered customer service assistant for its cargo division, offering 24/7 support for flight information, shipment tracking and cargo regulations. The bot leverages Agentic AI and is linked to the airline’s scheduling system, handling multilingual spoken...
New European Space Agency Phi-Lab Ireland Open Call
Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) has launched the ESA Phi‑Lab Ireland Open Call 2026, offering up to €400,000 (≈ $436,000) in seed funding for 24‑month projects. The programme, now partnered with the South Eastern Applied Materials (SEAM) Research Centre at SETU, supports...
Rewriting Your Pitch: SaaS Isn’t Dead, But The Playbook For Founders Is Changing
The traditional SaaS playbook—high margins, predictable revenue and strong net retention—is being upended by large language models and a wave of AI‑driven competition. Investors, wary of “SaaSpocalypse,” are urging founders to blend software with services and to adopt usage‑ or...
Improving Arm64 Support in CNCF Projects with OCI Credits
Arm64 CPUs now power over half of new AWS instances and a third of Azure instances, making native support essential for cloud‑native workloads. In late 2023 Oracle Cloud pledged $3 million in Arm64 compute credits, enabling CNCF projects to run self‑hosted...
Tesco Partners with Hanshow to Deliver ESL Rollout
Tesco has signed a multi‑year deal with digital‑store specialist Hanshow to equip its large and Express formats with electronic shelf labels (ESLs). The rollout begins with four pilot stores and will expand to the entire UK estate over the next...
Goldwind Asia Chief on Driving Quality Growth in Wind Sector
Goldwind Asia’s chief outlined a three‑step shift from sheer scale to high‑quality growth in the region, emphasizing scenario‑based turbine solutions, full‑lifecycle asset management, and ecosystem co‑building. He highlighted localisation achievements in Vietnam—75% local staff, 100% tower localisation and 99.65% technical...
QumulusAI’s $124M Deal Spotlights AI Infrastructure’s Utilization Challenge
QumulusAI secured more than $124 million in three‑year AI infrastructure contracts tied to Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, with a focus on inference workloads. The deals, including a partnership with Hyperbolic, signal a market shift from building massive GPU capacity for training to...
PhishLumos: Exposing Phishing Campaigns that Evade Detection by Hiding Content
Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University unveiled PhishLumos, a system that sidesteps content analysis and instead examines the underlying URL infrastructure—IP addresses, shared network connections, SSL certificates, and historical scan records—to expose phishing campaigns. In tests covering 103 real‑world campaigns (6,020...
Lilly Sees Quick Return on $2.3B Ajax Buy as Blood Cancer Drug Shows Early Efficacy
Eli Lilly’s recently acquired JAK2 inhibitor AJI‑11095 demonstrated strong early efficacy in a Phase 1 myelofibrosis trial. At 12 weeks, 70% of patients achieved a 35% reduction in spleen volume and a 50% improvement in symptoms, while 59% showed at least a...
CTV Publishers Are Starting to Embrace Transparency
IAS unveiled its Total TV platform, partnering with Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Prime Video to bring linear‑TV‑style transparency to the fragmented CTV ecosystem. The solution aggregates and normalises spend data by show, genre and program, giving advertisers clear visibility and...
Big Tech Must Introduce Age Checks to Support UK’s Under-16s Social Media Ban
The UK government announced that, by April 2027, children under 16 will be barred from major social‑media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube and X. To enforce the ban, big‑tech firms must deploy age‑verification systems, potentially using government IDs...
Ford Launches Online Store for Certified Used Parts
Ford has launched an online store for Certified Used Parts in the UK, offering genuine pre‑owned components through a dedicated e‑commerce portal operated by Autonative. Each part is individually inspected, graded and photographed, with two quality tiers to suit different...
Noveome Biotherapeutics on Rethinking Trial Sites in Rare Neonatal Disease
Noveome Biotherapeutics is advancing ST266, a cell‑free secretome derived from amniotic membrane progenitor cells, in a Phase I/II trial for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). The therapy has earned orphan‑drug and rare‑pediatric disease designations, giving it regulatory incentives. Leveraging Pittsburgh’s biotech ecosystem,...
Watch: Korean Humanoid Robot Performs Viral K-POP Dance, Learns By Watching Videos
South Korean robotics firm ROBOTIS demonstrated its AI Sapiens humanoid robot learning a complex K‑POP dance solely from a smartphone video. The system combines video‑based motion capture, motion retargeting, reinforcement‑learning simulation, and Sim2Real transfer, eliminating the need for expensive motion‑capture...
4 Costly Onboarding Mistakes—And How AI Solves Them
Onboarding failures often stem from information overload, slow support, disengagement, and lack of progress monitoring. The article outlines four costly mistakes and shows how AI—through personalized learning paths, chatbots, automated surveys, and real‑time analytics—can remedy each issue. Case studies cite...
Infineon, Siemens Partner on Solid-State Circuit Protection
Infineon Technologies and Siemens have teamed up to integrate Infineon’s 62 mm CoolSiC MOSFET power modules into Siemens’ SENTRON 3QD2 solid‑state circuit breakers. The partnership targets high‑performance protection for data centers, industrial plants and battery‑storage systems, leveraging SiC’s efficiency and power‑density benefits....
Forsee Power to Collaborate with Wabtec on Battery-Electric Loco Platforms
Forsee Power announced a memorandum of understanding with rail‑technology giant Wabtec to embed its PULSE PLUS RAIL battery system into Wabtec’s battery‑electric locomotive platforms. The partnership leverages Forsee Power’s Ohio‑based manufacturing and Toshiba‑sourced LTO cells, promising up to 1,500 V DC,...
Home Office Launches £75m ‘PoliceAI’ to Capitalise on Artificial Intelligence
The UK Home Office has launched PoliceAI, a national centre funded with £75 million (about $95 million) over three years to scale artificial‑intelligence tools across police forces in England and Wales. The initiative is part of a broader £140 million (≈$178 million) AI investment...
NVIDIA MotionBricks Delivers Real-Time Humanoid Motion
NVIDIA’s MotionBricks is a glimpse of where humanoid robotics is heading. 15,000 FPS motion generation, 2ms latency, and 350K motion skills from a single neural model. No animation graphs. No task-specific fine-tuning. Just real-time movement generated from high-level goals. This is now...
AI Coach Tracks Hands to Teach Piano Live
ROLI’s #AI Music Coach Uses Hand Tracking to Teach Piano in Real Time by @IntEngineering #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/0b3w2GTCU6
FCA Cancels RVB Currency UK Authorisation as Authorised Payment Institution
The UK Financial Conduct Authority announced it will cancel RVB Currency UK Ltd's authorisation as an Authorised Payment Institution, effective 15 June 2026. The firm failed to meet the Payment Services Regulations 2017 conditions, notably breaching the 2017 Money Laundering Regulations by...
Mock TLE Suggests CURVEBALL Payload Recovered Over Utah
Based on the orbital parameters released on https://t.co/ahE8giOwsL I mocked up a TLE for the CURVEBALL objects. Another possibility for the mission is that the payload completed most of an orbit and was recovered over the Western US, e.g. at...