Orbio Raises $21 Million to Automate Hiring and Onboarding for Frontline Workers
Orbio, founded by former Amazon executive Sergi Bastardas, closed a $21 million Series A round led by Dawn Capital. The startup’s AI‑driven agents automate recruiting, onboarding, and daily management of frontline employees for brands such as YUM! Brands and Poke. Early deployments have already lifted candidate conversion rates by roughly 20% for clients like The Stepping Stones Group. The new funding will accelerate development of additional AI agents and help replace spreadsheet‑based processes across healthcare, retail, logistics and hospitality.
How Does Ibogaine Work? Understanding Matrix Logic to Make a Safer Drug
Columbia University researchers propose that ibogaine works through a newly defined “matrix pharmacology,” affecting multiple serotonin transporters rather than a single target. The theory helps explain both its therapeutic promise for mental‑health disorders and the narrow safety margin that has...
As AI Reshapes Search, TikTok Turns Discovery Into a Performance Pitch
TikTok is repositioning itself from a cultural brand hub to a full‑funnel performance platform as AI reshapes search behavior. Daily searches on the app have risen 40% year‑over‑year, fueling a "collapsed funnel" where discovery, consideration and purchase happen in a...
Security Vulnerability CVE-2026-46230 in AMDGPU-VCN3 Driver Endangers Video Decoders Under Linux
A bounds‑check flaw (CVE‑2026‑46230) was found in the AMDGPU driver’s VCN 3 video‑decoder path on Linux. The vulnerability, rated CVSS 7.1 (High), could allow a local attacker to read or corrupt kernel memory. AMD patched the issue by adding explicit buffer‑size validation...
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XtalPi announced a $400M‑plus AI‑driven partnership to discover a GPCR small‑molecule, while Nvidia teamed with Abridge to embed AI in clinical conversation documentation. The Vector Institute signed an MOU with Germany’s Helmholtz Munich to deepen AI/ML research collaboration. Funding activity...
MSI Warns of Continued Tight Memory and GPU Supplies, CPUs Expected to Ease From Q3
MSI warned that memory shipments are only visible one month ahead and that 16 GB modules have surged from about $40 to $200, curbing demand. GPU deliveries are estimated to be roughly 30% lower because of the same memory crunch, while...
Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon C: Entry-Level Notebooks for Around 300 US Dollars with Arm Chip and NPU
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon C platform, a system‑on‑chip designed for Windows laptops priced around $300. The chip is aimed at students, families and small businesses, promising quiet operation, all‑day battery life and adequate performance for web browsing, streaming and basic productivity....
‘TikTok Is a Mafia’: Winning on TikTok Shop Means Playing the Game
TikTok Shop has moved beyond a novelty, selling more than $4.4 billion of beauty and wellness products in the United States since its 2023 launch. NielsenIQ data shows beauty as the platform’s top‑selling category, with 53.4% of users who discover a...
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Allow GPTBot to Crawl Your Site | Seer Interactive
OpenAI and other AI vendors now operate several specialized crawlers—GPTBot for model training, OAI‑SearchBot for indexing, and ChatGPT‑User for live fetches—each controllable via robots.txt. Seer Interactive’s 2026 traffic analysis shows 87% of bot activity is for search and retrieval, with...
Why Are Dual-Use Space Technologies So Hard to Control?
Dual‑use space technologies—systems that simultaneously serve civilian and military customers—are becoming the backbone of the global space economy. In 2024 more than 430,000 GNSS jamming and spoofing incidents disrupted flights and shipping, illustrating how civilian reliance creates security vulnerabilities. Commercial...
Wearables that Track Sun Exposure Are Here and Ready to Disrupt the Sun-Care Market
The FDA approved Bemotrizinol, the first new sunscreen ingredient in over 20 years, granting DSM‑Firmenich an 18‑month exclusivity. Meanwhile, startup The90 launched the Gem, a wearable that measures personal UVA and UVB exposure with a photodiode sensor. Priced at $299...
RF Automated Production Test Strategies for Semiconductor Manufacturers
RF semiconductor devices are becoming more complex, driving higher test demands. Manufacturers must choose between turnkey automated test equipment (ATE) platforms and custom DIY RF test systems. The white paper offers a decision framework, evaluating scalability, cost, time‑to‑market, and performance...
European Union Unveils €8m 6G Smart Networks Security Project
The European Union has allocated €8 million (about $8.7 million) to the Shield‑6G project, a research effort led by University College Dublin to create an AI‑driven cyber‑threat‑intelligence platform for future 6G networks. Funded under Horizon Europe, the consortium of 19 partners will...
ByteDance in Talks with China’s Iluvatar CoreX to Purchase AI Chips: Sources
ByteDance is negotiating with Shanghai‑based Iluvatar CoreX and Baidu to buy AI inference chips, potentially adding Iluvatar as its third domestic GPU supplier after Huawei and Cambricon. Iluvatar could ship at least 50,000 chips this year, supporting ByteDance’s Doubao chatbot,...
Minisforum AtomMan G7 Pro Review – An I9-14900HX and RTX 5070, Is that Still Mini?
The Minisforum AtomMan G7 Pro packs an Intel i9‑14900HX and an RTX 5070 into a compact mini‑PC chassis, delivering desktop‑class performance in a 280 W footprint. Benchmarks show roughly 500 FPS in Counter‑Strike 2 and a maximum system draw of 265.7 W, while idle consumption stays under 17 W....
Lower Than Prime Day Pricing: 20% Off on GEEKOM A8 AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS Mini PC (Sponsored)
GEEKOM is offering its A8 mini PC—powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS, 16 GB DDR5 RAM and a 1 TB NVMe SSD—for 20% off, lowering the price to $519 (≈$644 £) from the $649 (≈$805 £) MSRP. The discount runs through July 2 with coupon code...
Arabic AI Has a Trust Problem, Not a Language Problem
Arabic AI models can generate fluent text but often miss critical grammatical nuances, leading to inaccurate outputs in legal, financial, and governmental contexts. The problem is amplified by poor OCR quality on legacy Arabic documents, which feeds flawed data into...
Agentic Workflows: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast
Thomson Reuters CTO Joel Hron explained how the firm has rebuilt its CoCounsel platform using an agent‑first, coding‑agent approach in partnership with Anthropic. The new Model Context Protocol (MCP) now securely connects Anthropic’s Claude model to CoCounsel, allowing legal professionals...
Anthropic Pulls Fable 5 and Mythos 5 After U.S. Export Controls, Sends Execs to Washington
Anthropic halted public access to its newest large‑language models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after a U.S. export‑control directive barred any foreign national from using them. The company dispatched senior technical staff to Washington for talks with the Commerce Department and White...
Google’s ‘New Era for AI Search’ May Threaten Democracy
Google unveiled AI Mode at its I/O conference, the biggest Search overhaul in 25 years. The new conversational interface pulls data from Gmail, Photos and Calendar, often defaulting users into AI‑generated answers. Google reports AI Mode has surpassed one billion...
SANS Stormcast Monday, June 15th, 2026: Arch Linux Malicious User Packages; Splunk Vuln and Exploit; Exploiting AI Coding Agents
In this 6‑minute Stormcast episode, Johannes Ulrich discusses three urgent supply‑chain and software security issues: a malicious package campaign targeting Arch Linux’s community‑maintained AUR, a critical unauthenticated remote‑code‑execution vulnerability in Splunk’s PostgreSQL sidecar that allows full system takeover, and a...
Preventing, Avoiding and Curing Cancer - The Main Cancer Thread
Recent oncology data from ASCO 2026 and parallel studies highlight a shift toward high‑impact, cost‑conscious cancer care. A structured post‑operative exercise program cut colon‑cancer death risk by 37% and raised eight‑year survival to 90%, while ultra‑low‑dose checkpoint inhibition extended head‑and‑neck...
AI In Finance and Banking, June 15, 2026
Regulators in the United States have elevated AI explainability to a mandatory compliance floor, demanding banks provide on‑demand documentation of model decisions, especially in credit underwriting. A Wolters Kluwer survey shows 28.4% of financial institutions now list explainability as their top...
The Philippines: Offline Digital Science Libraries Boost Learning in Mindanao
On June 4, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region distributed offline digital science libraries, called STARBOOKS, to eight secondary schools in Lanao del Sur. The stand‑alone kiosks store text, audio and video content across...
Thailand Recommended to Cultivate AI 'Super Talents'
Thailand’s AI strategy is being urged to shift from basic user training toward cultivating elite "super talents" capable of building and optimizing advanced models. President Chanwit Boonchuay warns that without top‑tier innovators, the country cannot generate a new economic S‑curve....
CEO Interview with Suresh Vasudevan of Clockwork.io
Clockwork.io, led by CEO Suresh Vasudevan, offers a software‑driven AI fabric that recovers 60‑80% of GPU capacity typically lost to failures and overhead. Its TorchPass overlay provides nanosecond‑level observability and fault‑tolerant training that maintains full throughput even when hardware glitches...
Albion: What Today’s UGVs Look Like Under The Hood
Ukrainian firm IMLA showcased the Albion unmanned ground vehicle, a 4×4 platform weighing about 320 kg that can transport up to 400 kg of payload (600 kg peak). The robot features a modular, IP55‑rated enclosure, quick‑swap 11 kWh lithium‑ion batteries, and a LiDAR‑driven autonomous...
APAC Data Centres Risk a Fossil Fuel Dependency Long-Duration Energy Storage Can Help End
APAC is on track to add 24.2 GW of AI‑focused data‑centre capacity between 2025 and 2030, a build‑out that could generate roughly 166 million tonnes of CO₂‑equivalent each year – about one‑fifth of global aviation emissions. Hyperscalers such as Microsoft (US$18 bn), Amazon...
Agent Trust, Oversight and Control (The Agents Season, Episode 9)
The latest episode of The Agents explores the often‑overlooked dimensions of trust, oversight, and control in AI agents. It argues that as agents gain access to real‑world tools, their decisions can have outsized consequences beyond raw capability. The discussion highlights...
Four-Legged Detection Robots for Safe Firefighting Operations
Researchers at TU Graz have built a four‑legged, remote‑controlled detection robot that can sniff out hazardous chemicals and relay real‑time sensor data and video to firefighters. Field trials with Austrian fire services demonstrated that the robot can enter danger zones while...
SPACEXAI 5 Data Center Locations + More Energy + Rubin Chips = $300 + Billion Revenue Runrate
SPACEXAI has built a network of five AI data center sites, including three terrestrial facilities in the Memphis‑Southaven corridor, a distributed AI compute partnership with Tesla, and a planned space‑based AI hub. The core Colossus cluster now houses about 230,000...
Shrinking 2D Nanoribbons to 35 Nm Boosts Transistor Current
Researchers at Nature Communications report that monolayer transition‑metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanoribbon transistors scaled to 35‑40 nm widths deliver higher on‑current density, sharper subthreshold swing, and markedly lower contact resistance. The study, focused on MoS₂ and extended to WS₂ and WSe₂, shows...
Mercedes-Benz Leverages Databricks Genie for Real‑Time Data Insights
Mercedes-Benz Korea uses Databricks 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞 agent to answer questions about data. Genie computes answers while other agents recite them. That is, you can ask "what are the top 10 most important new logo customers this week". That answer is unlikely...
Eggie: A Robot Designed for Human‑Centered Futures
Eggie: The #Robot Built for a Human-Centered World by @tangiblerobots #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/z9gVofLexs
Researchers Land $3.2M Grant to Advance MRI's Role in Diagnosing Glioblastoma
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center received a $3.2 million NIH grant to develop advanced MRI techniques for glioblastoma detection and treatment. Led by Dr. Kunal Patel and Dr. Benjamin Ellingson, the project focuses on pH‑based Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer...
OpenAI Unveils Partner Program, $150M Investment; Channel Chief Sees ‘Massive Opportunity’ Ahead
OpenAI announced the OpenAI Partner Network, its first channel partner program, backed by a $150 million investment. The three‑tier program, with specializations such as Codex, aims to certify 300,000 consultants by the end of 2026. It includes a Forward Deployed Experts...
From Digital Twins to Industrial AI: Building the Machine Information System
Industrial digital twins are moving beyond static 3‑D visualizations toward fully integrated Machine Information Systems (MIS) that combine live sensor data, MES context, structured documentation, and spatial awareness. This shift is driven by the need for faster fault diagnosis, better...
FA AWARDS SPOTLIGHT 2026: PT Mekar Investama Teknologi
PT Mekar Investama Teknologi’s Multi Micro Agriculture Financing (MMAF) initiative transforms fintech into a production‑linked ecosystem that combines AI‑driven precision farming, renewable energy generation, and circular‑economy practices. By the end of 2025 the company had financed over $163 million, planting 320...
At-Home Brain Implant Gives Man with Motor Neuron Disease His Daily Life Back
A brain‑computer interface (BCI) implanted in 48‑year‑old Casey Harrell, who has ALS, now lets him type at about 56 words per minute and control a computer mouse from home. Over a 23‑month period he used the device on 364 of...
How AI Is Revealing the Secret Lives of Animals From Hummingbirds to Pumas
Artificial intelligence and ultra‑light GPS tags are transforming wildlife research, delivering second‑by‑second location data for animals ranging from hummingbirds to pumas. Projects like the Max Planck Institute’s ICARUS aim to monitor up to 40% of bird species and 50% of mammals...
The Health System CEO Imperative: Turning AI’s Promise Into Performance
Health systems have adopted generative AI but struggle to generate enterprise value. McKinsey argues that CEO‑led, end‑to‑end workflow transformation is required, shifting AI from point solutions to a core operating model. The firm outlines a roadmap—CEO conviction, prioritizing high‑value domains...
New World Record Set For Solar Module With Perovskite
Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute set a new solar‑module record of 34.2% conversion efficiency by directly interconnecting triple III‑V germanium cells, eliminating traditional ribbon interconnects. In parallel, China’s Trinasolar announced a 29.2% efficient tandem perovskite‑silicon module delivering 907 W, the highest...
Click Click Media Launches Dedicated AI Consulting and ChatGPT Advertising Services
Click Click Media, one of Australia’s longest‑standing independent digital agencies, has launched dedicated AI consulting and a ChatGPT advertising service. The new offerings aim to help brands navigate AI‑driven search, discovery and customer acquisition as acquisition costs rise and search...
Deepfakes Leave Digital Forensics Expert Doubting His Abilities
Digital forensics pioneer Hany Farid says AI‑generated deepfakes are now outpacing his ability to detect them. The New York Times profile reveals he struggles to keep up with content that spreads in under 90 seconds, leaving him feeling "blind" to...
Laxative Drug Could Ease Depression-Related Brain Fog, Early Trial Suggests
Researchers at the University of Birmingham and Oxford reported that a short‑term course of prucalopride, a licensed 5‑HT4 receptor agonist used for chronic constipation, boosted cognitive performance in people with remitted depression. In a double‑blind trial of 50 participants aged...
Choosing the Best AI Agent for Autonomous Workflows
🤖 AI AGENTS Which model would you trust for autonomous workflows today? 🟧 Claude Opus 4.8 ⚫ GPT-5.5 🟪 Qwen 3.7 Max 🔵 GLM 5.1 Planning, tools, MCP, reasoning, multi-step execution... Which one are you actually using and why? 👇 #AIAgents #AgenticAI #LLM #GenAI https://t.co/srUqRdKqal
AI Memory Evolves: From Retrieval to Structured Knowledge
RAG is already becoming the “old way” 🤯 The future of AI memory is not retrieval. It’s compilation. Here’s the shift in one sentence: ➡️ From searching information ➡️ To structuring knowledge The new model? LLM Wiki Instead of: ❌ Chunking documents ❌ Running similarity search ❌ Losing context We move...
Groundbreaking Test Finds AI Judges “Too Persuadable”
A study by Maynooth University and University College Dublin tested AI judges in simulated courtroom battles and found they are highly persuadable. Across 20 language models, including Anthropic, Google and OpenAI, stronger advocate models won 58% to 71% of cases,...
The Case for Banning Superintelligent AI, Before It's Too Late
Lord Des Browne, former UK Defence Secretary, warns that superintelligent AI poses an existential threat comparable to nuclear war. He cites leading AI scientists and CEOs who argue that such systems could operate beyond human control and jeopardize national sovereignty....
Digital Push Aims to Transform SMEs
Advanced Info Service (AIS) has teamed with Microsoft Thailand to launch the “AI Ready for SMEs” initiative, targeting Thailand’s 3.13 million small‑and‑medium enterprises that represent 35 % of GDP and 70 % of employment. The program bundles Microsoft 365, Copilot and a 24/7 service...