NASA vs JETS: Space‑Focused ETFs Surge as Investors Chase Space Infrastructure
The newly launched Tema Space Innovators ETF (NASA) and the established U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS) are drawing contrasting investor interest as the space economy heats up ahead of SpaceX’s IPO. NASA manages $2.3 billion, holds pre‑IPO SpaceX and a 9.79% stake in Rocket Lab, while JETS oversees $860.4 million, posted a 24.69% one‑year return and focuses on legacy airlines.
AI Coding Assistants Drive 1,000‑Fold Surge in Monthly Deployments, Stretching SaaS Pipelines
AI coding assistants have accelerated project deployment rates from 357 per month in 2021 to over 1,000 per month by late 2025, a 175‑fold jump that outpaces traditional weekly release cycles. The surge pressures SaaS delivery pipelines to scale, prompting...
Robot.com Deploys 500+ Robots to Cut High‑Turnover Jobs
Robot.com announced that more than 500 of its robots are active in the field and have logged over 2.5 million tasks. CEO Felipe Chavez says the company is targeting the repetitive, low‑skill work that fuels employee turnover, expanding beyond delivery into...
IMMX's NXC-201 Shows 95
We have been fans of $IMMX for some time, and the recent selloff is creating what looks like an interesting opportunity in what may be one of the more disruptive cell therapy platforms in development. • NXC-201 has reported a...
Epay Unveils Global Payment Suite at Money20/20 Europe, Targeting Cross‑Border Growth
Epay used the Money20/20 Europe conference in Amsterdam to debut a suite of global payment solutions, emphasizing its API‑first approach and deep compliance capabilities. The rollout aims to accelerate cross‑border commerce for its 1 million users, 6 000 partner institutions and businesses...
Diabetes Drug Dramatically Lowers Heart Failure Risk in Genetic Carriers
Researchers at Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute found that dapagliflozin, a diabetes drug, slashes heart‑failure hospitalizations by roughly 80% in patients carrying rare cardiomyopathy‑linked genetic variants. The analysis of the DECLARE‑TIMI 58 trial identified 121 such carriers among 12,685...
Drone Crashes, Severed Fingers Pose Problems for $13B Silicon Valley Military Startup
Shield AI, a $12.7 billion Silicon Valley defense startup, is under fire after a Romanian Navy officer’s hand was injured by a V‑BAT propeller during a Texas training exercise. Reuters reports more than 50 V‑BAT crashes in the past 18 months,...
OriCell’s GPC3‑Targeted CAR‑T Ori‑C101 Clears NMPA for Phase II Liver Cancer Trial
OriCell Therapeutics announced that its GPC3‑directed autologous CAR‑T, Ori‑C101, has been cleared by China’s National Medical Products Administration to enter a confirmatory Phase II randomised trial in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who have failed two or more prior therapies. The...
Nvidia, SK Hynix Ink Multiyear AI Memory Deal as Enterprise Demand Soars
Nvidia Corp. and South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix have signed a multiyear technology partnership to co‑develop next‑generation memory for Nvidia’s AI supercomputers and other platforms. The deal comes as both firms race to meet exploding enterprise demand for AI‑focused hardware,...
TrueLayer Launches ‘Bank on File’ at Money20/20 to Direct-Challenge Card Dominance
TrueLayer unveiled its Bank on File service at Money20/20 Europe, offering a bank‑to‑bank (A2A) infrastructure that lets UK consumers set up flexible, recurring payments directly from their accounts. The rollout begins with four commercial partners—Trading 212, IG Group, InvestEngine and...
Weebit Nano ReRAM Reaches Commercial Tape-Out Milestone
Weebit Nano announced the tape‑out of two customer products that embed its Resistive RAM (ReRAM) IP, with one design already returning first silicon and demonstrating functional operation. The tape‑out milestone signals a shift from laboratory validation to production‑ready semiconductor integration....
WRC-27: The Next Arena for U.S.-China Space Competition
China’s filing for an extra 200,000 low‑Earth‑orbit satellites signals a decisive push to dominate the NGSO market, turning the 2027 ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC‑27) in Shanghai into a strategic battleground. The agenda, dominated by space‑related spectrum issues, will shape...
Turning Cloudflare’s Threat Indicators Into Real-Time WAF Rules
Cloudflare has introduced new WAF fields that let customers write proactive rules using live threat‑intelligence from its Threat Events platform. The always‑on detection model injects attacker names, target industries, source and destination countries, and dataset tags into request metadata, enabling...
CIS News
The CIS news roundup spotlights a surge of activity in medical robotics, from Johnson & Johnson’s OTTAVA system posting positive clinical trial results to Sentante earning a CE mark for its endovascular platform. Ezmedibot was chosen for the 2026 Innovative...
Key Takeaways From SNEC 2026 in Shanghai
China’s 2026 SNEC PV Power Expo drew roughly 115,000 visitors and more than 3,000 exhibitors, but the event felt subdued amid persistent overcapacity. For the first time, energy‑storage booths outnumbered traditional solar manufacturers, highlighting a shift toward integrated solar‑plus‑storage solutions....
Toyo to Site 1.5-GW Solar Cell Plant Near Houston Panel Factory
Toyo Solar, a Japanese solar brand, announced a $357 million investment to build a 1.5‑GW heterojunction (HJT) solar cell plant co‑located with its Houston module assembly facility. The plant will create roughly 400 jobs and start pilot production within 20 months,...
Chinese Doctors Embrace AI Prescribing, Keep Final Say
In a study, authors asked 2708 physicians throughout China to interrogate their opinions on drug-prescribing AI. There seems to be a wide acceptance of conditional autonomous drug-prescribing AI. But only in a way that the physician remains the gatekeeper in the...
How Companies Are Using AI to Compress Hiring Timelines
The global average time‑to‑hire remains around 44 days, a lag that lets top candidates slip away. Companies are inserting AI at key choke points—sourcing, screening and especially scheduling—to strip out coordination waste. MasterCard reported 88% of interview slots filled within...
SMBs Ramp up AI Tool Use to Manage Company and Employee Expenses
A new American Express survey of 513 small and midsized companies (revenues $4 million‑$100 million) shows 52% are deploying AI to manage company and employee expenses. AI is most used for fraud or error detection, expense categorization and receipt capture, each cited...
Smart Glasses, Mobile FRT Normalize Ambient Biometric Surveillance
Meta is embedding facial‑recognition software into its upcoming smart glasses, while ICE is expanding a mobile face‑scan app to over a thousand state and local law‑enforcement agencies. Both moves shift biometric identification from fixed checkpoints to everyday devices that can...
Approved Drugs: Questions and Answers
The FDA approves new medicines after a multi‑stage evaluation that begins with laboratory and animal studies, proceeds through phased human clinical trials, and culminates in a comprehensive data review by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). CDER scientists...
WWDC 2026: How to Watch as Tim Cook Unveils iOS 27 in His Final Keynote as Apple CEO
Apple CEO Tim Cook will deliver his last WWDC keynote on June 8, unveiling iOS 27, the most ambitious software update in the company’s history. The rollout promises a standalone Siri app with chatbot‑style interactions, a redesigned Siri integrated into Dynamic Island,...
Lassie’s $47M A16z Round And The Bet That Autonomous AI Can Replace The Dental Front Desk: Why Sitting In A...
Lassie, a startup automating dental billing with AI agents, raised a $35 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing total funding to $47 million. The platform now serves over 700 dental practices in 49 states, handling payer portal logins, payment reconciliation, and...
FCC Grants Key Waiver to Amazon Leo, Keeping Competitive Pressure on Musk’s Starlink
The FCC’s Space Bureau granted Amazon’s Leo satellite broadband project a conditional waiver, allowing the company to keep launching its first‑generation LEO constellation despite missing the July 30, 2026 deadline to have half of its satellites in orbit. Amazon has deployed 331...
From Symptoms to Prediction: A New Era of Healthcare?
A new clinical intelligence platform, Longevitix, has launched to unify fragmented health data for physicians in longevity and preventive medicine. The AI‑driven solution consolidates labs, wearable streams, intake forms and clinical histories into a single, physician‑ready dashboard, delivering prioritized insights...
Data Management Debt in the AI Era: What CIOs Need to Know
Enterprises are grappling with "data management debt"—silos, duplicated stores, and fragmented pipelines—that erodes AI productivity. CIOs spend roughly 40% of data scientists' time on data prep, while data engineers’ AI focus has risen from 19% to 37% since 2023. Snowflake’s...
How C-Suite and Board Roles Are Being Reshaped Around AI
AI is fundamentally reshaping senior leadership, turning traditional C‑suite roles into data‑driven, technology‑centric positions. Executives now need AI, analytics, and cloud fluency alongside classic domain expertise, while soft skills such as empathy and rapid learning become decisive differentiators. New titles—Chief...
Ransomware Hits Near-Record Highs as AI Governance Gaps Widen Inside Organizations
Travelers’ Q1 2026 Cyber Threat Report shows ransomware activity has become a new baseline, with 2,405 victims—a 7 percent year‑over‑year rise—and an 80 percent increase in claims since 2022. The threat landscape is fragmenting: 84 distinct ransomware groups operated in the quarter, the...
NTT DATA Expands Collaboration with Google Cloud to Accelerate Enterprise AI From Pilots to Production
NTT DATA announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to move enterprise AI from pilot projects to full‑scale production using Google’s Gemini Enterprise platform. The collaboration will create a dedicated Gemini Enterprise practice, aiming to certify 5,000 experts worldwide. Together...
Why GPID Still Falls Short: Persistent Problems in Programmatic Placement Identification
The Global Placement ID (GPID) was introduced to give programmatic buyers a persistent, publisher‑defined identifier for each ad slot, promising better deduplication and supply‑path transparency. In practice, adoption is uneven and implementations often break the persistence promise through missing signals,...
Qilin Ransomware Affiliate Exploited Check Point VPN Zero-Day (CVE-2026-50751)
Check Point disclosed that a Qilin ransomware affiliate is exploiting CVE‑2026‑50751, an authentication‑bypass flaw in its Remote Access and Mobile Access VPN products. The bug is triggered only when the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange is enabled, allowing unauthenticated attackers to...
Funding the Quantum Middle: Series A/B Capital with Kris Naudts and Zeynep Koruturk of Firgun Ventures
In this episode, host Sebastian Hassegher talks with Chris Knott and Zeynep Koruturk, co‑founders of Firgun Ventures, about the funding gap that exists for quantum‑computing startups between seed and later‑stage rounds. Drawing on their experience as early angel investors in...
Eutelsat and Voimatel Partner on LEO Connectivity in Finland
Eutelsat has signed a partner agreement with Finnish infrastructure provider Voimatel to deliver OneWeb low‑Earth‑orbit (LEO) connectivity across Finland. Voimatel will embed the satellite service into its fixed and wireless solutions, creating hybrid networks for enterprise and public‑sector clients. The...
Scientists Accomplish First Total Synthesis of Complex Alkaloid Derived From Plant
Researchers at Chiba University have achieved the first total synthesis of the complex monoterpenoid indole alkaloid bisleuconothine A and the related bousigonine B. The team employed an enantioselective organocatalytic cascade to construct a key 3‑ethylpiperidine intermediate, enabling a bio‑inspired 20‑step assembly of...
Waaree Renewable Technologies Bags Order for 300 MW Solar Project
Waaree Renewable Technologies (WRTL) received a letter of award to execute an EPC contract for a 300 MW (450 MWp) ground‑mounted solar project, including two years of operation and maintenance services. The order was issued by Sunsational Power, a subsidiary of Waaree....
All Solar Cell Efficiencies at a Glance – Updated
The UNSW‑led research team released Version 68 of the Solar Cell Efficiency Tables in the July 2026 issue of Joule, now open‑access and published biannually. The update adds 21 new records, highlighted by Longi’s 28.1% efficiency on a 140 cm² silicon cell and...
AI Has Broken Hiring. Here’s How to Fix It.
Generative AI is eroding the reliability of résumés and live video interviews, allowing candidates to game both the document and real‑time screening stages. A year‑long study of 120 talent‑acquisition leaders and 6,380 first‑round interview recordings found that up to 60%...
Build a Representative Prompt Library for Accurate AI Search Visibility
📊 How to Build a Representative AI Search Prompt Library for Better AI Visibility Measurement 👇 One of the biggest mistakes I see with AI search tracking is using a non-representative prompt library to assess a brand’s AI search visibility. This...
Banking OS Is the Sole Viable AI Path
Banks have three options for AI on legacy systems. Only one works. ↳ Do nothing — bolt AI onto fragmented systems. Limited data access. Innovation theater. Not a retention strategy ↳ Full cloud rip-and-replace — 94% of banking modernization projects exceed deadlines....
Using a Bird’s Structural-Color Trick to Color Solar Modules
Chinese researchers have created quasi‑ordered photonic pigments that color photovoltaic (PV) modules by scattering light rather than absorbing it. The pigments, made from silica microspheres and polyacrylate resin, can be tuned to produce blue, cyan or gray‑white hues while letting...
Grid Batteries Bring California Near 24/7 Clean Power
Pioneering grid battery nudges California closer to 24/7 clean energy #energysky -- via Canary Media: https://t.co/HnlMdqf2hn
Mind‑Driven Bionic Hand Powers Next‑Gen Humanoid Robots
Thought-Controlled Bionic Hand Powers the Next Generation of Humanoid #Robots by @CyberRobooo #MedTech #FutureTech #Innovation #EmergingTech #Technology https://t.co/6jc80KZcS9
FuriosaAI Partners with Broadcom to Build Next-Generation Inference Platform for the Agentic Era
FuriosaAI announced a strategic partnership with Broadcom to create a third‑generation AI inference accelerator built on its Tensor Contraction Processor architecture. The new platform will combine a 2 nm compute die, a dedicated I/O die, and HBM4/4E memory using Broadcom’s advanced...
Google's New Search Profiles Hint at Future Analytics
Insights are coming for the new search profiles. Will be interesting to see how Google expands profiles over time (and how they could be used...) That they are building analytics already tells you something. :)
Micron Shipping 245TB 6600 ION U.2 and E3.L Data Center SSDs
Micron Technology has begun shipping a 245 TB 6600 ION SSD, the highest‑capacity commercial solid‑state drive on the market. Built on G9 QLC NAND, the drive delivers up to 84× better energy efficiency and 8.6× faster AI preprocessing while consuming only 30 W,...
Silverfort Brings Runtime Identity Controls to Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents
Silverfort announced a runtime identity‑control integration for Microsoft Copilot Studio agents, enforcing access policies at the moment an AI action is requested. The solution evaluates each request in real time, blocking unauthorized or privilege‑escalating actions before they occur. By tying...
Here’s What It Takes To Reach Decision-Makers On CTV Today
Connected TV (CTV) ad spend in the United States is projected to hit $53.42 billion, confirming double‑digit growth as streaming eclipses linear TV. Advertisers, especially B2B marketers, are shifting from using CTV solely for brand exposure to targeting specific decision‑makers who...
Napatech Secures Design Win with Tier-1 Global Banking and Finance Customer
Napatech announced a strategic design win with a tier‑1 global bank, securing a multi‑year contract exceeding $3 million, including $1.5 million booked for 2026. The agreement centers on the NT400 SmartNIC, which offers 400 Gbps deterministic performance for latency‑sensitive financial workloads. This deal...
Stop Looking for the Perfect PPC Budget Split
The article argues that fixing a PPC budget split between brand awareness and conversion is a mistake. It explains that lower‑funnel campaigns harvest existing demand while upper‑funnel spend creates future pipelines, and the optimal balance shifts with product lifecycle, seasonality,...
Amazon Leo Gets a Satellite Deployment Extension
Amazon Leo secured a 24‑month FCC extension, moving its interim LEO satellite deployment deadline to July 30, 2028 while keeping the full‑deployment target of July 30, 2029. The company has launched more than 300 satellites and aims to have about 700 in orbit by...