SAP Unveils Joule Studio 2.0 with 200 Enterprise AI Agents for Finance, Supply Chain and HR
SAP announced the launch of Joule Studio 2.0, its new development platform for autonomous enterprise agents. The suite ships 200 specialized agents across 50 domain‑specific assistants and will begin rolling to customers in June 2026, marking a strategic shift from dashboards to AI‑driven work execution.
HubSpot Shares Jump 50% on AI Integration, Fueling Investor Optimism
HubSpot's stock rallied more than 50% from its recent low, closing at its highest level since March, after the company showcased AI‑driven features at a major conference and reported GAAP profitability. Analysts lifted price targets, seeing up to 45% upside,...
Hello Robot Unveils Stretch 4.0, Pushing Personal Robots Into Homes
Hello Robot introduced Stretch 4.0, its latest home‑assistant robot, designed for real‑world households and accessibility needs. The launch underscores a shift from lab‑bound prototypes to consumer‑ready devices, with early adopters already testing its capabilities.
IUX Unveils 2026 Infrastructure Roadmap Targeting Sub‑30 Ms Execution and Raw Spread Stability
IUX announced a 2026 infrastructure blueprint that promises sub‑30 ms trade execution and algorithmic raw‑spread stability across Asia, South Africa and Latin America. The plan underpins its recent ‘Most Innovative Technology Broker 2026’ and ‘Best Execution Broker 2026’ awards and signals...
Biogen's Salanersen Wins FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for SMA
Biogen announced that the FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to its antisense drug Salanersen for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The designation follows Phase 1b data showing motor‑function gains in children who previously received gene therapy. The move accelerates Biotech’s Phase 3...
IMUNON Raises $10 Million to Fund Phase 3 Ovarian Cancer Trial, Bolstering B2B Pharma Pipeline
IMUNON, Inc. announced a $10 million cash financing package that includes preferred stock and secured promissory notes to fund its pivotal Phase 3 OVATION 3 ovarian cancer trial. The capital infusion is aimed at expanding enrollment and positioning the company for deeper B2B...
Valve Says Steam Machine 'Shipping This Summer'
Valve announced that its long‑awaited Steam Machine and the new Steam Frame will begin shipping this summer, marking the first major hardware rollout beyond the Steam Deck. The company also broadened its Steam Verified program to include the upcoming devices,...
93% of Organizations Use or Plan to Use AI Agents for Sensitive Security Tasks
A recent security survey reveals that 93% of organizations already use or plan to deploy AI agents for sensitive tasks such as password resets, while 92% have AI installed on local machines capable of accessing SSH and encryption keys. Despite...
So Long, ‘Ferrynoia.’ Green Maritime Technology Is Here
New York launched the Harbor Charger, the state’s first hybrid‑electric public ferry, linking South Ferry to Governors Island. Built for $33 million, the vessel carries 1,200 passengers and 30 vehicles, cutting travel time by two‑thirds and reducing CO2 emissions by at...
GoTyme, Wise Launch Money Transfer Service
GoTyme Bank, backed by the Gokongwei group, has launched an in‑app international money‑transfer feature called Send Money Abroad, powered by Wise. The service lets customers move funds to over 170 countries in eight major currencies and shows fees, exchange rates...
Yes, You Can Put Your Watch and Fitbit Air on the Same Band (but You May Not Want To)
A DIY hack lets users attach a Fitbit Air tracker to the same strap as a mechanical watch by leveraging the Air’s 18 mm nylon band and the watch’s lug spacing. The method requires a watch with at least 18 mm lugs,...
SM’s PGPC Bags Leyte Geothermal Contract
Philippine Geothermal Production Co. (PGPC), a unit of SM Investments Corp., secured a Department of Energy contract to develop a 25‑megawatt geothermal project in Southern Leyte. The award, announced on June 1, makes PGPC the highest‑ranked bidder in the DOE’s fifth...
Edge Computing Brings AI Closer to Material Handling, Explains Toyota Automated Logistics
Toyota Automated Logistics highlighted at the Robotics Summit & Expo how edge computing is moving AI processing from the cloud to the warehouse floor. By placing vision and analytics on edge devices, companies can detect pallet damage, track high‑value inventory,...
NASA Astronauts Ordered to Shelter in Dragon While Russians Repair Air Leak
NASA instructed the five U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station to shelter inside the docked SpaceX Dragon capsule while Russian cosmonauts prepared to repair a newly detected air leak in the Zvezda module. The leak, measured at about one...
NEC XON Detects and Stops Ransomware Attack with Cortex XDR
A global recruitment firm faced a ransomware intrusion that began with reconnaissance in its public‑facing network. NEC XON’s Managed XDR service, powered by Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, identified the mapping activity in real time and automatically blocked the malicious IP. Human...
Five Global Trends Reshaping Building Automation: Retrofitting
Retrofitting legacy buildings has shifted from a optional upgrade to a strategic imperative as aging infrastructure drives higher operating costs and threatens asset value. In the United States, nearly 70% of office space predates 2000, while over a third of...
Digital Company ID Could Save UK Financial Sector £1.7B: CFIT
A government‑backed consortium has completed a proof of concept for a Digital Company ID, a reusable digital credential that could slash UK banks' Know‑Your‑Business (KYB) costs by £1.7 billion (about $2.2 billion). The system, developed with identity providers Yoti and OneID and...
Micro-Cap 'War Unicorn' Merlin Soars After Advancing AI Pilot For C-130 Military Plane
Merlin, a micro‑cap defense startup, announced that its AI‑powered autonomous flight software for the C‑130J Super Hercules has passed the Critical Design Review, clearing the path for formal aircraft‑level testing with U.S. Special Operations Command. The software, described as an...
Engie to Build 155MW Solar PV at Gas Plant in Spain
Engie is investing €100 million (approximately US$114 million) to build a 155 MW solar‑PV plant at its Castelnou power station in Aragon, Spain. The hybrid project will overlay more than 284,000 modules across about 360 hectares, pairing solar output with the existing gas‑fired facility....
The Illusion of AI-Driven Velocity and Reimagining the Developer Experience
Generative AI is now embedded in IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, Jira and CLIs, letting developers request code, docs, tests or architecture instantly. In enterprise settings, however, speed alone is insufficient; inconsistent AI‑generated output can clash with long‑standing standards, security controls and...
Lili Embeds Business Credit Solutions for Small Businesses
Lili, the U.S. online banking platform for small and medium‑sized businesses, has launched integrated Business Credit Solutions. The new suite offers a revolving line of credit and additional financing options through partners such as Fundbox and Lendio, accessible directly within...
Google Fitbit Air: Affordable Whoop Alternative, App Needs Work
"The best, most interesting Fitbit to have been released in years." Google Fitbit Air review: The affordable Whoop alternative hits all the right notes, but its messy AI-powered app holds it back from greatness https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/fitness-trackers/google-fitbit-air-review
FDA Approves Ranluspec as Biosimilar to Lucentis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for Ranluspec, an interchangeable biosimilar of Lucentis, to treat vision‑threatening retinal diseases. The drug is available in both vial and prefilled‑syringe formats and is offered in 0.3 mg and 0.5 mg strengths. Ranluspec...
Interview with Marcus MCGehee, Founder of The AI Consulting Lab
Marcus McGehee, a digital‑marketing veteran, founded The AI Consulting Lab to bridge the widening gap between AI hype and real‑world results. He observed that most firms buy tools like ChatGPT Enterprise or Microsoft Copilot but see less than 10% adoption,...
MSPs Are Facing a New BYOD Security Problem, and It’s Personal
Managed service providers (MSPs) are confronting a new security frontier as personal devices and compromised identities become the primary entry points for cyber‑attacks, now accounting for roughly 65% of breaches. Aura Business, a veteran of the consumer identity‑protection market, has...
Fish-Scale Sensor Gives Robots a Better Sense of Touch
Researchers have unveiled a fish‑scale‑inspired giant piezocapacitive sensor that dramatically boosts tactile sensitivity for soft robotic grippers. The rigid PZT “scales” on a silicone substrate create air‑gap‑driven electric‑field gating, delivering a 177‑fold capacitance increase during bending. The device resolves 0.005°...
European Publishers Seek £552m+ From Google Claiming Ad Market Abuse
More than 20 European news publishers have filed a joint antitrust lawsuit against Google, seeking damages exceeding €640 million (about $690 million). The claim builds on the European Commission’s €2.95 billion fine last year for Google’s dominance in ad‑tech, alleging the company skewed...
5 IT Funding Deals to Watch
Capital is flowing into the core infrastructure that powers AI, with Supabase landing a $500 million Series F that values its open‑source Postgres platform at $10.5 billion. DriveNets secured $410 million to expand its Ethernet fabric for massive AI clusters, while Cyera raised $300 million...
The Safer, Faster, and Easier to Build Your Own AI Agent Skills (Beginners)
The post explains that AI agent skills are simple markdown instruction sets rather than complex code, making them easy for anyone to create. While many users download pre‑made skill packs, the author warns that hidden instructions can introduce prompt‑injection risks,...
Dell Unveils PowerStore Elite to Drive the Next Era of Storage Modernisation
Dell Technologies introduced PowerStore Elite, a next‑generation storage platform that supports block, file, virtual‑machine and container workloads. The system delivers up to three times the performance of prior models, a 6:1 data‑reduction guarantee and scales to 5.8 petabytes in a 3U chassis...
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Arctech Wins 2.1 GW Solar Deal
Arctech signed a 2.1 GW ADQ solar contract in the United Arab Emirates and a memorandum of understanding for a 1 GW solar‑plus‑storage project with Anhui Zhonghong New Energy. At the same time, China Energy Engineering Corp. launched a 2026 centralized procurement...
H Company Joins Nvidia’s International Coalition Dedicated to Open-Source AI Models
H Company has been added to Nvidia’s Nemotron coalition, an international effort launched in March to accelerate open‑source foundation models. The Paris‑based startup will tap shared computing resources to boost its “computer‑use” AI, which can autonomously interact with web browsers...
The U.S. Military Quietly Turned GPS Into a Global ‘Numbers Station,’ Evidence Suggests
Researchers have uncovered that the U.S. military has been using a previously overlooked 176‑bit field in GPS’s Subframe 4, Page 17 to broadcast encrypted key material for its Over‑the‑Air Distribution network. Analysis of more than 12 million observations revealed 3,994 distinct messages transmitted...
OpenGov and Snowflake Build a Knowledge Graph to Unify Government Data and AI
OpenGov is constructing a company‑wide knowledge graph on Snowflake Postgres to fuse structured and unstructured data from hundreds of sources. The platform unifies transactional and analytical workloads, eliminating fragile ETL pipelines that have slowed AI adoption in the public sector....
Niobium Opens Developer Partner Program for The Fog, the First IaaS Purpose-Built for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Niobium announced the Developer Partner Program for The Fog, the first IaaS platform built specifically for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). The service provides cloud‑based servers equipped with Niobium’s mistic Core FPGA accelerator, promising up to twice the performance of existing...
New Report! Supporting Participation: Building an Effective European Civic Tech Hub
MySociety and Finland’s Sitra have released a report outlining a blueprint for a European civic‑tech hub. Based on interviews with 19 organisations in 12 countries, the study identifies three priority strands – boosting demand for participation tools, strengthening the supply...
Computex Highlights AI-Driven Chiplet Revolution and HBM Surge
Latest: Computex shows AI ecosystem; fully autonomous chip design; Apple’s chiplet era; 4,500 chips per AI server rack; HBM price hikes; quantum chip & roadmap; SiC guidelines; MXenes; EV outlook; autonomous edge chiplets. https://t.co/nJQHe2FfFV #semiEDA #chipdesign #datacenter
ISS Astronauts Told To Prepare For Possible Evacuation Over Air Leak
NASA instructed the four‑person Crew‑12 expedition aboard the ISS to shelter inside the docked Crew Dragon and don spacesuits after a worsening air leak was detected in the Russian Zvezda service module's transfer tunnel. The leak, previously a modest loss...
ISS Astronauts Told To Prepare For Possible Evacuation As Air Leak Worsens
NASA announced that astronauts aboard the International Space Station have moved into SpaceX’s Dragon capsule and are on high alert for a possible evacuation after the Zvezda service module’s transfer tunnel leak worsened. The crack‑filled PrK tunnel now loses about...
Singtel Advances Drive for Widespread Internal AI Use
Singtel has teamed up with Digital Industry Singapore, securing a government grant to accelerate a multi‑year AI transformation across its operations. The plan targets AI integration in network infrastructure, customer platforms, and workforce development, beginning with talent recruitment, governance frameworks,...
Launch of Most Powerful Ariane 6 to Date Set for 17 June
Arianespace will launch the first Ariane 64 equipped with upgraded P160C solid‑fuel boosters on 17 June, carrying 36 Amazon low‑Earth‑orbit satellites. The P160C adds roughly 14 tonnes of propellant, boosting total booster load to about 160 tonnes and lifting payload capacity by roughly 12 percent....
Astronauts Told to Return to ISS After Sheltering over Air Leak Repairs
Astronauts on the International Space Station were instructed to return to the orbital complex after sheltering in the SpaceX Crew Dragon while Russian cosmonauts repaired air leaks in the Zvezda service module’s transfer tunnel. The leaks, first reported in 2019,...
What Does the ISS Air Leak Emergency Reveal About the Aging Space Station?
On June 5, 2026 NASA ordered the four Crew‑12 astronauts to shelter inside their docked SpaceX Crew Dragon after a leak in the Russian Service Module Transfer Tunnel accelerated to roughly two pounds of air per day. The incident moved the ISS from...
Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?
Microsoft’s once‑dominant AI momentum appears to be stalling as rivals accelerate, prompting analysts to ask whether the tech giant has lost its mojo again. Internal memos from 2018 reveal senior leaders were skeptical of OpenAI, a stance that delayed deeper...
Glooko Introduces the First and Only Pump Settings EHR Integration to Bring Insulin Pump Data Directly Into Clinical Workflows
Glooko announced the launch of its Insulin Pump Settings EHR Integration, a device‑agnostic feature that streams critical pump configuration data directly into electronic health record flowsheets. The integration consolidates up to 24 data points—basal rates, carb ratios, sensitivity factors and...
Olympus’ Keith Boettiger on Robotic GI Surgery Push
Olympus, the world’s largest endoscopy system provider, is expanding into robotic gastrointestinal surgery through its Swan Endosurgical platform and a distribution partnership with EndoRobotics. The company aims to democratize complex procedures such as endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) by integrating robotics...
Siemens Energy Buys Camlin Group, Maker of Transformer Monitoring Software
Siemens Energy announced it will acquire Camlin Group, a transformer‑monitoring software firm, to boost grid digitalisation and facilitate renewable integration. Camlin’s sensor‑based analytics enable predictive maintenance, reducing downtime for wind, solar and storage assets. The deal, pending regulatory clearance, should...
Honeybees and Shrimp Are Now Getting Vaccinated
Researchers at Dalan Animal Health have secured conditional USDA approval for a honeybee vaccine and are now reporting early laboratory results for a shrimp vaccine. The honeybee vaccine, based on inactivated *Paenibacillus larvae*, is being distributed across U.S. and Canadian...
China’s Qianfan Constellation Reaches 200 Satellites in Orbit
China’s Qianfan broadband constellation hit the 200‑satellite milestone after two consecutive Long March launches added 36 new units. The deployments used a Long March 6A on Thursday and a Long March 8 on Friday, both operated by the Shanghai‑led venture SSST (Spacesail)....
The Fitbit Air's Sleep Tracking Is Trying to Keep Me Up at Night
The author tested the Fitbit Air’s sleep tracking alongside an Apple Watch running Sleep++. While baseline metrics align, the Fitbit’s Google Health app aborts sleep scoring after any brief wake, initially delivering a poor sleep score. The app later retroactively...