Akeso Presents the P-III (HARMONi-6) Trial Data on Ivonescimab + CT in 1L Squamous NSCLC at ASCO 2026
Akeso’s global Phase III HARMONi‑6 trial compared ivodescimab plus chemotherapy with Tevimbra plus chemotherapy in 532 patients with first‑line squamous non‑small cell lung cancer. The study met its primary overall‑survival endpoint, showing a 34% reduction in death risk (median OS 27.9 months vs 23.7 months). Twelve‑month and 24‑month survival rates were 78.9% vs 72.2% and 64.7% vs 48.6%, respectively, with consistent benefit across PD‑L1 expression and disease burden. Progression‑free survival also improved (11.1 months vs 6.9 months).
Thanks to Two New Laws, More Virginians Can Save with Community Solar
Virginia enacted two new statutes requiring Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power to add 525 MW and 100 MW of shared‑solar capacity, respectively, expanding community‑solar options for households and farms. The laws build on the 2020 Clean Economy Act and a 2024 measure,...
Tips for Protecting Against Retail Cyberattacks
Retail remains the top cyber‑crime target, accounting for roughly 24% of all attacks, according to Fortinet. Hackers exploit the myriad of customer‑facing apps, loyalty programs, payment systems and third‑party integrations that retailers rely on, while many firms operate with lean...
Budget 2026: New Zealand Funds Digital Health Upgrades, Cybersec
The New Zealand government’s Budget 2026 earmarks roughly NZ$450 million ($270 million) for health‑sector digital upgrades and cybersecurity. NZ$153.6 million ($91.7 million) will fund a 24/7 national cyber‑monitoring programme under Te Whatu Ora, while NZ$300 million ($179 million) supports the first three years of the Health Digital Investment Plan, replacing...
Privacy Watchdog Faults Operator, Health NZ over Manage My Health Hack
New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner concluded that Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand and Manage My Health Ltd breached Rule 5 of the Health Information Privacy Code after a cyberattack compromised the My Health Documents portal. Approximately 99,416 patients—mostly in Northland—had personal and...
Indonesia's New SIM Rule: Facial Biometrics Mandatory From July 1
Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs will make facial biometric verification mandatory for all new SIM card registrations starting July 1, 2026. A five‑month trial involving Telkomsel, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and XL Axiata registered 1.4 million numbers in under two minutes per...
AI Platforms Split on How Far to Push Solar O&M Automation
European AI startups Invertix and Areg.AI are pursuing opposite strategies for utility‑scale solar O&M automation. Invertix deploys AI agents for monitoring, reporting and prioritization but mandates human sign‑off before any decision or execution. Areg.AI pushes further, linking detection to autonomous...
Retail’s AI Reality Check: The Data Behind Speed, Safety and the Human Factor
Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering physical retail, not to replace staff but to amplify their effectiveness. Recent research shows 43.6% of retailers plan to deploy AI within the next year and 28.1% already have implementations, targeting faster checkout, inventory visibility,...
Mulwala Solar Farm Nears Launch as Google and AirTrunk Back New Australian Solar Capacity
Google, AirTrunk and European Energy Australia are close to commissioning the Mulwala Solar Farm in New South Wales. The 31‑megawatt facility, spread over 215 hectares, is expected to generate about 66 GWh of clean electricity each year and connect to the...
The Sub-2nm Paradox
The semiconductor industry is confronting a paradox at sub‑2nm nodes: while transistor density continues to rise, process variation, RC delay, and SRAM scaling limits are driving yields down and costs up. Foundries are extending node roadmaps to 10 angstrom (≈1 nm) and...
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Mocse Credit Union Selects Narmi One for Digital Banking Upgrade
US‑based Mocse Credit Union has chosen Narmi’s flagship platform, Narmi One, to overhaul its digital banking infrastructure. The credit union, founded in 1959, now serves about 30,000 members and holds roughly $427 million in assets. Narmi One will enable stronger member...
Dell UltraSharp U3226Q Monitor Review: QD-OLED Goes Pro
Dell’s UltraSharp U3226Q is a 32‑inch 4K QD‑OLED monitor aimed at professional creators, featuring a built‑in colorimeter that self‑calibrates to keep color accuracy within ΔE < 1. It covers 99% of DCI‑P3, 94% of Adobe RGB and supports Dolby Vision, HDR10, HLG and...
6 Critical Security Gaps Every CISO Must Address
A recent Proofpoint survey shows one‑third of CISOs believe their data isn’t adequately protected and 58% feel unprepared for a cyberattack, while only 67% think they have sufficient budget, staff, and tools. Experts identify six critical gaps: perception of security...
Nigerian POS Agents Set for Showdown with Verve and Interswitch
Nigeria’s Association of Point of Sale Service Providers has warned it will stop processing Verve card transactions unless the Central Bank and competition regulators intervene over alleged anti‑competitive exclusivity by Verve and its parent Interswitch. The CBN recently extended the...
CBSE Engages IIT Experts After Admitting OSM Security Vulnerabilities
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has enlisted cybersecurity experts from IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur and the Digital Infrastructure Corporation of India to audit its On‑Screen Marking (OSM) platform after confirming multiple vulnerabilities. Reported flaws included a hard‑coded master...
AMD Launch the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Expanded Socket AM5 Support and More
At Computex 2026 AMD announced a multi‑year commitment to its AM5 platform through 2029 and unveiled the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, a new 3D V‑Cache processor priced at $329 and shipping July 16. The company also launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, a mid‑range RDNA 4 GPU aimed at...
Nanoscale Device Converts Wasted Infrared Light From PV Systems Into Usable Energy
Researchers at the University of New South Wales have created a nanoscale upconversion device that captures low‑energy infrared photons and converts them into higher‑energy visible light. By embedding a liquid triplet‑fusion medium in an alumina nano‑scaffold, the system avoids the...
Money 20/20 2026 Preview: Boost Security and Accelerate Liquidity Across Global Financial Networks
Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam will spotlight AI‑driven autonomous commerce, stablecoin‑based liquidity and the upcoming PSD3 regulatory framework. Mastercard, Santander and PayOS demonstrated Europe’s first fully autonomous end‑to‑end payment, while AU10TIX warned that AI‑generated identity fraud now appears in roughly one...
NVIDIA Completes DLSS 4.5 with Second-Generation Ray Reconstruction
NVIDIA has rolled out DLSS 4.5 with a second‑generation Ray Reconstruction engine built on a transformer‑based AI model. The upgrade replaces the original CNN‑driven approach, delivering higher‑quality ray‑traced reflections, shadows and global illumination while cutting visual noise. NVIDIA says the new...
AMD Extends AM5 Socket Support Through 2029 for Future Ryzen CPUs
AMD announced at Computex that its AM5 socket will remain supported through 2029, extending the previous 2027 guarantee. The roadmap now covers current Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 chips and upcoming Zen 6 processors, with hints that Zen 7 may also use the socket. By...
A 10 Year Old Xeon Is All You Need
A 2016 Intel Xeon E5‑2620 v4 server with 128 GB DDR3 RAM and no GPU was coaxed into running the 26‑billion‑parameter Gemma‑4 Mixture‑of‑Experts model at reading‑speed. By compiling the ik_llama.cpp fork and applying a 25‑flag command line—featuring speculative decoding, CPU‑MoE routing, flash attention,...
Global Policy Gaps Slow Biosimilar Adoption and Access
A new UCSF study published in JAMA Health Forum reveals that biosimilar regulations vary widely across 19 countries, hindering their development and market uptake. While biologics represent only about 5% of prescriptions, they account for more than half of drug...
NVIDIA Commits to New Windows Arm Processors Every Two Years
NVIDIA announced a long‑term Windows processor roadmap, pledging new Arm‑based CPU platforms every two years through 2030. The first products, under the RTX Spark brand, will launch later this year in notebooks before expanding to mini‑PCs and desktops. A high‑end...
AI Innovator Alcemy Joins WCA to Drive Sustainability
The World Cement Association has welcomed AI specialist Alcemy as an associate corporate member. Alcemy will integrate its predictive, data‑driven quality‑control platform with cement plants, building on more than 200 existing implementations. The technology is designed to cut clinker usage...
Meta’s Employee Mouse-Click Tracking Tool Is Collecting EU Data It Said It Would Not Collect
Meta’s Model Capability Initiative (MCI) records keystrokes, mouse clicks and screen content on U.S. workstations to train AI agents. Internal documents reveal the tool also ingests every email and chat a U.S. employee exchanges with European colleagues, contrary to Meta’s...
Bolted to Pioneer 10 Is a Plaque Showing Two Humans and a Cosmic Map Back to Earth, While the Spacecraft...
Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, carries a gold‑anodised aluminium plaque depicting a man, a woman, and a pulsar‑based map pointing toward Earth. The spacecraft’s radio transmitter fell silent after its last faint signal in January 2003, leaving it an untracked ghost drifting...
If Cores Are What Agents Crave, Intel's New Clearwater Xeon 6+ Might Just Quench Their Thirst
Intel unveiled the Clearwater Forest Xeon 6+ processor, delivering up to 288 cores per socket to target agentic AI workloads that rely heavily on CPU threads. The chip uses a 2 nm‑class process, stacking twelve 24‑core tiles with I/O dies borrowed...
Bamboo Goes Mainstream: BASE Highlights Sustainable Innovations at Worldbex 2026
Base Bahay Foundation (BASE) used the Worldbex 2026 expo in Manila to debut a full‑scale Worldbex Lab built entirely from its proprietary Cement‑Bamboo Frame Technology (CBFT) panels. The installation attracted thousands of visitors among the 188,689 attendees, underscoring growing confidence...
Rafay Operationalizes NVIDIA DSX OS for AI Factories
Rafay has integrated NVIDIA's open‑source DSX OS into its platform, delivering automated provisioning, multi‑tenant isolation, and AI workload scheduling for GPU clouds. The integration bundles NICo, AICR, KAI Scheduler, Run:ai, Dynamo, Grove, and NVIDIA Cloud Functions into a single consumable...
Open Source Hardware for Robotics: Democratizing Robot Building
Open‑source hardware has transformed robotics from a high‑cost, lab‑only activity into a widely accessible field. Platforms such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, TurtleBot and 3D‑printed components let students, hobbyists and startups build functional robots for a few thousand dollars. This hardware democratization...
An App Made Viral by K-Pop's Top Stars Asks People to Share What AI Can't Replace: An Unedited Glimpse of...
Setlog, a free South Korean vlog‑sharing app, has gone viral after all nine members of K‑pop boy band Seventeen and Aespa’s Karina posted their daily videos. The app prompts friends to record short clips each hour, then stitches them into...
Invisix Closes €20M Seed Round to Transform Chip Metrology
Invisix, a semiconductor metrology startup founded by ASML alumni, closed an oversubscribed seed round of €20 million (approximately $21.8 million). The round was backed by Hitachi Ventures, Transition Ventures, imec.xpand, Doosan Investment and a tier‑one chip maker. Invisix is developing a soft‑x‑ray...
Sarvam Cuts Vision AI Model API Prices by 67% as Document Digitisation Crosses 35 Million Pages
Sarvam AI announced a 67% price cut for its Vision API, dropping the fee from ₹1.5 to ₹0.5 per page (approximately $0.018 to $0.006). The reduction follows the platform’s milestone of digitising more than 35 million pages since its February launch....
AI Startup CEO Dan Shipper Spent $13,000 on OpenAI Codex in a Month, and Isn't Worried
Every, an AI‑focused startup, saw its CEO Dan Shipper incur a $13,000 OpenAI Codex bill in a single month, treating the expense as a routine cost of doing business. The firm provides entry‑level AI subscriptions to all 27 employees and...
Nvidia Jumps Into PCs with New Arm-Based Chip Debuting in Laptops From Microsoft, Dell, HP
Nvidia unveiled its first ARM‑based PC processor, the N1X, integrated into the RTX Spark superchip. The new chip will appear in laptops from Microsoft, Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo and MSI, with more than 30 laptops and 10 desktops slated for release....
Nvidia Shows Off First Windows Laptops And Desktops Powered Entirely By Its Own Chip
Nvidia unveiled the RTX Spark chip, a consumer‑grade processor that combines the company’s AI‑focused GPU with a custom‑built CPU. The chip is designed to run local “personal AI agents” while handling high‑end gaming and productivity workloads such as Adobe Photoshop. Nvidia...
MSI Celebrates 40 Years with Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Laptop
MSI has launched the Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic, a limited‑edition gaming notebook marking the company’s 40th anniversary. The laptop pairs Intel’s Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus CPU with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, delivering up to 270 watts of combined performance. It features a Cherry MX...
ASML Spinout Invisix Raises €20M to See Inside the Chips Optics Can’t
Invisix, an ASML spin‑out from Eindhoven, closed an oversubscribed seed round, raising €20 million (about $22 million). Investors include Hitachi Ventures, imec.xpand, Doosan Investment and a tier‑1 semiconductor manufacturer, likely Samsung. The startup will use the capital to build a soft‑x‑ray metrology...
A New Operating Model for Limoges: Trolleybuses and E-Buses Take Centre Stage in the “Moovéo” Programme
Limoges is rolling out the "Moovéo" programme to transform its public‑transport network with a mix of battery‑electric buses, fast‑charging infrastructure and next‑generation trolleybuses equipped with In‑Motion‑Charging (IMC). By 2030 the city will launch two high‑capacity Bus Rapid Transit (BHRT) lines,...
Japan Stations, Facilities Using AI System to Prevent Suicide by Jumping
Tokyo‑based Asilla Inc. has rolled out an artificial‑intelligence monitoring system across roughly 40 train stations and commercial buildings in Japan. The AI analyzes security‑camera footage for behaviors such as pacing, lingering near edges, or other distress signals, then alerts staff...
Smart Glasses Are Making Real-Time AI a Daily Companion
Smart glasses are moving from novelty to everyday AI companions, delivering navigation, translation, messaging and visual data directly in the wearer’s line of sight. Ray‑Ban’s Meta‑branded glasses, built with Meta Platforms, combine fashion‑forward frames with embedded cameras, microphones and on‑device...
From Software to Flesh: MIT Students Build AI That Controls the Human Body
MIT researchers have unveiled Human Operator, a wearable platform that couples artificial intelligence with electrical muscle stimulation to momentarily control a person’s movements. The system uses a camera and a vision‑language model to interpret spoken commands, converting them into targeted...
Regulatory Readiness Under Pressure as Banks Accelerate AI Adoption
Artificial intelligence is spreading through banks faster than regulators can keep pace, with adoption rates more than double those of supervisory bodies. A Cambridge Centre study of 350 banks, fintechs, AI vendors and 130 regulators across 151 countries found only...
Scientists Unveil 3D Color Imaging Technique for Real-Time Human Scans
Researchers at Caltech and USC unveiled RUS-PAT, a hybrid imaging system that fuses rotational ultrasound tomography with photoacoustic tomography to generate high‑resolution 3D images of tissue structure and blood‑vessel function in real time. The technique overcomes the two‑dimensional limitation of...
United Kingdom Invests Millions in Drones and Flying Taxis
The United Kingdom has earmarked roughly $51 million (EUR 46.5 million) to fast‑track drones, electric flying taxis and related aviation technologies. The UK Civil Aviation Authority will use the funds to modernise regulations, streamline approvals and roll out a Hybrid Remote ID system...
How Intelligent Delivery Is Turning Fulfilment Into a Competitive Edge
Retailers that treat delivery as a cost centre risk falling behind as AI‑driven expectations rise. ShipStation’s senior director Sophia Pope advocates “intelligent delivery”—using real‑time data and AI to turn fulfilment into a proactive growth engine. She argues that proactive visibility,...
Nvidia Picks Unitree for Humanoid Robot Platform as Chinese Startup Eyes IPO
Nvidia announced a partnership with Chinese robotics startup Unitree to sell a research‑focused humanoid platform that combines Unitree’s six‑foot H2 robot with Nvidia’s new Blackwell‑based Jetson Thor module. The system, equipped with Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T AI models and Sharpa’s dexterous...
Digital Central to NI Public Sector Investment
The UK government has allocated a final £102.6 million (≈ $131 million) to accelerate digital and operational transformation across Northern Ireland's public services. The largest share, £42 million (≈ $54 million), will fund the ePharmacy Primary Care Digital Reform Programme, replacing 45 million paper prescriptions...
Nvidia's New World Model Helps Robots Navigate the World
Nvidia unveiled Cosmos 3, an open‑source world model that lets robots, autonomous vehicles and other physical systems simulate and predict real‑world environments. The model was trained on 20 trillion multimodal tokens, including nearly a billion images, 400 million videos, audio, text and action...
Nvidia Drive Hyperion Expands to More Robotaxi Fleets
Nvidia announced a major expansion of its Drive Hyperion platform, uniting automakers, Tier‑1 suppliers, software firms and mobility providers to deliver a level‑4‑ready robotaxi foundation. The ecosystem now includes Foxconn in Taiwan, VinFast with Autobrains in Southeast Asia, Uber with...