Asian tech stocks surged after the Iran-US deal, and AI chipmakers gained the most
Asian tech stocks surged after the Iran-US deal, and AI chipmakers gained the most

Asian technology stocks surged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced a peace agreement, with AI and semiconductor companies posting the largest gains. SoftBank rose 10 per cent, SK Hynix climbed 6.42 per cent, and Samsung Electronics gai…

The Pentagon’s AI platform went from 80,000 users to 1.5 million in six months
The Pentagon’s AI platform went from 80,000 users to 1.5 million in six months

The Pentagon’s generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, now has 1.5 million daily users across the Department of Defense, according to the department’s chief technology officer. The figure represents nearly half of the DoD’s 3.5 million workforce. Six months…

The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ costs $1,699 and that is gaming laptop money for a handheld
The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ costs $1,699 and that is gaming laptop money for a handheld

MSI’s Claw 8 EX AI+ will launch on June 23 at $1,699, making it the most expensive handheld gaming PC ever sold at retail. The device is the first to ship with Intel’s Arc G3 Extreme processor, built on the Panther Lake platform with 12 Xe3 GPU cores a…

Anthropic heads to Washington for crisis talks as Fable 5 ban spirals into the ugliest AI policy fight in US history
Anthropic heads to Washington for crisis talks as Fable 5 ban spirals into the ugliest AI policy fight in US history

Anthropic’s senior technical staff will sit down with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The meeting, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg, comes…

Polymarket’s $345 million Iran peace bet is stuck because nobody can agree on what “permanent” means
Polymarket’s $345 million Iran peace bet is stuck because nobody can agree on what “permanent” means

Polymarket, the largest prediction market exchange, has more than $345 million in trading volume stuck in limbo over a question of semantics. Traders bet on whether the United States and Iran would sign a permanent peace deal. Both countries announced …

Samsung’s $2,100 Galaxy Book6 Edge ships with 16GB of RAM in 2026
Samsung’s $2,100 Galaxy Book6 Edge ships with 16GB of RAM in 2026

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Book6 Edge, the first laptop to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite processor. The chip delivers 80 trillion operations per second from its neural processing unit, double the 45 TOPS that defined the first generatio…

Your Ryzen CPU used to encrypt your RAM. A firmware update silently turned that off.
Your Ryzen CPU used to encrypt your RAM. A firmware update silently turned that off.

AMD has silently disabled a security feature on its consumer Ryzen processors that protected users against physical attacks on their computer’s memory. The feature, Transparent Secure Memory Encryption, encrypts all data stored in RAM using a hardware-…

YouTube’s AI slop purge is punishing the human creators who never showed their faces
YouTube’s AI slop purge is punishing the human creators who never showed their faces

YouTube has a growing AI slop problem, and its efforts to fix it are catching legitimate creators in the crossfire. In January 2026, the platform terminated 16 channels with a combined 35 million subscribers and 4.7 billion lifetime views under its ina…

Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.
Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.

Oracle software engineer Lois Foltan has confirmed that Java Enhancement Proposal 401, which introduces value classes and objects to the language, will be integrated into the OpenJDK mainline early next month targeting JDK 28. The change is part of Pro…

Seattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told.
Seattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told.

The Seattle Fire Department has been using artificial intelligence to listen to every 911 medical call in the city since December 2023, according to a GeekWire investigation published this week. The AI, built by Copenhagen-based startup Corti, monitors…