U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House on Tuesday that he was disappointed in both Israel and Iran for violating the ceasefire that he said both countries agreed to, and demanded that Israel call off the fighter jets it deployed to respond to an earlier missile launch from Iran.
While much of the world’s attention was on Israel’s war against Iran, which the U.S. officially joined on Saturday, the IDF continued its massacre campaign across Gaza with a special focus on shooting starving Palestinians at humanitarian aid distribution centers.
Amazon will put at least $20 million into building out its AI infrastructure in Pennsylvania, the company has announced.
The U.K. is putting together the pieces of a first-rate AI ecosystem but still lacks the computing infrastructure to make the most of it, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said earlier this month.
At the London Tech Week extravaganza this month, U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer extolled the virtues of Extract, a new AI tool to help local planning commissions.
MiniMax, yet another Chinese AI developer, says its new, open-source MiniMax-M1 model, is more efficient than closed-source Chinese competitors and also bests DeepSeek's latest R1-0528 model in several standard tests.
OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT and Mattel, parent of Barbie and Ken, have announced a “strategic collaboration” to build OpenAI’s technology into Mattel’s toys to “bring the magic of AI to age-appropriate play experiences,” according to the company.
Amazon’s office workers have been told they’re in danger of being replaced by bots, according to a 17 June memo from CEO Andy Jassy.
Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are among tech firms urging the U.S. Senate to preserve a measure in the “big beautiful” omnibus bill that would ban individual states from enacting AI regulations for the next 10 years.
On 19 June, Donald Trump again assailed U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, holding him personally responsible for the unanimous decision by the central bank’s Open Market Committee to leave interest rates where they are.