2026

A ZDNet editor tested the new Siri with Apple Intelligence on Mac across 10 tasks

Mistral launches physics AI for engineers: simulations in seconds instead of weeks

Qualcomm chief: AI agents will become the new apps, 40 devices on the way

DeepSeek closes the largest funding round in China — $7.4 billion at a valuation above $50 billion

Chinese AI startups are drawing record investment: DeepSeek has closed the largest first funding round in the country’s history — $7.4 billi

01South Korea announces $880 billion plan, betting on chips, data centers and robotsJun 29, 2026·2 min 02Casey Harrell with ALS became the first "advanced user" of a speech neuroimplantJun 29, 2026·2 min 03Chainguard launches Athena coalition: AI to patch open-source flaws before hackers doJun 29, 2026·2 min 04NLP Transforms Professional Networking: LinkedIn Learns to Understand Meaning, Not Just WordsJun 29, 2026·2 min 05ChatGPT Loses Majority Market Share for the First Time: AI Assistant's Share Falls Below 50%Jun 29, 2026·2 min

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Google Cloud adds SandboxAQ AI models to marketplace for scientific calculations

Google Cloud is connecting "large quantitative models" from SandboxAQ to its marketplace — AI trained on scientific equations and laboratory

01LangChain: How Agent Loop Engineering Makes AI Agents ReliableJun 29, 2026·2 min 02Omen AI raised $31M for cooling water monitoring in AI data centersJun 29, 2026·2 min 03Neuron Soundware: Czech Startup Detects Drones by Sound for €150Jun 29, 2026·2 min

LLM·AI News

HP Deploys OpenAI Frontier Across Global Corporate Operations

HP scaled OpenAI Frontier integration to global operations — early pilots showed measurable gains in software development and cybersecurity.

Jun 29, 2026·1 min

LLM·ZDNet AI

Startups become the main pathway to bigtech: how AI is reshaping hiring in IT

While major tech companies trim headcount under AI pressure, startups are opening hundreds of positions for engineers — and offering rapid e

LLM·3DNews AI

AI companies are not raising prices for users while Nvidia and Micron collect record profits

Chip and memory manufacturers are locking in record margins during the AI boom, but model developers are not rushing to pass growing infrastructure costs to end users.

Jun 29, 2026·3 min

Code Cheapens, Understanding Doesn't: How AI Generation Creates a New Development Scarcity

“AI Girl for a Cyborg”: Why Intuition Is Becoming the Key Asset in the AI Era

LLM·LangChain Blog

Factory AI doubled iteration speed with LangSmith by LangChain

LLM·Bloomberg Tech

Portobello Capital delays sale of Legálitas over AI threat to legaltech

How a dot product from an algebra textbook became the foundation of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini

Joe Hudson teaches Sam Altman “emotional flexibility” — and believes humans will beat AI

SpaceX bought AI startup Cursor for $60 billion two days after record IPO

Fix Price launched a VLM service for shelf and price tag monitoring in 8,000 stores

LLM·Bloomberg Tech

Baidu: from search engine to full AI stack — the company’s CFO on strategy and robotaxis

Five Eyes: AI models autonomously hack systems and lower the barrier to cyberattacks to zero

Scikit-LLM: an end-to-end text sentiment analysis pipeline with language models

Flock Safety cameras cover U.S. roads: more than 100,000 license plate readers

Flock Safety dominates the U.S. market for automatic license plate readers and has already installed its cameras along most of the country’s

01For six months, Anthropic warned about AI dangers — the government banned its modelsJun 29, 2026·2 min 02RAG + call graph: automatic context from a task tracker for Claude CodeJun 29, 2026·2 min 03Creators of Microsoft Security Copilot raise $100 million to prevent attacksJun 29, 2026·2 min 04Genesis AI says the hype around humanoids is a mistake — and unveiled EnoJun 29, 2026·2 min 05Vibe coding in practice: how a developer learned to save tokens without sacrificing code qualityJun 29, 2026·3 min

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Mobileye sold self-driving technology for 25 years — now it is launching its own robotaxis

Jerusalem-based Mobileye, whose systems are installed in 230 million cars, has for the first time in a quarter-century decided to become a r

01Chinese Humanoid Robots at MWC Shanghai: Penalty Kicks and Piano PlayingJun 29, 2026·2 min 02Claude Code built IndexedDB from scratch: 1208 Web Platform Tests passed, but agent's 95% figure disputedJun 29, 2026·2 min 03The Productivity Paradox: Why AI Helps Employees, but Not ProfitsJun 29, 2026·2 min

EvoCargo: Why Localization for Autonomous Vehicles Is a Fight Against Contradictory Data

The EvoCargo team explains why more sensors don't mean more accuracy: each sensor creates its own 'reality,' and the system must reconcile c

LLM·3DNews AI

AI Brain-Computer Interface Restores Speech and Work to Paralyzed ALS Patient

Scientists at UC Davis implanted electrodes into the brain of an ALS patient — the system reads neural signals and synthesizes speech. The p

LLM·TechCrunch

Proception Settles Tesla Trade Secret Lawsuit and Raises $11 Million

Startup Proception, which produces technologies for robotic arms, settled Tesla's trade secret lawsuit and announced raising $11 million in funding.

MIT developed a spatial memory system for robots — they will remember where your keys are

LLM·MIT News

Samsung cut product testing time from 15 days to 2 with digital twins

ASML CEO on demand for AI chips, space data centers, and Musk's Terafab plant

Chinese regulator opens mainland exchanges to AI companies and Hong Kong issuers

LLM·Bloomberg Tech

US issued order on Anthropic's models — a new era of AI oversight begins

Bank of Korea warns: AI bonuses in the semiconductor sector could fuel inflation

LLM·AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon updates Bedrock AgentCore: agents gain access to enterprise knowledge and monitoring

Jun 29, 2026·1 min

Amazon Q launched autonomous agents — they run in the background while you do other things

Amazon Q has been updated: autonomous agents now run continuously in the background, the activity feed highlights what matters most, and unified search spans all enterprise data from a single query.