Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
The Trump administration has reversed its June 2026 export ban on Anthropic's two most powerful AI models, allowing worldwide access to resume after the company agreed to four binding security conditions.
President Lee Jae-myung unveiled a sweeping plan combining $520 billion in new chip fabs from Samsung and SK Hynix with $650 billion in AI data center buildout — the largest single-country technology commitment ever announced.
Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a deal with Anthropic that gives California state agencies, cities, and counties access to Claude at a 50% discount, making California the first US state to offer a frontier AI model through its official technology procurement portal.
A Wisconsin startup powered lightbulbs using electricity harvested directly from plasma in its WHAM fusion device on June 19 — the first public demonstration of direct energy conversion from fusion by a private company, achieving an estimated 90% conversion efficiency.
Google has made its Gemini Omni Flash model available to developers via API, bringing conversational AI video generation and editing to enterprise teams at 75% less than standard Veo 3.1 pricing.
Aflac's Japanese subsidiary suffered a 10-day network intrusion in June 2026, exposing personal data for 4.38 million policyholders and bank account details for 230,000 customers in one of the largest insurance breaches of the year.
Etched, a startup building specialized AI inference chips to compete with Nvidia, has announced $1 billion in booked orders and a $5 billion valuation after raising $800 million total.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, designed to handle complex multi-step agentic work at a price point well below its flagship Opus 4.8 model.
OKX launched OKX AI today, a live marketplace where autonomous AI agents can discover services, transact in stablecoins, and build on-chain reputations — without any human involvement.
A public proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-55200 is now available for a CVSS 9.2 memory corruption bug in libssh2, affecting every version up to 1.11.1. No patched release yet.
Comcast announced a tax-free spinoff of NBCUniversal and Sky into a standalone media company, leaving a focused broadband and wireless business. Shares jumped 21% on the news.
Waymo and Uber have quietly ended their Phoenix robotaxi partnership after nearly three years, with Waymo folding its vehicles back into its own fleet and Uber preparing to announce a new AV partner in the city.