Tech

Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs “doing all of the learning for the world”, as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-22 Microsoft AI

A look at JD Vance's “AI doctrine”, which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-6-22 AI

A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor that Bernie Sanders' team consulted while developing his AI sovereign wealth fund proposal (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-22 AI

'Tutor' Who Took Online Tests for 124 Students Jailed for Three Years (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22

Analysis: Anthropic may have talked itself into an export ban, as its 2026 official statements and posts used AI risk-related terms 8x more often than OpenAI (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI Ban

PitchBook: defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI, and more have raised $12.3B across 175 deals YTD, up from a $9.95B total from 158 deals in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI Drone

Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 China AI WeChat Tencent

Source: Morgan Stanley is pitching data center developers to use leveraged loans rather than bonds, and estimates ~$15B will be issued this year in such loans (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-22 Morgan Stanley

WiseTech shares fell 11% after Australian police probed co-founder Richard White over sex exploitation claims; WiseTech shares are down ~67% in the past year (www.smh.com.au)
2026-6-22 Australia

TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22 AI YouTube

Sources: ByteDance shares are trading at a $600B+ valuation in gray markets; an IPO is unlikely and its growth continues to benefit its Chinese and US backers (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-22 China IPO

China adds ten US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to export controls and bars government purchases from 46 US companies, including Anduril (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-22 China Drone

Shenzhen-listed Apple supplier Lingyi iTech seeks to raise $1.1B in a June 26 Hong Kong debut, as the electronic parts maker expands into AI hardware and robots (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-22 Hong Kong AI Apple Robot Shenzhen

Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all staff in Korea and DX division staff globally; OpenAI says it's one of its largest enterprise deployments (biz.chosun.com)
2026-6-22 Korea Samsung

Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22

Japan's top five chip equipment makers posted their first-ever fall in combined China sales, down 10% in the year ended March 31, as China boosts local players (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-22 China Japan

Sources: Shanghai-based Coowa, which develops embodied AI robots, plans to file a Hong Kong IPO; Coowa was valued at $3B after raising $600M in its latest round (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-22 Hong Kong IPO AI Robot Shanghai

Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, plans to invest $495M by 2030 to expand its semiconductor materials unit, targeting R&D for next-gen 1nm chip production (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-22 Japan

San Diego-based Aether AI, which is building “causal world models” to teach robots cause and effect instead of pattern-matching, raised a $20M seed led by MPCi (thenextweb.com)
2026-6-22 AI Robot

The Secret Revolution in Battery Technology: 3-D Printing (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22 Battery

Is Tesla Planning To Sell Modular AI Data Center Hardware? (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22 AI Tesla

As Europe falls behind the US and China in consumer AI, its engineering companies and AI startups are turning to industrial AI applications to boost efficiency (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 China Europe Startup AI

UK Official Promises Statements 'Around VPNs' and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22 chatbot Social Media

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock's Cameras to Stalk People (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22

If you're constantly using PDFs, this $65 lifetime tool is worth a look (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-22

AryStinger botnet infected thousands of D-Link routers worldwide (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-22

SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M (www.latimes.com)
2026-6-22 Robot

After Six Years Of Work and Over 360 Patches, Linux 7.2 Finally Removes Bug-Prone strncpy (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22 Linux

Sources: Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree have deployed tech to disable phones stolen from their stores, after phone makers resisted broader antitheft measures (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22

US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22 China AI

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