2026-06-30
AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices
Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have since adopted. Amazon Web Services said on June 30, 2026 that it would pour $1bn into a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-30
Supreme Court will hear Apple’s appeal over the App Store contempt finding in Epic case
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear Apple’s appeal of the contempt finding in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games over App Store fees. The justices will review lower court decisions that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 order requiring it to let developers direct consumers to cheaper payment options outside the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-30
Blue Origin still does not know why New Glenn exploded but plans to fly again this year
Blue Origin still does not know why its New Glenn rocket exploded last month, CEO Dave Limp said in a blog post on Tuesday. Early analysis points to the aft section of the first stage, according to Limp, who said the company is pulling on “extensive data from multiple camera angles and sensors” to identify […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-30
Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival AI chatbots
The project ran under the internal name Cannes, and a Meta contractor called Covalen managed it. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and images to competitors’ chatbots, then logged the replies in spreadsheets. The effort was active as recently as April 21, 2026. The targets were OpenAI’s ChatGPT, […]<br /> This story continues [...]
2026-06-30
Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API
Google adds two new generative AI models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds at $0.034 a pop. Gemini Omni Flash brings video generation and editing via text prompts to the API for the first time. Google recommends chaining both models to go from a quick image to an animated video.<br /> The article Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash f [...]
2026-06-30
'We were given a challenge which is unprecedented for the game': I spoke to Lenovo’s Ken Wong about the challenges of being "the technology backbone of FIFA" and how the FIFA World Cup 2026 can help democratize AI for everyone
The FIFA World Cup 2026 isn’t just the biggest tournament in the world, it can play a vital role in democratizing AI, Lenovo’s Ken Wong tells us. [...]
