2026-06-25

World Cup Teams Are in a Race for AI Dominance

This year, FIFA is providing an AI agent that any team can use. Is it enough to level the playing field or will future winners be determined by which team can afford the best tools? [...]

2026-06-25

Canadian workers have few defences against workplace surveillance

TD’s plan to monitor some staff has exposed a legal gap: in much of Canada, an employer can watch you work and owes you little more than a notice. Then Toronto-Dominion Bank told some of its staff that software would soon be watching how they worked, the employees did what most people do when handed […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-25

Oracle cuts about 500 jobs in Romania as AI restructuring rolls on

On the morning of June 25, Oracle began telling roughly 500 of its Romanian employees that their jobs were gone, part of the company’s long-running global reorganisation toward cloud and artificial intelligence. Oracle has not commented publicly on the exact number of local roles affected. It is the second such round in Romania in under […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-25

IBM says it has built the first sub-1nm chip technology

IBM announced that it has built the world’s first sub-1nm chip technology, a transistor architecture at what it calls the 0.7nm, or 7-angstrom, node. It is the kind of milestone the semiconductor industry has been straining toward for years, and the kind of claim that needs reading carefully, because a node name is no longer […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-25

South Korean chip shares rally after Micron’s upbeat earnings

South Korean chip stocks rallied on Thursday after Micron Technology reported a record quarter and an upbeat outlook, reviving optimism that demand for AI memory will stay tight well into next year. The benchmark KOSPI rose about 4.1%, with the country’s two memory makers, which together account for more than 55% of the index, doing […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-25

Nothing teases the Phone 4b, launching on July 7

Nothing will launch the entry-level Phone 4b on July 7. [...]

2026-06-25

Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single text

The Authors Guild tested five AI detectors on human-written texts. Pangram and Grammarly correctly identified all of them, while Sidekicker and ZeroGPT flagged human-written articles as AI-generated. But the Guild also warns of a paradox: professionally written texts look statistically similar to AI output because language models were trained on exactly that kind of writing.<br /> The articl [...]

2026-06-25

The PS5 homepage, PS Store, and PS App have all been updated with a new GTA 6 UI as pre-orders begin

Sony has gone full Grand Theft Auto 6 marketing mode as pre-orders for the most anticipated game of all time officially begin. [...]

2026-06-25

I’ve spent years testing headphones and headsets — if you’re looking for the absolute best gaming audio upgrade you can buy this Prime Day, these are the features you need to consider

I’ve bought a lot of gaming headsets and headphones over the years. Here’s my best advice on which can offer stunning gaming sound and immersive features. [...]