qz

2026-06-23

Meta is pausing its employee keystroke-tracking program after sensitive data was exposed internally

Sensitive employee data collected through the Model Capability Initiative was made accessible to all Meta staff [...]

qz

2026-06-23

Oracle slashed 21,000 jobs — nearly 13% of its workforce — over the past year

The company spent $1.8 billion on restructuring costs as it cited AI deployment as a driver of workforce reductions [...]

venturebeat

2026-06-23

A proof of concept forgives a fragile data path. Operational AI does not.

Presented by F5When enterprises move AI workloads from pilot to production, data delivery often becomes the factor that determines whether those systems can scale reliably. Point-to-point architectures connecting storage directly to compute hold up under demonstration conditions, but they often break down under sustained, concurrent production traffic. The result is stalled inference pipelines, de [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-23

SpaceX lands $6.3bn compute deal with Reflection AI

Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150mn a month for Nvidia chips at Colossus 2, a deal worth roughly $6.3bn by 2029. The SpaceX Reflection AI deal puts Nvidia on both sides of the trade. SpaceX has signed another giant compute tenant. This time it is Reflection AI, an open-source startup barely two years old. Reflection […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-23

The cybersecurity industry built a $200B business selling you problems. Nobody got paid to fix them.

Cybersecurity has never been better at finding risk. Organizations can identify vulnerable servers, dormant user accounts, excessive privileges, exposed cloud assets, and software flaws in near real time. The market has rewarded that capability handsomely, with global cybersecurity spending projected to exceed the half-trillion-dollar range as enterprises continue investing in tools that promise g [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-23

Astral Systems raises £23M to make cancer isotopes by fusion

Bristol fusion startup Astral Systems has raised £23mn to scale the medical isotopes that cancer scans depend on. The Astral Systems £23M round backs a rare fusion company that already runs reactors and earns revenue. Most fusion companies promise clean power in a decade or two. Astral Systems is trying something different, and getting paid […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-23

Groq’s $650M raise: rebuilding after the Nvidia deal

Groq has confirmed a $650mn raise to rebuild itself as an AI inference cloud, six months after Nvidia paid out its investors and hired away its founder. The Groq $650M round is a bet that purpose-built chips still beat GPUs. Groq spent years as one of the loudest challengers to Nvidia. Then, last December, Nvidia […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

cnet

2026-06-23

Meta's Got New Smart Glasses at a Lower Price, Plus a Kylie Jenner Look

Meta's got a new summer lineup of display-free smart glasses styles, but no changes to its camera design or AI privacy policies. [...]

cnet

2026-06-23

MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus Handheld Fires Up Your Windows Gaming

Thanks to the new Intel Arc G3 Extreme, frame rates top those of other devices. FWIW. [...]