qz

2026-06-23

The most affordable international vacations you can take right now

From Luang Prabang's $50 hotel rooms and $1 street food to Panama City's canal locks and colonial quarter for under $130 a night [...]

qz

2026-06-23

The most incredible food markets in Europe right now

From Bologna's medieval lanes of mortadella and fresh pasta to a Rotterdam market hall whose ceiling is a giant mural of fruit and vegetables [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-23

Prosus launches ToqanClaw, an OpenClaw-style tool builder for its 5m merchants

The Amsterdam-listed group is putting conversational app-building in front of restaurants and shopkeepers, the users it says AI has so far left behind. Prosus has launched ToqanClaw, a platform that lets people build apps, dashboards, and automations by describing what they want in plain language, the way they would explain a task to a colleague. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-23

Workday must face California lawsuit over AI hiring bias, judge rules

A San Francisco judge cleared a proposed class action to proceed, in a case described as the first to broadly target the algorithms behind AI screening software. A US federal judge has ruled that Workday must face claims its AI-powered hiring software screened out job applicants at other companies in ways that allegedly broke California […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-23

UN urges AI firms to come clean on their environmental costs

The United Nations wants artificial-intelligence companies to stop treating the environmental bill as somebody else’s problem. In a call amplified this week by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the organisation is pressing the firms behind the AI boom to disclose the carbon, water, and land their systems consume, and to switch their data centres and supply chains […]<br /> This story c [...]

thenextweb

2026-06-23

Masayoshi Son dismisses Musk’s space data centres as an AI-race bet

Masayoshi Son does not think the future of artificial intelligence is in orbit. The SoftBank Group founder told shareholders on 23 June 2026 that there is little merit in building data centres in space, the idea Elon Musk has been championing, and predicted the AI race would be won by compute kept firmly on the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-06-23

The Oversight Board says Meta needs to do more to protect regular people from sexualized deepfakes

Meta's Oversight Board has made several suggestions to make reporting sexualized AI deepfakes easier and more effective for ordinary people. [...]

Destination

2026-06-23

Amazon ordered to bargain with Teamsters in case that could set back union progress

Amazon violated federal law when it refused to recognize a union, a judge ruled. [...]

cnet

2026-06-23

The Oura Ring Helped Me Get My Sleep on Track and the 4th Gen Is a Steal This Prime Day

If you've been looking to buy a smart ring, this is a great bargain. [...]