2026-06-19
‘Workers need to be involved in these conversations’: Amazon engineers to be investigated after criticising company’s AI data center buildout – Amazon “may or may not take action based on what we find.”
A group of Amazon employees spoke out at a council meeting, and now some of them are being investigated. [...]
2026-06-19
The bet against bigger models: Aether AI lands $20mn for causal AI
Most of the AI industry is betting that bigger models mean smarter machines. A new startup is betting the opposite. Aether AI, based in San Diego, has raised a $20mn seed round to chase a different idea entirely. Its founder thinks the next leap will not come from scale. It will come from teaching machines […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-19
A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware
AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links that shuttle data between them are running out of road. So the industry is racing to move that traffic onto light instead. HyperLight, a startup spun out of Harvard, has […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-19
France just put another €13bn into the funding model the rest of Europe wants to copy
France has found another €13bn for its tech sector. And it barely cost the state a thing. The money comes through Tibi, a programme that nudges French insurers and pension funds to back venture and growth funds instead of safer, lower-yield assets. The finance ministry announced this third phase at VivaTech on Friday. The goal […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-19
Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust.
Hackers are not really breaking in any more. They are walking through doors we hold open for them. This past week made the shift plain. Two campaigns showed that the things developers trust most, open-source code and AI tools, have become the easiest way to attack them. 1,000 poisoned packages The first is a group […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-19
Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic
Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google Deepmind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. Days earlier, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Weeks before that, AlphaGo researcher David Silver started his own company. Three of Google's most prominent AI minds, gone within months.<br /> The article Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumpe [...]
2026-06-19
Dutton Ranch season 2 'deserves to be made' according to one star — confirming Yellowstone spinoff cast is 'waiting in hope' for Paramount+ renewal
With two episodes of the first installment still to go, there's no word on Dutton Ranch season 2 — but one star wants 'at least' four seasons. [...]
