2026-06-18

How Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw

The AI agent platform OpenClaw lets users create personal agents that work through apps like iMessage and WhatsApp. [...]

2026-06-18

AWS’s Swami Sivasubramanian is building the cloud for AI agents

After helping turn cloud computing into essential infrastructure, Sivasubramanian is now leading AWS’s push to make agentic AI easier for companies to deploy at scale. [...]

2026-06-18

Dropzone AI’s Edward Wu wants AI agents to fight cyberattacks

His company’s agentic security operations center helps overwhelmed teams investigate alerts, test hypotheses, and respond faster to threats. [...]

2026-06-18

How Amanda Askell is teaching Claude to make ethical decisions

The philosophy PhD is helping shape the values that guide Anthropic’s Claude through increasingly consequential tasks. [...]

2026-06-18

MIT built a memory system that lets robots remember where you left your keys

Robots are still surprisingly bad at remembering where things are. You might recall that your keys were on the kitchen counter last night. A robot working beside you would struggle to connect that object and location in a useful way. MIT researchers built a system called DAAAM to fix that. DAAAM stands for Describe Anything, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-18

Attackers cracked 75,000 Fortinet firewalls with old passwords, not a zero-day

Security researchers have uncovered a sprawling cache of stolen credentials for Fortinet firewalls, exposing login details for tens of thousands of organisations around the world. The dataset, dubbed “FortiBleed,” contains plaintext usernames, emails and passwords for 73,932 unique Fortinet FortiGate firewall and VPN devices across 194 countries, touching more than 21,000 domains. Researchers [...]

2026-06-18

EU tells Big Tech to align AI data centres with climate goals or stay away

The European Union’s energy chief has told the AI industry it is welcome in Europe, but only on the bloc’s terms. In an interview with Politico, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said companies must demonstrate commitment to the EU’s energy, climate, and environmental goals if they want to build data centres on the continent. That means supporting […]<br /> This story continues at [...]

2026-06-18

Midjourney says its new full-body scanner beats an MRI. It has never built hardware before.

Midjourney, the company best known for turning text prompts into images, has announced something it has never made before: hardware. And not a phone case or a pair of glasses, but a full-body medical scanner. At an event in San Francisco on June 17, founder David Holz unveiled “The Midjourney Scanner,” and a new division […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-18

Swiss startup Prem AI is raising $100M so hedge funds and law firms can own their AI instead of renting it

Prem AI, a Swiss startup that helps hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising $100 million in a Series A at a valuation of at least $500 million. The company expects to close the round in the third quarter. CEO and founder Simone Giacomelli said the pitch is […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]