2026-06-14
'Every day, a child is exposed to two pieces of inappropriate or harmful content': I've spent hours researching the best phone for my son — here are the safest options I've found, from iPhones to 'dumbphones'
What type of phone should you buy your child? Smartphones, dumbphones, and more explained by a parent. [...]
2026-06-14
MCP solved tool calling. A2A solved coordination. What solves transport?
The history of distributed computing is one of protocol proliferation followed by consolidation. Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Java remote method invocation (RMI), and early simple object access protocol (SOAP) competed for the enterprise integration market in the late 1990s before representational state transfer (REST) quietly won by [...]
2026-06-14
Canada’s Carney compares Anthropic shutdown to 2008 financial crisis, warns of AI “model risk”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that the US export ban that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 demonstrates the danger of depending on a small number of powerful AI models. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Ireland, Carney framed the suspension as a warning about systemic vulnerability rather […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-14
FINQ’s AI-managed ETFs quietly outrun Wall Street in early 2026
Artificial intelligence has spent years promising to disrupt asset management. In 2026, that promise is starting to show up in performance tables. The AI-managed ETFs from FINQ are emerging as early examples of what happens when portfolio construction is delegated to a fully systematic, continuously learning model rather than human discretion. Since launching on February 5, 2026 on NYSE […]& [...]
2026-06-14
De Beers weaponises blockchain to fight lab-grown diamonds, but a 45% price crash looms large
The natural diamond industry has a problem it cannot see with the naked eye. Lab-grown stones are now virtually identical to mined gems, they cost a fraction of the price, and the broader tech landscape of 2025 has only accelerated their rise. De Beers Group, the world’s largest diamond producer and distributor, is betting that blockchain can […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-06-14
Anthropic’s model shutdown just handed India’s sovereign AI movement its strongest argument yet
When the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on 12 June, the export control directive was aimed at restricting foreign nationals from accessing America’s most capable AI. In India, Anthropic’s second-largest market, it landed as a warning shot about what happens when your AI infrastructure runs on someone else’s […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-06-14
Built to assist, not replace: inside Intercall’s real-time AI for professional interpreters
Among the interpreters who rely on it, the verdict is consistent: at last, something built for the way they actually work. The premise is simple. Interpreting works best as human and machine together, not machine in place of the human. Interpreting is one of the hardest things a person can do in real time. The […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]