Schneider Electric is buying Cognite, a Norwegian-founded industrial AI company, for $3.1bn in cash. The French group wants software that can make factories and power grids think for themselves. Schneider Electric said on June 30, 2026 that it had agreed to acquire all of Cognite in an all-cash deal worth $3.1bn. Cognite builds software that […]

Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher’s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company’s biggest push yet into the lab. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Claude Science is now available in beta. The company calls it an […]

Rob Hanna observes that many enterprise AI initiatives may be losing momentum because organizations continue to treat language like structured data while overlooking the systems that make knowledge reliable. The co-founder and CEO of Precision Content, a technical communications consultancy, says, “Longstanding technical publications teams already possess many of the capabilities needed to establish a […]

Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have since adopted. Amazon Web Services said on June 30, 2026 that it would pour $1bn into a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit. […]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear Apple’s appeal of the contempt finding in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games over App Store fees. The justices will review lower court decisions that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 order requiring it to let developers direct consumers to cheaper payment options outside the […]

Blue Origin still does not know why its New Glenn rocket exploded last month, CEO Dave Limp said in a blog post on Tuesday. Early analysis points to the aft section of the first stage, according to Limp, who said the company is pulling on “extensive data from multiple camera angles and sensors” to identify […]

The project ran under the internal name Cannes, and a Meta contractor called Covalen managed it. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and images to competitors’ chatbots, then logged the replies in spreadsheets. The effort was active as recently as April 21, 2026. The targets were OpenAI’s ChatGPT, […]

Salesforce led the Series A, which 8090 announced this week. The pitch behind it is blunt. AI can already write code. The hard part is stopping enterprise software from falling apart as dozens of agents and engineers change it every week. TechCrunch first reported the round, and the company confirmed the details. The investor list […]

Tesla has begun testing a production version of its Cybercab on public roads in Austin, Texas, with no steering wheel and no pedals. The two-seat vehicle, which Tesla first revealed in October 2024, is being driven entirely by its autonomous software while a safety monitor rides in the right passenger seat. Tesla posted video of […]

Amazon built Prime Day to keep shoppers inside its own marketplace. This year, AI shopping sent its best customers in from outside: a chatbot made the recommendation. US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn across retail sites during the four-day Prime Day event, according to Adobe Analytics. The more interesting number is not the total. It […]