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WeChat users in China can now invoke Xiaowei by text or voice to send messages, start calls, and navigate the app's vast mini-program library — putting an AI command layer on top of the world's most-used super app ahead of a full Q3 rollout.
John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for co-creating AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind to join rival AI lab Anthropic — the most decorated scientist ever to change employers mid-career in the AI industry.
Beijing placed 10 American defense and industrial suppliers on its export control list, blocking Chinese companies from shipping dual-use goods to them — a direct response to the Pentagon's decision to add Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to its military-linked firms list.
Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 patches 208 security vulnerabilities but has broken OLE automation for Office apps, triggered boot failures on HP business machines, and left the Recycle Bin showing garbled file identifiers.
The Trump administration told ASML that one of its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines may have violated export controls by reaching China. ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet flatly denies it, saying the company tracks every EUV system ever built.
The extortion group has issued an ultimatum to the healthcare provider, which confirmed unauthorized access to archived patient data from its Iora Health acquisition. No sample data has been released to verify the scope of the claim.
The AI image generation company announces Midjourney Medical and a whole-body ultrasound device that scans in under 60 seconds—with no radiation and no magnets—aiming to make routine full-body imaging as accessible as a gym membership.
SK Hynix has begun delivering qualification samples of its next-generation HBM4E memory to major AI customers, offering 20 percent better power efficiency and 17 percent lower heat resistance than HBM4 — ahead of Nvidia's Rubin Ultra platform ramp.
President Trump announced on Truth Social that Apple has agreed to work with Intel to produce chips on American soil. Intel's stock jumped as much as 11 percent on the news, while Apple and Intel have yet to issue official statements.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unanimously directed six major US grid operators to prioritize data center interconnection requests, as wholesale electricity rates surge 267% and AI power demand heads toward tripling by 2035.
Amazon Web Services is exploring selling its custom Trainium AI chips to third-party companies, with Andy Jassy estimating a potential $50 billion annual run rate — a direct challenge to Nvidia's data center dominance.
An attacker hijacked a contributor account with publishing rights to the Mastra AI framework's npm organization and republished 144 packages with a typosquatted dependency that deployed a cross-platform infostealer. Any system that ran npm install with a @mastra/* package after June 16 is potentially compromised.