Scientists at EPFL developed the first chip-scale ultrafast laser matching tabletop femtosecond performance, enabling miniaturised advanced photonics applications.
Category: Technology & AI
Rosalind Biodefense Platform Gives Vetted Researchers Access to GPT-Rosalind for Pandemic Prep
A new platform provides controlled access to a specialised AI model for public health researchers working on pandemic preparedness and biodefense.
Itential FlowAI Platform Launches Enabling AI Agents to Reason Over Live Production Networks
Itential released FlowAI on June 1, allowing enterprise IT teams to deploy reasoning AI agents called FlowAgents directly on live production networks.
Orion-100B Trains 100-Billion-Parameter AI Model for Just $1.25 Per Hour in Cost Breakthrough
Orion AI demonstrated that training a 100-billion-parameter model can cost as little as $1.25 per hour, dramatically reducing barriers to frontier AI research.
Q2 2026 AI Funding Hits $42.6 Billion Across 312 Rounds with Agentic Startups Leading
Global AI investment in the second quarter reached $42.6 billion, with autonomous AI agent companies capturing almost half of all capital raised.
MiniMax M3 Achieves 9x Faster AI Prefilling and 15x Faster Decoding for Long Contexts
MiniMax’s sparse attention architecture for its M3 model delivers massive speed improvements for processing large documents and code repositories.
SpaceX Acquires Cursor AI Coding Assistant in $60 Billion All-Stock Deal
SpaceX’s acquisition of Anysphere’s Cursor is one of the largest deals in AI’s history, marking a dramatic expansion of SpaceX into software services.
US Government Reveals xAI’s Grok Was Used During Iran War Operations
The Trump administration confirmed that Grok, xAI’s AI model, was deployed by US forces during military operations in the Iran conflict.
AI Autonomous Oncology Platform Advances Surgical Training with Simulation Tools
Healthcare AI companies are deploying autonomous platforms for cancer surgery simulation, improving training quality and reducing patient risk in oncology.
OpenAI GPT-5.5 Instant Released with Pro and Instant Variants for Different Workflows
OpenAI expanded its model family with GPT-5.5 Instant and GPT-5.5 Pro, aimed respectively at low-latency tasks and premium general-purpose applications.