A First Street study puts 79% of global data center capacity at elevated risk from acute climate hazards. The findings make resilience, power access and water systems part of the AI infrastructure buildout test.

#cloud data centers #data centers #climate risk

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UAE Sets A Social Media Age Gate. Enforcement Is The Hard Part.

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UAE Sets A Social Media Age Gate. Enforcement Is The Hard Part.

The UAE Cabinet has barred children under 15 from social media accounts and full platform features. The rule puts age verification, child privacy, parental controls and platform compliance on a 12-month operating clock.

#cybersecurity #digital policy #child online safety

June 18, 2026Read More →

GitHub And Google Back ARD As AI Agents Search For Tools

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GitHub And Google Back ARD As AI Agents Search For Tools

GitHub, Google, Microsoft and other companies are backing Agentic Resource Discovery, a specification meant to help AI agents find, verify and connect to tools, skills, MCP servers and other resources without hard-coded integrations.

#ai #AI agents #developer tools

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Andhra Pradesh And IBM Put Quantum AI On A 380-Cell Test

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Andhra Pradesh And IBM Put Quantum AI On A 380-Cell Test

Andhra Pradesh will launch the Amaravati Quantum & AI Innovation Center with IBM on June 18. The programme links industry problems, academic teams and IBM technical support through 380 Quantum Innovation Cells and more than 3,000 professors and students.

#ai #quantum computing #deep tech

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Lunit Wins A Six-Hospital Test For Public Medical AI In Korea

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Lunit Wins A Six-Hospital Test For Public Medical AI In Korea

Lunit will supply AI image-analysis systems to six regional hospitals under a Ministry of Health and Welfare project. The 14.2 billion won programme targets public medical capacity outside the Seoul metropolitan area, with chest X-ray, mammography and DBT tools in scope.

#ai #medical AI #AI imaging

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Pramaana Labs Raises $27 Mn To Make AI Prove Its Answers

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Pramaana Labs Raises $27 Mn To Make AI Prove Its Answers

Bengaluru-based Pramaana Labs raised $27 Mn in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to build a verification layer for AI in regulated industries. The company says its system turns questions into formal statements, runs a proof engine and refuses to answer when a proof cannot be established. The financing points to a tougher enterprise AI test: whether models can support tax, law, finance and healthcare work where hallucinations carry legal risk.

#ai #AI verification #formal methods

June 18, 2026Read More →

SandboxAQ Gets $500 Million CHIPS Bet For AI-Designed Chip Materials

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SandboxAQ Gets $500 Million CHIPS Bet For AI-Designed Chip Materials

The US Commerce Department is awarding SandboxAQ $500 million in CHIPS Act funds to use AI simulation software on semiconductor materials, PFAS-free processes, rare-earth alternatives and battery inputs.

#chips semiconductors #semiconductors #AI materials discovery

June 18, 2026Read More →

CPP Investments Puts ₹70 Billion Behind India’s AI Data-Center Buildout

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CPP Investments Puts ₹70 Billion Behind India’s AI Data-Center Buildout

CPP Investments is backing CtrlS with up to ₹70 billion, adding pension-capital weight to India’s race to build data centers for cloud and AI workloads.

#cloud data centers #AI infrastructure #data centers

June 17, 2026Read More →

Spotify's AI Music Push Faces A Global Consent Test

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Spotify's AI Music Push Faces A Global Consent Test

Spotify has about 761 million users in 184 markets, but its next AI music tools will be judged by whether licensed covers, remixes and artist identity protections can scale across non-English growth markets.

#ai #music streaming #AI generated music

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Flagright Raises $12.5 Million As AI Compliance Moves From Tools To Workflows

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Flagright Raises $12.5 Million As AI Compliance Moves From Tools To Workflows

Flagright raised a $12.5 million Series A led by Infinity Ventures to expand explainable AI workflows for financial crime compliance, with banks, fintechs and credit unions as the stated market focus.

#fintech digital payments #fintech #financial crime compliance

June 17, 2026Read More →

Intel 18A-P Enters Risk Production, But Foundry Proof Still Runs Through Yield

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Intel 18A-P Enters Risk Production, But Foundry Proof Still Runs Through Yield

Intel has started risk production of its 18A-P node, adding performance and power claims to its foundry pitch while outside-customer commitments, Arm manufacturing proof and packaging capacity remain the next tests.

#chips semiconductors #semiconductors #chip foundry

June 17, 2026Read More →

AWS WAF Turns AI Bot Access Into A Paid Edge Control

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AWS WAF Turns AI Bot Access Into A Paid Edge Control

AWS WAF added AI traffic monetization for CloudFront-protected content, letting publishers set per-request prices for verified and unverified AI agents while routing x402 stablecoin payments through third-party facilitators.

#ai #AI bot traffic #AWS WAF

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