Humanoid robotics startup Figure AI has reached a symbolic milestone: it now has more robots in operation than human workers.

OpenAI has recruited two high-profile figures as it prepares for a public listing: Noam Shazeer, a foundational mind behind modern generative AI, and Dean Ball, a former White House artificial intelligence policy official.

Snap is turning an internal generative AI video team into a separate company called Dotmo, which will build interactive gaming experiences.

Google has integrated its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant across several Workspace products, including Google Docs. The feature can appear as a “Write with Gemini” prompt within documents, offering AI-assisted writing suggestions.

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The internet’s latest earworm is not really called “You never take me to Bangladesh”. Its official title is “Bangladesh”, a 49-second single by the US singer-songwriter Ian McConnell. But the opening line has become the meme: “You never take me to Bangladesh.”

Amazon MGM has stepped away from distributing a forthcoming film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

NASA has selected Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, to launch a scientific payload to Mars in 2028 under a new public-private partnership agreement.

Midjourney, the company best known for its artificial intelligence (AI) image generator, has unveiled a new healthcare-focused venture centred on full-body ultrasound scanning.

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Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the Claude chatbot, is joining Frontier, a carbon removal coalition backed by major technology firms, becoming the first AI-focused startup to participate in the initiative.

Tecno has officially launched the SPARK 50 Pro smartphone in Bangladesh.

Platforms given 12 months to comply with new rules

Snap has unveiled a new pair of standalone augmented reality (AR) glasses priced at $2,195 at the Augmented World Expo 2026 on June 16.

Google has released Android 17, its latest mobile operating system update, with the rollout beginning on June 16, 2026 for a wide range of Pixel devices.

Google is set to remove the remaining workarounds that have allowed older ad-blocking extensions to continue functioning in Chrome, according to a recent report by Cybernews.

The parents of a 12-year-old girl who died by suicide are among several Italian families suing Meta and TikTok in the first collective legal action in Italy to directly challenge social media companies and their algorithms, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

ChatGPT's share of the global AI assistant market has dipped below 50% for the first time since its launch, as growing competition from Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude erodes the dominance OpenAI has held since it effectively created the modern AI chatbot category in late 2022.

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai was met with boos and a walkout by approximately 200 graduating students when he delivered the commencement address at Stanford University over the weekend, as protests over the company's defence contracts and ties to US immigration enforcement followed him to his alma mater.