Elon Musk says 'feminism and lack of children has killed happiness', remark sparks backlash
Elon Musk has sparked controversy after claiming on X that "feminism and lack of children has killed happiness." His remarks ...
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Nicki Minaj’s Birthday Wish for Elon Musk Raises Eyebrows
Rapper Nicki Minaj has made quite a statement with her birthday post for Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is also the richest person in the world. The “Anaconda” singer credited Musk with “saving free speech,” also allegedly uploading an AI-generated selfie with the tech mogul. Interestingly, this is not the first time that Minaj has […] The post Nicki Minaj’s Birthday Wish for Elon Musk Raises Eyebrows appeared first on Mandatory.
Elon Musk blamed for sharp rise in online anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitic content is routinely allowed to remain on social media platforms, some of which remove less than a quarter of ...
Elon Musk's 'Not a Single Name' Challenge Backfires as Reporter Lists Children Killed After USAID Cuts
Elon Musk faces criticism for dismantling USAID, accused of causing a humanitarian crisis. Representative Ro Khanna and journalist Nicholas Kristof highlight the severe impact on global health and
The ‘Father of the Internet’ is finally retiring
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.
Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases.
Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation
Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.
Startup Battlefield Australia application closes in days: Apply before July 6
What if one pitch changed everything? The next company nobody has heard of yet is building something that will matter. It could be yours.
Morgan Stanley cut its riskiest reconciliation job in half — by making its agents less autonomous
Most enterprise AI deployments so far have focused on coding assistants and customer service bots. Morgan Stanley has deployed agents in one of banking's most accuracy-critical, deadline-driven workflows instead — profit and loss (P&L) reconciliation — and cut the work in half. The counterintuitive part: it got there by making the system less autonomous, not more.Humans stay tightly in the loop, and their decisions are iteratively turned into repeatable rules the system can apply on its
OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS
The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.
TikTok settles second addiction case, leaving Meta and Snap to face a jury alone
TikTok has reached a confidential settlement with a Florida teenager who accused the platform of contributing to his mental health problems, removing itself from a jury trial scheduled to begin on July 27 in Los Angeles. The deal, first reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday, makes TikTok the second defendant to exit the case in recent […]This story continues at The Next Web
The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.
Google releases Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and cheapest AI image generator yet
Google on Tuesday released Nano Banana 2 Lite, the fastest and cheapest model in its Nano Banana family of AI image generators. The model produces images in four seconds and costs under four cents per thousand images, making it the company’s most aggressive play yet for developers who need to generate visuals at scale. It […]This story continues at The Next Web
Clicks shows off its BlackBerry-inspired Communicator phone in new hands-on video
Clicks Technology released a video on Tuesday showing the pre-production hardware and internal software of its Communicator, a $499 smartphone with a physical keyboard that is the closest thing to a new BlackBerry anyone has built in years. The phone was first unveiled at CES in January and is scheduled to ship in the fourth […]This story continues at The Next Web
The captive portal economy: how hotel WiFi sign-in pages became both a security vector and a hidden ad channel
Last month I checked into a hotel for a conference. Open laptop. Click WiFi. Hotel network. The familiar splash screen appears: enter your room number, your last name, accept the terms. Standard. What’s no longer standard is what’s running behind that splash screen. The captive portal, that login page you see before you can actually […]This story continues at The Next Web
Realta Fusion generates electricity directly from a fusion reaction, an apparent first
“We can take power from a plasma,” Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion, told TechCrunch. The milestone shows “what’s possible,” he added.
Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite
Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper way to run agents
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic mid-tier model yet. It runs close to the flagship Opus 4.8 on many tasks, but costs less than half as much. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Sonnet 5 is available today across every plan. The company built it to act, not just answer. It […]This story continues at The Next Web
Clicks shows off its BlackBerry-inspired phone in a new hands-on video
A new video shows the final production version of the upcoming Clicks Communicator, a BlackBerry-like smartphone that runs modern apps.
Schneider Electric buys industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn
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 […]This story continues at The Next Web