Archive: 2026-06-24

Stories from 2026-06-24

1. Three Eras of Quantitative Finance: How Rule-Based, ML, and Deep Learning Models React to the Same…

   Towards AI · 2026-06-24

   Quantitative finance firms are increasingly integrating deep learning models, alongside traditional rule-based systems and machine learning algorithms, to navigate market dynamics.

2. Met gets extension to Palantir AI project after Sadiq Khan blocked deal

   The Guardian AI · 2026-06-24

   Mayor’s office grants extra 12 months to run pilot while London force procures long-term supplier The Metropolitan police have been granted a 12-month extension to a pilot project

3. How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature

   WIRED · 2026-06-24

   Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models.

4. Cerebras stock plunges after earnings as CEO says margin outlook was misunderstood

   TechCrunch · 2026-06-24

   In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, scaring investors.

5. AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient

   TechCrunch · 2026-06-24

   While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers are actually making up a larger share of new hires, according to SignalFire data.

6. AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals

   TechCrunch · 2026-06-24

   Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.

7. DoubleLine’s Sherman: AI ‘Early’ in Tapping Bond Market

   Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

   Jeff Sherman, Deputy Chief Investment officer at DoubleLine Capital, joined the program to analyze recent developments in the U.S. Treasury market.

8. Micron and Qualcomm Lift Chipmakers Amid Rapid AI Growth

   Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

   Shares of semiconductor stocks are soaring in extended trading on Wednesday, following a strong financial report from Micron Technology Inc.

9. A24 Knows You’re Mad About the Google AI Collab

   WIRED · 2026-06-24

   Indie movie fans are upset about Google DeepMind’s $75 million investment in the studio, which comes as AI companies are deepening their influence in Hollywood.

10. How to Securely Connect Your AI Agent to Telegram with Azure

    Towards AI · 2026-06-24

    Microsoft's Azure AI is now offering a more streamlined path for developers to integrate their custom AI agents with Telegram, a popular messaging platform.

11. Qualcomm Projects Data Center Sales of $15 Billion by 2029

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Qualcomm Inc., trying to expand its dominance from mobile phone chips, forecast sales of more than $15 billion a year by fiscal 2029 in the booming market for AI components in data

12. Micron Sales Forecast Shatters Estimates on AI Demand

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Micron Technology Inc. delivered a sales forecast that topped Wall Street estimates after AI-fueled shortages of components sent prices soaring.

13. Focused on AI at the Enterprise Level: Ganguly

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Raj Ganguly, co-founder and co-CEO of B Capital, joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." They discuss how the use case for software is not going away and Ganguly's belief that

14. Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-24

    The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

15. Gradium Launches stt-translate and s2s-translate, Real-Time Speech Translation Models Beating gpt-realtime-translate on Accuracy and Latency

    MarkTechPost · 2026-06-24

    Gradium released two real-time speech translation models, stt-translate and s2s-translate, covering English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese across 20 language pairs.

16. Micron Soars After AI-Fueled Forecast Shatters Estimates

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Micron Technology Inc., the largest US maker of computer memory chips, surged in late trading after its quarterly sales forecast crushed Wall Street estimates

17. ‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools

    The Guardian AI · 2026-06-24

    Spending on government contracts with tech firms that use AI-powered tools to track immigrants has soared to record levels under Trump 2.0

18. OpenAI says ChatGPT Instant now better understands what users actually want

    The Decoder · 2026-06-24

    OpenAI is updating GPT-5.5 Instant, its most-used ChatGPT model. The update targets conversation quality, with better intent recognition, improved context across multiple turns

19. HSBC's Oden Highlights Potential in Chip Sector Amid Market Volatility & AI Growth

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Racquel Oden, US Head of International Wealth, Asset Management, and Global Private Banking at HSBC, discussed the current market dynamics surrounding the chip sector

20. Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of ‘Illicitly’ Accessing AI Models

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Anthropic PBC accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. of waging a large-scale effort to “illicitly” access its Claude artificial intelligence model using

21. SK Hynix Seeks $29B With US Listing to Fund AI Boom

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Bloomberg Intelligence's Jake Silverman joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals.SK Hynix is planning to raise $29.4 billion in a landmark US listing

22. Congresswoman denies staff used AI to write defense funding amendment

    The Verge · 2026-06-24

    Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI for "spellcheck" in an amendment summary for a major defense bill

23. MGX’s $50B Raise Sets Up One of the Biggest AI Funds Ever

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Bloomberg's Jennifer Surane joins Dani Burger and Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Deals." Abu Dhabi’s MGX has raised close to $50 billion from regional and global investors to accelerate

24. Qualcomm to Buy Modular for $3.9B to Help AI Push

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Bloomberg's Ryan Gould joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Qualcomm said it is acquiring Modular for about $3.9 billion in stock

25. Qualcomm Says Data Center Chips to Produce ‘Billions’ in ’27

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Qualcomm Inc. said its expansion into chips for data centers will produce “billions” in revenue in the fiscal year that begins in October

26. How to Design an OpenHarness Style Agent Runtime with Tools, Memory, Permissions, Skills, and Multi-Agent Coordination

    MarkTechPost · 2026-06-24

    In this tutorial, we build an OpenHarness style agent harness from scratch to see how a practical agent system works.

27. SPAC Deals Seen as Key Path to Public Market in Data Center Boom

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    The rebound in blank-check companies is proving to be a useful route to public markets for companies involved in the artificial intelligence-data center build-out

28. I Met With China’s Top AI Experts. They’re Freaking Out, Too

    WIRED · 2026-06-24

    The AI arms race between China and the US has researchers on both sides worried about a “Chernobyl moment.”

29. 70% of companies deploying customer service AI agents see ROI in 60 days

    ZDNet · 2026-06-24

    Outcome-based resolution pricing means companies pay only when the AI agent resolves an issue autonomously, without human intervention.

30. Google Poised to Lose Two More Senior AI Staffers to Anthropic

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Alphabet Inc.’s Google are planning to leave for rival Anthropic PBC, according to people familiar with the matter

31. Google OpenRL is an Experimental Self-hosted API for LLM Post-Training Fine-tuning

    InfoQ · 2026-06-24

    Google's GKE Labs has introduced OpenRL, an open-source project that provides a self-hosted API for post-trainin

32. Warren to Call for Antitrust Scrutiny of AI, Deal Review Revamp

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is planning to urge Congress to push for greater antitrust enforcement on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence

33. Big tech spent millions on a single US congressional race. It won’t be the last time

    The Guardian AI · 2026-06-24

    Pro- and anti-AI groups spent $24m on a congressional contest in New York, but it’s unclear to what end <a href="

34. Markets Weigh Next Phase of AI Trade | Open Interest 6/24/2026

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." The AI trade faces its next big test as Micron takes the earnings spotlight.

35. SpaceX Holder Andreessen Says Starship Opens Path to AI in Space

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Andreessen Horowitz LLC General Partner David George, an investor in SpaceX, said the “rapid reusability” of the new Starship rocket will be crucial to delivering on Elon Musk’s

36. Andreessen's George Says SpaceX Has Path to AI in Space

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    David George, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz LLC and early SpaceX investor, says Elon Musk's newly public company has the capability to pull off the big bet on

37. Why AI Makes Memory Demand Less Cyclical

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Celine Woo, portfolio manager and analyst at Lazard Asset Management, explains why the firm sees opportunities not on the largest AI capex spenders

38. The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw

    The Verge · 2026-06-24

    The expensive, $27 million political proxy war between Anthropic and OpenAI came to a draw last night when Alex Bores

39. Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-24

    The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook's recently launched AI creator assistant built into it.

40. Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost

    The Decoder · 2026-06-24

    Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nearly matches Claude Opus 4.7 in a Snowflake benchmark with 103 coding tasks at one-fifth the cost per output token.

41. Cerebras CEO Says Capacity Is Largest Constraint Right Now

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Cerebras shares plunged after the company gave an annual sales forecast that disappointed investors who were expecting the company to carve out a bigger slice of the AI data center

42. What to Watch for in Micron Earnings

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Micron, which will publish earnings after the bell, has become one of the most important stocks in the world. Shares are up nearly 300% this year.

43. Figma bets on human judgment at Config 2026 while the AI powering its canvas belongs to someone else

    The Decoder · 2026-06-24

    At Config 2026, Figma turned its canvas into a full workspace with code, animation, shaders, and AI agents.

44. Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-24

    Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, expects to generate $620 million in proceeds.

45. AI Is Modeling Mega Storms With Surprising Accuracy

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    AI hurricane forecasts faced a first stress test in 2025: Hurricane Melissa, the strongest Category 5 hurricane in the modern era.

46. Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

    DeepMind Blog · 2026-06-24

    Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google's latest large language model, now incorporates native computer use capabilities, allowing it to directly execute code and interact with external tools.

47. MNTN CEO on World Cup Ad Boom

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    The World Cup is expected to drive more than $10.5 billion in advertising spending worldwide.

48. Your First Task as a Data Engineer in a New Company? Make the ETL Pipeline Testable

    Towards Data Science · 2026-06-24

    A practical data engineering onboarding workflow for environment setup, automated testing, and AI-assisted development.

49. Figma now has AI motion graphics and shader tools

    The Verge · 2026-06-24

    Figma has unveiled some new design and coding product updates at its annual Config conference that aim to help creatives "push their ideas further" and automate tedious tasks with

50. Figma adds code layers, support for animations, more AI features in new update

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-24

    Figma's update adds a new code layer, support for motion and shaders, and the ability to create custom plug-ins for various tasks using AI.

51. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip

    OpenAI Blog · 2026-06-24

    OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.

52. 5 Prompts That Get Dramatically Better Answers Out of Claude

    Towards AI · 2026-06-24

    Claude, Anthropic's large language model, demonstrated improved response quality when users employed specific prompt engineering techniques

53. AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption

    The Guardian AI · 2026-06-24

    Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a

54. Micron Earnings Take on New Gravity With Market on Edge Over AI

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    Tuesday’s stock-market slide was what one Wall Street strategist called a “chip-wreck.” The semiconductor companies that have led this year’s stock-market advance with triple-digit

55. Why your RAM options cost 4X more now than last year - even legacy tech prices aren't immune

    ZDNet · 2026-06-24

    Meanwhile, AI data centers will mop up 70% of all memory chips produced this year.

56. The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

    WIRED · 2026-06-24

    At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic's cofounder—a "weirdo," per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown.

57. Labor tax critic deletes anti-immigration AI video reposted from rightwing nationalist account

    The Guardian AI · 2026-06-24

    Fund manager Geoff Wilson says he did not watch full video and deleted it after ‘inappropriate associations were identified’ Get our breaking news email , <a hre

58. Memory Chipmaker SK Hynix's $29 Billion US Listing Seizes on AI Demand

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-24

    SK Hynix Inc. is seeking 45.45 trillion won ($29.4 billion) in a US listing, tapping investor demand for high-flying memory-chip stocks even after a major selloff shook the group

59. A Three-Phase Factual Recall Circuit in Gemma-2B and Gemma-12B-IT

    Towards Data Science · 2026-06-24

    Activation patching reveals how facts are stored, routed, and read out across transformer layers, and why the residual stream does most of the work

60. AI Is Moving up the Software Lifecycle: From Code Review to PRD Governance

    InfoQ · 2026-06-24

    Technology companies are extending AI beyond code generation into earlier stages of the software lifecycle, including PRD validation, design inputs, and code review. Initi