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AI coding agents can autonomously direct robot training

AI coding agents can autonomously direct robot training

What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks? The agents can apparently figure out a training regimen that teaches the…

SpyCloud Report Finds Phishing Attacks Surge as Employee Data Is Exposed at 86% of Fortune 100

SpyCloud Report Finds Phishing Attacks Surge as Employee Data Is Exposed at 86% of Fortune 100

Austin, TX, USA, June 17th, 2026/CyberNewswire/-- SpyCloud , the leader in identity threat protection, today released its 2026 Phishing Pulse Report , revealing that phishing attacks continue to increase in both volume and sophistication…

RNZ

Body found on shore of Lake Tekapo

The discovery of the body is the second such incident at the site in the last week.

RNZ

Bezos: AI will result in labor shortages instead of replacing humans

The Hill

Bezos: AI will result in labor shortages instead of replacing humans

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Wednesday said he thinks artificial intelligence (AI) will create a shortage of labor rather than replacing human labor. Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino asked Bezos and Blue Origin CEO David Limp at the…

The Hill

Heimdal Survey: Executives Four Times More Confident About AI Risk Than The Teams Managing It

Heimdal Survey: Executives Four Times More Confident About AI Risk Than The Teams Managing It

London, United Kingdom, June 17th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--New research from cybersecurity company Heimdal finds 29% of US executives say AI risk is under control, against 7% of the practitioners running it day-to-day. Across 1,000 IT…

Amazon admits its AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but says it can catch up

The Next Web

Amazon admits its AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but says it can catch up

Amazon’s AI chief has said what the market long suspected. Peter DeSantis, the senior vice president who oversees the company’s AI models, custom chips, and quantum computing, told CNBC that Amazon’s models “haven’t been at the very…

The Next Web

Orbital Data Centers Face Real Challenges, Says Peridot

Bloomberg

Orbital Data Centers Face Real Challenges, Says Peridot

Makenzie Lystrup, principal consultant at Peridot Services and former director for the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's primary hub for building and operating scientific satellites, says energy and heat present real challenges for…

Bloomberg

Earliest outbreak of the plague killed hunter-gatherer kids 5,500 years ago

Earliest outbreak of the plague killed hunter-gatherer kids 5,500 years ago

Scientists have solved a mystery that puzzled them for decades: Why were so many dead children buried by hunter-gatherers in Russia 5,500 years ago? It turns out they were killed by the earliest known outbreak of the plague, revealing new…

What killed these children 5,500 years ago? It was literally the plague

What killed these children 5,500 years ago? It was literally the plague

New Scientist

New Scientist recommends an excellent look at the future of work

Sarah O'Connor's We Are Not Machines explores how we are contorting ourselves to fit AI into our working lives – and what to do about it, finds Tom Knowles

New Scientist

As Capital Rotates From Crypto To AI, Zoomex Traders Already Have Access To Both

As Capital Rotates From Crypto To AI, Zoomex Traders Already Have Access To Both

Global｜June 17th, 2026 As institutional capital continues its notable shift from cryptocurrency markets toward artificial intelligence and semiconductor stocks, Zoomex, a global crypto derivatives exchange, announces the availability of…

"Dangerous" AI models are coming no matter what

"Dangerous" AI models are coming no matter what

Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a United States government export-control directive barring “any foreign national” from using the services. The company has been in talks with…