AI News Archive: June 11, 2026 — Part 4
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- From virtual experiments to biomedical insight with synthetic data
Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01244-6 Synthetic datasets are becoming crucial for the development of biomedical machine learning models. Victoriano et al. discuss the persistent simulation-to-reality gap that limits how well synthetic performance predicts real-world performance.
- Congress wants in on the data center backlash
Members of Congress are scrambling to jump on the growing anti-data center fervor sweeping through local communities across the country. Why it matters: Where there is this kind of intense grassroots uproar, there is also political opportunity — and lawmakers know it. The latest example is legislation from Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) to restrict companies' ability to sue municipalities for rejecting applications to build data centers. The bill — called "the Local Control Protection Act" — would also require developers to file a legally binding "community benefit agreement" or lose out on federal tax incentives, per legislative text first shared with Axios. State of play: Growing public anxiety about the rapid growth of AI is fueling bitter fights at the local level to stop data centers from being built, Axios' Madison Mills reported. Objections include alleged environmental damage, high energy usage and resultant utility cost increases, and noise, air and water pollution. More than 350,000 people signed a petition opposing a proposed data center bordering the Nashville Zoo, according to Axios' Nate Rau . In Seattle, local officials have moved to ban new large data centers for a year, Axios' Melissa Santos wrote . By the numbers: Legislative proposals to restrict data center construction were fairly rare on Capitol Hill before this year. Now, Republicans and Democrats alike are flooding the zone. In the last three months alone, more than a dozen bills have been introduced to either investigate data centers' impacts or restrict their proliferation in some way. Between the lines: It's not just toothless bills to commission reports and studies — though there are those too, looking at resource consumption , environmental ramifications and the effects on communities of color . Several proposals aim to protect consumers from any energy cost spikes that result from data center production. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has introduced a bill to impose an outright moratorium on new data center construction "until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence." What they're saying: "We should never let billion-dollar corporations supersede the voices of those who live in the community," Bresnahan, one of Republicans' most endangered incumbents, said in statement. "The people who live here, work here, and raise their families here are the ones who know what's best for our communities." Reality check: The prospect of any of these bills passing is slim — Congress has notoriously made scant progress in passing any guardrails on AI. And as Axios previously reported, AI and AI-adjacent companies are spending big through super PACs in the 2026 midterms to curry favor with sitting lawmakers and get allies elected to Congress.
Score: 70🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.axios.com/2026/06/11/data-centers-ai-congress-bresnahan-bill - Goldman Sachs says the AI boom is bigger than investors think
Goldman Sachs says the AI boom is bigger than investors think Business Insider
Score: 70🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-wall-street-tech-selloff-ai-token-goldman-sachs-2026-6 - BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI
Learn how BBVA scaled ChatGPT Enterprise to 100,000 employees and partnered with OpenAI to accelerate AI-powered banking transformation worldwide.
- Ex-Andreessen Horowitz partner slams his old firm, other VCs for 'political infiltration' around AI
John O'Farrell, former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, says the PAC Leading the Future, backed by his old firm, is trying to "intimidate politicians."
Score: 70🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/ex-a16z-partner-slams-old-firm-othes-political-infiltration-in-ai.html - The Push for a Public Wealth Fund to Distribute AI Gains
Lawmakers and tech firms are suggesting new ways to ensure the public gets a piece of the AI boom
Score: 70🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-06-11/the-push-for-a-public-wealth-fund-to-distribute-ai-gains - Oracle's AI datacenter splurge gives investors the capex jitters
Q4 sales climbed 21%, but Wall Street more interested in $70B buildout bill
- Teenagers in Tokyo allegedly used ChatGPT to decide extortion amount in assault case
Teenagers in Tokyo allegedly used ChatGPT to decide extortion amount in assault case The Japan Times
Score: 70🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/11/japan/crime-legal/teenagers-extortion-chatgpt/ - RISC-V Targets Data Centers, Edge AI, Space
"RISC-V is now," said Andrea Gallo, CEO of RISC-V International, during his keynote at this week's RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna. The post RISC-V Targets Data Centers, Edge AI, Space appeared first on EE Times .
- Oregon battery maker plans public debut fueled by AI datacenter buildout
Oregon battery maker ZincFive plans to go public on the strength of demand by AI data centers for its energy storage products.
Score: 69🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2026/06/11/zincfive-space.html?ana=brss_6150 - OpenAI could cut ChatGPT prices to win you over from Claude
OpenAI's next move could make AI a lot more affordable.
Score: 69🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.androidauthority.com/openai-could-cut-prices-for-chatgpt-3676727/ - The AI Infrastructure Boom Is Far From Over for Chip Equipment Makers
The AI Infrastructure Boom Is Far From Over for Chip Equipment Makers Barron's
Score: 69🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.barrons.com/articles/applied-materials-stock-kla-ai-buy-277b3e2f - AI Race Upends Big Tech Balance Sheets
AI Race Upends Big Tech Balance Sheets The Information
Score: 69🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-race-upends-big-tech-balance-sheets - Xiaomi's new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks
Xiaomi's MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0 , a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic's Claude Code on key agentic coding benchmarks, especially on long-horizon, multi-step tasks (200+ steps) — at least, according to its own internal beta release and survey of 576 developers. It's also bundling limited-time free access to MiMo-V2.5, its multimodal flagship model with a million-token context window, requiring no registration to get started. The release was announced June 10, 2026 in a post on the social network X from the official @XiaomiMiMo account , which described the tool as "more than an AI coding assistant in your terminal — it's the smartest coding partner you'll ever work with." MiMo Code is available now on GitHub under an MIT license , and installs with a single terminal command ( curl -fsSL https://mimo.xiaomi.com/install | bash ) on macOS and Linux or via npm ( npm install -g @mimo-ai/cli ) on Windows. The project is a fork of the open-source OpenCode agent, which Xiaomi has extended with its own memory architecture, workflow modes, and model harness. The end of AI coding agents' amnesia? As any avid vibe coder would surely attest, AI coding agents degrade over long working sessions: as the context window fills, earlier decisions, conventions, and task state get compacted away or lost entirely, forcing developers to re-explain their projects. Xiaomi argues this approach is doomed at scale. "What we need is not better compression, but an explicit storage-and-retrieval mechanism that decides what information should be written into persistent structures, and when it should be recalled," the MiMo team noted in their launch blog . MiMo Code attacks this with a cross-session memory system, powered under the hood by SQLite FTS5 full-text search, that spans four layers: project memory (a persistent MEMORY.md file), session checkpoints, scratch notes, and per-task progress logs. The note-taking is key, here: Rather than forcing the primary coding agent to pause its work to take notes, the system deploys an independent "checkpoint-writer" subagent. Think of it the primary coding agent as a construction contractor working to build a massive mansion alongside a dedicated architect, the checkpoint-writer subagent. While the main agent focuses on building out the physical structure, the subagent updates the blueprints in real time, noting decisions, issues, and the actual lay of the land as the construction project progresses. When the context window approaches its limits — the contractor gets lost in the half-built mansion — it can consult the subagent and find its place again. In the case of MiMo Code, the system simply rebuilds the environment from structured checkpoints with the relevant context, ensuring no loss of operational momentum. Two self-improvement mechanisms round out the system: a /dream command that periodically (roughly every seven days) reviews historical sessions, deduplicates them, and compresses them into long-term memory, and a "distill" function that mines past sessions for repeated workflows that can be automated, following a similar approach taken recently by OpenAI and Anthropic with their various models. Impressive performance on software engineering (SWE) benchmarks According to benchmark figures published in Xiaomi's technical blog post, MiMo Code paired with MiMo-V2.5-Pro outperformed Claude Code paired with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on all three evaluations tested: SWE-bench Verified: 82% vs. 79% SWE-bench Pro: 62% vs. 55% Terminal Bench 2: 73% vs. 69% The harness itself accounts for a measurable share of the gain. Running the same MiMo-V2.5-Pro model in both harnesses, MiMo Code scored 62% on SWE-bench Pro versus 57% for Claude Code, and 73% on Terminal Bench 2 versus 68% — roughly five points each, attributable purely to the agent system rather than the model. Xiaomi notably did not publish comparisons against OpenAI's Codex or Google's Gemini CLI — Claude Code is the sole named competitor throughout its materials, a telling choice of benchmark target. Independent reference points suggest why. On the official Terminal-Bench 2.0 leaderboard maintained at tbench.ai, OpenAI's Codex CLI running GPT-5.5 scores 82.2% — roughly nine points above MiMo Code's self-reported 73% — and OpenAI's own GPT-5.5 announcement claims 82.7% on the same benchmark. On SWE-Bench Pro, however, the picture flips: OpenAI reports GPT-5.5 at 58.6%, below MiMo Code + MiMo-V2.5-Pro's claimed 62%. (MiMo Code does not yet appear on either official leaderboard, and cross-comparing self-run numbers against leaderboard submissions carries the usual configuration caveats.) Perhaps more interesting than the offline benchmarks: Xiaomi says it ran a human double-blind A/B evaluation during its internal beta, covering 576 developers working in 474 real private repositories, producing 1,213 judged head-to-head pairs against Claude Code using the same target model. Under 200 execution steps, the two systems split roughly 50/50 — but past 200 steps, MiMo Code's win rate rose above 65%, supporting the company's thesis that its memory and state-management architecture pays off specifically on long-horizon work. Xiaomi itself concedes the standard benchmarks "still measure one-shot problem-solving ability" and don't capture the tool's multi-session design goals. As always, these are vendor self-reported numbers that haven't been independently verified, and head-to-head harness comparisons are sensitive to configuration. But the claims are consistent with a broader industry pattern: scaffolding and harness engineering are becoming as important as raw model capability in agentic coding performance. Easy integration with existing developer systems and voice control From a user experience standpoint, MiMo Code is designed to live where developers already work. It operates directly in the terminal, reading and writing files, running commands, and managing Git. Out of the box, the tool requires zero configuration, connecting automatically to "MiMo Auto"—a free-for-a-limited-time channel powered by Xiaomi’s multimodal MiMo V2.5 model, which boasts a massive million-token context window. For developers migrating from existing environments, the transition is frictionless: MiMo Code automatically imports MCP servers, custom skills, and API configurations from Claude Code. Other noteworthy features include: Compose mode: Pressing Tab switches the agent into a specification-driven workflow in which the developer describes a high-level goal and the system autonomously executes the full development cycle — design, planning, coding, testing, and review — following what Xiaomi describes as a "heavy planning upfront, stable verification later" strategy. Voice control: Built on Xiaomi's MiMo-ASR speech recognition with TenVAD voice activity detection, developers can dictate and modify instructions verbally and speak commands like "send" and "execute" for fully hands-free operation (available for logged-in users). According to Xiaomi, the gains from the agent harness itself are measurable. Running the same underlying MiMo model in both harnesses, the company says MiMo Code scored 62% on SWE-Bench Pro versus 57% for Claude Code, and 73% on Terminal Bench 2 versus Claude Code's 68% — roughly five percentage points better on each, attributable purely to the agent system rather than the model. As always, these are vendor self-reported numbers that haven't been independently verified, and head-to-head harness comparisons are sensitive to configuration. But the claim is consistent with a broader industry pattern: scaffolding and harness engineering are becoming as important as raw model capability in agentic coding performance. Aggressively affordable The bigger lure for many developers may be what's bundled in. MiMo Code ships with "MiMo Auto," a zero-configuration channel offering free, limited-time access to MiMo-V2.5 — the natively multimodal model Xiaomi released in late April 2026, a sparse mixture-of-experts design with 310 billion total parameters (just 15 billion active per inference) and a 1 million token context window, which the company positions as matching Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 in multimodal agentic work. As VentureBeat reported when the MiMo-V2.5 family launched in April, the models are MIT-licensed and among the most efficient and affordable available for agentic tasks. The larger MiMo-V2.5-Pro — a 1.02-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 42 billion active parameters and a hybrid-attention architecture — led the open-source field on Xiaomi's ClawEval agentic benchmark with a 63.8% success rate while consuming only about 70,000 tokens per trajectory, roughly 40–60% fewer than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, or OpenAI's GPT-5.4 needed for comparable results. Notably, the V2.5-Pro's post-training was explicitly designed to instill "harness awareness" — training the model to manage its own memory and context within agent scaffolds like Claude Code or OpenCode — making a Xiaomi-built harness optimized around that capability a logical next step. Pricing is similarly aggressive: MiMo-V2.5 starts at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens, while V2.5-Pro runs $1.00/$3.00 per million (input/output) up to 256K context, doubling beyond that, with cache hits dropping input costs to as little as $0.20–$0.40 per million, making it among the cheapest frontier models available globally. VentureBeat Frontier AI Model API Pricing Snapshot Model Input Output Total Cost Source MiMo-V2.5 Flash $0.10 $0.30 $0.40 Xiaomi MiMo deepseek-v4-flash $0.14 $0.28 $0.42 DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro $0.435 $0.87 $1.305 DeepSeek MiniMax-M3 $0.30 $1.20 $1.50 MiniMax Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite $0.25 $1.50 $1.75 Google Qwen3.7-Plus $0.40 $1.60 $2.00 Alibaba Cloud MiMo-V2.5 $0.40 $2.00 $2.40 Xiaomi MiMo Grok 4.3 (low context) $1.25 $2.50 $3.75 xAI MiMo-V2.5 Pro (≤256K) $1.00 $3.00 $4.00 Xiaomi MiMo GLM-5 $1.00 $3.20 $4.20 Z.ai Kimi-K2.6 $0.95 $4.00 $4.95 Moonshot/Kimi GLM-5.1 $1.40 $4.40 $5.80 Z.ai Grok 4.3 (high context) $2.50 $5.00 $7.50 xAI MiMo-V2.5 Pro (>256K) $2.00 $6.00 $8.00 Xiaomi MiMo Qwen3.7-Max $2.50 $7.50 $10.00 Alibaba Cloud Gemini 3.5 Flash $1.50 $9.00 $10.50 Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (≤200K) $2.00 $12.00 $14.00 Google GPT-5.4 $2.50 $15.00 $17.50 OpenAI Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (>200K) $4.00 $18.00 $22.00 Google Claude Opus 4.8 $5.00 $25.00 $30.00 Anthropic GPT-5.5 $5.00 $30.00 $35.00 OpenAI Claude Fable 5 / Claude Mythos 5 $10.00 $50.00 $60.00 Anthropic For developers who don't want Xiaomi's models at all, MiMo Code also supports third-party backends — including token plans from DeepSeek, Moonshot's Kimi, and Zhipu's GLM — along with any OpenAI-compatible API, mirroring the bring-your-own-model flexibility of its OpenCode parent. Terminal AI coding agent wars go global MiMo Code lands in an increasingly crowded field of terminal-based coding agents: Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex CLI, Google's Gemini CLI, and open-source players like OpenCode and Aider. What's new is the entrant. Xiaomi — the world's third-largest smartphone maker, with a fast-growing EV business — has been methodically building its MiMo AI division since the release of the MiMo-7B reasoning model in April 2025, following with the MiMo-VL vision-language series, MiMo-V2-Flash, the 1-trillion-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro in March 2026, and the V2.5 flagship family in April. The effort is led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of DeepSeek's disruptive R1 project, who has characterized Xiaomi's frontier push as a "quiet ambush" — and backed it with a 100-trillion free token grant for builders announced alongside the V2.5 launch. The playbook is familiar from DeepSeek , Alibaba's Qwen , MiniMax , and Moonshot AI's Kimi series : release genuinely capable models and tooling under permissive licenses at a fraction of U.S. lab pricing, and convert the resulting developer mindshare into a durable ecosystem. By pairing an open-source agent harness with a free frontier-class model, Xiaomi is effectively eliminating both the licensing and the usage cost of entry — at least for now. What it means for enterprises and technical decision-makers For engineering leaders, MiMo Code is a low-risk, potentially high-value evaluation candidate: MIT-style licensing permits modification and commercial integration, the OpenCode lineage means the architecture is inspectable, and the bring-your-own-model support means it can be pointed at an internally approved endpoint rather than Xiaomi's cloud. The persistent memory system addresses a real and widely felt pain point in agentic development workflows — one that competitors are also racing to solve. The countervailing considerations: the "free for a limited time" model access is by definition temporary and routes code context through Xiaomi's servers, which will be a non-starter for organizations with strict data-residency or IP policies; the benchmark edge over Claude Code is self-reported; and a V0.1.0 release number signals exactly what it suggests about maturity. Teams subject to U.S. government procurement restrictions on Chinese technology vendors should also weigh that context before adopting.
- Barcelona’s THEKER raises €73M to deploy AI-native factory robots that learn on the job
THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised €73 million ($85 million) in a Series A to scale its generalist factory robots across industrial production environments. The round was led by CRV, with participation from Samsung, LVMH, Cathay Innovation, 20VC, Henkel Ventures, Korelya, and Bright Pixel Capital. It marks Samsung’s first-ever investment in a Spanish […] This story continues at The Next Web
- Whistleblower Sues xAI, SpaceX Ahead of Historic IPO Debut
A former engineer for xAI, the artificial intelligence firm founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against xAI and Musk's spaceflight company, SpaceX, just days ahead of an initial public offering that is poised to be the biggest on record.
- What Can Higher Ed IT Do About the Agentic AI Cheating Crisis?
Earlier this year, an agentic artificial intelligence tool called Einstein caused an uproar in higher education. Einstein offered to log autonomously into the learning management system Canvas every day, watch lectures, write papers and submit homework on students’ behalf — without their professors knowing. Einstein exposed a core problem in higher education IT: There’s no reliable way to distinguish students from AI agents acting in their place on any major LMS. “The Einstein tool was a big wake-up call,” says Josh Callahan, CISO for California State University. “It echoes the…
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2026/06/what-can-higher-ed-it-do-about-agentic-ai-cheating-crisis - Claude is ready for its corporate close-up
IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/11/claude-is-ready-for-its-corporate-close-up/5254565 - Global HR Tech Enterprise Jably Presents Vision for AI Recruitment Platform ‘K-TAG’ to Delegation of EU Ambassadors
Global HR Tech Enterprise Jably Presents Vision for AI Recruitment Platform ‘K-TAG’ to Delegation of EU Ambassadors azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- Westpac is embedding AI across its core "flows"
Lays out vision for more personalised consumer finance and service.
- From electric cars to humanoids: Xpeng boss takes over robotics unit at ‘turning point’
Xpeng chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng is doubling down on his vision to transform the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant into a “physical AI” powerhouse, taking the reins of the firm’s robotics arm just months before its humanoids are set for mass production. In an internal memo sent on Wednesday and seen by the South China Morning Post, He said he would personally serve as head of the robotics department. Characterising the move as a strategic pivot, He said the unit had reached “a turning point...
- IIT Delhi alumnus co-founded Coram AI raises $35 million in Series B
IIT Delhi alumnus co-founded Coram AI raises $35 million in Series B YourStory.com
Score: 68💰 MoneyJun 11, 2026https://yourstory.com/2026/06/iit-delhi-alumnus-co-founded-coram-ai-raises-35-million-in-series-b - We will need a new tax code for the wealth AI creates
The question isn’t whether mass underemployment arrives but whether we have a policy framework ready when it does
- The AI public market floodgates are opening
The huge sums that Wall Street is about to be asked for look like being only a down payment
- Anthropic Blindsides Its Business Partners
Anthropic Blindsides Its Business Partners The Information
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-blindsides-business-partners - Coram Raised $35 Million to Turn Security Cameras Into AI Detectives
Coram Raised $35 Million to Turn Security Cameras Into AI Detectives Business Insider
Score: 68💰 MoneyJun 11, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/coram-turn-security-cameras-into-ai-detectives-2026-6 - SAP And AI Sovereignty
Ongoing deglobalization, and the uncertainty that comes with this, is driving high demand for AI Sovereignty. Europeans want an end-to-end European solution.
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2026/06/11/sap-and-ai-sovereignty/ - As OpenAI leans into enterprise business, Apple and Google set sights on the masses
OpenAI's aggressive push into the enterprise, where it competes with Anthropic, coincides with efforts by Apple and Google to bring advanced AI to consumers.
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/as-openai-leans-into-enterprise-apple-and-google-target-consumer-ai.html - Americans wary of AI-driven data center boom, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
Americans wary of AI-driven data center boom, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Reuters
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-wary-ai-driven-data-center-boom-reutersipsos-poll-shows-2026-06-11/ - People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Furious About the SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-ipo-how-people-living-near-xai-data-centers-feel/ - Deloitte, SAP set up AI Bengaluru hub, eye 500 new hires
Deloitte, SAP set up AI Bengaluru hub, eye 500 new hires Techcircle
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.techcircle.in/2026/06/11/deloitte-sap-launch-bengaluru-hub-to-add-up-to-500-ai-specialists - Government aims to make UK top spot for open source AI
In his speech at the AI Summit in London, Kanishka Narayan, minister for artificial intelligence (AI) and online safety, said the UK government is aiming to make Britain the home for open source AI developers , to mirror the success of the web. In his speech, Narayan spoke about the need for the UK to determine its own AI strategy. “We have to ask honestly, what is the story that we are being told about AI today? Too often, it is a story of AI inevitability. Britain has never accepted that view of progress. We have rejected technological determinism in favour of agency: the agency of our state, the agency of our communities, the agency of our people,” he told delegates attending the headliner stream at the summit. Referencing the invention of the web, he said: “When Tim Berners-Lee made the World Wide Web open, he did something profound. He removed barriers to building . He created a platform that anyone could participate in. From the World Wide Web to AlphaFold, Britain has always chosen to open new technologies, not close them down. “The best AI tools in the world won’t be built behind closed doors by a handful of companies – they’ll be built by people who ship code, share it and let others make it better. We want those people choosing to build here in Britain, and we want them to know that this is a country that backs them to succeed,” Narayan said. The minister used his speech at the AI Summit to speak about the the recent Hack for Impact hackathon and Open Source AI Builder Fund, which he said is worth more than half a million pounds. “If you build something here that can go further, we will not leave you stuck at prototype,” he said. The recently run hackathon, supported by Nvidia, brought together hundreds of open source AI developers from across the UK to build tools tackling challenges across public services and city infrastructure, using open data from the City of London. Through the Open-Source AI Builder Fund, Narayan said the UK government is providing £500,000 worth of compute – 160,000 GPU-hours (graphics processing unit hours) of processing power – from the UK’s AI Research Resource. The goal is to give projects the AI infrastructure they need to go from prototypes to public AI tools. Along with the funding for open source AI, Narayan said the government’s in-house incubator for AI will offer open source AI developers a mentoring scheme through the AI Builder Mentoring Scheme. This aims to pair hackathon winners with experts from the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), the government’s in-house AI team, to help the best ideas become working public tools. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said i.AI has brought in top AI experts from UK universities through an Open Source Fellowship Programme to develop open source AI tools that improve public services, from education to policing. According to DSIT, the AI Builder Mentoring Scheme goes further, backing Britain to become the world’s go-to destination for open source AI builders. There is also a new Open Source AI Dev Board, which DSIT said gives 10 UK-based developers under the age of 30 a direct line into government so they can influence how AI is used and developed. Chaired by Narayan, the board will convene a series of roundtables over 2026. Narayan said the board will put the developers “directly into the heart of government’s open source AI strategy”. Read more open source AI stories The benefits of open source AI models : In this guide, we explore how to get started with open source AI models and go over how they support your enterprise IT strategy. Open sourcing and assuring AI: Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power.
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366644236/Government-aims-to-make-UK-top-spot-for-open-source-AI - Waymo unveils virtual driver model to test autonomous car crash avoidance
Autonomous vehicles are already a reality on some of our streets and could become a major part of future transportation systems. Safety, of course, is the main concern, as with all vehicles. To help evaluate and improve its autonomous driving technology, U.S. driverless vehicle company Waymo has created a virtual representation of human driver behavior in near-crash situations.
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-waymo-unveils-virtual-driver-autonomous.html - AI can save veterans’ time, but TMF head says reauthorization needed for more investments
Recent form modernization speeds up VA processes, but with $200 million left, the fund’s acting director is asking Congress for more money for other projects. The post AI can save veterans’ time, but TMF head says reauthorization needed for more investments appeared first on FedScoop .
Score: 68🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://fedscoop.com/ai-can-save-veterans-time-but-tmf-head-says-reauthorization-needed-for-more-investments/ - Truist outpaces Wells Fargo and Bank of America in patent growth with AI push
The bank recorded 157 granted patents in 2025, with nearly half of new applications tied to artificial intelligence or machine learning.
- Forget coders. The real AI threat is in the back office.
Forget coders. The real AI threat is in the back office. Inquirer.com
Score: 67🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.inquirer.com/business/artificial-intelligence-back-office-jobs-20260611.html - Your Windows 11 PC can now natively run AI workloads, even if it lacks the Copilot+ badge
Microsoft's latest AI decision could make millions of existing Windows PCs far more relevant than anyone expected.
- Waymo introduces $30-a-month premium tier for riders who want faster pickups
Uber One, meet Waymo Premier. The robotaxi operator announced a new $29.99-a-month premium tier for riders who want a more elevated and exclusive autonomous experience. The invite-only membership service is aimed at Waymo customers who use the service most frequently, offering them a number of perks, including priority pickups, 10 percent cash back on every […]
Score: 67🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.theverge.com/transportation/947974/waymo-premier-monthly-membership-perks-priority-cash-back - Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
Waymo introduces an elevated rider experience called Waymo Premier for its top riders.
- The iPhone's New AI Photo Tool Wants to Rewrite Your Memories
The iPhone's New AI Photo Tool Wants to Rewrite Your Memories PCMag
Score: 66🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/the-iphones-new-ai-photo-tool-wants-to-rewrite-your-memories-wwdc-2026 - US-based real estate tech firm Opendoor shuts down India operations as AI-driven revamp shifts jobs back to US
In a post on X, CEO Kaz Nejatian said, ‘Our customers are in America, and that’s where our operational work belongs’
- AI study reveals stark inequalities in global climate plans
An international team including researchers from the University of Alicante (UA) and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has used artificial intelligence to analyze the climate commitments submitted to the United Nations by 158 countries. Their conclusion is stark: Profound inequalities persist within global climate planning.
- Ministry backs down in B1.6bn AI controversy
The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry says it plans to negotiate with the TH-AI Passport project provider to adjust contract details regarding the pay-per-use concept, in an effort to tamp down public criticism and ensure optimal benefits.
Score: 66🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3269605/ministry-backs-down-in-b16bn-ai-controversy - Waymo launches a loyalty program with 10% cash back and free cancellations
Members of the program, called "Waymo Premier," will have to pony up $29.99 per month.
Score: 66🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/waymo-launches-a-loyalty-program-with-10-cash-back-and-free-cancellations/ - Gemini Outage Mostly Resolved: What Went Wrong for Google's AI
Service disruptions inhibited many Google users' AI work on Wednesday. Here's what Google said happened.
Score: 66🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.cnet.com/news-live/gemini-down-live-updates-google-workspaces-ai-errors/ - Gemini not working for you? You’re not alone (Updated: Fixed)
Update: Gemini should be working just fine again.
- Re-Architecting Die-to-Die IO For AI
Synopsys 3D-IO and the shift to hybrid-bonded 3D integration. The post Re-Architecting Die-to-Die IO For AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
- Why global technology firms are betting billions on India's data centres
Rising AI demand, abundant power, favourable policies and strategic geography are turning India into one of the world's fastest-growing data-centre markets
- Ahead of SpaceX IPO, Elon Musk addresses ASML employees as part of push into chip manufacturing
Elon Musk called ASML a great company in a fireside chat with CEO Christophe Fouquet, as the SpaceX CEO gears up to go big in chip manufacturing.
Score: 65🌐 MovesJun 11, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/elon-musk-addresses-asml-employees-pushes-into-chip-manufacturing.html - Ralliant’s Amir Kazmi On Wiring AI Into Critical Infrastructure
Ralliant's Chief Technology and Growth Officer Amir Kazmi explains how AI-powered workflows, a founder's mindset and a unified role are reshaping precision technology.