Technology

Samsung deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to DX staff as part of broader AI training push

OpenAI says Samsung is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to DX staff worldwide and employees in Korea as part of a companywide AI training push.

$SSNLF, #samsung, #openai, #enterpriseai, #generativeai

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Arrives at Kennedy, Begins Final Launch Processing

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope reached Kennedy Space Center June 21 to begin final prelaunch work ahead of an Aug. 30 target liftoff.

#nasa, #space, #telescope, #roman

Andre Cronje, Michael Kong and David Richardson Resign from Sonic Labs Board as Governance Overhaul Begins

Sonic Labs said three board members resigned June 19 as new leadership and governance changes aim to steady the struggling Sonic blockchain.

#sonic, #crypto, #defi, #governance

RAND paper warns AI-biology tests need clearer design, scoring and reporting for policy use

RAND paper warns tests of AI agents' biological capabilities are sensitive to design and need clearer standards for scoring, reporting and policy use.

#ai, #biosecurity, #rand, #benchmarks

EFF Warns IETF Drafts Could Let Sites Gate Automated Access to Web Content

EFF warns two IETF draft specs — AIPREF and Web Bot Auth — could let websites signal AI-use preferences and cryptographically verify bots, risking gated web access.

#ietf, #ai, #web, #privacy

Epic Games lays out Unreal Engine 6 roadmap, targets Early Access end of 2027

Epic will merge UE5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite into UE6; Early Access targeted late 2027, full release 12–18 months afterward.

#epicgames, #unrealengine, #game-development, #uefn

ArXiv paper proposes a measurable internal “rift” that may reveal lies in language models

An arXiv preprint finds a measurable internal 'residual rank' difference when models lie versus when they err, with implications for AI safety.

#ai, #ai-safety, #language-models, #deception

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: open-weight Mixture-of-Experts LLM with 1 million-token context

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B/55B Mixture‑of‑Experts LLM with a 1 million‑token context window and shared checkpoints, recipes and model weights.

$NVDA, #nvidia, #llm, #openmodels, #ai

InclusionAI, linked to Ant Group, releases Ling and Ring 2.6 models — including 1T checkpoints

InclusionAI, tied to Ant Group, published a technical report and released Ling-2.6 and Ring-2.6 checkpoints on Hugging Face under MIT, including 1T variants.

#ai, #opensource, #antgroup, #largelanguagemodels

U.S., European authorities dismantle AudiA6 crypto mixer; two arrested in Batumi, Georgia

Authorities say they dismantled AudiA6, a crypto mixer used to launder about 10,333 BTC; two alleged administrators arrested in Batumi, Georgia and face extradition.

#crypto, #ransomware, #moneylaundering, #europol

Valve reiterates Steam Frame will ship “this summer” and publishes standalone compatibility standards

Valve reiterates Steam Frame's summer launch window and publishes detailed standalone Verified standards for developers, including minimum framerates.

#valve, #steamframe, #vr, #gaming

EFF Says News‑USA Today Published Fabricated EFF Quotes and Names in Six Articles

Electronic Frontier Foundation says News‑USA Today attributed quotes to nonexistent EFF staff in six articles from April–June and hasn’t corrected them.

#eff, #newsusatoday, #fakenames, #mediaethics, #journalism

China Team Open-Sources Embodied-R1.5, Claims SOTA on Many Embodied‑AI Benchmarks

A Tianjin University-led team open-sources Embodied-R1.5, an 8B embodied-AI model claiming SOTA on many benchmarks; results and parameter counts not independently verified.

#embodied-ai, #robotics, #artificial-intelligence, #arxiv

Google unveils DiffusionGemma — experimental diffusion model for faster local text generation

Google unveiled DiffusionGemma, a 26B experimental diffusion Mixture-of-Experts text model that aims for up to 4x faster GPU generation for speed-critical local apps.

$GOOGL, #google, #ai, #diffusionmodels, #llm

Researchers report agentic LLMs outperformed expert biologists and produced robot-assembled DNA in lab tests

Researchers report agentic LLMs outperformed expert biologists on biosecurity tasks and that model-written code ran an OpenTrons robot to assemble DNA.

#ai, #biosecurity, #llm, #syntheticbiology