China has broken ground on what developers say is the country’s first production line for AI-assisted personalised tumour vaccines, raising hopes for millions of new cancer patients every year
News from the South China Morning Post
China has broken ground on what developers say is the country’s first production line for AI-assisted personalised tumour vaccines, raising hopes for millions of new cancer patients every year. Production line set to launch in Beijing. Likang Life Sciences says it has developed a personalised vaccine using advanced tech to identify tumour-specific mutations.
June 29, 2026
China has broken ground on what developers say is the country’s first production line for AI-assisted , raising hopes for millions of new cancer patients every year – a disease that ranks as the nation’s second-leading cause of death. By October, Beijing-based Likang Life Sciences is expected to complete a new drug research and manufacturing centre in the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, with a total investment of about 110 million yuan (US$16.1 million), according to the district government.
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News from Cybernews.com
Musk announces rollout of Grok 4.5, says it’s as good if not better than Anthropic’s Claude Opus
June 29, 2026
Musk has revealed new details surrounding xAI’s most powerful AI model to date. Posting on his social media platform X, Musk said that Grok 4.5, which is trained on xAI’s 1.5T V9 foundation model, is being tested internally at his companies, SpaceX and Tesla. Musk has released Grok 4.5 in a private beta, meaning it will be tested within his companies to fine-tune bugs and potential issues with the model until it’s ready for the public.
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News from Fortune (via Yahoo)
Gen Z’s hiring hell is real: 1 in 3 employers admit they’re replacing entry-level roles with AI—and tech and manufacturing jobs are most at risk
June 26, 2026
For Gen Z, the job market has looked more resilient than many feared. The unemployment rate hasn’t skyrocketed, and some of the bleakest predictions about AI wiping out entry-level jobs—including warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman—have been tempered by a labor market that has held up better than expected.
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News from The Neuron
AI ate the memory chips. Apple sent you the bill.
June 26, 2026
You finally convinced yourself to buy a new MacBook. Then Apple quietly raised the price by $100-$400. The culprit isn’t tariffs. It isn’t Tim Cook. It’s AI: specifically, the thousands of data centers being built right now that are hoovering up every memory chip they can find, leaving almost nothing for consumer devices. Apple …. said it has “never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly.”….Memory prices have more than doubled since October 2025.
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News from Callaway Climate Insights
Data center anger becomes real as Virginia imposes first tax
June 25, 2026
No wonder tech companies are suddenly up in arms defending energy and water usage for their data centers….the fact that state governments have moved from ineffective moratoriums on building data centers to actual taxes is significant. A tax of $600 million split by dozens of tech companies may seem small but imagine if all Democratic states followed suit. Pretty soon it becomes real money, as they say.
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News from Lawfare Media
The Missing Resistance in China’s AI Debate: As Washington negotiates AI guardrails with Beijing, it must understand why the AI debate in China is so quiet: control, not consent.
June 25, 2026
China has a clear competitive edge is that, compared with the United States, AI appears to face much less popular resistance in the country. In a 47-country KPMG survey, 69 percent of respondents in China said AI’s benefits outweighed its risks, compared with only 35 percent who felt the same in the United States. Many Chinese users seem pragmatic about AI: If a tool is useful and affordable, they readily use it. Meanwhile, the leaders of Chinese AI companies quietly focus on building AI tools, not philosophizing about societal transformation or advising how Beijing should address it.
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News from The New Yorker
Refik Anadol, The Art World’s Happy Warrior for A.I. His new museum, Dataland, is a joyful monument to the technology. Is he a visionary, or Silicon Valley’s court painter?
June 25, 2026
All right!” Refik Anadol said, as the escalator carried us downward. “We are entering the dream of the machine.” We had arrived in the cavernous first gallery of Dataland, the twenty-five-thousand-square-foot space, in downtown Los Angeles, that Anadol calls the first museum of A.I. art. Space-age music blared night-club-loud as pictures of birds, plants, and flowers cascaded down the walls. This array was a small sample of the half-billion images—and the hundred thousand hours of audio, including birdsong, rain, and even silence—on which Anadol has trained the Large Nature Model, an A.I. model that powers “Machine Dreams: Rainforest,” Dataland’s inaugural show. The pictures swooped around and beneath us like a cloud of starlings, and an earthy, slightly metallic smell emanated from the diffusers we wore around our necks…
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News from Semafor
Demis Hassabis on the link between AI for art and AI for science
June 24, 202
I made my first trip to Cannes Lions, the “festival of creativity,” this year. Naturally, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis wanted to talk about creativity. But that topic is a landmine….Most skeptics draw a bright moral line: AI that cures cancer or discovers climate-friendly materials is good; AI that makes music, films, or art is not. Creativity, one person told me, is supposed to be hard. And after talking with Hassabis, who won a Nobel Prize for the “good” kind of AI, I came away thinking that technology doesn’t really draw a distinction…
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News from the New Jersey Globe
Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft: Coalition represented by former New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin’s law firm alleges AI companies used copyrighted local news reporting to train ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation
June 24, 2026
The complaint cites remarks by OpenAI founder Sam Altman, who acknowledged during testimony before the British House of Lords that it would be “impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials.” “Local newspapers are the lifeblood of the communities they serve and among the most trusted institutions in America,” said Platkin LLC. “This lawsuit on behalf of a group of publishers that produce hundreds of local and regional newspapers seeks to ensure these local publications creating original content will have meaningful protections in the AI era.
China has broken ground on what developers say is the country’s first production line for AI-assisted personalised tumour vaccines, raising hopes for millions of new cancer patients every yearproduction line set to launch in Beijing: Likang Life Sciences says it has developed a personalised vaccine using advanced tech to identify tumour-specific mutations.
June 29, 2026
China has broken ground on what developers say is the country’s first production line for AI-assisted personalised tumour vaccines, raising hopes for millions of new cancer patients every year – a disease that ranks as the nation’s second-leading cause of death.
By October, Beijing-based Likang Life Sciences is expected to complete a new drug research and manufacturing centre in the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, with a total investment of about 110 million yuan (US$16.1 million), according to the district government.
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News from Cybernews.com
Musk announces rollout of Grok 4.5, says it’s as good if not better than Anthropic’s Claude Opus
June 29, 2026
Musk has revealed new details surrounding xAI’s most powerful AI model to date. Posting on his social media platform X, Musk said that Grok 4.5, which is trained on xAI’s 1.5T V9 foundation model, is being tested internally at his companies, SpaceX and Tesla.
Musk has released Grok 4.5 in a private beta, meaning it will be tested within his companies to fine-tune bugs and potential issues with the model until it’s ready for the public.
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News from Fortune (via Yahoo)
Gen Z’s hiring hell is real: 1 in 3 employers admit they’re replacing entry-level roles with AI—and tech and manufacturing jobs are most at risk
June 26, 2026
For Gen Z, the job market has looked more resilient than many feared. The unemployment rate hasn’t skyrocketed, and some of the bleakest predictions about AI wiping out entry-level jobs—including warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman—have been tempered by a labor market that has held up better than expected.
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News from The Neuron
AI ate the memory chips. Apple sent you the bill.
June 26, 2026
You finally convinced yourself to buy a new MacBook. Then Apple quietly raised the price by $100-$400. The culprit isn’t tariffs. It isn’t Tim Cook. It’s AI: specifically, the thousands of data centers being built right now that are hoovering up every memory chip they can find, leaving almost nothing for consumer devices. Apple …. said it has “never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly.”….Memory prices have more than doubled since October 2025.
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Data center anger becomes real as Virginia imposes first tax.
June 25, 2026
No wonder tech companies are suddenly up in arms defending energy and water usage for their data centers….the fact that state governments have moved from ineffective moratoriums on building data centers to actual taxes is significant. A tax of $600 million split by dozens of tech companies may seem small but imagine if all Democratic states followed suit. Pretty soon it becomes real money, as they say.
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News from Lawfare Media
The Missing Resistance in China’s AI Debate: As Washington negotiates AI guardrails with Beijing, it must understand why the AI debate in China is so quiet: control, not consent.
June 25, 2026
China has a clear competitive edge is that, compared with the United States, AI appears to face much less popular resistance in the country. In a 47-country KPMG survey, 69 percent of respondents in China said AI’s benefits outweighed its risks, compared with only 35 percent who felt the same in the United States. Many Chinese users seem pragmatic about AI: If a tool is useful and affordable, they readily use it. Meanwhile, the leaders of Chinese AI companies quietly focus on building AI tools, not philosophizing about societal transformation or advising how Beijing should address it.
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News from The New Yorker
Refik Anadol, The Art World’s Happy Warrior for A.I. His new museum, Dataland, is a joyful monument to the technology. Is he a visionary, or Silicon Valley’s court painter?
June 25, 2026
All right!” Refik Anadol said, as the escalator carried us downward. “We are entering the dream of the machine.” We had arrived in the cavernous first gallery of Dataland, the twenty-five-thousand-square-foot space, in downtown Los Angeles, that Anadol calls the first museum of A.I. art. Space-age music blared night-club-loud as pictures of birds, plants, and flowers cascaded down the walls. This array was a small sample of the half-billion images—and the hundred thousand hours of audio, including birdsong, rain, and even silence—on which Anadol has trained the Large Nature Model, an A.I. model that powers “Machine Dreams: Rainforest,” Dataland’s inaugural show. The pictures swooped around and beneath us like a cloud of starlings, and an earthy, slightly metallic smell emanated from the diffusers we wore around our necks…
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News from Semafor
View / Demis Hassabis on the link between AI for art and AI for science
June 24, 202
I made my first trip to Cannes Lions, the “festival of creativity,” this year. Naturally, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis wanted to talk about creativity. But that topic is a landmine….Most skeptics draw a bright moral line: AI that cures cancer or discovers climate-friendly materials is good; AI that makes music, films, or art is not. Creativity, one person told me, is supposed to be hard.
And after talking with Hassabis, who won a Nobel Prize for the “good” kind of AI, I came away thinking that technology doesn’t really draw a distinction…
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News from the New Jersey Globe
Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft: Coalition represented by former New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin’s law firm alleges AI companies used copyrighted local news reporting to train ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation
June 24, 2026
The complaint cites remarks by OpenAI founder Sam Altman, who acknowledged during testimony before the British House of Lords that it would be “impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials.” “Local newspapers are the lifeblood of the communities they serve and among the most trusted institutions in America,” said Platkin LLC. “This lawsuit on behalf of a group of publishers that produce hundreds of local and regional newspapers seeks to ensure these local publications creating original content will have meaningful protections in the AI era.
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News from TechCrunch
AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient
June 24, 2026
Tech layoffs hit their highest single month total in years in May, and AI was the most-cited reason, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Software engineering, in theory, is the…most vulnerable to …AI-powered coding tools. However, researchers at venture firm SignalFire say the hiring data tells a different story. “The rationale given for lots of layoffs is consistently AI, and specifically they’ll say AI with respect to code; they’ll say one engineer could do the job of however many engineers in the past,” said Asher Bantock, SignalFire’s head of research. “What we’re seeing on the ground is a little inconsistent with that.”
SignalFire’s analysis…examined hiring data as a more accurate indicator of real-time workforce trends.
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“Local newspapers are the lifeblood of the communities they serve and among the most trusted institutions in America,” said Platkin LLC. “This lawsuit on behalf of a group of publishers that produce hundreds of local and regional newspapers seeks to ensure these local publications creating original content will have meaningful protections in the AI era.
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News from TechCrunch
AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient
June 24, 2026
Tech layoffs hit their highest single month total in years in May, and AI was the most-cited reason, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Software engineering, in theory, is the…most vulnerable to …AI-powered coding tools. However, researchers at venture firm SignalFire say the hiring data tells a different story.
“The rationale given for lots of layoffs is consistently AI, and specifically they’ll say AI with respect to code; they’ll say one engineer could do the job of however many engineers in the past,” said Asher Bantock, SignalFire’s head of research. “What we’re seeing on the ground is a little inconsistent with that.” SignalFire’s analysis…examined hiring data as a more accurate indicator of real-time workforce trends.
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