Losses spread globally as investors questioned soaring valuations and spending on AI infrastructure. A tech sell-off shook global markets on Tuesday as attention turned away from developments in the US war with Iran and toward the future of AI companies and chipmakers that have driven stock markets to record highs.

As a health and wearables editor, I've curated top smartwatch, smart ring, and wellness deals for Prime Day, with buying advice and FAQs.

Mistral OCR 4 introduces bounding boxes, block classification, and confidence scores. Outperforms competitors in human preference tests, supports 170 languages, and can be self-hosted.

Nvidia and DDN collaborate to maximize AI investment value by optimizing GPU efficiency and reducing cost per token, crucial for enterprise AI adoption.

ZenBusiness expands its Velo AI guide with Velo Blueprint, a step-by-step planning tool for new entrepreneurs. Since its launch in July 2025, Velo has handled over 2 million conversations, with more than half of customers engaging and 53% returning within the same month. Velo now handles about 72% of conversations and routes users to human experts when needed.

WebMCP is an open web standard that lets websites expose structured, callable tools directly to browser-based agents, replacing unreliable pixel clicking and DOM scraping. This article covers its core concepts, two APIs, authentication breakthrough, and a real-world travel booking example.

The stock image provider’s stock has dropped sharply over the last year amid the rise of generative AI.

Check out our curated list of the top cheap Prime Day 2026 device deals, with discounts of up to 55% off.

Legant is an open-source delegated authorization system that lets AI agents act on behalf of users with scoped, time-boxed, revocable, and auditable authority. Built on RFC 8693 token exchange, it generates composite sub/act tokens with offline-enforceable constraint policies, monotonic attenuation, and full delegation provenance. Includes a complete OAuth 2.1/OIDC provider, multi-tenancy, SSO, and numerous demos.

Google remains strong but faces AI competition and user defection to AI-free search. Recent loss of AI researchers and stock drop highlight concerns.

A free tool that audits landing pages, providing a conversion score (0-100) and a ranked list of 5-9 specific issues with actionable fixes, all within 20 seconds. Paste a URL or screenshot, get instant feedback. Paid version ($2.90) unlocks full report and AI-rebuilt page.

Amazon's annual Prime Day sale runs June 23-26, offering major discounts on tablets from Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, and more. We've curated the best deals including up to $300 savings, plus accessories and expert buying tips.

Sony's AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 VIII fails to provide useful photography advice, instead offering aggressive filters and degrading camera performance, making it worse than Google's Camera Coach.

AI company ElevenLabs unveils its officially licensed replica of the iconic actor’s voice in a retelling of Homer’s epic poem, while director who previously recorded the star recalls real-life experience

Lamini is a platform offering Memory Tuning, Memory RAG, and Classifier Agent tools to help developers and enterprise teams build highly accurate mini-AI agents. It leverages the team's two decades of LLM experience and supports cloud or self-hosted deployment with free credits.

Parlel is an open-source tool that runs 250+ service emulators (e.g., Postgres, Stripe, OpenAI) on local Docker using real wire protocols, no accounts or API keys needed. Ideal for testing AI coding agents, it offers speed, zero cost, and no side effects.

AI-native loan origination startup Lama AI has secured $10 million in Series A funding, bringing total raised to over $20 million, after tripling revenue in the past year. The platform helps community and regional banks digitize lending processes using autonomous AI agents that handle intake, underwriting, decision-making, and more, enabling faster loan processing without compromising credit discipline. It already serves dozens of banks and has processed billions in loan volume.

Motorola's Moto G Stylus is down to just $300 for Amazon Prime Day, saving shoppers $100 on one of the better budget Android phones I've tested. It features a 6.7-inch AMOLED 120Hz display, Dolby Atmos speakers, Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 processor, 50MP Sony LYTIA camera, AI tools, and 17-hour battery life. Even a year after release, it remains a top value in Motorola's lineup.

Khala solves the fragmentation in AI workflows by allowing sessions across different LLMs (Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc.) to communicate directly. It eliminates manual copy-pasting and provides end-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer handoffs for both solo developers and teams.

Companies are moving from experimenting with frontier models to building specialized AI agents tailored to their workflows. The NVIDIA Agent Toolkit provides open, modular building blocks—models, tools, skills, and a secure runtime—to create customizable and trustworthy digital coworkers.

OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.

The Linux Foundation announced the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard giving AI agents verifiable identities via DNS. Originating from a 2025 OWASP paper, ANS uses existing DNS infrastructure and certificate authorities. Separate discovery standard DNS-AID handles agent discovery. Despite multiple proposals, major AI companies have yet to join.

Meta announced new smart glasses that drop the Ray-Ban branding, starting at $299 — $80 less than the Ray-Ban collaboration. Designed with EssilorLuxottica, they come in three styles and seven colors with adjustable nose pads. Privacy concerns and a facial recognition feature loom, but Meta promises updates. AI capabilities are upgraded with more natural interactions and multilingual support.

This article by Simon Cozens explores the current state of AI font generation, highlighting the lack of collaboration between ML researchers and type designers, the differing attitudes between Western and CJK type foundries, and the ongoing research in the field.

CUGA is IBM's open-source agent harness that handles the plumbing of building agentic apps, leaving developers to write only a tool list and a prompt. This article walks through one example — an IBM Cloud advisor app — and explains how CUGA's planning, reflection, and policy system enable robust, production-ready agents.

Sakana AI's Fugu packages multi-agent orchestration into a single model API, hiding the complexity of coordinating specialized agents behind a standard LLM interface. Developers can trigger delegation, verification, and synthesis with one API call, simplifying production AI workflows.

note.md is a local-first markdown research workspace for Mac that combines note-taking, citation management, and PDF reading. Its latest update restructures the vault as local LLM memory, allowing AI agents to read cited notes directly from the filesystem.

Framer 3.0 introduces AI agents native to the canvas for design, CMS management, and coding, with seamless integration to external tools like Slack and GitHub.

Andrew Wheeler defends AI writing, arguing that even if it's still cringey, it's better than not writing at all, especially for academics and technical people with poor SEO. He advocates for disclosure and suggests using AI for outlines and review, not full automation.

Learn how to build a text clustering pipeline using large language model embeddings and HDBSCAN to automatically discover topics in unlabeled text data. Covers embedding generation with sentence-transformers, dimensionality reduction with UMAP, and clustering with HDBSCAN.