- 1Industry
Oyster's founder on remote work, AI and Hungary's startup potential
Jack Mardack, co‑founder of Oyster, says remote work—more than artificial intelligence—is depressing junior hiring, while AI can help level regional competition.
- 2Regulation
California directs lawmakers to craft protections for workers displaced by AI-driven tech layoffs
California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered the state legislature to develop a plan to protect workers who lose jobs due to automation and artificial intelligence as major tech firms carry out widespread layoffs.
- 3Research
NASA's ERNEST rover prototype demonstrates new suspension, gaits and autonomy for lunar and Mars exploration
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has tested the ERNEST experimental rover in the Colorado desert, where it traveled about 26 km with minimal human intervention and reached roughly 1 km/h.
- 4Safety
Researchers find ChatGPT can generate violent and sexual images despite safeguards
Researchers at Mindgard found that the latest version of ChatGPT can produce images with violent and sexual content when given a commonly used prompt, even without explicit instructions to do so.
- 5Tools
Siemens launches Eigen Engineering Agent to automate PLC coding and project generation
Siemens introduced the Eigen Engineering Agent, an AI tool that directly integrates with TIA Portal to write PLC code, create HMI visualizations, configure devices, and self-validate outputs.
- 6Model launches
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: a large open-weights model for long-context agentic tasks
Nvidia has unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550-billion-parameter open-weights large language model optimized for long-context, agentic workloads.
- 7Business
Google escalates TPU sales to challenge Nvidia's AI-chip dominance
Google has moved from using its in-house Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) only for internal AI workloads to actively selling them to external customers, seeking to erode Nvidia's dominant position in the AI-chip market.
- 8Industry
Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI from Google’s Gemini team
Noam Shazeer, a key contributor to the Transformer architecture, has left Google’s Gemini project to join OpenAI.
- 9Regulation
US export controls force Anthropic to suspend access to its new Claude models globally
Anthropic halted access to its newly launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide just days after their release after the US government issued an export‑control directive citing national‑security concerns.
- 10Research
Three New Benchmarks Aim to Replace SWE-bench for Evaluating Agentic Software Engineering
Three recently released benchmarks — DeepSWE, ProgramBench and ITBench-AA — propose more demanding evaluations of agent-driven software engineering than the SWE-bench family.
- 11Safety
U.S. restricts foreign access and Anthropic pauses Mythos after model finds widespread software bugs
Anthropic temporarily took its Mythos AI offline and the U.S.
- 12Tools
Cursor introduces the /automate automation capability for agents
Cursor announced a capability called /automate that allows agents to set up automated workflows using simple, natural language instructions.
- 13Model launches
Evaluating Claude Fable 5: safeguarded responses, hidden fallbacks and benchmark distortion
Multiple independent evaluators found it difficult to measure Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 because safety classifiers either refused prompts or routed them to the weaker Claude Opus 4.8, and Anthropic requires prompts and outputs to be retained for 30 days.
- 14Business
OpenAI launches partner network, targets consultant-driven deployment revenue
On June 14, OpenAI announced a Partner Network with a $150 million commitment to certify 300,000 consultants by the end of 2026 and recruited major consultancies including McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Accenture, and PwC.
- 15Industry
ELTE and Bosch Highlight Human-Centred Robotics at Intelligent Robotics FAIR 2026
The Intelligent Robotics FAIR 2026, organised by Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Informatics in collaboration with the Bosch group in Hungary, will run on June 18–20, 2026 at ELTE and the Bosch Budapest Innovation Campus.
