US bars imports from 43 more companies over China’s alleged forced labor involving Uyghurs

Defense technology firm Anduril is reportedly in discussions with investors for a new funding round that could value the company at approximately $100 billion, potentially rivaling defense giants such as Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, according to Reuters. The funding round and the valuations under discussion remain fluid. One structure under consideration is a two-stage…

Slopsquatting represents an emerging supply chain threat made possible by AI hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on AI coding assistants, they unknowingly grant cybercriminals access to their software from day one.  Understanding what slopsquatting is Slopsquatting is a new type of supply chain attack that uses large language model (LLM) hallucinations to inject malicious code…

Teen Venezuela quake survivor mourns her ’young forever’ friends

OpenAI told the world on 11 June that it was buying Ona, a German company better known until recently as Gitpod. The deal folds Ona’s cloud-execution technology into Codex, OpenAI’s coding assistant, and the stated goal is blunt: let coding agents keep working for hours after a developer shuts the laptop and walks away. Neither…

Founders building solutions to address climate, health, agriculture, mobility, and social challenges can now apply for Startup Challenge 2026, an international competition that connects promising startups with investors, corporate leaders, and ecosystem partners. The programme, part of The Gap in Between 2026 in Valencia, Spain, is seeking startups with validated products or market traction that…

The CXMT logo is displayed on a smartphone screen placed on a reflective surface on which the flag of China is projected, in Creteil, France, on July 17, 2026, as the initial public offering (IPO) of Chinese DRAM memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies generated interest and raised nearly 8.6 billion dollars on Shanghai’s STAR…