Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Saturday, June 20, 2026

Argonne and Partners Celebrate Aurora’s Impact on Science with AI and Exascale Power

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week to celebrate its new Aurora exascale computer, marking a major milestone for AI-powered science. ...Full Article

Big Tech Turns to AI Upskilling Partnerships to Protect Jobs

Ominous job forecasts and layoff predictions have crowded the headlines so far this month, with economists warning that many white-collar roles could disappear as AI adoption increases. It’s an ...Full Article

Anthropic Worth $100B? Riding the High-Stakes AI Money-go-round

This week could have been an episode of HBO’s "Silicon Valley" as billions of dollars flooded into AI firms almost overnight. The tone was set on Friday, when Nvidia ...Full Article

Nvidia Cleared to Resume H20 AI Chip Exports to China Amid Bipartisan Criticism

The U.S. Commerce Department will begin issuing licenses for Nvidia to resume exporting its H20 AI accelerator chips to China, according to reporting today from Reuters. Nvidia filed the necessary ...Full Article

Meta Picks Up Voice Startup Play AI as It Rebuilds Around GenAI

Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup known for ultra-realistic and emotionally rich voice generation, as part of its broader push to build its AI infrastructure. According to an ...Full Article

Grok 4 Scores High on Benchmarks but Controversy Clouds the Launch

As the AI race grows more competitive by the week, Elon Musk is once again trying to pull ahead. His latest model, Grok 4, comes packed with bold claims: ...Full Article

China’s Moonshot AI Releases Trillion Parameter Model Kimi K2

Moonshot AI, a Beijing startup backed by Alibaba, has released a new open weight large language model. Called Kimi K2, the model has one trillion parameters, making it one ...Full Article

Agentic AI Enters the Enterprise: Autonomy, Governance, and the New Risk Equation

Walk into any boardroom today and you’ll hear the same buzzwords circulating: AI, Gen AI, LLMs, and now, increasingly, “agentic AI.” Like many tech terms, it's gaining traction faster ...Full Article

The Unlikely Reasonableness of AI-Augmented HPC

Editor’s note: This article from my colleague Doug Eadline at HPCwire explains how HPC researchers are pairing established simulation codes with large AI models to slash runtimes and widen ...Full Article

AI Is Making Us Dumber, MIT Researchers Find

It’s been theorized that using AI tools like ChatGPT to help with writing tasks will lead to lower brain activity. Now, researchers at the MIT Media Lab have discovered ...Full Article
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