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We built a text-to-SQL tool. The initial version relied on a single-agent setup: a user submits a natural-language question, it passes through a validation checkpoint, and then a SQL query is produced. Once development was finished, we began testing and quickly discovered that a one-agent design wasn’t sufficient for our needs. It performed adequately on straightforward queries requiring just one or two operations, but it began to break down when users posed intricate questions involving multiple steps and schema exploration. After extensive testing, we recognized that no single agent could handle every responsibility effectively. The agent was attempting to interpret…

The Digit humanoid robot is already operational at multiple commercial client sites. Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics Inc. announced today that it has finalized an agreement to merge with Churchill Capital Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The firm stated it will become “the sole publicly traded U.S. company focused exclusively on humanoids with demonstrated, active commercial deployments.” Agility created the bipedal research platform Cassie and the humanoid robot Digit, which is currently undergoing commercial trials. The Salem, Oregon-based firm anticipates that the SPAC deal will deliver over $620 million in gross proceeds, with a pre-money equity valuation of…

Stay updated with ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Amazon’s main Prime Day event is back, taking place from Tuesday, June 23, through Friday, June 26, but many early bargains launched ahead of schedule, and the markdowns are stretching into this week.Also: June Prime Day live blog: We’re monitoring Amazon deals on SSDs, TVs, laptops, and moreThere are loads of markdowns spanning home and outdoor categories, plus major tech segments like laptops, TVs, tablets, phones, smart home devices, appliances, and plenty of other opportunities to save. Competing promotions are also underway at Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and other…

Overview Qwable 27B is a thoroughly fine-tuned variant of Alibaba’s Qwen3.6-27B, built using a Fable 5-style reasoning dataset, engineered to mirror the methodical, structured thought process of Anthropic’s latest premier model. The abliterated release strips away the model’s default refusal tendencies by surgically altering its weights through llama.cpp’s cvector-generator tool. Both versions operate locally on your own hardware, incur no per-query fees, and have zero dependence on Anthropic’s API or its compulsory usage policies. Over the past week, Anthropic found itself issuing apologies for Fable 5’s hidden safety mechanisms, and then the U.S. government mandated the model’s removal from access…

Ravie LakshmananJun 24, 2026Money Laundering / Cybercrime On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) revealed that it had taken control of a cloud computing account used by subsidiaries of HuiOne Group, a Cambodia-based corporate conglomerate. Simultaneously, the Treasury Department imposed new sanctions on nine individuals and 26 entities connected to Prince Group. According to the DoJ, these subsidiaries are accused of helping various individuals and organizations move illicit funds stemming from cryptocurrency investment scams, cyber fraud, and other illegal activities across cryptocurrency blockchains, while also enabling the conversion of those illicit proceeds into the legitimate banking system without detection.…

On June 22, 2026, President Trump signed Executive Order 14409, titled “Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks.” The directive establishes a December 31, 2030, cutoff for federal agencies to shift their most sensitive systems to post-quantum encryption, and a December 31, 2031, cutoff for post-quantum authentication. The order also instructs federal contractors to align with post-quantum Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) by the close of 2030.We applaud this executive order. The U.S. government has a well-established history of leveraging federal leadership and procurement power to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies across the private sector. We’ve witnessed this approach…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.According to Omdia, cellular IoT connections are projected to hit 5.9 billion by 2035, with NB-IoT, 5G Massive IoT, and eRedCap driving the upcoming wave of growth in both modules and connections.The cellular IoT landscape is no longer following a single evolutionary path. For hardware manufacturers and connectivity suppliers, the coming decade is expected to be shaped less by a broad shift to 5G and more by a diversified blend of technologies, where factors like cost, power efficiency, network rollout status, and specific application needs determine which radio standard prevails in each…

Omio has woven OpenAI models into its engineering workflows to speed up the creation of travel products and roll out booking interfaces more rapidly.The multimodal travel platform orchestrates activity across more than 3,000 transport operators spanning 47 countries. Omio firmly dismisses the idea of merely bolting new technology onto old internal habits. The company’s CTO, Tomas Vocetka, insists that every internal function must fundamentally rethink how it carries out its work from scratch, so the entire organisation operates like a true AI-native company.OpenAI Codex integrationVocetka kicked off the internal rollout by giving staff broad access to ChatGPT, building a baseline…

  # Introduction  Chances are, you’ve seen a browser-based AI agent in action at some point over the past year. It clicks a dropdown menu, waits for the DOM to refresh, captures a screenshot, decides its next click, and waits once more. A single task takes five seconds, with a hundred potential points of failure. If a CSS class name shifts, if the dropdown animates slightly differently, or if the page lazy-loads an unexpected element, the entire flow falls apart. That’s not a shortcoming of the models themselves — the models are perfectly capable. The real issue is a protocol gap.…

According to people who previously worked on the project, Ethereum is facing a financial shortfall.This alert has triggered one of the most intense governance discussions on Ethereum in recent months: should the network support developers by imposing a fee on staking returns, or simply depend on affluent Ether supporters to finance the ecosystem?At the heart of this discussion is a divisive idea from Kleros co-founder Clément Lesaege. He proposed diverting as much as 10% of validator earnings to support the ecosystem via a system known as Validator Redirected Revenue.Lesaege claimed this action might be needed to tackle Ethereum’s “coordination failure”…