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The former Purdue engineering dean has been sworn in as under secretary of commerce for standards and technology and the 18th director of NIST . Arvind Raman has been sworn in as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Arvind Raman has taken over as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology , placing a former Purdue University engineering dean at the head of a U.S. agency working across AI standards, cybersecurity , quantum technology and advanced manufacturing. Raman was sworn in on June 30, 2026, as the 18th director of NIST and the fifth under secretary of commerce for standards and technology. The U.S. Senate confirmed him on May 18. NIST conducts research and develops standards used across science, industry, public safety and national security. Its current remit includes artificial intelligence, quantum technology, cybersecurity, manufacturing, biotechnology and other areas that are increasingly tied to university research and workforce skills. Raman joins the agency from Purdue University in Indiana, where he became John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering in February 2023. He had been at Purdue since 2000, starting as an assistant professor before becoming Robert V. Adams Professor of Engineering in 2012. His research background includes atomic force microscopy, human biomechanics and electronics manufacturing. NIST says Raman has also collaborated with its researchers in nanotechnology. Standards role covers AI and emerging technology As NIST director, Raman will oversee work with industry, academia and government agencies on measurement, technology and standards for U.S. products and services. NIST says his role will include steering research and development that supports science-based standards, as well as work applying AI to semiconductors, quantum computing, biotechnology and advanced manufacturing. “We are excited to have Dr. Arvind Raman join Commerce as NIST’s new director,” says U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. “His experience in conducting and leading innovative research will be a tremendous asset to the Department of Commerce and help American technology and manufacturing continue to thrive.” Raman says: “NIST is one of America’s most important science institutions thanks to its unique mission and the expertise of its employees. I am honored to be nominated to this position by President Trump and Secretary Lutnick, and I look forward to maximizing NIST’s ability to accelerate American innovation through partnerships with industry, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders.” Purdue record links research and engineering education At Purdue, Raman led one of the largest engineering programs in the U.S. NIST says Purdue now grants more engineering degrees annually than any other university and receives more applications for engineering majors than any other university. NIST also says Purdue Engineering reduced the average time to graduate with a B.S. degree in engineering to under four years for the first time in the college’s history while holding tuition frozen for 14 years. During Raman’s time as dean, Purdue Engineering’s U.S. News research ranking rose over three years to the top four in the country in 2026, with record research expenditure and philanthropic funding. He was named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar in 2008, elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2012 and elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2026.

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China's first fully unmanned AI-driven R&D lab opens in Shanghai

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Illinois mandates annual third-party audits for AI models generating over $500M, plus incident reports within 24 hours. With CA and NY, it forms de facto national AI regulation.

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Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated “actress” who became one of Hollywood’s most divisive figures last fall, is finally getting a starring role in a full-length feature film thanks to the British company that created her.

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By Chimezie Godfrey‎‎The Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO) has welcomed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directive to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to investigate major global technology companies and generative artificial intelligence platforms over alleged exploitation of Nigerian media content.‎‎The organisation described the directive as a significant step towards addressing what it called the [...] The post ‎NPO Backs Tinubu’s Order to Probe Big Techs, AI Firms Over News Content Exploitation‎‎ appeared first on Naijaonpoint.com.ng .

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Mobile-first AI assistant built on 15+ years of surgical case data gives field reps a conversational interface for every step of their case workflow.

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Can you imagine being welcomed by a robot volunteer? At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai next week, humanoid robots from a local company will serve as volunteers, guiding visitors and providing information throughout

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Figure Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:FIGR – Get Free Report) and Gloo (NASDAQ:GLOO – Get Free Report) are both services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends. Analyst Recommendations This is a summary of recent [...]

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The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is an open standard introduced by Anthropic in late 2024 that lets artificial intelligence (AI) agents connect to business systems the way applications call application programming interfaces (APIs) using a common interface instead a custom-built connection for...

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Meta has begun rolling out an image generation model available in Meta AI. Muse Image is the first such model developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company said in a Tuesday (July 7) press release. The model understands complex prompts and blends multiple photos into creations that can be...

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Adobe's AI-first annual recurring revenue crossed $500 million, with Firefly approaching $300 million. Acrobat AI Assistant paid users grew over 150% year over year.

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Nscale plans to deploy over 30,000 Nvidia Rubin-series processors in Norway data center.

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As digital price tags roll out at Walmart, there's growing concern over so-called "surveillance pricing." Walmart denies it's changing prices as shoppers stroll the aisles, but some states are starting to pass laws banning personalized pricing. NBC News' Brian Cheung reports.

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Conair reports higher detail page views and lower costs from an AI-assisted Amazon video ad, with humans still handling brand-critical

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Australia's biotech, medtech and deep tech sectors are urging Treasurer Jim Chalmers to consult on the two proposed R&D tax incentive reforms announced in the budget. The post Deep tech sector warns R&D tax incentive changes will damage the industry appeared first on SmartCompany .

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Reddit deploys LLMs to detect and remove stealth marketing campaigns designed to influence AI chatbots like ChatGPT. The platform now blocks millions of spam views daily while user exposure drops. Brands chasing generative engine optimization face rising enforcement risks. The effort highlights an arms race between synthetic content creators and platform defenders.

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AI system translates protein sequences into text, helping reveal functions of unknown proteins Phys.org Israeli AI learns to describe the secret lives of proteins Ynetnews

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BEIJING, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 17th Summer Davos, "China opportunity 2.0" emerged as a globally trending phrase. China's innovative model - forged through relentless and painstaking efforts, tempered through extensive applications across industries as well as nurtured...

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Citi brought AI tools to Indonesia, reaching 87 countries and nearly 180,000 staff. The tools automate document summarization and policy search, keeping human judgment central.

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Scientific organizations don't operate like most businesses. In many enterprise environments, an AI tool can generate a recommendation and users can decide whether to follow it.

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The Victorian Greens say new warnings that the rapid expansion of AI data centres is putting pressure on housing and driving up construction costs

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NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of BlackRock’s 30 most important AI stocks right now. On June 29, the company shared that Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry, hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, are now publicly available. It provides Azure-native businesses a robust new way to develop domain-specific and [...]

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The company had in May unveiled tools that allow AI agents to trade stocks and make purchases on behalf of users. The company said its users can create a dedicated trading account, separate from their primary one, and have AI agents trade ⁠on ⁠their behalf.

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CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) is one of BlackRock’s 30 most important AI stocks right now. On June 29, CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) launched CoreWeave AI Research & Iteration Agent (ARIA), which is an AI-powered research agent incorporated into Weights & Biases (W&B) by CoreWeave. It reads experimental runs and data, reveals hidden insights, understands project frameworks, builds [...]

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