TechSambad Jun 16, 2026: Factory 2.0, IPO Mania, and the Loop That Ate the World

A curated roundup of the most impactful stories in AI, technology, and research — handpicked to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.

1 Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties

AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology's use in Google's defense contracts.

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2 The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from...

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3 Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms

Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and...

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4 SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to...

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5 Why do South Koreans love AI so much?

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When I landed in Seoul after...

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6 Sakana AI Commercializes AB-MCTS in Sakana Marlin, an Enterprise Agent Generating Up to 100-Page Research Reports With Slides

Sakana AI's first commercial product runs autonomously for up to eight hours per task. It returns multi-page reports and slides, built on AB-MCTS and AI Scientist workflows. The post Sakana...

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7 Meet Flash-KMeans: An IO-Aware, Exact K-Means That Runs Over 200× Faster Than FAISS on GPUs

Flash-KMeans is an open-source, IO-aware implementation of standard Lloyd's k-means in Triton GPU kernels. It does not change the math or approximate. FlashAssign removes distance-matrix materialization; Sort-Inverse Update eliminates atomic...

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8 Guide to Propensity Score Matching for Causal Inference to Estimate True Impact

One of the core challenges of data science is drawing meaningful causal conclusions from observational data. In many such cases, the goal is to estimate the true impact of a...

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9 Grow your LinkedIn Scarily Fast (For Data Scientists) with This AI Workflow

What if I told you, you often lose your next big role to someone much less credible than you? Unjust, yes, but certainly not untrue. Here is the reality: recruiters,...

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10 15 Probability and Statistics Interview Questions Every Data Scientist Must Master

You probably solved Bayes’ Theorem in college and decided you’re “good at statistics.” But interviews reveal something else: most candidates don’t fail because they can’t code. They fail because they...

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