More than half of employees report being relatively unproductive at work. New research into six types of employees shows how companies can re-engage workers while amplifying the impact of star performers. Souce @McKinsey Link mck.co/45ocPbW rt @antgrasso #workplace

AI can support more personalized medical care by helping doctors choose treatments based on each patient’s history and needs. Better data use can lead to safer decisions and more effective care. Microblog @antgrasso

What does it take to make #AI work in the RAN at scale? 📈 Ericsson’s @Mel_ErolKantarc and service providers @ATT & @Verizon at #TelcoAI Forum: → Real deployment experiences → Scaling AI for network value 📅 June 16 👉 Register to attend: m.eric.sn/SV7750Zb01X

Fans don't abandon their team when times are tough. Let’s not abandon our home either. Are you game enough to play for #TeamForest? panda.org/teamforest

El virus del Nilo occidental se transmite por mosquitos infectados. Si pasas tiempo al aire libre al amanecer o al anochecer, ponte ropa protectora. Aprende más sobre cómo protegerte en cdphe.colorado.gov/animal-re…

AI is entering school administration through automation of repetitive processes, changing how time and attention are allocated across staff. Institutions are pushed to rethink roles and data practices to keep operations consistent and accountable. Microblog @antgrasso

Another outdoor concert tonight, this time with Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson, and Allen Stone taking the stage at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. With heat and lightning an ever present threat in Florida during the summer, be sure to check the current conditions and forecast here: hubs.li/Q04jZTQf0 #ChrisStapleton #LaineyWilson #RaymondJamesStadium #concertweather

From Texas to Times Square, from the markets to Mars. Congratulations to @SpaceX on its first day of trading on Nasdaq. $SPCX

New York Time @nytimes: Anthropic suspends Mythos and Fable in response to a U.S. government safety order. As European AI ecosystems advance, this highlights cross-border regulation and the need for robust, transparent governance. EU AI rules shape resp… nytimes.com/2026/06/12/techn…

Descending locus coeruleus noradrenergic signaling to spinal astrocyte subset is required for stress-induced mechanical pain hypersensitivity elifesciences.org/articles/1…

More views like this one yesterday in Washington, DC as storms moved in just before sunset. Winds gusts to 47 mph as this storm moved through. #severeweather

Another dangerous day ahead with a level 4 out of 5 severe threat for the Midwest and a level 2 threat for the Northeast. Damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes are all possible. Watch a live stream of cameras here: hubs.li/Q04l5KmJ0 #severeweather

The Toy That Taught Computers to Talk I can still hear that Speak & Spell voice in my head. Strange, robotic, slightly bossy, asking me to spell a word like it had been sent from the future to judge my second-grade vocabulary. As a kid, it felt like a toy. It was actually a landmark in computing history. On June 11, 1978, Texas Instruments unveiled the Speak & Spell at the summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. The project started with a $25,000 budget and a small team of engineers led by Paul Breedlove, who pitched it as an electronic spelling bee. It shipped at $50, real money for a toy in 1978, and went on to sell millions. Inside that orange plastic case sat the first mass-market chip to duplicate the human voice in silicon. TI's engineers used linear predictive coding, a method that mathematically models the human vocal tract. Instead of storing full recordings of every word, the chip compressed speech patterns and recreated them through a digital filter, packing more than 100 seconds of speech into a device cheap enough to survive a seven-year-old. Before 1978, talking toys relied on tape recorders or pull-string phonograph records that wore out and warbled. Speak & Spell had no moving parts, so the voice never degraded. The IEEE eventually recognized the achievement, naming it an official Milestone in 2009. Hollywood made it immortal. In 1982, E.T. wired a Speak & Spell into his contraption to phone home, and a spelling toy became a cultural artifact. In 1978, engineers wanted to know if a machine could talk at all. Today, OpenAI, @ElevenLabs, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and NVIDIA build voices that sound natural, expressive, and real-time, powering accessibility, translation, customer service, audiobooks, gaming, healthcare, and digital avatars. The question now is whether we can trust what the machine says, who it sounds like, and how it is being used. The stakes went from spelling "rhinoceros" to verifying identity. Speak & Spell made technology feel alive long before smartphones, cloud platforms, or a voice assistant in every room. It taught a generation to spell, and it gave millions of kids their first conversation with a computer. That bossy little voice still lives rent-free in my head. #TechHistory #AI #VoiceAI #SpeechSynthes #TexasInstruments #Innovation #DigitalTransformation

“This [Trump] administration cooked up a sham deal to pay a foreign energy company hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to abandon offshore wind and invest in oil and gas instead.” Yet another attempt to stall clean energy progress while fossil fuel interests cash in. Thankfully, several attorneys general across several states are fighting back against another attack on cheap #cleanenergy, union jobs, and Americans. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

🎒 BOJOS PER LA CIÈNCIA 🔬 Fa poc vam ser a la cloenda del BXC 2026, que ofereix sessions d'economia, bioquímica, etc. A la 3a sessió a l'ICN2, vam explorar com es comporta l'aigua en superfícies nanoestructurades.    🤝 @FCLP_Fundacio ℹ️ f.mtr.cool/euqlgmasui

AI ethics becomes practical when companies work with regulators early. Clear rules help teams design safer systems, reduce legal risk, and explain AI decisions with more confidence. Microblog @antgrasso

Safety in nuclear facilities with @SellafieldLtd ☢️ Young people are monitoring radiation safety and how operators maintain stable environments. Meeting project management apprentices, engineering grads, and early career role models! #BigBangFair

The #SpinOff @OnaTherapeutics raises $86.6M Series B funding to advance first-in-class ADCs into clinical development The global #biopharmaceutical company was launched in 2019 by the #BISTCommunity centre @IRBBarcelona to address advanced #Cancer 👉 bist.eu/ona-therapeutics-rai…

Several weather threats are developing across the US this week including severe storms from the Midwest to the Northeast, a return of Florida's rainy season, and a low chance of tropical development in the Bay of Campeche. Our latest blog breaks down what emergency managers and weather-sensitive organizations should be watching over the next several days. hubs.li/Q04kXy9T0

Agentic AI is pushing tech services to pick a clear role, from enabler to full solution builder. Each choice affects skills and delivery, so organizations must decide where to invest and how to scale. Source @McKinsey Link mck.co/4cCZTGm via @antgrasso

For those attending the #JuneClimateMeetings in Bonn this week, please join us at noon tomorrow (11 Jun) in room BONN for the IPCC side event launching the report of the #IPCC Workshop on Engaging Diverse Knowledge Systems held at University of Reading in February this year.