Tech News Digest: May 26, 2026

Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles: SoftBank Roze IPO & AI Partnerships

SoftBank is gearing up for the highly anticipated IPO of its robotics spinout, Roze. In other autonomous vehicle and AI news, Torc Robotics has partnered with Mila to advance physical AI capabilities, while Human Archive successfully raised $8.2 million to solve the growing robotics training data bottleneck.

Sources:

• Reuters
• TechCrunch

Cloud Infrastructure: Kubernetes Support Added to Formae IaC Platform

Platform Engineering Labs has officially updated Formae, its open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform. The latest release introduces full Kubernetes support, native Helm integration, and seamless .tfvars compatibility to streamline workflows for DevOps and platform engineering teams.

Sources:

• InfoQ

Quantum Computing Breakthroughs: AI Integration & $2 Billion CHIPS Act Funding

The quantum computing sector is experiencing major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) integration. Furthermore, the industry has secured $2.013 billion in U.S. federal incentives via the CHIPS and Science Act to accelerate the development of fault-tolerant quantum systems.

Sources:

• Live Science
• NIST

Cybersecurity Alert: GitHub Megalodon Supply Chain Attack

Cybersecurity experts are warning developers about a massive software supply chain attack dubbed ‘Megalodon’. This critical threat has infected over 5,500 GitHub repositories through the injection of malicious GitHub Actions workflows, underscoring the urgent need for robust DevSecOps and repository security protocols.