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Netherlands-based Invisix, which is developing advanced chipmaking measurement tools, raised a €20M seed, with the participation of a "tier-one" chipmaker (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Grab says it commits to "Taiwan's data security and public trust", after reports of Grab's collaborations with China's Huawei and Alibaba sparked concerns (Kentaro Takeda/Nikkei Asia)

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A look at Operation Jailbreak, a US Army-led hackathon where nine defense firms use AI to integrate weapons systems, drawing on Ukraine interoperability lessons (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

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A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed one in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)

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Nvidia unveils DGX Station, a desktop Windows PC powered by its GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Nvidia says its Vera Rubin computing platform is ramping into "full production", with first systems expected to ship in the fall, after a March announcement (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid reference design powered by its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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LG's shares jumped 300%+ in 2026, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as robots (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

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AI startup Runway, most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by the end of 2028 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

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Jensen Huang says Microsoft and Nvidia will "reinvent the PC", starting with 30+ laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

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Nvidia says RTX Spark offers up to 20 CPU cores and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, capable of "100 FPS 1440p gaming" or running 120B-parameter models (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)

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Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, with an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer PC chip family that it says is "the most efficient PC chip ever built", made in partnership with MediaTek (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs based on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them "built for agentic AI" (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)

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Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0, and 50% more cores and twice the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, launching in 2027 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

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Intel unveils six Xeon 6+ data center CPU SKUs, says the 6990E+ has 30% better single-thread performance and up to 30% more energy efficiency than AMD Epyc 9965 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

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TSMC's rally in Taiwan has outpaced its US-listed shares this year, narrowing its ADR premium to 13.7%, a two-year low, driven by local investor optimism (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)

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China issues new investment rules, expanding regulator powers to scrutinize overseas deals involving Chinese investors, tech, and data, effective from July 1 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

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Beijing-based Vast, which uses AI models to generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised ~$200M at a $1B+ valuation, and says it has 20M global users (Bloomberg)

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Solstice, which uses clinical and compliance documents and AI to accelerate advertising approvals for pharma clients, raised a $21M Series A (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

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Daloopa, which structures financial data from filings, transcripts, investor decks, and other public sources for investment firms, raised a $47M Series C (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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Dell introduces the $699+ Dell XPS 13, starting with 8GB of RAM, a six-core Intel Core 5 320 chip, and a 13.4-inch touchscreen, rivaling the MacBook Neo (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

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AMD unveils the $330 Ryzen 7 7700X3D CPU, relaunches the 5800X3D as a $349 10th-anniversary edition, and plans to support the AM5 motherboard socket until 2030 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Twitch rolls out Dual Format, a feature that lets creators stream horizontally and vertically simultaneously, and 2K streaming for partners and affiliates (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

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NYC-based Garner Health, which uses data analytics to help 2.5M+ workers find physicians, raised a $100M Series E at a $2.74B valuation led by Index Ventures (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)

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Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch phishing attacks (Jacob Judah/Financial Times)

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AI adoption follows the J-curve path of general-purpose tech, like early US factory electrification, requiring years of investment before noticeable ROI gains (Exponential View)

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Sources: Apple delays iPhone-connected smart glasses to late 2027, aiming to disrupt the mid-tier $200-$500 eyewear market the way it disrupted the watch market (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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A look at contrasting China playbooks of AMD CEO Lisa Su and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, with Su keeping a lower profile; China accounts for ~20% of AMD's revenue (Reuters)

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A profile of Ariane Gorin, who became Expedia CEO in 2024 and has overseen back-to-back years of revenue growth, with record gross bookings of $119B in 2025 (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)

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Bill Gates' carefully crafted public image has been eroded by revelations about his ties to Epstein; Gates was recently snubbed from Microsoft's CEO Summit (Emily Glazer/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 (Ina Fried/Axios)

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A US court ordered Circle to blacklist Zama's cUSDC contract, freezing ~$12.6M in funds, likely catching many in the "crossfire" of a civil suit against a DAO (Zack Abrams/The Block)

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China will implement new online food delivery regulations on June 1, requiring platforms to regularly verify businesses' identities, locations, and licenses (Nikkei Asia)

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With Microsoft's GitHub Copilot shifting to token-usage billing on June 1, many developers bemoan massive cost increases and the end of flat-rate subscriptions (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

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As robotaxi companies attempt to scale in the US, they face increasing scrutiny and mounting criticism from drivers, law enforcement, and local governments (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal)

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Why "Dark Output", the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history (SemiAnalysis)

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PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

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Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024 (John Koblin/New York Times)

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SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France (Financial Times)

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China's tech boom is creating a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay for curated robotaxi rides and tours of EV factories, and AI and robotics companies (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)

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A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)

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Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

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How Schneider Electric is using AI in call centers and manufacturing to complement employees' work and boost productivity, rather than to replace them (Patricia Cohen/New York Times)

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Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids (Politico)

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Memory chip makers are leveraging their newfound power to secure long-term agreements, a move set to reshape the industry's business model and stabilize prices (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

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A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration (Wall Street Journal)

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BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

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Filing shows Shanghai-based MiniMax has begun preparations for a Chinese IPO; the AI company listed in Hong Kong in January and says its ARR has reached $300M (Bloomberg)

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Entries updated Jun 1, 2026 02:25:49 AM PDT

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