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Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US "this summer", in Tokyo's Omotesando district, marking Google's 11th physical store (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)

French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI "gigafactory" outside Paris, targeting 500MW in total capacity (Financial Times)

Israeli networking company DriveNets raised a $410M Series D led by Bessemer and Atreides at an $8.5B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$1B (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Wirescreen analysis of 3,800 Chinese military procurement records finds 500+ instances since 2019 where the PLA sought Nvidia chips, including the A100 and A800 (New York Times)

Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing and access Mythos; EU officials went to the US last week to ask for access (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its "super app" push (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

A look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the US' "first AI-themed educational institution", as parents say AI integration is often sparse (New York Times)

Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are shortening their entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's record $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors (Bloomberg)

Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic staffers believing "they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species", and more (@theallinpod)

Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in "founder mode", differences between "founder mode and hustle culture", AI customer service, listing hotels, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 5.6% YoY to ~$13.5B, above ~$13.4B est., and a ~$1B net loss, its third straight quarter of losses amid a food delivery price war (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)

Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users of Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster at AI workloads than x86 chips (Ian King/Bloomberg)

SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years (Financial Times)

Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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