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June 1, 2026, 10:20 AM

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Katie Tarasov / 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, ASUS, Lenovo, and MSI  —  Nvidia has emerged as the world's most valuable company by dominating the market for AI chips in the data center.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall  —  Microsoft has a new flagship Surface, and it's got Nvidia inside. … But today, it's trying again.
Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware:
Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware:
Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs, built on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them “built for agentic AI”  —  Unusual memory choice brings lots of AI data closer to the chip for efficiency  —  At Computex 2026 …
Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware:
Bloomberg:
Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are shortening their entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's record $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors  —  The company's ambitious listing plan is set to clear the way for other mega-offerings.  It also risks threatening the integrity of the market itself
Charles Capel / Bloomberg:
SEC filing: SpaceX will reserve up to 5% of its Class A shares for select employees and executives' friends and family; 60%+ of shares have an extended lock-up  —  SpaceX will reserve up to 5% of shares in its upcoming initial public offering for certain employees and friends and family …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
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  —  Nvidia Corp. said Anthropic PBC, OpenAI and SpaceX are among the first big users of its upcoming microprocessor …
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Nvidia unveils an open humanoid reference design built on Isaac GR00T and its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) plans to work with humanoid robot makers in the U.S., Europe and South Korea in addition to China's Unitree …
Juro Osawa / The Information:
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  —  Chinese AI developer MiniMax on Monday launched a new large language model called M3, saying the new model's coding capability approaches …
CoinDesk:
SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M, at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal  —  The 8-K filing Monday says proceeds from the May 26-31 sale, executed at an average price of $77,135 a coin, will fund distributions on Strategy's preferred stock.
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk:
Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries  —  Coinbase announces INR rails to make the platform fully accessible to Indian retail traders. … What to know:
@theallinpod:
Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic employees believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more  —  Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thinks It's Building God @Jason: It is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God. @bgurley: “Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never, ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most [video]
Jordyn Holman / New York Times:
Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, how “founder mode and hustle culture” are different, AI customer service, adding hotels, and more  —  The home-sharing app recently added car rentals, groceries and — perhaps most surprisingly — hotels.
Financial Times:
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  —  Demand for AI stocks powers tech giant's shares as it takes top spot by market capitalisation  —  Tech giant SoftBank …

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