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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made on TSMC 3 in partnership with MediaTek — Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm. Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware: |
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 AI models — Over 30 laptops and 10 desktops coming this fall with “the most efficent platform ever built”
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| 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 …
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| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
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 — Anthropic PBC is set to give the European Union's cybersecurity body access to Mythos, the first EU agency to get access …
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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are aggressively shortening entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's $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
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| 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 … | 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 …
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Constellation Research, Reuters, Benzinga, Seoul Economic Daily, and Kansas City Star. X: @jimcramer
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals 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 …
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia unveils DGX Station for Windows, a desktop PC powered by a GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models — Nvidia Corp. says it's uprooting supercomputers from the vast, sprawling data center complexes they normally live inside …
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| 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.
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| 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 staffers 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”, differences between “founder mode and hustle culture”, AI customer service, listing hotels, and more — The home-sharing app recently added car rentals, groceries and — perhaps most surprisingly — hotels.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
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 — Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Monday that its users will be able to trade more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs.| Liana Baker / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: quantum computing company Quantinuum upsizes its IPO, selling 26.5M shares for $53 to $55 each to raise up to $1.46B at an up to $14.3B valuation — Honeywell International Inc.-backed quantum computing company Quantinuum Inc. boosted the size of its initial public offering …
More: Reuters and Blockonomi
| Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: |
African e-mobility startup Spiro, which owns 100K+ electric bikes, raised $215M at a near-$1B valuation, after raising $100M in 2025 and $50M debt in 2026 — African electric-mobility startup Spiro raised $215 million backed by European and African investors as it nears $1 billion in value …
More: Condia, Associated Press, and TechCabal
| 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 … | New York Times: |
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 — An analysis of six years of procurement records suggests that the People's Liberation Army has openly tried to acquire restricted U.S. technology.
More: Global Times, Seoul Economic Daily, The Next Web, and Wall Street Journal
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
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 — American AI company Runway is planning a major expansion in London, CNBC has learned, following in the wake of Anthropic …
More: The Next Web and Pathfounders
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US, in Tokyo's Omotesando district “this summer”, marking Google's 11th physical store — After being exclusive to the United States, the first physical Google Store outside of the region is coming to Tokyo, Japan, in the coming months.
More: Engadget, PhoneArena, and Android Authority
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