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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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 — The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC: Nvidia is expected next week to debut the first Windows computers …
More: Ghacks, DigiTimes, Reuters, The Indian Express, Benzinga, The Decoder, Neowin, Crypto Briefing, Reuters, Trak.in, The Verge, Spyglass, Windows Central, PCMag, Finbold, Thurrott, XDA Developers, and VideoCardz.com
X: @windows, @nvidia, @athena_slays, @mingchikuo, @arm, and @asus
Forums: r/technology and r/StockMarket
| Financial Times: |
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 — Masayoshi Son places France at the centre of his global AI ambitions — SoftBank has pledged to invest up to €75bn … | Reuters: |
A look at AMD CEO Lisa Su's and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's contrasting China playbooks, with Su keeping a lower profile; China accounts for ~20% of AMD's revenue — When AMD CEO Lisa Su arrived in China last week just days after Nvidia's CEO left, she kept a much lower profile than Jensen Huang … | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
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 — The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end — for the little guy, at least.
More: The GitHub Blog, Livemint, The Indian Express, and Benzinga
Bluesky: @christinaayiotis. Forums: r/GithubCopilot, r/GithubCopilot, r/technology, and r/GithubCopilot
| Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: |
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 — The billionaire philanthropist was once ranked the world's most admired man—but the revelations of his Jeffrey Epstein ties are eroding efforts to burnish his reputation| Brent Crane / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who became CEO in 2024 and has overseen back-to-back years of revenue growth, with record gross bookings of $119B in 2025 — Atop the globe's second-largest travel booking company, Ariane Gorin is keeping a “close eye” on geopolitics but sees mostly clear skies ahead.
X: @business
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
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 — Quick Take — A federal judge ordered Circle to blacklist Zama's confidential USDC (cUSDC) contract on Friday night, freezing about $12.6 million.| Nikkei Asia: |
China will implement new online food delivery regulations on June 1, requiring platforms to regularly verify businesses' identities, locations, and licenses — BEIJING/SHANGHAI — The Chinese government will tighten a clampdown on food delivery companies from June, conducting unannounced inspections … | Kinling Lo / Rest of World: |
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 — Foreign visitors are flocking to China's factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.| Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: |
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 — One super PAC is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They're both spending millions to influence this year's elections.| Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: |
As robotaxi companies attempt to scale in the US, they face increasing scrutiny and mounting criticism from drivers, law enforcement, and local governments — As autonomous taxi services scale beyond Silicon Valley, new problems abound for cities — This was supposed to be the year …
More: Yahoo Finance, Motley Fool, GB News, The Regulatory Review, Gizmodo, U.S. Home, PCMag, Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times
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| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
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 — Investors bet big on infrastructure and ‘physical AI,’ enticed by prospect of revenue opportunities
More: PitchBook
| SemiAnalysis: |
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 — Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history.
X: @pmarca, @nemodi, @semianalysis_, and @smuku98
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @justhere4coffee, @emote-control, and @thryse.com
| John Koblin / New York Times: |
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 — Warner Bros. and Disney have been fierce rivals for decades. But like other entertainment companies, they both struggled … Sponsor Posts
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