SoftBank Overtakes Toyota as Japan’s Most Valuable Company
The ticker at the Tokyo Stock Exchange told the story that hundreds of analysts had been expecting. On June 1, SoftBank Group’s market capitalization edged past Toyota Motor’s, making the…
Nvidia’s Cosmos 3 Teaches AI to Predict a Physical World
The robot arm in the simulation reaches for a box, knocks it slightly off balance, recovers and tries again. Nothing in the video is real, but everything about it is…
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra Takes Aim at the MacBook Pro
The announcement came during Nvidia’s Computex presentation, a sign of how intertwined the two companies have become. Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra on May 31, its most powerful laptop…
Salesforce Buys Contentful, Betting Content Is the Missing AI Layer
The deal had been discussed for years inside both companies, and on June 1 it finally closed on paper. Salesforce announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Contentful,…
Anthropic Opens Mythos to Europe as the AI Act’s Teeth Arrive
The model is so capable at breaking into systems that its maker kept it on a short leash, and now Europe is negotiating for access. Anthropic has offered the European…
Nvidia Puts an AI Agent on Every Desktop
The pitch from Jensen Huang was characteristically grand. “For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask, and the PC does the work,”…
AI Agents Are Outgrowing the Permissions Their Employers Gave Them
The scenario plays out in enterprise security teams with growing frequency. A company deploys an AI agent to help employees draft emails, update customer records and summarize documents. The agent…
Israel’s Tech Sector Cuts Jobs as AI Reshapes the Industry
The memo went out on a Thursday, and by the end of the day, hundreds of employees at one of Israel’s best-known software companies knew their jobs were gone. Wix,…
GitHub’s New Copilot Billing Has Developers Doing the Math
The change went live at midnight UTC, and by morning the developer forums were full of arithmetic. GitHub switched Copilot from a flat-rate subscription model to token-based billing on June…
Justice Department Sues Four States Over Undercover License Plates
Undercover work depends on a piece of mundane bureaucracy: a license plate that does not lead back to an agent. On May 28, the Justice Department went to court to…
