NVIDIA Takes Aim at the $200 Billion PC Processor Market
At Computex in Taipei on June 1, NVIDIA unveiled a chip that puts the company in a business it has never been in: making the central processor of a personal…
OpenAI’s Frontier Models and Codex Arrive on Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services said on June 1 that OpenAI’s frontier models and its Codex coding agent are now generally available on Bedrock, the cloud’s managed platform for foundation models. The…
Water Rights and Bank Fees Complicate SpaceX’s Path to Market
SpaceX begins its IPO roadshow this week with a valuation target that would make it the largest company ever to debut on U.S. markets, and two of the messiest details…
At Computex, Qualcomm Declares the Year of the Agents as Intel Fields a Demand Surprise
Cristiano Amon opened Computex on June 1 with a declaration that set the tone for the show: 2026 is the year of the agents. The Qualcomm chief executive used the…
A Startup Raises $10 Million to Police AI Output Before It Reaches Customers
Kumesh Aroomoogan has raised venture money before, but nothing like this. The chief executive of ZeroDrift, a New York startup that sits between AI systems and their users to catch…
IBM Commits $10 Billion to Quantum Computing With a 2029 Deadline
IBM announced on June 2 that it will invest more than $10 billion in quantum computing over the next five years, a commitment it tied directly to a specific promise:…
MiniMax Pushes Open-Weight Models Into the Agentic Frontier
The release notes landed on a Monday, and within days the weight files were on Hugging Face for anyone to download. MiniMax, the Chinese AI company best known for its…
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…
