NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Lands in Microsoft’s Surface, Opening a New Front in PC Chips
SEATTLE — The laptop looked like every other premium ultraportable on the Build 2026 stage: thin metal chassis, edge-to-edge display, the kind of machine executives carry to meetings. Then the…
DuckDuckGo’s Bet Against AI Search Is Paying Off in Traffic
On May 28, traffic to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search page tripled in a single day. The company had never seen a spike like it, and it has not come back down…
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…
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…
Alphabet Plans $80 Billion Equity Raise to Fund Its AI Buildout
Alphabet said on June 1 that it plans to raise $80 billion through equity offerings to finance the expansion of its artificial-intelligence infrastructure, an amount larger than the sovereign wealth…
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
Over the weekend, the Instagram accounts of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force briefly displayed pro-Iranian images and messages. The defacements were…
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,”…
OpenAI Steps Into the Physical World, One Job Posting at a Time
The post went up on X late on a Sunday, and the tech industry spent the next day parsing it. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, announced that OpenAI Robotics was…
New Glenn Explodes on the Pad, Setting Back Blue Origin’s Comeback
The fireball climbed over Cape Canaveral just after 9 p.m. on May 28, punching through the cloud deck and spreading a mushroom cloud across the Florida Space Coast. Cameras fixed…
Altman Says the AI Jobs Apocalypse He Once Predicted Probably Won’t Happen
In 2023, Sam Altman told audiences that “jobs are definitely going to go away” as AI improved. By 2025, he was warning that entire categories of white-collar work, especially entry-level…
