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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.
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.
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.
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
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 …
Bloomberg:
Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are shortening their entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's record $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors
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 …
Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware:
Intel debuts six Xeon 6+ data center CPU SKUs, saying the 6990E+ has 30% better performance per thread and up to 30% more energy efficiency than AMD's Epyc 9965
Juro Osawa / The Information:
Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude 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 …
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 …
Bernie Sanders / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates “must benefit humanity”, calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in the top AI companies  —  Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the history of the world.
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 …
@theallinpod:
Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic employees 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]
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:
Jordyn Holman / New York Times:
Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, how “founder mode and hustle culture” are different, AI customer service, adding hotels, and more  —  The home-sharing app recently added car rentals, groceries and — perhaps most surprisingly — hotels.
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.
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A  —  Data is the oil of the AI boom—and the startup Mecka AI hopes to tap the vast reservoir of hand gestures, walking gaits, and immense collection …
Kalley Huang / New York Times:
Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900  —  Box, a Silicon Valley software maker, expects to have more employees, not fewer, as it hires A.I. architects, A.I. solutions managers and other new A.I.-related positions.

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