Tech

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 (www.ft.com)
2026-6-1 Japan Toyota

Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users for Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster for AI workloads than x86 chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 AI Nvidia SpaceX

Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 5.6% YoY to ~$13.5B, above ~$13.4B est., and a ~$1B net loss, its third straight quarter of losses amid a food delivery price war (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-1

Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-1 India P2P Coinbase

Netherlands-based Invisix, which is developing advanced chipmaking measurement tools, raised a €20M seed, with the participation of a “tier-one” chipmaker (tech.eu)
2026-6-1 Netherlands

New Lawsuit Against Amazon: 'Subscribe and Save' Program Can Actually Cost You More (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 Amazon

A look at Operation Jailbreak, a US Army-led hackathon where nine defense firms use AI to integrate weapons systems, drawing on Ukraine interoperability lessons (www.ft.com)
2026-6-1 AI Ukraine

Grab says it commits to “Taiwan's data security and public trust”, after reports of Grab's collaborations with China's Huawei and Alibaba sparked concerns (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-1 China Taiwan Alibaba

A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed 1 in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-6-1 AI

Nvidia unveils DGX Station, a desktop Windows PC powered by its GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-1 Nvidia

Nvidia says its Vera Rubin computing platform is ramping into “full production”, with first systems expected to ship in the fall, after a March announcement (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-1 Nvidia

Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid reference design powered by its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-1 Robot Nvidia

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (www.axios.com)
2026-6-1 AI Robot Nvidia Autonomous Car

LG shares jumped 300%+ this year, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as robots (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 Korea AI Robot

Runway, the AI startup most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by 2028 end (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-1 Europe Startup AI London

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 models (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-6-1 Nvidia

Jensen Huang says Microsoft and Nvidia will “reinvent the PC”, starting with 30+ laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-1 Microsoft Nvidia Lenovo

Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer PC chip family that it says is “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made in partnership with MediaTek (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-1 Nvidia

Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, with an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-1 Microsoft Nvidia

Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs based on the Xe3P architecture, described as “built for agentic AI”; they use LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-6-1 Intel AI

Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0, and 50% more cores and twice the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, launching in 2027 (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-6-1 Intel

New Desalination System Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water and Useful Salts - Including Lithium (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1

Intel unveils six Xeon 6+ data center CPU SKUs, says the 6990E+ has 30% better single-thread performance and up to 30% more energy efficiency than AMD Epyc 9965 (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-6-1 Intel Energy AMD

TSMC's rally in Taiwan has outpaced its US-listed shares this year, narrowing its ADR premium to 13.7%, a two-year low, driven by local investor optimism (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 Taiwan

China issues new investment rules, expanding regulator powers to scrutinize overseas deals involving Chinese investors, tech, and data, effective from July 1 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-1 China

Beijing-based Vast, which uses AI models to generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised ~$200M at a $1B+ valuation, and says it has 20M global users (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 AI Asset

US, Australia, and UK Plan New Unmanned Vehicles to Protect Undersea Data Cables (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 Australia

Something Made Earth's Molten Core Reverse Direction In 2010 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1

Solstice, which uses clinical and compliance documents and AI to accelerate advertising approvals for pharma clients, raised a $21M Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-6-1 AI

Daloopa, which structures financial data from filings, transcripts, investor decks, and other public sources for investment firms, raised a $47M Series C (www.axios.com)
2026-6-1

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