Nvidia’s Rubin Spec Sheet Shrank Without an Announcement
A Poisoned Python Package Turned a Developer Laptop Into a Credential Haul
Musk’s ‘Odyssey’ Arrives as Seven Minutes, Not a Movie
Palantir Wrote the Rules It Then Bid Under at Britain’s Defence Ministry
Block’s Voice Model Learned to Talk Without Reading Anything
Instacart’s Suitors Circle, and One Walks Away
Tesla Ends the Cybertruck’s Seven-Year Detour Down Under
Micron’s Two-Year Memory Bet: Thicker Stacks, Wider Pipes
IBM’s Chief Puts a Number on the Open-Model Trade: 90% as Good, 10% the Cost
Korea’s Memory Duopoly Heads for a $139 Billion Quarter
Microsoft’s Scout Assistant Manages Your Calendar, and Learns How You Work
SEATTLE — The demonstration began with a calendar that had gone wrong. Three meetings had been double-booked, a deadline had slipped, and a policy document was due in two hours.…
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…
Microsoft Ships Seven In-House AI Models, Testing Its Ties to OpenAI
SEATTLE — On the Build 2026 stage, a Microsoft engineer handed a new reasoning model a 40,000-line codebase and asked it to find a memory leak, explain the cause in…
Apple’s Rejection of a Dictation App Reopens an Accessibility API Fight
The developer behind Whisper Pad, an offline dictation app for the Mac, built the software in part because of a hand injury that made typing painful. The app worked by…
Microsoft Resolves Outage That Blocked Files in Teams and Web Office
A sales team in the middle of a pricing review. A finance group trying to open a workbook before a close. A project meeting where the presentation will not load.…
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:…
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…
Reviewers Call Google’s Gemini Spark the Most Impressive, and Most Disturbing, AI Yet
The Verge’s Sean Hollister tested Google’s new always-on AI agent and came away with a two-sided verdict: the most impressive and terrifying AI experience he has had. WIRED’s reviewer gave…
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…
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…
