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…
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…
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra Puts an NVIDIA Chip at Its Core
Microsoft’s Surface line has never been known for bold chip bets, and its one previous attempt to pair a Microsoft laptop with an NVIDIA processor ended in quiet retreat. That…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
