Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra Takes Aim at the MacBook Pro
The announcement came during Nvidia’s Computex presentation, a sign of how intertwined the two companies have become. Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra on May 31, its most powerful laptop…
Nvidia’s Cosmos 3 Teaches AI to Predict a Physical World
The robot arm in the simulation reaches for a box, knocks it slightly off balance, recovers and tries again. Nothing in the video is real, but everything about it is…
SoftBank Overtakes Toyota as Japan’s Most Valuable Company
The ticker at the Tokyo Stock Exchange told the story that hundreds of analysts had been expecting. On June 1, SoftBank Group’s market capitalization edged past Toyota Motor’s, making the…
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…
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…
Pope Leo’s First Encyclical Takes Aim at AI’s ‘Technological Messianism’
VATICAN CITY — The word Pope Leo XIV chose was “disarm.” Presenting “Magnifica Humanitas,” his first encyclical, in the Vatican’s Synod Hall on May 25, the pope told an audience…
AI’s ‘USB-C’ Standard Faces a Developer Rebellion
The headline on a Hacker News thread in late May was blunt: MCP is dead. The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that was supposed to let AI agents talk…
Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo Forces the PC Industry to Answer
The cheapest Mac ever made went on sale in March, and the PC industry has been scrambling ever since. Apple’s MacBook Neo, unveiled March 4 in New York, starts at…
A New Jersey Town’s Data-Center Ban Signals a Growing Backlash
In a small city in southern New Jersey, the AI boom hit a brick wall. On May 19, Millville’s Board of Commissioners voted to prohibit data centers in every zoning…
Justice Department Sues Four States Over Undercover License Plates
Undercover work depends on a piece of mundane bureaucracy: a license plate that does not lead back to an agent. On May 28, the Justice Department went to court to…
