Huang’s RTX Spark Launch in Taipei Redraws the Map of the AI Hardware Business
TAIPEI — The keynote began with a countdown and a crowd that had queued since before dawn, and Jensen Huang did not open with a slide. He walked onto the…
Anthropic Files Confidentially for IPO, Setting Up a Test of AI Valuations
SAN FRANCISCO — The paperwork has not been made public, and the company has said almost nothing, but the filing landed this week and it is the most anticipated document…
Meta Turns WhatsApp Into a Customer Service Machine, With AI Agents for Every Business
LONDON — The small business had a familiar problem: customers asked the same five questions all day, and a human could not be in three conversations at once. The shop…
OpenAI’s Codex Adds Plugins for Six Professions, Reaching Into Banking
NEW YORK — The workflow OpenAI demonstrated for its new investment banking plugin looked like a junior banker’s morning compressed into seconds. Codex pulled the comparable transactions, checked them against…
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…
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…
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…
Water Rights and Bank Fees Complicate SpaceX’s Path to Market
SpaceX begins its IPO roadshow this week with a valuation target that would make it the largest company ever to debut on U.S. markets, and two of the messiest details…
