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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss how China is tightening its grip on AI by targeting top AI professionals' overseas travel. Plus, big banks are looking to hire more AI specialists and shrink traditional banking roles, and SpaceX kicks off a tech IPO bonanza. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

I have an article about replatforming and how business can become radically bigger, faster and more profitable with new technologies and processes. But here we focus on actual transformation and step changes to the world and industries. The Industrial revolution had 10-20X the annual GDP growth rate of the Agrarian or pre-industrial ages. The stone ... Read more... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s largest union voted in favor of a compensation deal that will hand chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000, staving off a strike that threatened to disrupt global chip supply... View Source

UBS Group AG’s Asia Pacific President Iqbal Khan said artificial intelligence will free up capacity and improve productivity but also have an impact on jobs... View Source

Fireworks AI, a startup that helps companies run artificial intelligence models, is in talks to raise a new round of funding that would value the company at $15 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

It's possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV's latest encyclical about AI's impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of Magnifica Humanitas to be between 40 percent and 100 percent written by AI, according to the popular AI detector Pangram. The document includes known traits that appear in AI-generated writing, such as... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. has surged past a $1 trillion market valuation after its shares soared more than 900% in the past year, reflecting investor confidence in its position as the leading supplier of advanced memory chips powering artificial intelligence... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Pantera Capital Management Chief Legal Officer Katrina Paglia, Jefferies Incoming Senior Advisor Investment Banking Christopher Giancarlo, and Kaiko CEO Ambre Soubiran. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Daniel Pilling, a portfolio manager at Sands Capital Management LLC, says the rally for Micron Technology Inc. shares is a reflection of how demand for artificial intelligence chips is outstripping supply. He speaks with Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde on ``Bloomberg Tech.'' (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Fidelity Director of Global Macro Jurrien Timmer, EquiLend Managing Director Head of Data & Insights Nancy Allen, Barclay’s Managing Director Senior Retail Analyst Adrienne Yih, Davidson Kempner Managing Partner & CIO... View Source

Hope you weren't planning to queue up for the PS5 launch window title... View Source

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is planning to invest around $5 billion this year but will steer clear of new ventures with oil driller Petroleos Mexicanos, the 86-year-old chairman emeritus of Grupo Carso said Tuesday... View Source

The missions will deliver payloads to the lunar surface and test equipment from Blue Origin and Astrolab... View Source

On Tuesday, NASA announced several upcoming lunar missions to the Moon's South Pole region. These missions will pave the way for the crewed Artemis landing slated for 2028, starting with three Moon Base missions NASA says are "the first of more than a dozen missions that will be announced this year." Moon Base I, launching "no earlier than fall 2026," will use Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 Endura... View Source

Ambre Soubiran, CEO of Kaiko, joins Isabelle Lee and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." They discuss the rapid growth of prediction markets and how data is key for the industry's infrastructure. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA meatball NASA will provide an update on the agency’s Artemis III mission and announce the astronauts assigned to the test flight during a live event at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 9, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The event will stream on NASA+ and on the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media... View Source

NASA envisions its moon base covering hundreds of square miles, and hopping scout drones may mark the facility's perimeter. The agency just awarded $1 billion in contracts to get the ball rolling... View Source

SpaceX's recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company's boosters and its critics... View Source

NASA officials announced contract awards for the initial elements of a lunar base on Tuesday, including two rovers that will provide mobility to astronauts. With the series of announcements, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sought to maintain momentum around a Moon Base initiative revealed two months ago as part of the space agency's return to the Moon. "For those waiting patiently, the grand ret... View Source

Bloomberg's Andre Tartar joins Isabelle Lee and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Nine anonymous cryptocurrency wallets have effectively gained control over who wins and loses on Polymarket’s most contested prediction market bets, giving a tiny group of unappointed people outsized power over billions of dollars of wagers. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 flight engineer Jessica Meir configures research gear inside the Destiny laboratory module’s Microgravity Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station.Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir Students in New York will hear from NASA astronaut Jessica Meir as she answers their prerecord... View Source

Bloomberg's Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg Intelligence's James Seyffart join Isabelle Lee and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." The top US securities regulator is delaying the launch of a wave of novel exchange-traded funds that would let investors wager on events such as elections and economic data as the agency weighs how far the $15 trillion ETF wrapper can stretch. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow joins Isabelle Lee and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Elon Musk’s SpaceX holds more than twice as much Bitcoin as previously estimated. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

'Skeletor took my family and he destroyed our world. I'm gonna fight for it.'... View Source

Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon baseSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailNasa announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a $20bn moon base, and said it had chosen the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to conduct the fi... View Source

Christopher Giancarlo, incoming senior adviser investment banking at Jefferies and former CFTC chair, joins Isabelle Lee and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." They discuss prediction markets, regulating digital assets, and resources at the CFTC. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Artist’s concept of Phase 3 of NASA’s Moon Base.Credit: NASA During a Moon Base event Tuesday at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced new contracts for lunar rovers for crew to drive and uncrewed cargo landers bound for the Moon. NASA leaders also shared target launch timeframes and upcoming milestones for the first Moon Base infrastructure and exploration missions to the lunar... View Source

Bloomberg's Vildana Hajric and Bloomberg Intelligence's James Seyffart join Isabelle Lee and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." The top US securities regulator is delaying the launch of a wave of novel exchange-traded funds that would let investors wager on events such as elections and economic data as the agency weighs how far the $15 trillion ETF wrapper can stretch. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Fitbit app is no more. Along with the launch of the new Fitbit Air (which you can expect a full review of once we've spent more time with it), Google has officially replaced it with Google Health, as previously announced, and many of the responses we've seen so far are full of confusion, frustration, and requests to get the old app back. One post on Reddit calls out a common issue, saying, "I... View Source

Bloomberg's Scott Patterson joins Isabelle Lee and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." The SEC is delaying a plan to provide broad exemptions for US crypto firms to trade tokenized assets linked to stocks, according to people familiar with the matter. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

American Airlines said Tuesday it plans to install Starlink on more than 500 Airbus aircraft, the latest carrier win for IPO-bound SpaceX... View Source

GE’s nugget ice maker is simple to set up. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If you’re looking for ways to make staying cool and hydrated easier this summer, Woot is currently selling a refurbished GE Profile Opal 2.0 Ultra Nugget Ice Maker for $264.99 through June 3rd. That’s $184 less than buying new at its full price, and comes with a 90-day warranty. If you want a brand new model,... View Source

As Wall Street is getting caught up in AI angst and looking to hire more AI specialists and shrink traditional banking roles, two highly sought-after AI trainers in finance are charging $25,000 for a day of training. Bloomberg's Sally Bakewell joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow for more on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SpaceX is reportedly jacking up Starlink prices for the Pentagon... View Source

Satellites captured footage of an underwater volcano eruption in a part of the sea that remains largely a mystery... View Source

Once upon a time, you could probably guess why most things appeared on your feed. Maybe you followed the creator who posted it; maybe you'd liked their stuff in the past; maybe all your friends were into them. That's not how it works anymore, though. The stuff you see on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and elsewhere has become much harder to trace - the feeds are run by algorithms with lots of... View Source

Jay Ritter, University of Florida emeritus professor and director of the IPO Initiative, known as “Mr. IPO” for his work on initial public offerings, joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." to discuss SpaceX's IPO. It is set to be "the largest private-sector company ever to go public," for the broader tech IPO landscape, he says. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Starlink is coming to (some of) American Airline... View Source

The sort of light reading material you’d expect to find in a childs bedroom. | Image by Govee, compiled by The Verge Companies often include background props in their product imagery that serve as set dressing, but one of Govee's decorative choices is raising some eyebrows. An eagle-eyed Verge reader spotted that two copies of a book with "White Supremacy" plastered on the spine were included in a... View Source

The AI data center boom is becoming an industrial arms race. CyrusOne CEO Eric Schwartz joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why the future of AI depends on power grids, skilled labor, and trillion-dollar infrastructure bets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Memorymoog is legendary for being an absolutely massive-sounding synth and being incredibly unreliable. But now you can enjoy its classic Moog sound without the headaches or the sky-high vintage price, thanks to Arturia's Memory V emulator. The Memorymoog was only made between 1982 and 1985, and was the last polyphonic synth made by Moog before it declared bankruptcy in 1987. People loved its... View Source

A proposed law in Canada allowing police more access to citizens’ data faces a growing chorus of criticism from technology companies, including threats that they’ll pull out of the country... View Source

After years of it seeming like the Spider-Man film rights might be better off in Marvel's hands alone, Into the Spider-Verse came along and proved that Sony was still capable of telling phenomenal stories featuring everyone's favorite webhead. Into the Spider-Verse's sumptuous visuals and focus on a different web-slinging New Yorker made it unlike any other Spider-Man adaptation. And it was genuin... View Source

Qualcomm will supply chips to TikTok owner ByteDance for artificial intelligence data centers, according to people familiar with the matter. Ian King helped break the story and he reports on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - MAY 12: American Airlines plane are takeoff and lands at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, United States on May 12, 2026. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images) | Anadolu via Getty Images American Airlines is planning to install SpaceX's Starlink Wi-Fi in hundreds of its airplanes, the airline announced today. American sa... View Source

Space and satellite-related stocks soared Tuesday as investor enthusiasm around the industry intensified after Elon Musk’s SpaceX filed for a public offering last week... View Source

US states have also tried to regulate Polymarket and Kalshi, but the federal government isn't having any of it... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory An Early “Decoration Day”… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble:... View Source

If you foresee a bunch of Nintendo purchases in your future, Newegg’s deal on Nintendo gift cards might just help save your wallet. The retailer is offering a deal that lets gamers get $200 worth of credit towards games, consoles, and accessories for just $170. Best of all, the gift cards can stack in your account, letting you accrue enough to buy a Nintendo Switch 2 at a sweet discount. Nintendo... View Source

Micron Technology Inc.’s market capitalization, which has soared about 700% over the past year, will more than double over the next 12 months, according to at least one analyst... View Source

NASA/Chris Williams Chennai, on India’s southern coast along the Bay of Bengal and with a metropolitan population of about 8.7 million, shines with white LED streetlights in this photograph taken at approximately 9:13 p.m. local time on May 2, 2026, from the International Space Station. Earth observations from the space station let us see how our planet changes over time. In combination with... View Source

In order to understand the addressable market case for many of the AI and space markets you must understand replatforming. Replatforming is when a fundamentally better technology platform displaces or layers on top of the old infrastructure and business models. It wins because it offers lower costs, vastly better scalability, broader accessibility, and new capabilities ... Read more... View Source

Artist Ashley Zelinskie and DJ illich Mujica get psychedelic in New York City... View Source

Oppo launched a new smartphone accessory that makes it easier to snap selfies using your smartphone's rear cameras that typically feature better sensors than front-facing cameras. The Bubble offers similar functionality to the recently announced Insta360 Snap with a screen providing live camera previews so you can properly frame shots, plus remote camera controls and a shutter button. What sets th... View Source

Ferrari’s first fully electric car is already dividing fans. Critics say the $640K EV looks more like a Nissan Leaf or "a bar of soap" than a Ferrari, but the company may not care. Bloomberg's Craig Trudell joins Open Interest to explain why Ferrari only needs a handful of wealthy buyers to make the Luce a success, and how the brand could use the EV to unlock access to future supercars. (Source: B... View Source

A Destiny 2 collection will join the PS Plus Game Catalog for Extra and Premium subscribers on June 9... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory A Full Moon Checkup Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next G... View Source

Nvidia announced more than two years ago that it was working to replace its Control Panel app on Windows with a new Nvidia app. After porting across various features to the Nvidia app, Nvidia is announcing today that it has officially retired the Control Panel app. "With the introduction of our most recent Nvidia App update, all actively supported Nvidia Control Panel features for GeForce users ha... View Source

Employees at Elon Musk’s xAI were warned by the company’s top lawyer to carefully moderate their interactions with workers from Cursor — a directive that came weeks after Musk’s firm announced a possible deal to acquire the AI coding startup... View Source

This image shows PUEO at the Long Duration Balloon Facility in Antarctica, immediately after balloon release. Credit: NASA/Scott Battaion The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program mission designed to detect the most energetic particles in the universe. The PUEO mission flew high above Antarctica on a Long Duration Balloon (LDB) and used the Antarc... View Source

The two boosters hang out mid-air after separation... View Source

The Ferrari Luce has a lot of glass, metallic finish, and rounded edges. In other words, it’s got Jony Ive all over it. | Image: Ferrari Ferrari makes some of the fastest cars on the planet, so it's anyone's guess how the Italian automaker ended up being so incredibly late to the EV party. Long after most automakers have drastically scaled back their EV ambitions, cancelled battery-powered models,... View Source

Up until a decade ago, China had never launched as many as 20 orbital rockets a year. But beginning in 2022, the Asian country launched 64 rockets and last year reached a record total of 93, marking it as the second-most productive space power in the world. Further growth is anticipated from both the company's state-owned enterprises as well as a rapidly expanding number of private launch companie... View Source

UBS raised its price target on Micron to a Street-high view of $1,625, up from $535. Mandeep Singh has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Fitbit Air is a serious rival to Whoop and other screenless wearable trackers thanks to its solid hardware, comprehensive software and competitive pricing... View Source

The Fitbit Air, a new $100 screenless wearable from Alphabet Inc.’s Google, represents a major evolution in what consumers can expect from fitness trackers as tech companies race into an era of personalized health and artificial intelligence-powered wellness insights... View Source

GoPro's Mission 1 Pro action cam has a big 1-inch sensor that offers sharp, color accurate 8K 60 fps and 4K 240 fps video... View Source

The universe may have its own version of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and that might be enough to explain dark energy without invoking any new physics at all... View Source

Stord Inc., a logistics technology startup, raised $250 million in a new funding round to expand its fulfillment operation and help merchants better compete with Amazon.com Inc... View Source

Do you even like art? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images There's this alarming trend in the Suno subreddit. People aren't just prompting AI songs; they're sitting around listening almost exclusively to their own slop. And in some cases, they proudly proclaim that they don't listen to music on traditional streaming platforms anymore - it's just AI all day. "Does anyone just listen to... View Source

SpaceX’s IPO filing warns that current AI chip supply may be insufficient for its long-term orbital compute ambitions... View Source

Researchers analyzing crimson auroras over Japan found the glowing displays stretched hundreds of miles higher into Earth's atmosphere than expected, challenging long-held assumptions about the strength of geomagnetic storms... View Source

The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems, is hosted twice a year at the United Nations in Geneva. When Branka Marijan attended in November 2017, she thought the five-day sessions - which dealt largely in hypotheticals, speculating on a world where warfare was fought with killer robots - would be business as usual. After all, t... View Source

Audemars Piguet's recent collaboration with Swatch led to scuffles outside stores from New York to Paris to Milan, as crowds queued for hours to get their hands on the Royal Pop pocket watch collection. Despite criticism that the collaboration could 'cheapen' the brand, CEO Ilaria Resta says it has made AP more accessible to a younger audience, while the thing she fears most is 'irrelevance'. She... View Source

Spotify has teamed up with publications, including Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, WIRED and Pitchfork to offer subscribers narrated articles... View Source

Would you listen to magazine articles on Spotify? The streaming platform certainly hopes so, as it's launching a new format for narrated long-form articles, alongside its usual array of music, podcasts, and audiobooks. Starting today, more than 650 articles from publications including Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, Wired, Vanity Fair, and Pitchfork will be availa... View Source

Patrick Drahi’s spat with Altice co-founder Armando Pereira has escalated after Swiss courts ordered the seizure of assets following a lawsuit by the latter to reclaim at least 1.2 billion francs ($1.5 billion) he claims he’s owed... View Source

"This ring? It's the most powerful weapon in the universe."... View Source

There’s a new front in the war over the safety of chemicals used to make nonstick pans... View Source

For Audemars Piguet Chief Executive Officer Ilaria Resta, the response to the luxury Swiss timepiece maker’s launch of a pocket watch in collaboration with Swatch has been overwhelming... View Source

Wall Street firms are paying two highly sought-after trainers in finance $25,000 a day to tell bankers what’s missing from their AI plans. Matthew Bloxham of Bloomberg Intelligence has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft revealed a never-before-seen atmospheric effect on Mars, revealing how solar storms may shape planets without strong magnetic fields... View Source

Xiaomi Corp.’s profit in the first quarter tanked more than analysts had expected, as sharp increases in memory prices exacted a heavy toll on the Chinese firm’s smartphone business... View Source

Uber president Andrew Macdonald (pictured) says its “hard to draw a line” between AI spending and deliverable features. | Photo: Zed Jameson/Bloomberg via Getty Images After reportedly exhausting its annual AI budget just four months into 2026, Uber is now questioning whether it's actually seeing meaningful returns on its investments. In an interview with Rapid Response, Uber president and chief o... View Source

ING Groep NV is turning to “vibe coding” to build electronic trading tools for currencies and credit, its latest use of artificial intelligence to compete with larger peers... View Source

The first major heat wave of the season broke temperature records across northwest Europe, triggered water shortages in the UK and has been linked to several deaths in France... View Source

Blue Origin can now prepare for New Glenn's fourth flight after the FAA cleared it for launch... View Source

This, but no cable. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Code in recent Starlink firmware suggests that SpaceX might soon release a version of its smallest internet dish with an integrated battery. A battery-powered Starlink Mini would offer untethered portability for vanlifers, emergency responders, and anyone who wants fast, low-latency internet from almost anywhere on the planet. University res... View Source

China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and DeepSeek, suggesting an escalation in measures intended to safeguard its technology and catch up to the US in a pivotal sphere... View Source

Joumanna Bercetche, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Black Label Inc., the studio behind the soundtrack for Netflix Inc.’s KPop Demon Hunters, raised about 120 billion won ($80 million) of expansion capital from major entertainment names including Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s music arm... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s bonus deal with workers risks turning South Korea’s AI-driven chip boom into a new source of inflation and housing-market pressure that the Bank of Korea will have to address, according to Bloomberg Economics... View Source

A Samsung Electronics Co. union representing workers outside the ultra-profitable semiconductor division asked a Korean court to block voting on a tentative deal that would distribute about 40 trillion won ($26.6 billion) in bonuses to chip employees... View Source

Chinese semiconductor stocks rose in Hong Kong on optimism over a potential breakthrough in technology by Huawei Technologies Co... View Source

GSR Ventures Management Co., an early investor in Chinese social media app RedNote, is seeking investors for a new fund, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The artificial intelligence infrastructure boom is the biggest growth trend in recent years, with Infratil Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Jason Boyes seeing plenty of “latent potential” for new data center development in Australia and New Zealand... View Source

Chinese shares listed in Hong Kong rose after returning from a holiday, as investors brushed aside Beijing’s most forceful crackdown on illicit cross-border stock trading to chase tech gains... View Source

Huawei says it's come up with a new pathway to shorten its gap with industry leader TSMC, potentially achieving a breakthrough in making advanced semiconductors without cutting-edge equipment. Bloomberg Intelligence's Robert Lea explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SpaceX will be able to more than double its revenue every year from 2026-2028 and beyond. Most of the revenue and profits will come from AI. AI infrastructure at the data centers they build 4 times faster than competitors and at thousands of Tesla energy locations and then in space. This will enable more revenue ... Read more... View Source

A $40 billion selloff in a 141-year-old Japanese cable firm has served as a reality check on the fragility of the global AI-driven stock rally... View Source

Global banks are pouring billions into artificial intelligence yet struggling to automate workflows. Two ex-bankers say they are being hired to ignite the shift... View Source

For the first time since the pandemic shuttered cinemas the world over, Hollywood has got its mojo back... View Source

Sennheiser's latest Momentum headphones offer key audio and ANC improvements, including Dolby Atmos with head tracking... View Source

Sennheiser is sticking with the redesign it introduced with the Momentum 4 Wireless. | Image: Sennheiser Nearly four years after the last version of Sennheiser's Momentum headphones debuted with a redesign that traded a retro aesthetic for a more contemporary and comfortable design, the company has announced its Momentum 5 Wireless headphones. They look very similar to their predecessors, the Mome... View Source

The Ferrari Luce will start at €550,000 in Italy, but US pricing hasn’t been announced. | Image: Ferrari After months of teasers, Ferrari is offering the first full view of its Luce electric vehicle. The Luce is notable not just for being Ferrari's first EV, but for being designed in collaboration with Jony Ive and Mark Newson at their collective LoveFrom. It's also going to be Ferrari's second fo... View Source

Our first look at a complete version of Ferrari's upcoming luxury EV that was designed by LoveFrom... View Source

We still don't have a release date for the new game engine... View Source

An exceptionally weird controversy has come back to haunt Cox Media and a pair of marketing firms, which claimed they were secretly listening to users via phones and smart devices - despite little evidence they actually could. On Thursday the Federal Trade Commission announced that Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works would pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations that they were in fact lyin... View Source

DARPA has a plan to keep geosynchronous satellites going for years beyond their expiration date. The agency aims to test it with a mission launching as soon as this summer... View Source

The company said its next-gen chips will be "feasible and affordable."... View Source

The franchise's latest big-screen outing gets sidetracked in less interesting corners of that galaxy far, far away... View Source

Single-player spin-off Squadron 42 is "in the closing stages" but doesn't have a release date either... View Source

The new cryptocurrency will be called GELT and will represent the Georgian Lari... View Source

Don't miss Spica greet the waxing moon in the southern sky on May 26... View Source

Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical Letter "Magnifica humanitas" on May 25, 2026 in Vatican City, Vatican. | Getty Images Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas is the pope's manifesto on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence," in... View Source

Nothing beats a beautiful sunset (from space) | Space photo of the day for May 26, 2026... View Source

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray spacecraft has observed a super-bright, supercharged supernova explosion powered up by the creation of a highly magnetic dead star, or magnetar... View Source

Prosus NV has asked the European Union to drop a requirement that it sell shares in Delivery Hero SE, part of antitrust approval for its acquisition of another delivery platform, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

In 42,300 word encyclical, Pope Leo warns of AI dangers around educational, child safety, concentration of power and weapons... View Source

Rapid-commerce firm Zepto Ltd. is preparing to publicly file in the first half of June for an initial public offering that may raise up to $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Engineers are increasingly turning to the concept of "biomimicry" for the next generation of Mars robots... View Source

Pope Leo XIV said artificial intelligence should be “disarmed” to protect humanity from its dangers, adding his voice to a heated debate over the extent to which governments should regulate a technology that is reshaping the world... View Source

Ericsson AB is moving its global headquarters to central Stockholm after more than two decades in Kista, a struggling suburb in the Swedish capital once touted as Sweden’s Silicon Valley... View Source

NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments... View Source

China’s crackdown on cross-border stock trading could affect up to HK$250 billion ($32 billion) in Hong Kong-linked assets, according to Citic Securities. The move aims to tighten capital outflows and reshape investor access. William Ma, CIO of GROW Investment Group, discussed the potential impact with Paul Allen on Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. shares climbed to a record high, spurred by hopes of big returns from the Japanese investor’s stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp., should the two go public... View Source

“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, Yvonne Man and Avril Hong give global investors unique insight, delivering in-depth discussions with the newsmakers who matter. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. plans to raise ¥260 billion ($1.6 billion) through another sale of subordinated bonds aimed mainly at individual investors, about two months after a similar retail offering... View Source

Because we define dates based on the stars, the full moon on 31 May will be the second one of the calendar monthThis week’s full moon is a blue moon. The term does not describe the colour of the moon, but instead arises from the way we define our calendar in reference to the stars rather than the moon.The moon takes almost a month to circle our planet. The exact time is 29.5 days but if we were to... View Source

NTT Docomo Inc. sold two plots of land in central Tokyo for about ¥59 billion ($371 million), according to people familiar with the matter, the latest large deal in Japan’s booming real estate market... View Source

The AI boom is giving momentum investors their best return in decades, as the world’s hottest stocks power ahead despite worries over potentially slower growth due to the Iran war... View Source

健康ウエアラブル端末市場で競争激化、AI時代への対応課題に... View Source

Sakura Internet Inc.’s chief said the company may need to hike its capital spending by nearly seven times its initial plan to keep up with artificial intelligence demand in Japan... View Source

Huawei Technologies Co. said it has come up with a new pathway to shorten its gap with industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., potentially achieving a breakthrough in making advanced semiconductors without cutting-edge equipment... View Source

Spiders? Skeletons? Bad omens? My kind of party... View Source

The news doesn’t stop when markets close. Hosts David Gura, Christina Ruffini and Lisa Mateo bring clarity, context and a bit of humor to the weekend’s biggest headlines, LIVE from New York. Joined by Taiwan’s Special Representative to US Amb. Alexander Yui, Axios Congressional Reporter Andrew Solender, Google Data Editor Simon Rogers and Congressional Black Caucus Member Rep. Glenn Ivey. (Source:... View Source

XAI AI data center economics are even better when you can start a project and finish it in 12 months and get it rented and paid off while competitors are still building. An active AI Gigawatt of data center in the hand is worth $20 billion per year while an under construction Gigawatt data center ... Read more... View Source

The European Central Bank plans to press lenders to accelerate efforts to secure their IT systems after organizing a meeting on cybersecurity risks with the latest artificial intelligence models, the Financial Times reported... View Source

You gotta pump up those download numbers somehow... View Source

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation... View Source

Rhode Island joins other states that have taken similar legal action... View Source

If you’re looking for a laptop that’ll still perform well several years from now, Apple’s latest MacBook Air is hard to beat. Now, in particular, is a good time to pick one up, as you can currently buy the 13-inch MacBook Air at Amazon in the run-up to Memorial Day with an M5 chip, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD for $899.99 ($200 off), which is a new low price. The 15-inch model, meanwhile, is also... View Source

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Relive the trauma when Autobots and Decepticons reassemble in this animated cult classic... View Source

Mission will put first astronaut in orbit for a year, a key step in Beijing’s plan to put people on the moon by 2030China has launched its Shenzhou-23 mission in which an astronaut will spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing’s ambition to send humans to the moon by 2030.The Long March 2-F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan launch centre in north-western China on S... View Source

Hiking is one of life's great joys. Turning off the screens and stepping out into nature for an extended period of time, perhaps even several days, is rejuvenating. Unfortunately, as someone with two young kids and a bad back, I'm not really able to go backpacking anymore. So I often find myself trying to live vicariously through others who write about their lengthy travails along the Appalachian... View Source

Google Data Editor and Author Simon Rogers joined Christina Ruffini and David Gura on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss his new book "What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful History of Humankind." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

With so many quality sci-fi books out there, and more arriving every year, it's easy to get swamped. To make sure you're not missing out, we've rounded up the best sci-fi books to read before you die... View Source

SpaceX is marketing itself to IPO investors as an artificial intelligence targeting a $26.5 trillion potential market opportunity. The move signaling its intention to wrest business from investor darlings whose valuations have soared. Bloomberg Market Structure Research Head Larry Tabb joined David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Normally $36, the Blue Origin New Shepard model rocket from Estes is currently on sale for $29.99 on Amazon and is cheaper than the official Estes webstore... View Source

Fly me to the moon!... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI mischief, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Hacking the first generation of AI chatbots was a laughably simple affair. You didn't need any technical know-how, backdoor access, or even a basic under... View Source

Waymo is the undisputed leader in the robotaxi space, operating a fleet of over 3,000 driverless cars in at least 10 cities across the US. A number of companies, including Tesla, Zoox, Avride, and Motional, are racing to catch up with the Alphabet-owned firm. But what if being No. 2 was actually better? Nuro, the delivery robot company created by veterans of Google's self-driving car project, thin... View Source

The familiar concept of a planetary core, a small, dense metallic heart we take for granted, may be the exception rather than the rule for exoplanets... View Source

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit... View Source

It's long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case... View Source

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from... View Source

China has named the three astronauts due to fly on the Shenzhou 23 mission on Sunday (May 24), including Hong Kong's first astronaut... View Source

XAI Colossus 1 and part of 2 is leasing to Anthropic for $15 billion per year. This will mean SpaceXAI will be able to have more deals to build faster with huge profits. They can be renting ½ of the new capacity to scale the earth based data centers to 100B+/year high-margin rental business by ... Read more... View Source

Look at those cute little guys. | Image: Record Club There isn't really a solid equivalent to Goodreads or Letterboxd for music lovers, but Record Club is aiming to change that. Yes, we have Rate Your Music, but its interface is crowded, and it feels more geared towards longer-form reviews than cataloging your listening habits and connecting with other fans. Record Club is clean and modern, with a... View Source

The new models are now available, with prices starting at $1,270... View Source

The entry-level Alienware 15 starts at $1,299 with an AMD CPU or $1,349 for an Intel config... View Source

‘Anything is possible, when everything is possible'... View Source

The Konkr Pocket Block will be smaller than the company's previous vertical handhelds... View Source

The AI-generated version of 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico' was on display at AIPAD's The Photography show... View Source

As big tech companies raise hundreds of billions of dollars to fund artificial intelligence investments, Wall Street banks are increasingly finding they have to trade more credit derivatives to keep doing business with the hyperscalers... View Source

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NASA has released the photos Psyche took when it did a flyby of Mars... View Source

The Cinemagoal app retransmitted content from major platforms like Netflix and Disney+... View Source

This week's science news... View Source

People took a PDF file report about a plane crash and used AI to recreate the last few seconds its pilots' conversation... View Source

The lower prices could be aimed at undercutting the competition... View Source

On Episode 211 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Jacob Scoccimerra of Monolith Space... View Source

New Zealand intends to spend about NZ$1.6 billion ($936 million) on drones, ship maintenance and naval upgrades to bolster the island nation’s maritime security at a time of increasing concern about supply routes... View Source

At long last, Jason is coming to Dead By Daylight... View Source

Roger Linn lets his accomplishments do the talking. | Image: Roger Linn Roger Linn is a legend in the world of musical instruments. He's been at the cutting edge of music technology for decades. He created the LM-1, the first drum machine to use samples, and its successor, the LinnDrum, is one of the most iconic drum machines of all time. They were used on countless records in the 1980s, including... View Source

David Gura, Christina Ruffini, and Lisa Mateo of “Bloomberg This Weekend” play Pointed! Wager your points, leverage your bets and answer wisely. A new quiz is available to play each week on Bloomberg.com (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and that goes for Red Planet rulers as well as Earth... View Source

Massive OLED TVs and Sonos speakers might be stealing the Memorial Day spotlight, but there are also plenty of great deals that won't set you back nearly as much. In fact, some of the best discounts we're seeing are on gadgets that retail for $50 or less, from portable chargers and 4K streaming devices to cheap(ish) security cameras. There are even some solid deals available on outdoor gear if you... View Source

Starship V3 led to some stunning launch photography after it lifted off from Starbase on SpaceX's 12th flight of the rocket that aims to land astronauts on the moon... View Source

Here's when to see a pair of massive letters shining on the lunar surface around May's first quarter moon phase... View Source

Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the "solar-electric economy" he promised?... View Source

Finding a cafe that fits you can be a revelatory experience. For me at least, there are few places outside of my house that I can truly feel comfortable in. I'm lucky enough to have two options in walking distance: a coffee shop that's bright, airy, and full of art, and another that doubles as a plant shop so that I'm surrounded by greenery while I write. They're third places that have become cent... View Source

Anthropic has published an initial update about Project Glasswing, which it says has helped partners find bugs high and critical in severity... View Source

China's Shenzhou 23 mission to Tiangong will relieve an overdue crew and could see the beginning of the country's first year-long stay in orbit... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 129, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, come on you Gunners, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've mostly been sick, which has meant nearly a full rewatch of Parks and Recreation while alternately napping and feeling bad for myself. But I've also been reading... View Source

Among the indie games we've seen worth checking out is a puzzle platformer inspired by mental health challenges and turning failures into progress... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang urged Super Micro Computer Inc. to tighten up on compliance after Taiwan detained three people this week for allegedly making fraudulent declarations about AI servers made by its US partner... View Source

Just a stuffed deer having the time of his life. | Image: Gemini / The Verge Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. But it was a revealing exercise t... View Source

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect... View Source

DeepSeek said it will make permanent a steep discount on its flagship V4‑Pro model, maintaining prices for developers at a quarter of their original level... View Source

SpaceX launched its biggest, most powerful Starship yet on a test flight on Friday. It was an upgraded version of the spacecraft Nasa is counting on to land astronauts on the moon. It blasted off from the southern tip of Texas, carrying 20 mock Starlink satellites that were released midway through the hour-long flight that stretched halfway around the world. Despite some engine trouble, the spacec... View Source

Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries... View Source

Barry sits down with Vimal Kapur, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell. They discuss the future of Honeywell as well as Kapur's plan to split the company into three separate entities. They also break down how the company uses automation and what to expect from AI. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SpaceX achieved most of the goals it set out for Starship V3's first test flight... View Source

A fascinating, unclassifiable orb found in the Gulf of Alaska is not an alien object, as some speculated, but the remains of a poorly documented animal... View Source

Hong Kong’s first astronaut, a former police officer with a doctorate in computer forensics, will join a Chinese mission to its space station on Sunday, in what the city’s Chief Executive John Lee described as a “historic moment.”... View Source

Exclusive: New biography uncovers Frank Hawking’s papers in which he lamented that his son had ‘little initiative’In exploring the physics and geometry of the universe, Stephen Hawking became a world-renowned pioneer of black hole theory, writing the bestselling book A Brief History of Time, which has sold more than 13m copies, and inspiring people to “look up at the stars and not down at your fee... View Source

2034 Earth–Venus–Mars opportunity looks promising. 10–15 on-orbit refueling operations may be needed to make a crewed ship full. (A version 4 Starship could refuel with five tanker launches. Most refueling can be done at an altitude of 180–200 km, made possible by Starship’s size. The final refueling may be performed at a higher altitude of ... Read more... View Source

China’s Wingtech Technology Co. sued Nexperia and related parties in a Chinese court, seeking at least 8 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) in damages and restoration of control over its Dutch chipmaking unit... View Source