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Anthropic PBC has confidentially filed draft paperwork to go public as it races rival OpenAI to make a Wall Street debut as soon as this fall. The number of shares to be offered and the price have not been set yet. Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI comes after a mass shooter at FSU reportedly consulted ChatGPT to plan the attack... View Source

The company said Monday it has filed confidentially for an IPO... View Source

After months of speculation about whether OpenAI or Anthropic would be first in their race to IPO, Anthropic on Monday reached a key milestone: filing to kick off the process with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing sets the stage for what's sure to be a massive IPO. As of its fundraise last week, Anthropic is being called the world's most valuable startup, with a post-money va... View Source

Salesforce Inc. has a stake in Anthropic PBC worth about $5 billion after repeatedly investing in the ascendant AI startup... View Source

The new PlayStation monitor and fight stick arrive this summer, but you'll have to wait until later in the year to snag the Pulse Elevate wireless speakers... View Source

The company added a warning to prospective investors that a major dilution could be in the cards after it goes public... View Source

Though Gen Z has developed a reputation for being so disinterested in sex that they don't even want to see it on TV, the popularity of series like Heated Rivalry and The Summer I Turned Pretty has made it very clear that more than a few young people do, in fact, like their entertainment a little steamy. However prudish you might think today's twentysomethings are, they've helped turn these sexuall... View Source

The build-out for artificial intelligence will be inflationary in the early going, preventing new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh from cutting interest rates as quickly as he has suggested should be possible, according to Torsten Slok of Apollo Global Management Inc... View Source

Malaysia's under-16 social media ban has taken effect... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Introduction From the first glider flight to the first powered flight, aviation pioneers have paved the way for remarkable innovations in flight. At NASA, our pilots conduct research, study wildfires, and support unmanned aircraft missions. In fact, out of the 360 astronauts who have been selected, 191 of... View Source

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict a below-normal number of named storms in the upcoming 2026 Atlantic hurricane season... View Source

Get ready for some gaming news. It’s officially June, which means splashy new events from PlayStation, Xbox, and gaming hype man Geoff Keighley. But this season doesn’t just feature the big tentpole shows; there will be a bunch of smaller events, too, and they might feature some promising games as well. But this year’s events are taking place at a difficult time for the industry... View Source

Nvidia is entering the PC market with a new superchip. With Windows running on the chips, the company is going head-to-head with Intel and AMD, Tom Mackenzie explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Atari's buying the maker of the Crossy Road games... View Source

Gaze into the orb. | Image: The Verge There are many solid Bluetooth trackers for iPhones that tap into Apple’s expansive Find My network. Some are thin, some are a bit chunkier. And, evidently, some look like tiny soccer balls. Ugreen’s FineTrack 2 glows in the dark, and it has a loud 110-decibel alarm when you need to find it. It’s just $14.99 at Amazon for Prime members (originally $19.99). Ugr... View Source

Meredith Whitney Advisory Group CEO Meredith Whitney says the economy is doing "well" amid the expansion of AI and rising inflation on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Sejong Univ./Hur et al; JWST: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, V. Almendros-Abad, M. Guarcello, K. Monsch, and the EWOCS team. Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand This image of Westerlund 2 released on March 19, 2026, features Chandra X-ray Observatory data (pink) and infrared data from NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope (red, orange, green, cyan, and blue)... View Source

Rome, Italy, 1st June 2026, CyberNewswire... View Source

Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I've been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it the Professional Developers Conference, and I can't remember a more pivotal moment. As Microsoft continues to reshuffle its entire business around AI, it's moving Build into a smaller, more intimate venue. Trust in Windows and Gi... View Source

Fund managers are snapping up beaten-down European software stocks as fears of disruption from artificial intelligence fade... View Source

The city spectacle is back for 2026 — and don't worry you'll have another chance to see it in July... View Source

The popular fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting access to its API as part of efforts to clamp down on AI scraping, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Developers who want to build an app using Strava's data now need to pay for a flat $11.99 / month subscription. In an update on its developer hub, Strava blames the change on "zero-code AI tools" that allow users to quickly create apps... View Source

French Ambassador for International Investments and President of C4 Industries Pascal Cagni joins Bloomberg's Matt Miller on "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss foreign investments in France as French President Emmanuel Macron announced €93 billion ($108 billion) investment pledges at the "Choose France" summit. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Revolut Ltd. plans to add another 200 employees in France as the UK fintech continues its European expansion... View Source

Here's how to watch Microsoft Build 2026... View Source

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Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline a spectacular month of planetary viewing... View Source

People from Delaware to Montreal reported either hearing loud booms or seeing the fireball in the sky over weekendA meteor over Massachusetts during the weekend ultimately prompted reports of booms and sightings across New England into Canada.The American Meteor Society said that the meteor in question was about 3ft (1 meter) wide as it entered the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border with M... View Source

Over the past several years, Microsoft has largely managed to withstand populist calls to break up Big Tech while peers faced sweeping lawsuits. But a probe by the Federal Trade Commission suggests that grace period could be nearing an end. Earlier this year, Bloomberg outlined the contents of civil investigative demands (CIDs) - similar to a subpoena - the FTC sent to at least half a dozen compan... View Source

Honeywell International Inc.-backed quantum computing company Quantinuum Inc. boosted the size of its initial public offering to as much as $1.46 billion, raising the number of shares offered and the price range... View Source

Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, explains what people are getting wrong about the impact of AI on the US labor market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ASUS' new ROG Xbox Ally X20 has mostly the same hardware as last year's handheld, but now comes with a new OLED panel... View Source

This could change our understanding of how the cosmic titans collide... View Source

The artificial-intelligence trade locked in fresh gains on Monday, allowing global equities to shrug off a rebound in oil prices as the US and Iran remained deadlocked over a peace deal. Ozan Tarman, Global Macro Vice Chair at Deutsche Bank joined Stephen Carroll and Lizzy Burden to discuss the the moves in stocks as where Bond yields go from here. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google announced it will open a flagship store in Tokyo this summer, the first of its kind outside of the United States... View Source

The second full moon of May put on a spectacular show on May 31... View Source

Lawsuit claims Valve’s Steam store squeezes developers just like other app marketplaces... View Source

A lot of details are still under wraps, but at least we know what the new Nvidia Spark laptops look like. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia has officially entered the world of consumer laptop chips with the RTX Spark, and several device makers already have hardware lined up for it. Microsoft, Asus, HP, MSI, Lenovo, and Dell are expected to launch RTX Spark laptops sometime this fall, and some of those partne... View Source

“The technology worked. The value didn’t arrive,” Bain concluded in the report... View Source

Sellers of products with names like Boner Bears and DTF have voluntarily recalled their products after testing positive for the active ingredients in Viagra and Cialis... View Source

Anthropic PBC is set to give the European Union’s cybersecurity agency access to Mythos, its powerful artificial intelligence tool capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in computer systems... View Source

The explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is a big setback for the spaceflight company and will have implications for NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface of the moon... View Source

The Xbox Ally X20, and the glasses you’ll have to buy with it. | Image: Asus If you asked me what I'd change about the Xbox Ally X handheld - aside from fixing Windows, I mean - I'd tell you two key things. First, give me a bigger, better screen. Even a little bit bigger, so games feel less claustrophobic and with less ugly bezel. Second, get rid of the "Library" button. I am so tired of an accide... View Source

There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it... View Source

MediaTek, Taiwan’s foremost designer of chips for mobile devices, is hiring more engineers on expectations of revenue to multiple in 2027 from its developing AI data center business. Vince Hu, MediaTek, Corporate Senior Vice President, speaks with Bloomberg News' Stephen Engle at COMPUTEX 2026 in Taipei. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NVIDIA announced the new Isaac Gr00t reference design humanoid robot platform that combines humanoid robot, five-fingered hands and NVIDIA Jetson Thor compute... View Source

Ozan Tarman, global macro vice chair at Deutsche Bank, discusses the artificial intelligence trade and how the industry could impact jobs. He speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nvidia is entering the PC market with a new RTX Spark Superchip which will debut in laptop and desktop computers from leading PC brands including Dell and Lenovo this fall. CEO Jensen Huang made the announcement at the Computex trade show in Taipei. Bloomberg's Peter Elstrom reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Jun Bei Liu, Co-founder and Lead Portfolio Manager at Ten Cap, discusses her outlook for markets and investment strategy. She speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A top-performing technology fund plans to own SK Hynix Inc.’s shares, betting that tighter supply will further benefit the South Korean AI memory chipmaker after a 1,000% rally in the past year... View Source

Could Africa’s long-misunderstood population boom become its greatest economic advantage? Economist and author Joe Studwell joins host Merryn Somerset Webb to discuss his book, How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier. He argues that rising population density is already transforming the continent by creating deeper markets, boosting agricultural productivity... View Source

Insight with Haslinda Amin, a daily news program featuring in-depth, high-profile interviews and analysis to give viewers the complete picture on the stories that matter. The show features prominent leaders spanning the worlds of business, finance, politics and culture. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Cost savings from automation are broadly falling short of projections, according to a new Bain & Co. global survey of large companies... View Source

Nvidia Corp. said Anthropic PBC, OpenAI and SpaceX are among the first big users of its upcoming microprocessor, securing key customers for its latest attempt to expand an already extensive footprint in AI data centers... View Source

Nvidia's Jensen Huang calls concerns of AI taking jobs “complete nonsense," saying instead that companies are hiring more software engineers due to the abilities of new agentic AI features. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NVIDIA claims the new RTX Spark chip for PCs will offer 1 petaflop of AI computing power... View Source

With no recorded sightings before 1885, noctilucent clouds have been linked to volcanoes, pollution or climate changeAs summer arrives in the northern hemisphere, so do the noctilucent clouds – hopefully. These high-altitude formations are as enigmatic as they are beautiful. Their name derives from Latin, meaning “night shining”.They appear during the summer months and glow with an electric-blue i... View Source

Emerging Asian equities rose to a record, propelled by continuing enthusiasm for the artificial intelligence trade that’s bolstered global stocks despite the Iran war... View Source

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra is basically a MacBook Pro clone (that's powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark)... View Source

This shadowy render is the best glimpse Microsoft is giving us so far. | Image: Microsoft Once upon a time, Microsoft had to write off $900 million betting an Arm-based Nvidia chip could power its first flagship Windows portable, the original Microsoft Surface. But today, it's trying again. Microsoft and Nvidia have just announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, a computer with a new Arm-based Nvidia c... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is entering the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel Corp. technology in that arena and modernizing the machines for the AI era... View Source

%he Trump administration has most pegged the near term price tag for Golden Dome’s objective architecture at approximately $185 billion. 60% of this will be in space for about 1200 satellites and then scaling to 7500 interceptors and then replacements every five years. Last year, President Trump put forward a $175 billion figure, which he ... Read more... View Source

This fall, Nvidia will officially become a consumer PC chipmaker like Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm, putting a complete computing chip - not just graphics - into the very heart of laptops and mini-PCs. After many months of leaks, it's finally announcing the RTX Spark, the first in a family of chips that will meet or beat the most powerful thin-and-light Windows machines ever, it claims. "This is... View Source

LG Electronics Inc. shares have quadrupled this year as investors applaud the venerable Korean appliance maker’s shift into robotics... View Source

Apple Watchで腕時計業界を塗り替えたアップルが、スマートフォン市場に匹敵する巨大な眼鏡市場の開拓に取り組んでいる... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is poised to overtake Toyota Motor Corp. as Japan’s most valuable company, marking a milestone for the global artificial intelligence boom and a dramatic reshuffling of the country’s corporate hierarchy... View Source

Rob Hillard, APAC CEO at Deloitte, discusses the impact of AI on corporates across the region. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is finally available outside of China... View Source

China’s manufacturing activity slowed in May, according to a private survey of export-oriented firms, in line with an official gauge that suggests the world’s second-largest economy is losing some steam... View Source

AMD has some new gaming-focused chips for the economy we all live in... View Source

Local investors are driving the premium on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s US-listed shares to a two-year low as they pile into the chipmaker’s stock in Taipei on bets the AI boom has further to run... View Source

Vast, a 3D-modeling startup founded by a 29-year-old gamer, raised nearly $200 million to become the latest Chinese AI outfit to achieve a valuation of $1 billion... View Source

Low-budget horror movies directed by YouTube creators are proving more popular than Star Wars... View Source

It starts at just $599 for students or $699 for everyone else... View Source

AMD CEO Lisa Su holds a Ryzen chip. | Image: AMD Computex 2026 is underway in Taiwan, and we're expecting all manner of flashy computers with jaw-dropping pricetags (or no pricetags at all) as the entire industry navigates RAMageddon. But for desktop PC gamers, AMD has a different pitch. It's relaunching three old components alongside a big new promise: you won't need to buy a new motherboard unti... View Source

It's like WarioWare, but you and all the people you love are the characters... View Source

The AW3426DW familiar specs, updated design language, and a bunch of QD-OLED enhancements. | Image: Alienware Alienware is taking to this year's Computex 2026 in Taipei to announce some cool gaming monitors, most notably two exciting OLED options that are coming at different points this year. First off, the company is debuting the successor to its very first QD-OLED gaming monitor from 2022 with a... View Source

Dell Technologies Inc. introduced a redesigned XPS 13 laptop, positioning the device as a direct answer to Apple Inc.’s popular MacBook Neo, which stunned the budget PC market upon its debut in March with its features and price... View Source

Alienware is also releasing an updated 34-inch ultra-wide alongside new affordable 32 and 34-inch displays... View Source

Dell is aiming for students like Apple did with the MacBook Neo. | Image: Dell Dell is making good on its tease from CES and finally announcing a new XPS 13. The XPS 13 returns as a budget-friendly option, launching in July at a promotional student price of $599 - though that introductory deal only runs until September for back-to-school shopping; it'll start at $699 for everyone else. The $599 pr... View Source

Apple isn't just looking to take on Meta in the smart glasses market; it's looking to upend eyewear as a whole, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. When the Apple Watch launched, it wasn't simply competing against the Pebbles and the Motorolas of the world. The company also had Swatch, Fossil, and Seiko in its crosshairs. Similarly, Apple's smart glasses will be positioned not just against Meta... View Source

The premium gaming handheld's price is expected to be around $1,500... View Source

Watch the stream below. | Image: NVIDIA NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage for his GTC Taipei keynote at 8PM PT / 11PM ET. You can watch all the announcements here and embedded below. Rumors have been flying about what to expect from today's presentation, but the big one is the possibility of a partnership with Microsoft and a renewed Windows on ARM push. Microsoft has been teasing... View Source

The company announced the new Dual Format feature alongside other updates at TwitchCon Europe... View Source

Squared. Get it? | Image: Mojang The A Minecraft Movie sequel officially has a title: A Minecraft Movie Squared. What's more, we now know that Kirsten Dunst will star as Alex, the game's female character option, and that Matt Berry is set to play an even bigger role in this film. He voiced Nitwit in the first movie, but in this one, he'll be playing a human character. Who exactly he'll be hasn't b... View Source

Apple's smart glasses reportedly won't make their debut until end of 2027... View Source

These refreshed devices are waiting on the debut of the revamped Siri... View Source

Chipmakers are by far the hottest stocks in the market, but their recent surge is lending urgency to the debate over whether investors are buying into an artificial-intelligence bubble that could be due to burst. Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership Research Fellow Gautam Mukunda joined David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

'If you can't tend to your own planet, none of you deserve to live here.'... View Source

Even the cover revels in a low-bit digital aesthetic. | Image: Saddle Creek / Feeble Little Horse From the opening moments of bitknot, it's obvious that Feeble Little Horse has found an entirely new gear. Where on Girl with Fish the blown-out textures were more '90s indie rock and shoegaze, on their latest LP, there's a more modern edge to the distortion and the riffs cut cleaner. Similarly, where... View Source

An hour in flight UA236 returned to Newark. | Screenshot: The Verge United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca on Saturday night was forced to turn around just an hour after takeoff due to security concerns around a Bluetooth signal. Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight and reported that the crew repeatedly requested passengers to turn off their Bluetooth. According to one poster... View Source

A national school exam board in India said it has been monitoring and has contained vulnerabilities in its online grading portal for one of the country’s most important school-leaving exams that were first flagged by a teenage cybersecurity researcher... View Source

A speedy 18-inch Mini LED that needs to be seen to be believed. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge My eyes have seen the PC gaming promised land, and it's a beautifully bright world without a shred of blurriness. It's warm, it looks lovely, and it's impeccably sharp. Also, it's expensive as hell. I've dipped my toe in this world by testing a pre-production version of the upcoming Asus RO... View Source

The dominance of a few technology giants in the benchmark S&P 500 Index is now carrying over into the niche market for dividend futures and options... View Source

IO Interactive’s 007 First Light is here, and it’s just as stunning a James Bond mov — err, video game — as we hoped it would be. Pardon the confusion, the title’s engaging tutorial really feels like you’re watching a great Bond movie at times. Whether you’re a longtime Hitman fan who’s been eagerly waiting for the studio’s latest game or not, there are deals to be had on both the PlayStation 5 an... View Source

Also: The latest on iOS 27, iOS 28, new Apple TV and HomePod mini... View Source

The sandfish locomotion idea has been adopted from Scincus scincus, a lizard found in the Sahara desert... View Source

Earlier this month, I finally achieved the elusive goal I had set for myself in Bungie's Marathon. I collected six of the game's rarest items, allowing me to attempt and then successfully clear the raid-style Compiler boss. I felt a massive weight lift off my shoulders - nearly 185 hours of playtime and I had managed to complete Marathon's pinnacle activity. A day later, I took my first break from... View Source

Traveling at 75,000 miles an hour, breaking up 40 miles above the ground. | Image: CIRA On Saturday, at around 2:06 pm ET, a meteor streaked over the northeastern US and exploded north of Cape Cod Bay. The fireball was caught on camera by several people, shook houses, and can even be seen clearly in satellite imagery, lighting up the sky. Some residents initially thought that the shaking and boom... View Source

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsIf an alien landed and asked you: “What is this thing you call music?” what would you play for them? And why? Heather, KentPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be publi... View Source

The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words "every hit delivers Bitcoin" emblazoned across it. It claimed to be advertising a device called Gudtrip, and I thought everything about it sounded fake. So I went looking for it. What I eventually found, after weeks of se... View Source

From farming and walking sims to space trucking, you can live that cozy life… but in space!... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about gadgets and smartphones, follow Dominic Preston. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started In 2023, the European Union agreed on two landmark pieces of legislation mandating how portable tech products with batteries must... View Source

Despite headwinds from the current administration, automakers continue to release well-equipped EVs with bigger battery packs and increasingly faster charging speeds. For those who want to travel further between plugging in, the future is still bright, just slightly tinted. But there haven't been many sedans starting around or below $50,000, as crossover SUVs have largely taken up this territory... View Source

"I think these are not far-out type of ideas; they are not really futuristic ideas that we are talking about."... View Source

From specialized motors to the use of machine learning algorithms, Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation... View Source

China signaled it would focus its policy for online platforms on balancing support for growth with enhanced regulatory oversight, according to a commentary in a top-level Communist Party publication... View Source

African fintech unicorn Moniepoint was founded in 2015 and has grown into one of the continent's standout success stories. From powering payments for small businesses to building critical financial infrastructure, the company has scaled rapidly and earned its place among Africa's most valuable tech firms. Bloomberg's Jennifer Zabasajja spoke to Felix Ike, the company's co-founder and CTO, about Mo... View Source

China’s factory activity slowed in May as disruptions from a five-day break added to pressures on global demand and input costs from the continuing conflict in the Middle East... View Source

Meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km/h) at an altitude of 40 miles when it broke apartA meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the north-eastern United States on Saturday, Nasa said, setting off booms that echoed over the region with a blast equivalent to 300 tons of TNT.The fireball broke up over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire just af... View Source

The hunt is on for companies that could benefit from the tailwinds of an unprecedented wave of stock offerings in the US, and investors are increasingly honing in on the Asian supply chain... View Source

The Spanish soccer player posted a bunch of images featuring the mystery product... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build artificial intelligence data centers in France, La Tribune and the Financial Times reported... View Source

Go from 4K resolution for Crimson Desert to 680Hz for Counter-Strike 2... View Source

Here's what we read and liked this week... View Source

‘She listens to Dolly Parton now. She’s exposed to all kinds of things being in jail, because she’s got nothing but time.’... View Source

The new owner, Integrated Media Company, also owns Fandom, Gamespot and metacritic... View Source

Slots & Daggers, a low-key, fantasy-themed slot machine roguelike, was one of my favorite games last year. That may sound like a complicated description, but the game mixes ideas from deckbuilding roguelikes with slot machines to create an engrossing loop, and there's steady meta-progression that helps you push further with just about every run. Perhaps the best part is that Slots & Dagger... View Source

This week's science news... View Source

I live in a part of Los Angeles where I feel safer bringing pepper spray on walks. The problem is, I don't always remember to bring it with me, and it's not legal to carry it everywhere I go. Pebblebee's $59.99 Halo Bluetooth tracker surprised me by being a suitable replacement because it doubles as a siren-equipped personal safety device, and I can bring it anywhere. A quick pull of its cap trigg... View Source

Marcia Lucas, who edited 'Star Wars' and 'Return of the Jedi,' has died at 80... View Source

The wallpaper is the real star of the film. | Image: A24 The Kane Parsons' film Backrooms is expected to earn up to $90 million in its opening weekend after pulling down $38 million on Friday alone. That's not only above expectations, but absolutely obliterates A24's previous opening weekend record of $25.5 million for Alex Garland's Civil War. It's also a better opening day than The Mandalorian a... View Source

That's on top of another $2 billion contract awarded to SpaceX earlier this week... View Source

Cecil Baldwin is a busy man with some dope boots. | Image: Cecil Baldwin Cecil Baldwin's résumé includes appearances on Gravity Falls, narrating the documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street, and performing as part of the New York Neo-Futurists theater company. But he is best known as the host of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, a long-running fiction show that blends m... View Source

What is it about the Blue Moon that inspires us to write songs and name beers after it?... View Source

Art TVs aren’t exactly known for being affordable, which is why Woot’s latest sale is notable. Now through June 26th, the retailer is discounting Samsung’s 2025 Frame TV and Hisense’s 2025 CanvasTV. The 65-inch CanvasTV is down to $779.99 ($520 off) — its best price of the year — while Samsung’s like-minded Frame TV is on sale in multiple sizes starting at $587.99 ($312 off). If you wa... View Source

On Episode 212 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Space.com's Mike Wall to discuss the loss of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket... View Source

Microsoft is facing criticism for its handling of zero-day exploits. Someone going by the name Nightmare Eclipse has been publicly feuding with the company, posting proof-of-concept exploit code. Some of their posts suggest that they're a disgruntled former employee. But what caught cyber security researcher Kevin Beaumont's eye was how Microsoft has responded. Microsoft suggests it plans to bring... View Source

The Arduboy FX-C squeezes a lot of entertainment into a thin, credit card-sized handheld. As handheld consoles continue to grow and push the limits of what you can actually hold in your hands, the Arduboy FX-C comes in a refreshingly pocketable package.  It manages to squeeze the best features of past models and some welcome upgrades into a handheld that’s still no larger or thicker than a fe... View Source

They were all stars of the dot-com era before fading into the background as the bubble burst and a new generation of tech darlings rose to the forefront. But Dell Technologies Inc., Nokia Oyj and Lenovo Group Ltd. are back with a vengeance thanks to the unrelenting artificial intelligence spending boom... View Source

The Kentucky school district that filed a social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and other companies is getting $27 million in settlement... View Source

The AI-Driven Valuation Explosion will go beyond Nvidia $5 Trillion. In May 2026, we have multiple companies valued at $3–6 trillion. We will have $10 trillion companies by the end of 2026 and $50 trillion companies by 2028. NVIDIA (~$5.2T), Alphabet (~$4.6T), Apple (~$4.5T), and Microsoft (~$3.3T), with Amazon close behind at ~$2.9T. This is ... Read more... View Source

He-Man isn't the only one with a sword... View Source

You may have heard that Valve's new Steam Controller can ring like a telephone or do the Wilhelm scream. But did you know it can sing songs, too? Let me show you. Here's the new Steam Controller performing the "Ground Theme" from Super Mario Bros. 2: Here is "Still Alive" from Portal - fitting for Valve hardware: I even made it play Doom: View this post on Instagram Are you wondering how the contr... View Source

The implications of artificial intelligence gripped global central bankers in Iceland this week, with one Federal Reserve official joking that it won’t put economists out of business... View Source

The Fitbit Air isn't the only Whoop alternative that you can buy without a subscription... View Source

A good time with old maps. | Image: Past Maps Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He's a former engineer at Meta and an experienced tech founder who in 2022 sold his last venture - an e-commerce tool for businesses that use Shopify - right as the AI boom was boomin... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence Global Head of Technology Research Mandeep Singh joined Christina Ruffini and David Gura on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss so-called "legacy" tech companies like Dell, Intel and Nokia seeing their stocks surge as they turn to AI. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Backrooms is a wild ride, and it's yet another example of how many great directors are coming from the internet... View Source

Don't miss 2026's smallest full moon with this livestream from Italy with the Virtual Telescope Project. The 'Blue Moon' livestream will begin at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 GMT)... View Source

TikTok sellers that appear to be AI generated, in tears. | The Verge Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: "Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white women will stay 13 seconds [on this video] to save... View Source

The dangers of AI eclipsed those of nuclear weapons at a defense forum discussion on strategic stability in Singapore, as panelists warned it could reduce reaction times to the point where people make rash decisions... View Source

Meta's mouse tracking tool for employees could capture non-US data and could violate the EU's privacy rules, according to Reuters... View Source

Number go up? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images I haven't seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time - that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bankers have their way, you are going to be their bagholder. Lots of the top-line details leaked long before the S-1 filing itself became pub... View Source

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 130, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, don't forget to hydrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Victor Wembanyama and mahjong and Merlin Mann's pearls of wisdom, watching more of the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals than I expecte... View Source

Indie Game Roundup: Mina the Hollower, a Sims alternative and more... View Source

Anthropic PBC updated its warning about secondary markets for its shares, cutting the number of unauthorized platforms by half, after the notice caused panic among investors and a sharp rebuttal from one of the companies named... View Source

The company is hoping to sell 10 million wearables in the second half of 2026, according to 'The Information.'... View Source

The second full moon of May takes to the night sky tonight. Here's what to expect... View Source

A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5 million—one of the largest ever recorded... View Source

The activewear giant has used chemical recycling to make jersey for 16 teams competing in the tournament. But the technique is unlikely to help solve fashion’s waste issue... View Source

China’s MiniMax Group Inc. has begun preparations for a domestic initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing, as the fast‑growing artificial intelligence startup challenges local rivals including DeepSeek... View Source

On this edition of Next Africa, we bring you Bloomberg's 2026 African startups to watch list. From Egypt to Mauritius, these companies are racing to solve some of the continent's toughest challenges. Plus, we hear from Moniepoint co-founder and CTO, Felix Ike, on building one of Africa's leading fintech platforms. We also speak with venture capital investors on opportunities and challenges of inve... View Source

A blue micromoon is a rare spectacle, though it’s not as blue or as micro as you might imagineThis weekend the night skies will feature a rare spectacle – a blue micromoon. We take a look at what the phrase means and how to catch a glimpse of the event. Continue reading... View Source

Nextpower Inc. shares briefly touched an all-time high after the solar tracking provider agreed to buy battery company Prevalon Energy for as much as $365 million, marking the solar-tracking provider’s move into energy storage and the fast-growing AI data-center market... View Source

Dell Technologies Inc. shares surged the most since the company returned to the public markets in December 2018, lifted by an outlook for annual sales that far surpassed expectations on demand for servers that power artificial intelligence work... View Source

The world’s biggest social media platforms agreed to pay about $27 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a rural Kentucky school district that alleged their products are addictive and helped create a teen mental health crisis that drained school resources... View Source

Ocado Group Plc struck a deal to help British grocer Asda lift online sales, a boost for the company’s automated technology after a series of setbacks... View Source

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with an RTX laptop at CES 2025. | Image: Getty Images It's the world's worst kept secret that Nvidia is about to announce its own Arm-powered laptop chips at Computex this weekend, and now Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm are all openly teasing the announcement. The Windows and Nvidia GeForce accounts on X both posted "A new era of PC" earlier today, and now Arm has followed up w... View Source

Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund supported all shareholder proposals at Palantir Technologies Inc. as the fund’s growing politicization puts its investments under closer scrutiny by the Nordic country’s public... View Source

Anthropic PBC raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the artificial intelligence company at $965 billion including the new investment, eclipsing rival OpenAI’s value for the first time. The funding, announced Thursday, was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. Each of the lead investors put in more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matt... View Source

The developers at Yacht Club say that charging $20 for their slick new platformer was a no-brainer... View Source

SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing... View Source

SpaceX is targeting a valuation of at least $1.8 trillion in its initial public offering, according to sources, after Bloomberg News reported in April that SpaceX was aiming for a valuation above $2 trillion. Bloomberg's space and aviation managing editor Benedikt Kammel joins Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA has selected seven companies to provide construction, revitalization, and infrastructure improvements at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Johnson Space Center Multiple Award Construction Contract supports up to $300 million in upgrades to mission‑support facilities, utilities, and equipment across the NASA Johnson campus. All funds must be obligated by Sept. 30,... View Source

The Pentagon awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to build missile-tracking satellites linked with President Donald Trump's planned "Golden Dome" defense system, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In an announcement on Friday, the US Space Force says the sensor-equipped satellites will allow it to detect and track targets from space. The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX - which recently filed for what cou... View Source

Payouts at Samsung have raised questions over how to share the windfall from the AI boom... View Source

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts gather together for a crew portrait wearing their Dragon pressure suits during a suit verification check inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. Clockwise from bottom left are, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiy... View Source

Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec breaks down why SpaceX is coming back down to Earth with a slightly lower valuation in its IPO. Plus, Anthropic closes a funding round at a whopping $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI for the first time in the AI race; and Dell surges after the hardware giant's outlook far surpassed Wall Street estimates. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI has spoken with banks including Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. about working on its upcoming initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

A new lawsuit accuses a senior official at Shield AI of “profane, egregious acts” of sexual harassment and alleges fraud and safety issues involving other workers at the defense tech startup... View Source

Fable is delayed again, putting it outside the GTA blast radius... View Source

SpaceX has won a contract for more than $4 billion to build satellites to track foreign aircraft and missiles as part of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome defensive shield... View Source

CNN is the latest media company hauling Perplexity into court... View Source

Bundle up for our frigid trek behind the Iron Curtain in this new 'For All Mankind' spinoff... View Source

The Acer Nitro Blaze Link might run on Linux, but it's no Steam Deck. Acer says it's a "streaming-first handheld and companion device," like a PlayStation Portal for your PC. Announced at Computex on Friday, it's launching in Q4 2026 with a 7-inch (1920 x 1200) display, Wi-Fi 6, just 1GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and 8GB of eMMC storage. That's technically not even enough RAM to run Stardew Valley, but the B... View Source

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey discusses the emerging risks from frontier AI models, the recent concerns about the private credit market and the central bank's stablecoin proposals. He speaks with Bloomberg's Stephanie Flanders at a central banking conference in Iceland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

China's Shenzhou 21 astronauts returned to Earth on Friday (May 29), wrapping up a record-breaking, and very eventful, space mission... View Source

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey says that British banks are still locked out of using Anthropic PBC’s powerful new AI tool. Speaking with Bloomberg's Stephanie Flanders at a central banking conference in Iceland, Bailey adds that banks are using other models to test their cyberdefenses. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Prepare for a spectacular sight, as the second full moon of May meets the red star Antares this weekend... View Source

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said that British banks are still locked out of using Anthropic PBC’s powerful new AI tool, calling for a multinational approach to fighting cybersecurity threats... View Source

This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free. It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal. But there's a catch. There's always a catch. In exchange for the cleaning, Shift wants footage of its cleaners at work: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting tables, mopping floors. It... View Source

Anthropic raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the AI company at $965 billion including the new investment, eclipsing rival OpenAI’s value for the first time. Bloomberg's AI reporter Shirin Ghaffary joins Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Thermometer company ThermoWorks is putting its reputation for accuracy on the line with its first kitchen scale... View Source

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the faint glow of the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017.Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Tully (University of Hawaii); Image Processing: G. Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on May 27, 2026, features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in diameter and some 23 mil... View Source

Stories of NASA and Apollo have passed into folklore, but the equivalent stories from the other side of the Iron Curtain have often been shrouded in secrecy... View Source

For nearly 80 years, Ferrari occupied a unique cultural space where its cars were aspirational, even for people who resented those who could afford them. The price, the exclusivity, and the opacity of the buying process allowed Ferrari to sail above ordinary criticism. You might not be able to afford one, but you still wanted one. With the launch of the all-electric Luce this week, however, the co... View Source

A weeks-long rally in space-related stocks came to an abrupt halt on Friday, with the explosion of a Blue Origin rocket serving as a glaring reminder of the risks that come with the potential riches investors hope to reap from the blossoming industry... View Source

The biggest news stories of the week: An early look at the new version of Siri, reviews of Google's new wearable, GoPro's newest action cam and more!... View Source

4 Min Read NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Gets Last Look This photo peers down the barrel of the Roman telescope with its visor-like sunshade deployed. Credits: NASA/Sydney Rohde Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key element for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the primary mirror. This 7.9-... View Source

Microsoft has delayed its upcoming Fable reboot once again. The game was set to launch in autumn 2026, but Microsoft now says that Fable will come out in February 2027. However, it will show a "new look" at the game at its Xbox Games Showcase on June 7th. "​​This is year is packed with incredible games for XBOX players to enjoy, from Halo: Campaign Evolved, Gears of War: E-Day and Call... View Source

NewEdge Weath CIO Cameron Dawson discusses the outlook for semiconductor stocks during an interview with Matt Miller on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We've never seen Captain Kirk wearing an outfit quite like this one... View Source

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is poised to launch 29 Amazon Leo internet satellites to orbit on Friday night (May 28)... View Source

I pondered the other day what's next for Microsoft's Surface PC lineup, and it looks like we're about to find out. Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri has just teased "something new is coming for developers," complete with a mysterious image of what looks like a curved display edge. Davuluri notes that whatever is coming is "not a new OS version," so that rules out the potential for Windows 1... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Dell (DELL) shares are soaring after the company gave an outlook for annual sales that far surpassed analysts’ estimates, fueled by demand for servers that power artificial intelligence work. - Gap (GAP) shares plunged after the company lowered its sales outlook due to struggles with its product mix. - NetApp (NTAP) shares jumped after t... View Source

Acer's latest laptop feels like an answer to the MacBook Neo... View Source