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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses what to expect from Nvidia this week as investors anxiously await the company's earnings results. Plus, the AI data center boom triggers the largest power deal in history, the filing for SpaceX's IPO could come as soon as this week, and Ed Ludlow brings the latest from Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company is transferring workers to four new organizations building AI tools and apps, according to NYT and Reuters... View Source

Recursive, a startup creating AI that conducts experiments on how to safely improve itself, just came out of stealth. The company is valued at $4.65 billion, with backers including Google Ventures, Greycroft, Nvidia and AMD Ventures. Recursive CEO Richard Socher joins Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks about the trip he took to China with President Donald Trump and other American business leaders. Huang says he didn't talk to the Chinese directly about selling them H200 chips. Huang and Michael Dell speak to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow at the Dell World conference in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

New Zealand expects significant savings from an overhaul of its public service, which will eliminate about 8,700 jobs, merge some government departments and extend the use of AI... View Source

JX Advanced Metals Corp. has priced its zero-coupon convertible bonds at the top of the marketed range, underscoring solid investor demand for equity-linked securities in Japan... View Source

Analog Devices Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire closely held Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

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If you just can't choose between refresh rate and resolution, LG's next gaming monitor could solve your problem, as the UltraGear 25G590B monitor is the first one announced that will be capable of a native 1000Hz refresh rate at 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. So far, the 1,000Hz models we've seen have only been capable of 720p at the most, but this 24.5-inch IPS display does not have that limitation, a... View Source

Supercharged gains in a handful of companies and weak market breadth are stoking concerns that the world’s hottest stock market is overheating in some pockets... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is set to create an artificial intelligence cloud business with Blackstone Inc., aiming to compete with companies like CoreWeave Inc., according to the Wall Street Journal... 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 Robinhood Markets CIO Stephanie Guild, Andersen Institute’s Fabio Natalucci, Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives, IIF President & CEO Tim Adams, Kayne Anderson Rudnick’s Julie Biel, 42 Macro Founder & CEO Darius Dale, Westly... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is reassigning 7,000 workers to new jobs related to artificial intelligence, according to an internal memo, part of a broad corporate restructuring that includes planned staff reductions later this week... View Source

Power prices are surging in the US East after the largest US grid operator declared an emergency as soaring temperatures descend on the region... View Source

Catch the F1 Canadian Grand Prix live on a service that isn't Apple... View Source

Meta is building one of the largest artificial intelligence data centers in the world, and it's going up in a remote corner of Louisiana. Financed by one of the biggest private capital deals ever assembled, the project in rural Richland Parish will require up to 7.5 gigawatts of power, 5 gigawatts for computing alone, from 10 brand new natural gas plants. In a region desperate for economic revival... View Source

Artificial intelligence chip startup Tenstorrent Inc. is drawing early takeover interest from prospective buyers at a moment of renewed momentum for upstarts looking to challenge Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc... View Source

The complaint says park visitors don't get sufficient notice they're being scanned... View Source

Three photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center who inspire the world through visual storytelling earned top honors in the portrait category at the 2025 NASA Imagery Experts Program Annual Awards.  “Congratulations to all three on this impressive achievement and for capturing such breathtaking imagery,” said Johnson Director Vanessa Wyche. “Their work represents the collaboration, precisio... View Source

The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites... View Source

Dr. Joan LaRovere, chief medical officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, said that AI can 'bolster' the capabilities of health care providers to help diagnose and treat patients more effectively. Dr. LaRovere said that she believes the moment in time is like the 'industrial revolution' that can revolutionize health care. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth."... View Source

Dell Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talk about how they work together on Dell's AI Factory which uses servers with Nvidia chips, software and services. They speak to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow at the Dell World conference in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Volvo's compact, quirky EX30 had a lot of problems when it was first released. Tariffs essentially erased its affordability, making it more expensive to own, and a battery recall made it dangerous to park indoors. But its discontinuation didn't spell the end of Volvo's efforts to sell more affordable electric models. In fact, the Swedish automaker is already at work on a new offering for the US ma... View Source

Akamai Technologies Inc. is seeking to raise $2.6 billion in a convertible bond offering to fund spending on cloud computing infrastructure... View Source

If Dyson’s PencilVac Fluffycones made you wish the company had built something similarly slim for scrubbing the hard floors in your home, enter the recently released Dyson PencilWash. The cordless cleaner is designed to tackle spills and stains on tile and other surfaces, and right now, it’s available for a new low price of $249.99 ($100 off) from Amazon, Target, and Dyson in the run-up to Memoria... View Source

IREN, a vertically integrated AI cloud provider, recently announced a strategic partnership with Nvidia for up to $2.1 billion as part of a broader agreement between the two companies aimed at accelerating the construction of AI infrastructure. IREN CEO Daniel Roberts joins Ed Ludlow on the sidelines of Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas to discuss on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

'The Mandalorian and Grogu' should not have been a theatrical release… and it maybe shouldn't exist at all... View Source

The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn't direct the future of AI. Altman's lawyers, in turn, poked at Musk's own credibility. A jury came to a verdict on Monday after just two hours of deliberation, dismissing Musk's claims due to the statute of limitations... View Source

Dell CEO Michael Dell and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discuss what they see as the biggest supply chain constraint right now during an interview with Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow on the sidelines of the Dell World event in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Volvo's upcoming mainstream EV SUV is available to order now... View Source

'For the atmosphere and world of 'Voidverse' to work, I needed the characters and the prose to meld with the setting.'... View Source

PlayStation reportedly won't release its major single-player PlayStation games on PC anymore. According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Hermen Hulst, who heads up PlayStation's studios business, informed employees in a town hall on Monday about the change in strategy. Schreier had previously reported on the shift in March, saying that Sony scrapped plans to launch PC versions of last year's Ghost o... View Source

Paul Baiocchi, head of fund sales and strategy at SS&C ALPS Advisors, joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." They discuss the ALPS Electrification Infrastructure ETF (ticker: ELFY). (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sony is blaming PS Plus price increases on "ongoing market conditions."... View Source

In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Using instruments aboard NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission, scientists identified a phenomenon known to occur in Earth’s magnetosphere, where charged particles are squeezed like toothp... View Source

What a view from the Orion capsule... View Source

Walmart's Onn brand just launched a whole line of budget-friendly Android tablets that, all together, cost less in total than a single iPad Pro. As spotted by 9to5Google, the six new tablets ship with Android 16 and all but one cost less than $200. The little Onn Core 7 is the most affordable of the bunch at just $97, which gets you a 7-inch 1040 x 600 IPS LCD display, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage... View Source

A federal jury rejects Elon Musk's claims about OpenAI under Sam Altman and says he waited too long to sue. Musk took Altman to trial saying he went against OpenAI's mission by turning it into a for-profit business. Matthew Schettenhelm of Bloomberg Intelligence has been following the case and has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Free X accounts have been hit with major restrictions... View Source

SpaceX will launch its first Starship V3 vehicle on the Flight 12 test flight on Wednesday (May 20)... View Source

Starlink is raising prices across its satellite internet plans in the US - including Standby Mode - with the cheapest 100Mbps Residential plan going from $50 to $55 / month, as reported earlier by PCMag. Meanwhile, Starlink's 200Mbps residential plan has jumped from $80 to $85 / month, while the Residential Max plan went from $120 to $130 / month. Standby Mode, which allows subscribers to pause th... View Source

“We’ve got to get the SpaceX IPO stuff going here pretty soon,” Elon Musk said at a tech summit in Israel on Monday. He's looking to raise as much as $75 billion on a valuation of more than $2 trillion. Bloomberg's Anthony Hughes reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The three week trial ended with less than two hours of deliberation... View Source

Forecasts say up to three glancing CME impacts could trigger G1 and possible G2 geomagnetic storms through May 20, boosting aurora chances across parts of the northern U.S... View Source

After around two hours of deliberation, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict in Musk v. Altman, the tech trial of the year. The group found that two claims were barred by the statute of limitations, and a third failed thanks to the dismissal of one of these. The jury here is an advisory jury, meaning the group is installed solely to offer another opinion to the judge, and its verdict is techni... View Source

In the moments after Anthropic expanded a ban on popular ways to buy its shares, investor chatrooms around the world lit up. “Are we screwed?” one person wrote in a WhatsApp chat for family offices with several hundred members. Similar questions reverberated more publicly across X, Reddit and Chinese-language social media, as investors worried whether their shares in the artificial intelligence de... View Source

xAI promised workers the money in exchange for tax information to train Grok... View Source

A view of NASA’s Orion spacecraft aboard the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on April 1 during the launch of the Artemis II test flight.Credit: NASA The NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) has selected two early‑career scientists for its next class of postdoctoral fellows. The new fellows will begin their projects in May, focusing on space food systems and astron... View Source

A Vega C rocket will launch the European-Chinese SMILE space weather mission to orbit tonight (May 18), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Graduating from college is exciting, but it can also feel slightly terrifying. Along with celebrating a huge accomplishment, many grads jump right into looking for a job. Some might be getting their first apartment, too, which brings on a whole new set of responsibilities. That's why getting the right graduation gift is so important: They aren't merely celebratory, they can make these huge transit... View Source

Dell Technologies Inc. said it added 1,000 customers for a key AI product line in the past quarter as the company tries to capture business from traditional large businesses taking on new artificial intelligence workloads... View Source

Google's keynote on Tuesday will include a boatload of AI news and perhaps some Android XR updates... View Source

SpaceX is targeting a Wednesday, May 20, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket... View Source

Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in "select regions," blaming "ongoing market conditions." Beginning May 20th, 1-month subscriptions will start at $10.99 USD / €9.99 EUR / £7.99 GBP, while 3-month subscriptions will start at $27.99 USD / €27.99 EUR / £21.99 GBP. In the US, the changes result in a $1 price increase f... View Source

NextEra Energy Inc. just announced the largest utility acquisition in US history, a $67 billion deal for rival Dominion Energy Inc., suggesting even the industry’s biggest companies need to grow in order to accommodate the power demand driven by artificial intelligence... View Source

The case against Sony is similar to ones filed against Nintendo and Amazon... View Source

A new NASA video shows the Artemis 2 Orion capsule's separation from its service module just before the spacecraft slammed into Earth's atmosphere on April 10, 2026... View Source

It's not just you - the Google Workspace apps are getting a new look. The redesigned app icons, leaked last month, are now rolling out widely, as we started noticing this morning. Users with the redesigned icons will notice they now have a gradient look that fades from lighter to darker shades, rather than being the same flat tone throughout, similar to the redesigned Google logo that launched a y... View Source

Nvidia is expected to set another revenue record when it reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday. Investors are looking for updates on its $1 trillion data-center revenue target. Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde has a preview. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The old icons that debuted five years ago had very little to visually differentiate them... View Source

This latest Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features Messier 77 (M77), a barred spiral galaxy famous and appreciated among astronomers for its combination of relative proximity and spectacular features to study. It is located 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale).ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy The heart of galaxy M77 shines bri... View Source

Alexa Plus, Amazon's upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on "virtually any topic," according to an announcement on Monday. With the update, Amazon says you can give Alexa Plus a topic, and the AI assistant will offer an overview of what its AI hosts plan to talk about, allowing you to steer the conversation and adjust its length before it starts generating the episode. Some "Alexa Pod... View Source

With the rise of AI agents doing shopping on behalf of consumers, how are retailers going to adapt? John Collison, Stripe's co-founder and president, joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss how AI has already changed the way consumers make purchasing decisions and whether AI agents can truly mimic human taste. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Cyclops and The Thing are now playable in Marvel Cosmic Invasion... View Source

A two-pack of wall washers usually costs over $300, but you can get them for $240. | Image: The Verge Woot is having a day-long sale on a range of tech, including a mix of new and open-box Philips Hue smart lighting. The retailer’s already-discounted prices are even cheaper today when you enter the code SAVETWENTY at checkout through midnight Central Time. The products included in the sale serve a... View Source

Seagate Technology Holdings shares slumped as much as 8.3% after management comments at a JPMorgan conference sparked investor fears that the company won’t be able to keep up with soaring demand for memory chips... View Source

It isn't just lazy. It's also mind-numbingly boring... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Jonah Peretti, who is, technically, the CEO of BuzzFeed — although that will be coming to an end very soon. Just days before we spoke, Jonah agreed to sell 52 percent of BuzzFeed for a total of $120 million to Byron Allen, who owns The Weather Channel, a number of broadcast stations, and several other websites. The deal is a bit of a life raft for BuzzFeed — the company was... View Source

NextEra Energy agreed to pay about $67 billion in stock for Dominion Energy in the biggest power acquisition ever. Bloomberg's Emily Forgash reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

$600 is a lot of money for a gaming headset, but if you edit audio and video, the Arctis Nova Elite might be the only pair you need... View Source

Linux founder Linus Torvalds said in his most recent state of the kernel post that "the continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools," as The Register reports. That probably doesn't apply to stuff like the "Copy Fail" exploit, which was detected with hel... View Source

When he was 12 years old, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman attended the week-long "Aviation Challenge" program at Space Camp, in Huntsville, Alabama. "For the first time, I got behind the controls of an airplane when I attended Aviation Challenge," Isaacman said on Friday evening during an event at the US Space & Rocket Center. "I became a pilot because I thought that was the closest I would... View Source

Pope Leo XIV’s launch of his first encyclical focusing on artificial intelligence next week will feature an unexpected guest: Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic... View Source

Elon Musk’s xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company’s Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven’t materialized... View Source

They feature extra padding, polished metal accents and 'studio-grade' sound quality... View Source

Twice a year, the setting sun perfectly aligns with Manhattan's street grid, creating one of New York City's most spectacular skywatching events... View Source

In the race to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence, Alphabet Inc.’s Google has an enviable position: The company has a healthy cloud computing business, makes its own chips, and has struck deals to share them with companies like Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc... View Source

The US and the Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a planned artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in the Southeast Asian nation, a top US official said, as Washington seeks long-term protection for American investors... View Source

Much of the UFO imagery that the Pentagon released last week was new, but we've known for decades about the odd things that the Apollo astronauts saw on and around the moon... View Source

The headband certainly looks more pillowy than any of Sony’s current headphone models. | Images by HotEUDeals / OnLeaks We now have a good idea of what Sony's upcoming 10th anniversary headphones will look like before their expected launch tomorrow. Leaked image renders of what appears to be Sony's 1000X "The ColleXion" Edition have been shared online by OnLeaks and HotEUDeals, showing thicker lea... View Source

With the V3 launch, SpaceX hopes to prove that the massive vehicle it’s betting everything on will perform as advertised... View Source

Kensei Capital founder wants to help game makers scale up... View Source

Director James Cameron's third chapter in the blockbuster sci-fi franchise lands June 24... View Source

The wildfires that would come to engulf Los Angeles had just begun to burn when Frankee Grove finally admitted to herself that she needed a roommate. It was January 2025, and Grove, then 42, had recently broken up with her boyfriend of six years. They had lived together in a two-bedroom Spanish bungalow on a quaint street in Venice. For Grove, this rental — with its vegetable garden and hardwood f... View Source

Before vaccines, some parents intentionally exposed their children to the virus. In the internet age, that thinking is resurfacing... View Source

The shift is poised to be strongest in Europe and Asia... View Source

CAR-T cell therapy is already a potent treatment for certain cancers. Now, a small study is showing early promise for managing HIV... View Source

Big Pharma is pouring money into tech-devised treatments, but the verdict is out on whether they’ll actually work... View Source

The space industry's plans to launch millions of satellites worry scientists as the rise in high-altitude air pollution threatens to alter Earth's climate... View Source

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies wants you to question the price of forgiveness. After leading a crew of spies through a failed operation, protagonist Cascade is willing to pay whatever amount is needed to reestablish contact not just with fellow agents, but with the friends she let down. After being "frozen" for five years and forced to do desk work, Cascade is sent to the city of Portofiro with an a... View Source

With Congress largely stalemated, companies turn to states to gain leverage over regulations... View Source

Baidu Inc. revenue topped estimates, buying the search leader time as it seeks to catch up in AI services after losing an early lead to rivals such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd... View Source

The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became US health policy chief, most vaccine scientists tended to ignore it. Now they can’t... View Source

Polymarket and Kalshi Inc. have been allowing customers in India to sign up and trade on their prediction markets even after the country’s technology ministry warned that the platforms are illegal... View Source

Elon Musk said he’s back in Texas working on plans for an initial public offering of SpaceX as the rocket and artificial intelligence company gears up for the largest listing of all time... View Source

Microsoft said 'Together' mode added too much 'implementation complexity' and will steer users toward the Teams' gallery view instead... View Source

Helios Towers Plc is committing $110 million of new investment in Democratic Republic of Congo, which it considers one of the most attractive growth opportunities across its nine markets... View Source

The slim arc of a two-day-old moon will pass Venus shining brightlyKeep an eye on the western sky after sunset this week to watch a beautiful sequence unfold over several evenings. A young crescent moon moves first past Venus and then Jupiter, creating a chance to track the moon’s movement through its orbit around the Earth.The chart shows the view on 18 May looking west from London at 22.00. The... View Source

Merryn Somerset Webb speaks to Pictet Asset Management Chief Strategist Luca Paolini about why markets remain remarkably resilient despite geopolitical turmoil, inflation fears and mounting fiscal risks. Paolini argues that the AI investment boom, strong corporate earnings and persistent US economic strength continue to support markets — but warns that the era of US exceptionalism may be fad... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s shares jumped after company management entered make-or-break wage negotiations with its largest labor union aimed at averting a strike that could disrupt operations at the world’s biggest memory chipmaker... View Source

ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. reported soaring revenue and profit in the first quarter and forecast higher earnings ahead, bolstering its financials ahead of a high-profile initial public offering later this year... View Source

Chinese e-commerce giant Shein is acquiring US apparel retailer Everlane from majority owner L Catterton, according to media reports... View Source

Australia’s central bank and financial regulators are laying the groundwork for a potential expansion of tokenized bond markets as policymakers seek to push the country’s wholesale financial system further into the digital era... View Source

Rakuten Bank Ltd. shares surged after Mizuho Financial Group Inc. said it is considering investing in the firm as one of the options for Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Group Inc.’s planned reorganization of its financial businesses... View Source

Kioxia Holdings Corp.’s shares were untraded in a glut of buy orders Monday morning after the supplier of storage for AI data centers reported soaring profit and gave an outlook that trounced expectations... View Source

YouTube is pitching advertisers on a new slate of shows -- just like a TV network... View Source

Microsoft launched Teams' Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if they were really sitting at home without pants on. But times have changed, and it's now being retired in favor of a more simplified Teams experience. The feature used AI to cut your head and shoulds out, and place you in a virtual space with others in... View Source

The movie officially hits theaters May 22... View Source

The game has sold 70 million copies over its 15-year run, Re-Logic said... View Source

The lawsuit claims that Amazon owes 'hundreds of millions' in refunds to its users... View Source

Apple is hoping that its record on privacy can be the differentiator on the AI front, and maybe even buy it a little slack as it continues to lag behind the competition. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the more chatbot-like Siri set to debut in iOS 27 will include the option to autodelete chat histories. Users will be able to save conversations for 30 days, one year, or forever. That's in st... View Source

The rumored movement shooter is still in pre-alpha and without a release date... View Source

Users can choose between keeping conversations for 30 days, one year or forever, according to Bloomberg... View Source

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos. AI is already a contentious topic, and it's not surprising that those about to enter a ravaged job market feel particularly negative about it. Schmidt acknowledged the anxiety, according to Business Insider, sayi... View Source

It's called Cats Lock, and it's kind of genius... View Source

NASA is testing the limits of future Mars aircraft as it works to develop a next-generation fleet of helicopters that will fly through the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet... View Source

Also: A Genmoji upgrade is coming in iOS 27... View Source

Look west after sunset to catch Venus shining beside a delicate crescent moon in the twilight sky... View Source

Kudos to the designer of that horrifying golem. | Image: Shudder Hokum recently hit theaters, and it's already outperforming box office expectations. If this Kubrick-referencing haunted hotel flick starring Adam Scott was your introduction to director Damian McCarthy, do yourself a favor and go watch his previous film, Oddity. If you prefer to go in blind - the ideal way to watch any movie - Oddit... View Source

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft delivered 6,500 pounds of science and supplies to the International Space Station on Sunday, May 17, 2026... View Source

Fujifilm’s X Half digital camera wasn’t designed to replace your main camera, though you’d be forgiven for assuming it was with its ludicrous $850 price. However, the company recently reduced the MSRP to $649.99, and is now knocking an additional $100 off through June 28th. That means you can grab the X Half in its base configuration for around $549 at Amazon, B&H Photo, and Best Buy. Adorama... View Source

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes in Italy, weather permitting... View Source

A week before the ElliQ robot arrived, a neurologist told me we need to rebalance my mom's life. Her Parkinson's disease medication had steadily become less effective over the previous month, and with it, she had slowly stopped doing many of the things crucial to managing the disease - exercising, socializing, and engaging in hobbies. The result was a rapid, noticeable decline. As my mom's primary... View Source

As the United States and China compete for dominance in artificial intelligence, energy is emerging as a critical battleground. Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson warns that while the US still leads in AI technology, electricity shortages could become a major constraint as data center demand surges. Former US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns says China’s enormous investments in transmission,... View Source

A giant radio telescope in West Virginia tracked Artemis 2's Orion spacecraft around the moon for five days, gathering precise observations on its movements during the historic mission... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is seeping into our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started In 2021, McDonald's became one of the first major fast-food chains to greet customers with an AI chatbot at the drive-th... View Source

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. and its largest labor union are set to resume negotiations Monday to avert a strike that the nation’s prime minister warned could wreak havoc on the economy... View Source

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

Reuters reported that SpaceX could make the initial announcement by next Wednesday... View Source

Schools say social media is hurting grades and creating a mental health crisis. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have settled the first lawsuit of its kind, alleging that social media addiction has cost public schools massive amounts of money, according to Bloomberg. The suit, filed by the Breathitt County School District in Kentucky, claims that social media has disrup... View Source

A roundup of recent reviews published by Engadget... View Source

The Vespera II X edition features a sleek, transparent shell and has internal temperature sensors for optimized deep sky observation... View Source

No more frustrating deaths in between save points... View Source

They boast a new optical design for sharper images and host a bunch of upgraded features to make stargazing a breeze. The Vaonis Vespera III and Vespera Pro 2 are available now... View Source

Residents will have to go through a course on artificial intelligence before activating the subscription... View Source

ASML Holding NV entered into a partnership agreement with Tata Electronics Private Limited aimed at ramping up India’s goal to develop domestic chip-manufacturing capabilities... View Source

This week's science news... View Source

The variety of terrible is impressive. After Sony drew some unwanted attention for a post demonstrating its AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 XIII, it's trying to clarify how the feature works. The company says it doesn't edit photos, but makes suggestions based on lighting, depth, and subject. Point the camera at something, and it will give you four options for changing exposure, color, and bac... View Source

When it comes to job cuts, older workers are often disproportionately affected. But a new survey of chief executive officers suggests this won’t be a given as companies adopt artificial intelligence... View Source

Its target asteroid could give us insight on how Earth's core came to be... View Source

Manoush Zomorodi tackled tech’s effect on our brains, now she’s looking at our bodies. | Image: Tory WIlliams Manoush Zamorodi is an accomplished reporter, podcast host, and author. Her new book, Body Electric, takes a comprehensive look at how technology is impacting our physical health. It's a collaboration between NPR and Columbia University Medical Center that picks up where her first title, B... View Source

On Episode 210 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Robert Lillis of the Mars ESCAPADE mission... View Source

What drives the tech titans behind the AI arms race? For some, it's the thrill of scientific discovery; for others, it's the pursuit of profit. Through the story of DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis and other AI leaders, author Sebastian Mallaby explores how motivations ranging from scientific curiosity to commercial ambition and political power are shaping the future of the technology. We sat do... View Source

Both of these headsets are stellar in different ways. I really liked the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, so the company didn't have to say much to get me excited about its successor. The $399 Nova Pro Omni that came out on May 5th has a similar design to the 2022 model, but with some new and improved features - support for wireless hi-res audio (24-bit / 96kHz audio over 2.4GHz), better mic... View Source

Playing Mixtape is like playing a video game version of a high school movie. Kids banter about the meaning of life and the theme songs that would play when they walk in a room. They're worried about looking cool at a big party. They're obsessed with finding booze. But under all of those tropes is a meaningful story about nostalgia, friendship, and teenage angst - and it's all backed by a great sou... View Source

See dazzling planets, the Milky Way and a trio of celestial animals brightening the spring sky around May's new moon... View Source

The last-gen InReach Mini 2 might require a subscription to use, but we guarantee it’s far more durable than your phone. | Image: Garmin REI’s annual Anniversary Sale — the retailer’s biggest of the year — has arrived, bringing with it discounts on all kinds of outdoor essentials. If you’ve got a camping trip coming up, now is a good time to stock up on the basics, whether it be a tent, sleeping p... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 128, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, sorry this one's so Mac-heavy, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about David Attenborough and screenwriters-turned-AI-trainers and the Subway Takes guy, listening to a lot of Productivity FM's mixes whil... View Source

NASA's Psyche flyby of Mars highlights how gravity assists help spacecraft gain speed, conserve fuel and travel across the solar system... View Source

Need a new laptop? It’s a tough decision. If you’re like most people, a laptop is one of the most expensive tech purchases you’ll make, and it’s something you’ll use and live with nearly every day for years to come. So there’s a lot riding on this pricey expense. I’ve tested all kinds of laptops, from cheap Windows computers and Chromebooks to bread-and-butter MacBooks and over-the-top gaming mach... View Source

Plus, a game with a perfect Tamagotchi pun for a name... View Source

States across the US are looking to take major sources of pollution and use them to generate much-needed power... View Source

Barry sits down with Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair. They discuss the release of her latest book "How Not To Lose A Million Dollars" and the importance of financial literacy across age groups. Bair also discusses her concerns about crypto and the rise of Buy Now, Pay Later. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company is also testing the ability to reposition the Windows 11 taskbar... View Source

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the stars over a week before it was officially discovered... View Source

Elon Musk said he is not selling any SpaceX shares, with the company reported to be preparing to file publicly for its long-awaited IPO as soon as next week... View Source

The internet is made for shopping. For years, the main inputs for e-commerce transactions involved targeted ads, algorithmic recommendations, SEO, and lots of mindless scrolling. But agentic commerce might represent a sea change for e-commerce: With the rise of AI agents doing shopping on behalf of consumers, how are retailers going to adapt? John Collison, co-founder of the financial services and... View Source

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon... View Source

The internet is made for shopping. For years, the main inputs for e-commerce transactions involved targeted ads, algorithmic recommendations, SEO, and lots of mindless scrolling. But agentic commerce might represent a sea change for e-commerce: With the rise of AI agents doing shopping on behalf of consumers, how are retailers going to adapt? John Collison, co-founder of the financial services and... View Source

Adapting to a world where AI agents are doing the shopping... View Source

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The equity story that powered European stocks has unraveled as investors seek shelter from a global energy shock and buy into the artificial intelligence frenzy... View Source

China’s large-scale data centers have joined electricity spot trading as virtual power plants for the first time, marking a shift in how computing demand interacts with the grid, a report in an official media said... View Source

SpaceX notified investors that it is executing a 5-for-1 stock split, a move that will reduce the price investors will pay for each share offered in its impending initial public offering... View Source

Signs that Delivery Hero SE may be preparing to sell more assets have powered the beaten-down stock to the best week since its 2017 listing... View Source

President Trump says he discussed guardrails on AI and Nvidia's H200 chips with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a two-day summit in Beijing. Shari Liss, vice president of global workforce development and initiatives at SEMI, joins Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to discuss what this means for the US semiconductor sector. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

South Korea’s bond are set to extend this year’s rout as a semiconductor boom supercharges the nation’s economic growth and adds to inflationary pressures, analysts say... View Source

Figma shares rose after the creative software platform reported first-quarter results that beat expectations and raised its full-year forecast, with analysts saying the report eased concerns about AI-related disruption. Figma CEO Dylan Field joins Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down the latest from Beijing after President Trump says he discussed Nvidia's H200 chips with Xi Jinping. Plus, they speak with the CEO of Figma after its earnings results defy fears that AI would disrupt the design stack. And, Caroline's conversation with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who says the startup may raise more capital after completing its recent f... View Source

The companies are facing numerous other legal challenges... 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 Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Slimmon, China Moon Strategies President Jeff Moon, Bernstein Research’s Stacy Rasgon, Enbridge President & CEO Greg Ebel, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Moneta Managing Director of Global Wealth A... View Source

Forbright Inc., a financial services platform that focuses on middle-market lending and digital consumer banking, filed for an initial public offering showing growing deposits... View Source

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon cargo spacecraft atop, launched Friday, May 15, 2026, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Credit: NASA+ The 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission under contract with NASA is headed to the International Space Station with new scientific experiments after lifting off at 6:05 p.m. EDT Friday on a Falcon 9 rock... View Source

Xbox just allcapsmaxxed: meet XBOX. This isn't a joke, Microsoft appears to be actually rebranding Xbox to XBOX. Asha Sharma, Xbox CEO, ran a poll on X earlier this week, asking fans whether Microsoft should use Xbox or XBOX? The results were in favor of XBOX, and the company has now renamed its X account. Curiously, the Threads and Bluesky accounts for Xbox haven't been renamed yet, but if Micros... View Source

Google’s YouTube and Snap Inc. reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims that addiction to top social media platforms has disrupted learning and pushed public schools to spend massive sums fighting a mental health crisis, according to court filings... View Source

Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission over the UK company’s licensing of its semiconductor technology, part of ongoing global scrutiny of the business, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 - meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves. The likeness detection feature uses a selfie-style scan of a person's face to monitor YouTube for lookalikes. If there is a match, YouTube alerts the user; the person then has the option to request that YouTube remove t... View Source

Barry sits down with Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair. They discuss the release of her latest book "How Not To Lose A Million Dollars" and the importance of financial literacy across age groups. Bair also discusses her concerns about crypto and the rise of Buy Now, Pay Later. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Two crashes since July 2025 involved robotaxis being driven by remote operators... View Source

On today’s Big Take podcast: President Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping offered good optics, but gave little indication of progress on major sticking points... View Source

CATL will invest 5 billion yuan ($735 million) to significantly expand its sodium battery capacity by an added 40 GWh per year. According to a public document released on Thursday by environmental authorities in Ningde, Fujian province — CATL’s headquarters city — the expansion project will add 40 GWh of annual production capacity for sodium-ion ... Read more... View Source

What the devil does the fashion industry in The Devil Wears Prada 2 have to do with NASA?... View Source

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 test will allow you to reposition the taskbar and change the size of the Start menu. The update, which is rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Experimental channel, lets you place the taskbar on the bottom, top, left, or right side of the screen. Microsoft first teased its movable taskbar in March as part of efforts to rebuild trust among users. You can adjust th... View Source

Figure, a robotics company developing humanoid robots that operate via AI, is running a livestream of one of its robots sorting packages in real time to show off its capabilities. The livestream was watched by millions across YouTube and X, but drew some skepticism. Figure CEO Brett Adcock joins Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to counter claims that its robots are teleo... View Source

Bungie details how it plans to grow its extraction shooter... View Source

ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has "incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation," such as hallucinated references or "meta-comments" left by an LLM, authors will be banned from ArXiv for a year, according to Thomas Dietterich, ArXiv's... View Source

Bolt Technology OU agreed a deal with China’s Dongfeng Motor Group Co. to roll out an electric-vehicle fleet in South Africa that Yugo Rides will manage... View Source

Who's up for a Jak & Daxter / Half-Life hybrid?... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Gemini Space Station (GEMI) is rising after Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss made a $100 million “strategic investment” into the company. CEO Tyler Winklevoss said the investment will help fuel the company's ambition to evolve from a crypto company into a markets company. - Magnum Ice Cream (MICC) shares are jumped as much as 22%, the most s... View Source

Game preservation group Stop Killing Games advised on the bill... View Source

Several US occupations expected to be impacted by artificial intelligence saw heavy job losses for a second year in 2025, led by customer service representatives and certain types of secretaries and salespeople... View Source

The Cylons are hot on the trail of a fleet of survivors, and rejoining the Battlestar Galactica is their only hope in this brutal roguelite... View Source

The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX charges toward what could be one of the largest IPOs in American history, with a whole generation of founders already spinning out […]... View Source

Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to "manipulate" its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: "In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search systems into featuring content prominently, such as attempting to manipulate Search systems into rankin... View Source

Revolut Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Nik Storonsky is offering employees across the digital bank £1000 ($1,334) to woo more businesses to bank with Revolut, setting it as its highest priority to further boost the digital lender’s growth, valuation and revenue... View Source

If you’re not staying on top of Analogue 3D updates, now’s the time to start. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Analogue has released a new firmware update for its Analogue 3D console that adds the Memories save state feature. Memories, which was first introduced with its handheld Analogue Pocket, allows you to save at any moment and resume from that exact spot later on, rather than ha... View Source

Wade Rosen, the 41-year-old son of a wealthy Minnesota family, is aiming to make Atari the best retro video-game company in the world... View Source