01 Jun 2026
Unastella Secures $24M: South Korea’s High-Stakes Rocket Gamble
The Capital Infusion and Strategic PivotThe latest $24 million Series B funding round for Unastella marks a critical transition from experimental R&D to the industrialization of its launch systems. This...
Ananya Iyer
2026
01 Jun 2026
A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out
Adrià Voltà I am attempting to solve a mathematical conundrum that has stumped many of humanity’s greatest thinkers. I have zero mathematical training, apart from a distant undergraduate physics degree, which should put my odds of success at slim to none. But I also have a trick up my sleeve – a kind of mathematical genie that can conjure arcane secrets seemingly out of thin air. I make a short…
Alex Wilkins
2026
01 Jun 2026
Tennis Star Elina Svitolina Joins French Startup Tiva’s Funding Round
As good as Elina Svitolina can be on the tennis court, the No. 7-ranked women’s player in the world isn’t immune to a fairly common issue that every athlete has dealt with at one point or another. “We’re playing in hot conditions; your palms are sweating and sometimes the sweat is coming from your arms down to your grip,” Svitolina said in an interview. “When you play a forehand-backhand volley,…
Justin Birnbaum
2026
01 Jun 2026
OpenAI enhances ChatGPT app with this hidden feature
OpenAI recently added a new feature to the ChatGPT app: a hidden gesture that lets you instantly set the effort level of a prompt. ChatGPT also introduced a new way to easily navigate longer conversations. Meanwhile, the default model used by ChatGPT has changed since arriving last month.
Zac Hall
2026
01 Jun 2026
Tesla sales surge in European markets in May
Tesla sales surged across Europe in May, Reuters reports , with sales jumping double and even triple digits in a number of early-reporting markets. Of course, 2025 was a very difficult year for Tesla sales in Europe, so the growth is coming off notably small denominators. Interestingly, the resurgence is happening without EU approval for supervised Full Self-Driving, something CEO Elon Musk…
Rani Molla
2026
01 Jun 2026
Motorola Solutions acquires Israeli drone defense startup D-Fend for $1.5 billion
Counter-drone specialist joins U.S. giant amid global surge in battlefield drone warfare.14:36, 01.06.26 Israeli defense technology startup D-Fend has been acquired for $1.5 billion by the U.S. company...
Sophie Shulman
2026
01 Jun 2026
An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years
In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 years.
Kai Williams
2026
01 Jun 2026
Nvidia jumps into PCs with new Arm-based chip debuting in laptops from Microsoft, Dell, HP
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia speaks at Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, June 1, 2026. Computex is Asia's biggest electronics show, one that's transformed in recent years from a PC exhibition into an all-AI affair. Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Katie Schoolov, Katie Tarasov
2026
01 Jun 2026
US says ban on AI chip shipments applies to Chinese firms outside China
Department of Commerce issues guidance on chip restrictions amid concerns about loopholes in export control regime. The United States has issued a notice affirming its restrictions on shipments of semiconductors to subsidiaries of Chinese companies located outside China amid concerns about loopholes in Washington’s export control regime.
John Power
2026
