03 Jun 2026
Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines – including favorites such as cat, ls,…
03 Jun 2026
Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 12B: An Encoder-Free Multimodal Model with Native audio that runs on a 16 GB laptop
Google DeepMind just released Gemma 4 12B , a dense multimodal model that strips out traditional encoders entirely. Vision and audio flow straight into the LLM backbone. The result is a model that runs agentic workflows on a consumer laptop with 16 GB of RAM. It ships under the Apache 2.0 license.
03 Jun 2026
Assessing SpaceX Finances, Addressable Market, and the AI Pitch Ahead of IPO
Ahead of SpaceX ’s plans to go public next week, Via Satellite surveyed leading space analysts about what we’ve learned from the company’s financial filings ahead of the IPO. The company’s S-1 filing, released in late May , gave the first real look into the company’s financials — including Starlink revenue, Starship and xAI spend, and debt levels, as well a view into the company’s long-term plans…
03 Jun 2026
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
The humanoid robot of the future is a hulking specimen with a body that’s made in China and a brain that runs on American silicon.
03 Jun 2026
VinRobotics makes global debut of "Make In Vietnam" humanoid robot at leading global tech events
HANOI, VIETNAM – Media OutReach Newswire – 3 June 2026 – VinRobotics, a technology company under Vingroup, showcased its VR-H3 humanoid robot platform at a series of major global technology and robotics events, including the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2026 (ICRA) and COMPUTEX Taipei 2026.
03 Jun 2026
Deals: Amazon early Prime Day discounts, Pixel 10 series up to $615 off, Best Buy World Cup sale, more
Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by Amazon’s early Amazon Prime Day deals and the ongoing Google Pixel 10 series at up to $300 off right now – just keep in mind these open-box units are up to $615...
03 Jun 2026
China: JAKA Pi targets labs, schools, and offices with compact humanoid
A Shanghai-based robotics company has unveiled a compact humanoid robot that marks the firm’s expansion beyond industrial collaborative robots into the broader field of intelligent robotics. JAKA Robotics’ Pi is a compact humanoid robot that stands 1.22 meters tall and weighs 92 pounds (42 kilograms). According to Jaka, Pi is designed for versatile real-world applications. The platform combines…
03 Jun 2026
AI gets a body, and capital changes its gaze
Lee Soo-hwa The author is a research professor of Big Data Innovation Convergence College at Seoul National University and the head of the AI Center at DLG Law Corporation.
03 Jun 2026
Alphabet investor presentation: June 2026
Jun 03, 2026 In this story Editor’s note: On Monday Alphabet announced a proposed $80 billion equity raise, including a $10 billion investment from Berkshire Hathaway and a $30 billion underwritten offering. The underwritten offering was oversubscribed. ~$35 billion was priced and allocated, for an expected total of ~$85 billion. Below is the transcript of the presentation given to investors by…
