28 May 2026
Thousands of hidden planets found in old NASA telescope data
A sky-survey satellite completed its first year of data collection in 2018, capturing brightness records for tens of millions of stars. Astronomers worked through the brighter targets and moved on to confirming worlds. Most of what the spacecraft had recorded just sat in the archive – millions of brightness records, sitting unexamined for years. A team recently built tools to search through all…
28 May 2026
NASA’s Roman Mission Preps to Unveil New Populations of Faraway Worlds
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientists expect the mission to reveal around 100,000 worlds — a staggering leap compared to the nearly 6,300 found so far thanks to NASA missions working in tandem with other observatories. And Roman will primarily find them in underexplored regions of…
28 May 2026
Report: Apple Plans to Make On-Device AI a Key WWDC Focus
Apple reportedly plans to use next month's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to highlight its on-device AI capabilities as a competitive advantage, leaning on 15 years of custom silicon expertise to make the case for running AI models locally rather than in the cloud.
28 May 2026
Starship grounded as SpaceX investigates Super Heavy booster failure
Here's what to know about SpaceX's investigation into the most recent Starship launch, which it refers to as flight 12. SpaceX's massive Starship rocket is temporarily grounded as the commercial spaceflight company conducts an investigation into its most recent test flight . The Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses commercial rocket launches, announced May 27 that a "mishap" had…
28 May 2026
China's XMAN-L1 humanoid robot with 42 degree of freedom unveiled
KEENON Robotics has officially unveiled the XMAN-L1, a compact humanoid robot designed for interactive service applications. Standing 4.4 feet (136 cm) tall, the robot combines lightweight construction with advanced mobility and AI-powered communication capabilities. The company says the humanoid is aimed at customer engagement, guidance, and light entertainment scenarios as part of its broader…
28 May 2026
Jensen Huang Just Said $40 Trillion. Here Are 5 Physical AI Stocks Wall Street Is Quietly Loading Up On Before the Rest of the Market Catches On
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has called humanoid robots and labor automation a $40 trillion total addressable market, and on the Animal Spirits podcast, Derek Yan argued physical AI is "potentially bigger" than EVs or smartphones, with Waymo serving as live proof the underlying autonomy stack already works in the wild. Capital is rotating into this trade now, before the broader market has priced it…
28 May 2026
The Bitcoin-Miners-Turned-AI-Neocloud Plays Might Still Be an Underappreciated Trade in AI
Mindscape studio / Shutterstock.com Quick Read The Stocks: IREN (IREN) surged over 13% after securing a $1.6 billion AI deal with Dell Technologies (DELL) , positioning itself as an agile and fast-moving operator.
28 May 2026
Forbes Daily: Users Can Now Use AI To Trade Stocks On Robinhood
The upcoming IPOs for SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing venture capital close to its biggest-ever returns. Forbes’ latest Midas List of top venture capital investors is fueled by these three firms, and then some. Vinod Khosla once again is the world’s top investor after writing the first institutional check for OpenAI back in 2019. But the list also features a record 25 newcomers,…
28 May 2026
FAA launches investigation into SpaceX Starship booster failure after test flight
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has directed SpaceX to investigate the failure of its Starship Super Heavy booster, which crashed into the Gulf of Mexico during a test mission last week, the agency confirmed on Wednesday.
