11 Jun 2026
SpaceX Blasts Off With a Record-Breaking $75 Billion IPO
Elon Musk's rocket company, recently merged with xAI, raised $75 billion in its initial public stock offering. It's the first of a trio of mega-IPOs from AI companies expected this year.
11 Jun 2026
AI-powered cleaning robots are now tidying homes in China
This picture taken on May 21, 2026 shows a housekeeper cleaning alongside an X Square Robot at a customer’s home in Beijing. — AFP pic
11 Jun 2026
AI robots enter real-world living rooms to assist Chinese housekeepers
B eijing housekeeper Lin Meiqiong found her workload significantly lightened after partnering with an unexpected new teammate: a tall, multi-wheeled machine using artificial intelligence to tidy homes.
10 Jun 2026
Breaking news, and how the end might begin
A couple weeks ago, Steve Eisman, who predicted the subprime mess (Steve Carrell played him in The Big Short ), interviewed me, and asked me how the AI boom might all fall apart. For reasons I am about to explain, that interview, recorded May 22, now seems supremely relevant. Here are two snippets. (Some parts of Snippet 1 are currently paywalled in a separate video but may come out soon for…
10 Jun 2026
Transfer Learning Slashes Cosmology AI Costs: Neutrino Mass Degeneracy Triggers Negative Transfer
A strategy borrowed from generative AI — train cheaply on the familiar, then fine-tune on the hard problem — can cut the number of expensive physics simulations needed by nearly a factor of ten. But a new paper published Wednesday in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics establishes that the same shortcut carries a structural risk that goes beyond cosmology: when an AI is pretrained…
09 Jun 2026
Is Marvell the Next Micron?
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has boosted several semiconductor players into the realm of trillion-dollar giants. Most recently, Micron Technology ( MU 4.26% ) and its South Korean peers, SK Hynix and Samsung, have joined that exclusive club (though SK Hynix has already slipped back out of it). Investors who were paying attention to Micron's explosive run understand the pattern: A…
09 Jun 2026
Hades PyPI Attack: 19 Packages Poisoned to Auto-Run Bun Credential Stealer
The Miasma supply chain campaign has sparked a fresh attack wave called Hades, this time involving 37 malicious wheel artifacts across 19 packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) registry, as the Mini Shai-Hulud-style attacks continue to be refined and splintered to target specific ecosystems.
08 Jun 2026
We Need to Know More About How AI is Affecting Mental Health
Chris Mills Rodrigo is a fellow at Tech Policy Press. In the three years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT and the emergence of similar technologies as ubiquitous in modern society, a handful of alarming stories about mental health crises linked with large language model-powered chatbots have broken through otherwise positive coverage of artificial intelligence.
08 Jun 2026
The weather and climate science AI revolution isn’t revolutionary
So hot right now Machine learning has its limits—how is it being used? Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images
