28 May 2026
The ‘completely new’ ‘60 Minutes’
"My job is going to be rethinking how we tell stories in a completely new way," Nick Bilton, who was tapped to be the new executive producer of 60 Minutes on Thursday, told me in a brief phone call this afternoon. "There’s enough people inside 60 Minutes that know which buttons to press to make sure it goes on air on a Sunday night."
28 May 2026
Hypersonic Startup Nabs Contract For High-Speed Drone Testing
Venture capital-backed aircraft startup Hermeus announced May 28 its Quarterhorse unmanned aircraft will conduct a series of flight tests with the Defense Innovation Unit over the next few years.
28 May 2026
The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot
If you could buy a humanoid robot for less than a smartphone, would you? Would you buy several robots to handle cooking, cleaning, babysitting, and even your job? This is the pitch being made by Zhou Yong, the 40-year-old founder and chief technology officer of LinkerBot, one of China’s leading manufacturers of dexterous humanoid hands.
28 May 2026
3 Stocks Rallying on Micron's Price Boost: Substance or Hype?
The raging semiconductor rally received another boost this week when UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri raised his price target on Micron Technology Inc. NASDAQ: MU to a stunning $1625, nearly triple its previous target. The stock was trading under $800 at the time of the upgrade, so the new target represented an upside of more than 100% and a company valuation of over $1.8 trillion.
28 May 2026
Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money.
28 May 2026
Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
Anthropic has snagged $65 billion in funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation in its latest funding round, marking what could be the AI startup’s last private fundraising before debuting on the public markets.
28 May 2026
Anthropic tops OpenAI as most valuable AI startup, nears $1 trillion valuation in latest round
Anthropic is now the most valuable artificial intelligence company in Silicon Valley. The AI giant announced a $65 billion Series H financing at a $965 billion valuation on Thursday. The financing puts its value above rival AI lab OpenAI.
28 May 2026
NVIDIA validates sim-trained robots in real-world environments
Robots trained entirely in simulation are beginning to perform more reliably in the real world, according to a series of new robotics research papers presented by NVIDIA at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
28 May 2026
Snowflake Soars. 2 Software Stocks That Could Be Next
Snowflake ( SNOW +36.55% ) had a message for software investors last night: Don't give up on software-as-a-service (SaaS) stocks yet. In a year when software stocks have gotten pummeled over concerns that AI-native products from start-ups like Anthropic could disrupt the leading enterprise software companies, Snowflake, a bellwether in the industry, seemed to dispel the notions of disruption in…
