06 Jun 2026
Chinese Post Office Deploys Humanoid Robots to Sort Mail
It’s no secret by now that the Chinese tech sector is going all-in on robotics. Last September, the country broke the record for the number of industrial robots in operation; the People’s Republic likewise produces about 90 percent of the world’s humanoid robots, which factories and kiosks are experimenting with across the country. Now, even China’s state-owned postal carrier is getting in on the…
06 Jun 2026
Elon Musk bullet-proofed his $1 trillion ‘Mars-shot’ pay at SpaceX after the pay brawl at Tesla
Remember the legal brawl CEO Elon Musk faced over his $56 billion moonshot pay package at Tesla ? As SpaceX prepares to go public in a $75 billion initial public offering next week, Musk is pushing the limits of his pay package into a whole other universe, and this time, he’s designed it so that he will never have to fight that kind of battle again.
06 Jun 2026
The Therapist in the Machine: What Happens When a Chatbot Becomes Your Counselor
There's a particular kind of loneliness that arrives at 2 a.m. — the kind that doesn't wait for a therapist's appointment, can't afford a crisis line hold, and feels too raw to unload on a friend. For millions of people, the answer has increasingly been the same: open a chat window and start typing to an AI.
05 Jun 2026
Markets wrap: Donald Trump baffled, angry at bloodbath on Wall Street
Donald Trump has responded with outrage and bafflement after the worst day on Wall Street this year. Shares plummeted overnight on the back of higher-than-expected jobs figures, with the Nasdaq down 4.2 per cent, the largest point drop in history.
05 Jun 2026
It Sure Seems Like Pete Hegseth Is Losing His War Against Anthropic
News broke this week that the National Security Agency (NSA) is using Anthropic’s Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations, likely against China and Iran. It makes a lot of sense, given the reported power of Mythos to find and exploit vulnerabilities. But it’s just the latest sign that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might be losing his war against Anthropic.
05 Jun 2026
Funding Friday: Helion Just Tripled Its Valuation
Two of climate tech’s hottest sectors — fusion and critical minerals — dominated this week’s funding headlines.
05 Jun 2026
The Chip ETF That Turned a $10k Bet Into Nearly $20k This Year
If you put $10,000 into Invesco PHLX Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXQ) on the last trading day of 2025, you are sitting on about $19,400 this morning. The same $10,000 in the S&P 500 (via SPY) is worth roughly $11,140. SOXQ is up 94% year to date through June 2, 2026, against 11% for SPY. The headline writers rounded that gap to 7 to 1. The data says it is closer to 8 to 1, and that is before you…
05 Jun 2026
Meta’s AI Glasses Companion App Hides A Complete Face Recognition System
Researchers discover three machine learning models and biometric database hidden in Meta AI companion app
05 Jun 2026
Apple Silicon's on-device AI bet: same play, bigger range
Three days before WWDC opens in Cupertino, and at the end of a Computex week in which NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Intel all took turns on the Taipei stages arguing — in their own words — for hybrid AI between cloud and device, Apple's silicon team is making a quieter point: their bet on running it on the device hasn't really moved.
