04 Jun 2026
SpaceX’s IPO is set to be the biggest ever and could make Elon Musk a trillionaire
A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File) NEW YORK — SpaceX says it plans to raise up to $75 billion when it goes public this month, setting the stage for the largest-ever stock market debut and putting Elon Musk on course to becoming the world’s first trillionaire.
03 Jun 2026
The AI Race Is Quietly Becoming a Race for Electricity, Not Chips
For the past three years, the artificial intelligence (AI) race has looked fairly straightforward. Companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alphabet have competed to build increasingly powerful large language models. Meanwhile, Nvidia has emerged as one of the biggest winners by supplying the powerful chips that enable those models. But a new reality is emerging. The winners in the next phase of…
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
Microsoft's aims to compete with Google's AI assistant Spark
With Scout, an AI assistant that is intended to go significantly further than the previous Copilot, Microsoft seems to want to compete with Google's Gemini Spark.
03 Jun 2026
The Education Pipeline: K-12 Curricula Must Evolve for the New AI College Experience
Today, the U.S. House Committee on Education & Workforce is holding a hearing on “Building an AI-Ready America: Higher Education in the Age of AI.” The Committee will consider how many higher education institutions are quickly adapting as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the global economy. With colleges now launching dedicated AI degrees and requiring technological fluency for…
03 Jun 2026
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth.
At Microsoft’s annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-esque AI agents.
03 Jun 2026
Meta is trying to sell AI agents to businesses in latest effort to diversify away from ads
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 25, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images
