02 Jun 2026
Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget
A small San Francisco startup known for making well-appointed, beautifully designed webcams is now vying to become the AI hardware company of the moment. Opal Camera is rebranding to Opal Electronics and will expand its product portfolio beyond webcams to a broad range of consumer devices, some of which will be AI-focused.
02 Jun 2026
Nvidia's new PC chips represent CEO Huang's bid to win at every layer of AI stack
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., presents the RTX Spark Superchip at the Nvidia GTC conference on the sidelines of Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, June 1, 2026.
02 Jun 2026
Meta reveals details about layoffs in Playa Vista and Menlo Park
Meta will lay off more than 2,000 workers in California, including 2,200 at its Menlo Park headquarters and 74 in Playa Vista, as it cuts 10% of staff.
02 Jun 2026
Nvidia corners the AI agent stack
Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a simple but bold statement at COMPUTEX in Taiwan to open his keynote: “Agentic AI has arrived.” He then pointed his whole ecosystem at backing that claim up. The chipmaker's latest reveals stretched from the laptop to the data center to the factory floor, unified by the bet that AI agents will dominate future compute…
02 Jun 2026
Alphabet to raise $80bn from share sales to fund AI spending splurge – business live
From 5m agoIntroduction: Alphabet to raise $80bn for AI spendingGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy.The economics of the AI boom are...
02 Jun 2026
The university campus is fiercely divided, with California State University pouring $16.9 million (a..
The university campus is fiercely divided, with California State University pouring $16.9 million (about 25.5 billion won) into the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) amid a severe financial..
02 Jun 2026
This News From Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Could Shift the Stock Into Overdrive
Nvidia's (NVDA +6.26%) GPU Technology Conference (GTC) Taipei kicked off this week. As a major regional edition of the company's flagship GTC event, it promised to provide a view into recent developments in...
02 Jun 2026
Florida AG sues OpenAI to hold its ChatGPT accountable for 'disregard to human life'
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Florida is now the first state to sue OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over claims its "ChatGPT" program is putting profits over public safety.After a month of investigating, Attorney General...
02 Jun 2026
Silicon Valley's New Slogan: Let's Get Physical
By Rya Jetha You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Unitree and Nvidia R1 humanoid robot Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Silicon Valley spent the last few years teaching AI to talk. Now it wants to give AI a body to lift, sort, build, and eventually live alo
