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.
04 Jun 2026
Zapping Mosquitos With Lasers Is a Real Thing, Thanks to AI
As summer arrives, and mosquitoes celebrate another season of bloody conquest, you might be thinking, "Why do we even have all this AI tech if it can't do a single thing about these airborne pests?" There are plenty of reasons to complain about artificial intelligence, but its failure to fight mosquitoes is no longer one of them.
03 Jun 2026
SpaceX aims to make its stock market debut at $1.77 trillion value
Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced Wednesday that it intends to make its stock market debut next week at a $1.77 trillion valuation.
03 Jun 2026
Muon Space Unveils Condor-Ultra for Orbital Data Centers
Muon Space has announced the development of Condor-Ultra, a new “Starship-class” satellite platform tailored specifically for the emerging orbital data center market.
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
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
China: JAKA Pi targets labs, schools, and offices with compact humanoid
A Shanghai-based robotics company has unveiled a compact humanoid robot that marks the firm’s expansion beyond industrial collaborative robots into the broader field of intelligent robotics. JAKA Robotics’ Pi is a compact humanoid robot that stands 1.22 meters tall and weighs 92 pounds (42 kilograms). According to Jaka, Pi is designed for versatile real-world applications. The platform combines…
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…
