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Announced at Google I/O 2026 and launching this fall, the first Android XR smart glasses from Google, Samsung, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster answer the question that every previous smart glasses product got wrong: what if AI glasses looked like glasses you'd actually want to wear? Gemini on your face, no visor required.
Bitcoin dropped to $61,300 on Thursday, its weakest level since February 6, on a day that wiped out $1.6 billion in leveraged positions and pushed the Fear and Greed Index to 11. The immediate trigger was a convergence of 13 consecutive days of US spot ETF outflows, Strategy's first Bitcoin sale in nearly four years, and sustained capital rotation toward AI infrastructure. Ethereum fell to a 14-month low. Solana hit its lowest point since December 2023.
Computex 2026 produced the most significant PC hardware shift in years: Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, a superchip combining 20 ARM cores with a Blackwell GPU and 128 GB of unified memory — its first consumer PC processor. Thirty laptops and ten desktops arrive in fall 2026. Simultaneously, Nvidia is targeting $20 billion in data centre CPU revenue with its Vera chip. Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm all face a different competitive landscape than they did a week ago.
Claude Mythos Preview, the AI model that can autonomously write functional exploits for zero-day vulnerabilities, is now accessible to approximately 200 organisations across 15 countries through Anthropic's Project Glasswing. The expansion adds NATO, the EU's ENISA, Okta, and Samsung — and pointedly excludes UK banks. In its initial deployment, Mythos found over 10,000 high-severity vulnerabilities.
SpaceX kicked off its investor roadshow today with a fixed offer price of $135 per share, targeting a $75 billion raise at a $1.77 trillion valuation. If the greenshoe option is exercised, total proceeds reach $85.7 billion — more than triple Saudi Aramco's 2019 record. Public trading begins June 12 on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has launched Muse Spark, the company's first proprietary frontier model, abandoning the open-source strategy that defined Llama. Built from scratch over nine months, it scores nearly three times higher than Llama 4 on the AI Intelligence Index and sets new records in medical reasoning and visual figure understanding.
Unveiled at Build 2026, Majorana 2 is Microsoft's second topological quantum chip. Its qubits have a mean lifetime of 20 seconds — roughly 1,000 times longer than its predecessor — achieved through a new materials stack developed with the help of an agentic AI system. Microsoft has cut its timeline to scalable quantum from 2033 to 2029.
The SpaceX investor roadshow begins June 4, with Nasdaq listing targeted for June 12 under the ticker SPCX. At $135 per share and 555 million shares offered, the company is targeting $75 billion raised at a $1.75 trillion valuation — which would be the largest IPO in history by a significant margin.
MAI-Thinking-1, announced at Microsoft Build on June 2, is a 35-billion-parameter reasoning model that independent evaluators preferred over Claude Sonnet 4.6 for overall quality. It hits 52.8% on SWE-Bench Pro. It was trained without OpenAI data.
A new White House executive order asks AI developers to voluntarily submit their most powerful models for government cybersecurity review up to 30 days before public release — a scaled-back version of an earlier proposal that industry groups had pushed back against.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has issued binding requirements on Google, ordering the company to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews and model fine-tuning — the first time any major regulator has imposed these controls on AI search.
OFAC designated Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin, and Ramzinex — exchanges that together processed the majority of Iran's digital asset inflows in 2025 — for IRGC financing, ransomware facilitation, and sanctions evasion.