Tech

African e-mobility startup Spiro, which owns 100K+ electric bikes, raised $215M at a near-$1B valuation, after raising $100M in 2025 and $50M debt in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 Startup Africa

SEC filing: quantum computing company Quantinuum upsizes its IPO, selling 26.5M shares for $53 to $55 each to raise up to $1.46B at an up to $14.3B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 IPO Quantum

Sources: Apple delays its iPhone-connected smart glasses to late 2027, aiming to disrupt the mid-tier $200-$500 eyewear market like it did with the watch market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 iPhone Apple

SEC filing: SpaceX will reserve up to 5% of its Class A shares for select employees and executives' friends and family; 60%+ of shares have an extended lock-up (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 SpaceX

SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-1 Bitcoin

Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US, in Tokyo's Omotesando district “this summer”, marking Google's 11th physical store (9to5google.com)
2026-6-1 Google Tokyo

NVIDIA Unveils New ARM-Based AI/Graphics Superchip Coming to Windows PCs and Laptops (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 AI Nvidia

French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI “gigafactory” outside Paris, targeting 500MW in total capacity (www.ft.com)
2026-6-1 France AI Equity Paris

Wirescreen analysis of 3,800 Chinese military procurement records finds 500+ instances since 2019 where the PLA sought Nvidia chips, including the A100 and A800 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-1 China Nvidia

Israeli networking company DriveNets raised a $410M Series D led by Bessemer and Atreides at an $8.5B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$1B (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-1 Israel

Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-1 China AI

Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing, giving it access to Mythos; EU officials went to the US to ask for access (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1

Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its “super app” push (fortune.com)
2026-6-1 ETF

A look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the US' “first AI-themed educational institution”, as parents say AI integration is often sparse (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-1 AI

Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are aggressively shortening entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 IPO Retail Elon Musk SpaceX

Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, differences between “founder mode and hustle culture”, AI customer service, listing hotels, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-1 AI Airbnb

Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic staffers believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more (x.com)
2026-6-1

SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years (www.ft.com)
2026-6-1 Japan Toyota

Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users for Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster for AI workloads than x86 chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 AI Nvidia SpaceX

Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 5.6% YoY to ~$13.5B, above ~$13.4B est., and a ~$1B net loss, its third straight quarter of losses amid a food delivery price war (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-1

Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-1 India P2P Coinbase

Netherlands-based Invisix, which is developing advanced chipmaking measurement tools, raised a €20M seed, with the participation of a “tier-one” chipmaker (tech.eu)
2026-6-1 Netherlands

New Lawsuit Against Amazon: 'Subscribe and Save' Program Can Actually Cost You More (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 Amazon

A look at Operation Jailbreak, a US Army-led hackathon where nine defense firms use AI to integrate weapons systems, drawing on Ukraine interoperability lessons (www.ft.com)
2026-6-1 AI Ukraine

Grab says it commits to “Taiwan's data security and public trust”, after reports of Grab's collaborations with China's Huawei and Alibaba sparked concerns (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-1 China Taiwan Alibaba

A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed 1 in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-6-1 AI

Nvidia unveils DGX Station, a desktop Windows PC powered by its GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-1 Nvidia

Nvidia says its Vera Rubin computing platform is ramping into “full production”, with first systems expected to ship in the fall, after a March announcement (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-1 Nvidia

Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T, an open humanoid reference design powered by its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-1 Robot Nvidia

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (www.axios.com)
2026-6-1 AI Robot Nvidia Autonomous Car

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