Monday, 1 June 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Monday, 1 June 2026.
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NVIDIA launches RTX Spark consumer PCs with Blackwell GPUs delivering 1 petaflop of local FP4 AI compute · Digg
They feature a custom Grace CPU co-designed with MediaTek.
Read moreLisan al Gaib argues frontier AI labs create a tiered system by delaying public access to advanced models · Digg
The debate followed Anthropic expanding Claude access to the EU
Read moreThis AI weather startup is out-forecasting government agencies
Windborne Systems' newest weather forecasting model beats the best government predictions by days.
Read moreDuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.
Read moreAnthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission
Read moreSenator Bernie Sanders proposes a US sovereign wealth fund to hold public equity in frontier AI labs like OpenAI · Digg
The fund would distribute AI-driven profits directly to citizens.
Read moreMIT CSAIL PhD Stephen Casper will join Harvard Kennedy School as an assistant professor of AI governance · Digg
His appointment to the new role begins in July
Read moreTesla FSD Completes Flawless Test Drive On German Roads · Digg
Tesla FSD Completes Flawless Test Drive On German Roads - tracked by 1 author on X.
Read moreAnthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
Read moreOpenAI launches hiring drive for its robotics division to build physical-world robots using full-stack hardware and ML co-design · Digg
Initial robots will support workers on infrastructure projects.
Read moreOpen-source tau0-WM launches as a 5-billion-parameter video-action world model for robotic manipulation · Digg
Training used 27,300 hours of real-robot and egocentric video.
Read moreErin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.
Read moreMaking sense of the debate over AI psychosis
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."
Read moreSoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers
The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.
Read moreResearch & Products
Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
Today, we’re excited to introduce Muse Spark, the first in the Muse family of models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model with support for tool-use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration.
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