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Meta is budgeting $115 to $135 billion for AI in 2026 alone, a spend bigger than the annual revenue of most Fortune 100 companies

Meta Platforms plans to spend between $115 billion and $135 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, according to its annual report filed with the SEC. That range, disclosed in January 2026, has already been revised upward. By the first quarter of 2026, the company raised the figure to $125 billion to $145 billion, citing higher […]

By Dorian Maddox

Cybersecurity

The same ShinyHunters gang that hit the Canvas school platform also lifted 40 million records from Charter and 6 million from cruise line Carnival

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Cisco’s SD-WAN flaw is the second this year to carry a maximum 10.0 severity score, handing remote attackers full admin control of a controller or edge router

By Cassian Holt
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Monash engineers built a single chip that can generate, steer and read light-based data, a leap for ultra-fast, low-power computing they call valleytronics

By Cassian Holt

If both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melted completely, global sea level would rise an estimated 67 meters, about 223 feet

By Everett Sloane

A new AI method revealed most of the DNA spools inside our cells sit partly unwound, not locked away, sorting into 14 distinct states tied to gene activity

By BeckhamLangford

A residual solar cloud from a June 2 flare may graze Earth’s field tonight, keeping a chance of northern-tier auroras alive as the week’s G3 storm winds down

By BeckhamLangford

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Biology

A new AI method revealed most of the DNA spools inside our cells sit partly unwound, not locked away, sorting into 14 distinct states tied to gene activity

By BeckhamLangford
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Astronomy

A residual solar cloud from a June 2 flare may graze Earth’s field tonight, keeping a chance of northern-tier auroras alive as the week’s G3 storm winds down

By BeckhamLangford
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Astronomy

On WASP-94A b, 700 light-years away, Webb saw mornings cloaked in rock-mineral clouds that burn off to clear skies by evening

By BeckhamLangford
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Astronomy

NASA’s Webb confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole inside a galaxy seen in the early universe, challenging theories of how the two form together

By BeckhamLangford
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  • Technology
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Cybersecurity

The same ShinyHunters gang that hit the Canvas school platform also lifted 40 million records from Charter and 6 million from cruise line Carnival

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Cisco’s SD-WAN flaw is the second this year to carry a maximum 10.0 severity score, handing remote attackers full admin control of a controller or edge router

By Cassian Holt

Hardware and Semiconductors

Monash engineers built a single chip that can generate, steer and read light-based data, a leap for ultra-fast, low-power computing they call valleytronics

By Cassian Holt
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Aviation

The Pentagon says its reusable Talon-A drone hit Mach 5 on two separate flights, launched over the Pacific from a carrier aircraft

By Kade Winslow

Military

Northrop CEO Kathy Warden told investors B-21 Raider build rate could directly drive how many bombers the Air Force eventually orders

By Kade Winslow

Military

U.S. forces struck a ground control station on Iran’s Qeshm Island after Tehran fired drones and ballistic missiles at Bahrain and Kuwait

By Kade Winslow
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AI

Meta is budgeting $115 to $135 billion for AI in 2026 alone, a spend bigger than the annual revenue of most Fortune 100 companies

By Dorian Maddox
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AI

Meta says Muse Spark beats rivals on perception, reasoning and health tasks while using a fraction of the compute, its first flagship model since the AI superlab reshuffle

By Dorian Maddox
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AI

Amazon’s warehouse robot fleet just crossed 1 million machines as its new Sequoia system sped storage and identification by 75%

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AI

Anthropic opened its Project Glasswing to AWS, Apple, Cisco, Google and JPMorgan, handing them an AI built to hunt and fix critical software flaws

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Trucks

Aurora Innovation validated a 1,000-mile driverless lane from Fort Worth to Phoenix, a haul longer than a single human trucker can legally drive in a day

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

Louisiana boatbuilder Metal Shark debuted Frenzy, a low-cost amphibious robotic boat that hauls payloads on its own with no crew

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Electric cars are getting major range jumps for 2026, with the Lucid Gravity hitting 450 miles and the Rivian R1S reaching 410 on a charge

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Tesla’s driverless robotaxis have now logged 14 crashes since launch, even as Uber bets up to $1.25 billion on putting 50,000 Rivian R2s on the road

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Uber plans to roll out Lucid-Nuro robotaxis in San Francisco later this year, taking aim at Waymo right in its home market

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Tesla built 408,000 vehicles this quarter but only delivered 358,023 — a roughly 50,000-unit inventory swing for a build-to-order company

By Rowan Calder

SUV’s

Rivian starts sending final R2 SUV order invitations on June 9, with first deliveries expected two to six weeks later

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Rivian’s R2 may have just matched the Tesla Model Y dead-on for energy efficiency, ending Tesla’s years-long lead in that metric

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The 2026 Hummer EV Pickup 3X starts at $105,300 with a tri-motor 830-horsepower setup and up to 363 miles of range

By Rowan Calder

SUV’s

Rivian projects a 53% jump in 2026 deliveries on the back of the lower-priced R2 SUV rollout

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

Boeing’s MQ-28 collaborative combat aircraft just validated a new capability on June 1, edging the program closer to fielding

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

GM’s combined truck and EV total of 204,425 deliveries put it ahead of Ford in Q1, even with Silverado at 127,412

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Rivian opens R2 SUV deliveries this quarter at roughly $45,000, putting it head-to-head with the Tesla Model Y

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The IIHS named the Rivian R1S a 2026 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award winner, the institute’s highest crashworthiness rating

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Ford’s EV sales collapsed 70% in Q1 to just 6,860 units as the F-150 Lightning sat out and Mustang Mach-E faded

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Ford F-Series moved 159,901 units in Q1 to stay America’s top truck despite a 16% year-over-year drop

By Rowan Calder
  • Energy & Climate

Energy & Climate

If both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melted completely, global sea level would rise an estimated 67 meters, about 223 feet

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

If Greenland’s ice sheet melted entirely, global sea level would rise about 7.4 meters, enough to redraw coastlines worldwide

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A G3 geomagnetic storm can force voltage corrections on power grids and scramble GPS, the same solar punch that drives auroras deep into the lower 48

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Storm Prediction Center flagged large hail, damaging winds and a few tornadoes across the northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley today as a lee trough fires supercells

By Everett Sloane
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