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ChatGPT's market share just fell below 50% for the first time
ChatGPT hit 46.4% of the AI assistant market in May 2026, the first time below 50% since its 2022 launch. Gemini is at 27.7%. Claude reached 10.3%. Here is what changed.
SpaceAstrobotic is joining Voyager Technologies in a $300 million deal, and its Moon base mission continues
Lunar lander company Astrobotic has agreed to be acquired by defence tech firm Voyager Technologies for up to $300 million. NASA's Moon Base II mission stays on track, and the commercial lunar sector keeps consolidating.
SpaceThe largest commercial comms satellites ever are now in orbit, and they talk to your phone
AST SpaceMobile launched three BlueBird Block 2 satellites on June 17, 2026. Each one spans around 2,400 square feet of antenna and is designed to deliver broadband directly to standard smartphones, no dish required.
SpaceNASA names the Artemis III crew, and what the mission actually does might surprise you
Four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, including ESA's Luca Parmitano as the first European on an Artemis crew. But the mission won't land on the Moon. Here's what it will actually do, and why that matters.
SpaceAriane 6 sets a European payload record with 36 Amazon satellites and upgraded boosters
On June 17, 2026, an upgraded Ariane 64 launched 36 Amazon Leo satellites, setting a new payload record for European rockets at 22 tonnes. The mission also debuted the more powerful P160C boosters.
SecurityHackers claim they stole 8.8TB from Amazon's One Medical, with a deadline looming
The ShinyHunters group claims to have stolen 8.8TB from Amazon-owned One Medical and set a 22 June deadline. One Medical has confirmed a separate, smaller breach.
AIOne in ten people now get their news from an AI chatbot
Weekly news use of AI chatbots jumped from 7% to 10% worldwide, says Reuters' 2026 report. The catch for publishers: most users never click the source.
SoftwareZoom's new in-meeting AI agent costs $20 a month. Here is what it does
Zoom launched ZoomMate, a $20-per-user in-meeting agent that turns decisions made on a call into actions in Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow and Slack.
PolicyOpenAI filed to go public, and now two AI giants are racing to list
OpenAI confirmed a confidential IPO filing with the SEC, with bankers reportedly eyeing a September debut. Anthropic filed weeks earlier. Here is what it means.
AIGPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash and Claude Opus 4.8 all landed at once. Who is ahead?
Three new frontier models arrived close together in June 2026. Here is what the latest leaderboard reshuffle actually means for the people using them.
AIOne in ten people now get their news from an AI chatbot
Weekly news use of AI chatbots jumped from 7% to 10% worldwide, says Reuters' 2026 report. The catch for publishers: most users never click the source.
HardwareThe US Government Thinks ASML's Most Advanced Chip Tool Is Inside China
The US government has raised the alarm that one of ASML's most powerful extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, the kind that's essential for manufacturing th
SecurityMicrosoft Spots Self-Propagating Malware That Steals Crypto Over Tor
Microsoft has identified a new lightweight backdoor malware that spreads via USB drives and communicates with its operators over the Tor anonymity network. The
SpaceNASA Picks Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space to Launch Mars Mission in 2028
NASA has selected Relativity Space, the rocket company chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to launch its Aeolus Mars orbiter in 2028. The mission will be
GadgetsNothing Cancels Its Next Budget Phone as RAM Prices Spiral
Nothing has cancelled the follow-up to its CMF Phone 2 Pro for this year, with co-founder Akis Evangelidis citing soaring RAM prices as the reason. The decision
AIMIT Startup Claims to Have Cracked a Core Mathematical Bottleneck Holding Back LLMs
Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last month with a bold claim: it has solved a fundamental mathematical bottleneck that has been limiting
NewsSunZia Goes Live: One Power Line Now Feeds Wind Energy to a Million US Homes
The SunZia wind-and-transmission project, an 11 billion dollar clean energy infrastructure effort and one of the largest of its kind ever built in the United St
ToolsThis free tool packs your whole codebase into one file an AI can read. I tested Repomix
Repomix packs your entire codebase into one AI-friendly file. I installed it and ran real repos through it to see if it saves the copy-paste grind.
ReviewsPrime Day 2026 early deals worth buying before June 23
Amazon Prime Day 2026 runs June 23 to 26, but the early deals are already live. Here are the ones reviewers actually rate, not just the loudest discounts.
SoftwareDeepL just bought its way into real-time speech translation
DeepL made its first-ever acquisition, buying live-audio startup Mixhalo to bring real-time speech translation to conferences and stadiums.
SoftwareFox is buying Roku for $22 billion, and it's a bigger deal than it looks
Fox is paying $22 billion for Roku, buying its way onto 100 million TV screens and the viewing data behind them. Here is what actually changes.
PolicyThe US government just pulled Anthropic's most powerful AI. This has never happened before
The Commerce Department issued an export control directive forcing Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer. It's the first time a government has forcibly recalled a live commercial AI model.
ToolsI fed a PDF, a spreadsheet and a Word doc to this free Microsoft tool. Here's what came out
MarkItDown is a free tool from Microsoft that turns your files into clean Markdown so chatbots can actually read them. We installed it and threw real documents at it.
AIBuilt with AI this week: a machine-checked maths proof, a tutor that makes you type, and more
Our weekly roundup of genuinely impressive things people made with AI, all credited and linked. This week, an algorithm with a formal proof no human ever read, and a backlash against letting AI do your thinking.
EVsRivian's make-or-break moment has arrived. The first R2s are in customers' hands
The $58,000 electric SUV Rivian has been promising since 2024 finally reached its first paying customers this week. The company's future, and a $1.25 billion Uber deal, ride on it.