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A pre-launch static fire test ended in catastrophe on May 28 when Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral, destroying the first stage and damaging LC-36. No injuries, but the impact on NASA's Artemis program is significant.
At Computex 2026, Jensen Huang unveiled RTX Spark -- a Blackwell GPU and Grace CPU fused into a single chip with 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI performance. Slim laptops and compact desktops arrive this fall from every major PC maker.
Sysdig's threat researchers have documented the first confirmed in-the-wild attack where an LLM agent autonomously conducted a full intrusion chain, exfiltrating an internal PostgreSQL database in just over an hour.
Jensen Huang unveiled the N1X at Computex 2026 tonight -- an ARM-based SoC with a 20-core CPU and RTX 5070-class GPU built in, backed by Dell, Lenovo, ASUS, MSI, and Microsoft.
Illinois has passed SB 315, requiring the largest AI developers to submit to annual third-party safety audits — making it the first US state to enforce such oversight after federal regulation stalled.
A pre-launch engine test turned catastrophic on May 28 when Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded in a massive fireball, obliterating the vehicle and severely damaging Launch Complex 36A — with knock-on effects for NASA's lunar program.
A static fire test at Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 36 ended in catastrophe on May 28 when New Glenn's first stage ignited unexpectedly and tore through the rocket and its ground infrastructure.
Anthropic's Project Glasswing used Claude Mythos Preview to find 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities in 30 days, including a 27-year-old OpenBSD flaw and a 16-year FFmpeg bug. Partners IBM, AWS, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are patching. But open-source maintainers say the flood of AI-generated reports is impossible to keep up with.
ShinyHunters breached Charter Communications (Spectrum) in April 2026 by vishing an employee's Microsoft Entra credentials, then exporting customer data from Salesforce. Charter sat on the disclosure for 7+ weeks until the hackers started publishing. Approximately 4.9 million unique customers are confirmed affected.
Illinois passed SB 315 in May 2026 — the first US state law requiring annual independent third-party safety audits for frontier AI models. With a 110-0 House vote and Governor Pritzker set to sign, it takes effect January 2027. OpenAI and Anthropic both supported it, despite being in scope.
Groq sold its LPU chip technology to Nvidia in a $20 billion deal last December. Now, with key engineers gone and its hardware IP absorbed, the company is raising $650 million to pivot to an AI inference cloud — competing in a market it once dominated on hardware merits alone.
United Launch Alliance's Atlas V successfully placed 29 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites into orbit on May 29 — the same night Blue Origin's rocket destroyed its own launch pad a few miles away. Amazon's constellation is growing, but its Blue Origin partnership is now a serious question mark.