Friday, June 5, 2026

📰 News digest — Fri Jun 5, 2026 · 8:11a CT

🤖 AI / tech

NVIDIA launches Cosmos 3, an open frontier foundation model for physical AI (robotics, AVs) — open "omnimodel" feeding the humanoid/AV stack. redr.co/Am1Xu0h 𝕏 in
OpenAI extends Codex beyond coding into a general workspace agent — now connects to email/calendar/docs to run multi-step office work. The agentic shift, from the lab Josh tracks. redr.co/idDBxO0 𝕏 in
Perplexity unveils "Computer" — an AI platform its CEO says can build and run entire businesses; Perplexity moving past search into agentic automation. redr.co/Cp89MYp 𝕏 in

Microsoft ships its first in-house LLM, MAI-Thinking-1, reportedly matching Claude Opus 4.6 — a third hyperscaler entering the frontier race in earnest. redr.co/vSaOgRG 𝕏 in
Ideogram 4.0 drops as a 9.3B open-weight image model with native 2K resolution — tops the open image leaderboard. redr.co/34k6MtV 𝕏 in

Supabase raises $500M at a $10.5B valuation (Series F, led by GIC) — the Postgres dev platform riding the AI-coding / "vibe coding" wave. redr.co/rYyn4Kd 𝕏 in
NewLimit raises $435M for age-reversal medicine — Valor Equity (Neuralink, Eight Sleep) and Eli Lilly Ventures in; one of the year's biggest longevity rounds. redr.co/ISSR8KT 𝕏 in

Investors bet humanoids become a trillion-dollar market over the next decade — CNBC on the VC thesis hardening around the category. redr.co/IpysrXq 𝕏 in
Unitree G1 accidentally kicks a child during a public demo in China — viral safety incident reigniting the humanoid-safety debate. redr.co/LuGvJjC 𝕏 in

Oil falls ~3% on reports Trump is reluctant to restart the Iran war — market reading the conflict's next move. redr.co/Ya8LgUQ 𝕏 in
Tech CEO with a $35M mansion charged with secretly smuggling US equipment to Iran's nuclear/military programs — tech-sector intersection with the conflict. redr.co/HVERewT 𝕏 in

TYKO Capital lends $870M for the Four Seasons Private Residences on Lake Austin — one of the metro's largest luxury construction loans. redr.co/Q5uAg1m 𝕏 in

Los Cabos mayor warns clashes may not be over, urging caution after violence near the San José del Cabo airport — what travelers actually need to know. redr.co/LC010Nv 𝕏 in

Aspen Snowmass announces 2026 offseason projects — expanded bike park, summer events, Aspen Ideas Festival programming. redr.co/O4vbFKM 𝕏 in