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Shares of International Business Machines (New York: IBM) rose by about 5% in premarket trading on Thursday after the company announced a breakthrough in chip technology with a process of less than 1 nanometer.
“IBM’s new chip with a process of less than 1 nm packs nearly 100 billion transistors into a die the size of a fingernail — almost double the density of IBM’s 2-nm chip unveiled in 2021,” the company said in a statement.

Hyundai Motor is gearing up to buy out the remaining stake of SoftBank Group in Boston Dynamics, making it a fully owned subsidiary, according to the South Korean publication Maeil Business Newspaper on Friday.
According to the publication, citing unnamed industry sources, Hyundai will shell out $325 million for the remaining 9.65% shares of the robotics company held by SoftBank.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has ramped up its collaboration with Intel, IQM, Qblox, Quantinuum, QuEra Computing, Quantum Machines, Rigetti, and Riverlane to push forward hybrid quantum-classical computing.
The company plans to integrate the HPE Cray supercomputing platform with quantum processors, control systems, and error correction solutions. Partners will set up test benches for joint algorithm development, software compatibility checks, and performance evaluation of hybrid systems.

Shares of VisionWave Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:VWAV) popped 3.3% on Monday after the company announced it has filed a preliminary patent application in the U.S. for its SDNN™ (Symbiotic Deep Neural Network) technology — its proprietary neural network architecture.
The tech company stated that the architecture is designed to support multi-source data fusion in real-time, adaptive analytics, and coordinated management of distributed intelligent platforms in the realms of defense, security, counter-drone operations, robotics, and civil infrastructure.

The Italian antitrust authority on Friday opened an investigation into Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) over alleged unfair business practices related to raising the price of Microsoft 365 subscription.
The regulator said that Microsoft did not properly notify consumers that Copilot and Designer artificial intelligence tools had been integrated into the Microsoft 365 service.

Shares of Penguin Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:PENG) pumped up by 1.2% on Tuesday after the company announced its entry into the Nvidia AI Factory Specialized Partner program.
The firm, focused on AI infrastructure, reported that it snagged this status—available by invite only—after completing Nvidia training, confirming necessary skills, meeting solution requirements, and showcasing experience in designing, building, deploying, and operating full-stack AI infrastructure based on Nvidia.

Chinese robotics company Coowa is gearing up for an IPO in Hong Kong, according to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday citing informed sources.
The Shanghai-based company, backed by SoftBank Group, has hit a valuation of over $3 billion after raising more than $600 million in its latest funding round, WSJ reports.

Researchers ran IBM's Nighthawk quantum processor through two practical tests: a simplified model from particle physics and filtering malicious traffic. The experiments caught the attention of Quantum Computing Report.
In the first study, the team aimed not just to 'run qubits' but to compute a physical problem on the hardware — the interaction between a nucleon and an antinucleon in a simplified model of quantum chromodynamics QCD2. They decomposed the system into a spin chain and ran it on Nighthawk. The resulting interaction potential showed the expected attraction and matched the results of classical checks — precise diagonalization and ideal simulation. The authors specifically highlighted that they extracted useful signals from noisy data through structural error compensation.

The US administration, citing national security concerns, has mandated that Anthropic restrict access to its most powerful AI models - Fable 5 and Mythos 5 - for foreigners. This also applies to employees at Anthropic's US offices who are not citizens, according to a statement released on Friday, June 12, on the company's website.

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman is set to meet with Samsung Electronics' management (KS:005930) next week during his visit to South Korea, where the discussion will focus on the company's efforts to integrate artificial intelligence into its operations, reported Yonhap on Thursday.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker plans to temporarily halt the review of tax break applications for data centers (DCs) looking to set up shop in the state, reports NBC News. The pause will take effect on July 1 and is part of efforts to draft new regulations for these types of facilities.

Broadcom's stock tanked a staggering 15.9% from yesterday's close, hitting $403.01. The company's market cap dropped by over $300 billion in just one day. This marks one of the largest single-day plummets in the history of the U.S. stock market, according to the Financial Times. The crash happened after the company stuck to its previous AI revenue forecast for 2027 ($100 billion) without any upward revision, despite investors expecting a more bullish update. Meanwhile, the financial results beat consensus estimates.

Samsung Electronics dropped some big news at Computex 2026 in Taiwan, unveiling their HBM5 tech. This fresh gear features a thermal management system called HPB, along with some serious production breakthroughs for next-gen memory chips.
The HPB technology employs a chimney-like thermal structure that cuts down thermal resistance between the chips. It channels heat away from the main die and base die through specialized heat-dissipating columns, directing it to a heat spreader at the top of the package or outside it. Samsung claims this method allows for heat dissipation without complicating the design of the HBM main dies or the stacking layout of HBM.

Shares of Samsung Electronics surged by 8.5%, hitting 336,500 won on Wednesday, recovering from a hard sell-off amid reports that the company plans to buy back nearly 90 trillion won ($5.8 billion) worth of its own stock.
Samsung bounced back after a drop of more than 12% on Tuesday during a market-wide sell-off that triggered trading circuit breakers on KOSPI for the fourth time in 2026.

According to Zhao, tokenization, which involves converting traditional assets into digital tokens on the blockchain, has the potential to democratize stock markets and make them more accessible to investors. Tokenized stocks have the advantage of being tradeable 24/7, unlike traditional stocks, as the businessman points out.

Bank of America just flipped their stance on Intel stocks: they've ditched the sell recommendation and are now all in on buy. The bank believes Intel is set to ride the wave of AI agents, which is ramping up the demand for CPUs. Plus, Intel stocks are currently less favored by investors compared to their rivals, which adds some serious upside potential, according to BofA.