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SoftBank Surpasses Toyota as Japan’s Most Valuable Company for the First Time Since the Dot-Com Bubble In a historic shift for Japan’s financial landscape, Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group Corp. has officially overtaken Toyota Motor Corp. to become the country's most valuable publicly traded company by market capitalization. The milestone unseats the automotive giant from a position it held comfortably for 25 consecutive years. The last time SoftBank commanded the top spot on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was in 2000, at the absolute zenith of the dot-com bubble. Following a massive market rally last week, SoftBank’s market valuation climbed to $247 billion , eclipsing Toyota’s market capitalization, which dipped to $230 billion . SoftBank’s stock price has experienced an explosive surge, skyrocketing over 90% since the beginning of the year. This relentless upward momentum is fueled almost entirely by investor enthusiasm surrounding SoftBank's aggressive, multi-billion-dollar bets o...

Meta Indefinitely Postpones General API Release for 'Muse Spark' LLM Amid Critical Compute-Intensive Bug Meta highly anticipated Large Language Model (LLM), Muse Spark , which debuted in early April under a restricted closed-alpha API program, has reportedly run into significant deployment bottlenecks. While the social media and technology giant initially projected a broad, general availability rollout for May, independent software developers remain locked out of the system. Reports have now surfaced indicating that Meta has officially shelved its definitive launch timeline, postponing the public API release indefinitely. When questioned by The Wall Street Journal regarding the sudden operational freeze, a Meta spokesperson offered a measured, neutral statement. The company asserted that it is actively testing the API ecosystem alongside a select group of enterprise launch partners and currently anticipates a public debut sometime later this month. The spokesperson acknowledg...

Microsoft Open-Sources 'pg_durable': Bringing Fault-Tolerant, In-Database Workflows Directly to PostgreSQL Microsoft has officially introduced pg_durable , a groundbreaking open-source extension for PostgreSQL designed to orchestrate and execute long-running, multi-step SQL workflows entirely inside the database engine. The extension eliminates the historical infrastructure bottleneck where developers had to rely on external codebases, cron jobs, separate worker pools, or message queues to manage complex background data processes. At the core of pg_durable is its built-in durable checkpointing capability. The extension continuously persists the exact execution state and progress of sequential operations directly to the database disk. If the database crashes, restarts, or encounters a failover midway through a highly complex operation, the runtime automatically recovers and resumes execution precisely from its last recorded checkpoint, rather than forcing the entire pipeline t...

Microsoft Unveils ‘Autopilots’: Always-On AI Agents Headlined by OpenClaw-Powered 'Microsoft Scout' Microsoft has introduced a brand-new category of always-on, autonomous artificial intelligence agents, natively branding this class of background assistants as "Autopilots" The first flagship agent launched under this umbrella is Microsoft Scout , designed to operate as a user's dedicated personal secretary or "chief assistant" within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Unlike reactive AI chatbots that only respond when directly prompted, Scout runs continuously in the background to monitor incoming emails, chats, and calendar appointments. For instance, users can task Scout with autonomously flagging urgent deliverables or tracking communications directly from their managers. Once an action is required, Scout interacts with the user like a colleague inside Microsoft Teams, where users can simply reply with conversational commands instructing Scout to draft emai...

Microsoft Backs Godot Engine: Releasing Open-Source Xbox on PC Integration Tools to Support Rising Alternative The open-source game engine, Godot , has been experiencing a massive surge in developer adoption and industry popularity over recent quarters. In a major move validating this trend, technology heavyweight Microsoft has officially stepped in to support game development using Godot on its PC gaming platform, specifically tailored under its "Xbox on PC" ecosystem (distinct from its dedicated console hardware). As an initial foundational step, Microsoft has released a comprehensive, fully open-source PC game repository called the "Xbox Godot Sample" on GitHub. The sample serves as a practical blueprint demonstrating how developers can build high-performance games using Godot while seamlessly binding them to Microsoft’s essential backend gaming services. This includes native integration with the Microsoft Game Development Kit (GDK), Xbox Services, and PlayFab f...

Alphabet Announces Massive $80 Billion Share Allocation, Anchored by a Strategic $10 Billion Investment from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, has officially unveiled a comprehensive capital-raising program to issue up to $80 billion in new shares. The extensive equity offering is split into three primary tranches: a $30 billion public offering comprising a mix of convertible preferred stock, Class A common stock, and Class C capital stock; and a $40 billion at-the-market (ATM) equity offering program, which the tech giant expects to initiate during the third quarter of this year. The definitive highlight of the capital restructuring is the final $10 billion tranche, which has been allocated as a targeted private placement directly to Berkshire Hathaway , the legendary investment conglomerate founded by Warren Buffett (who is no longer managing day-to-day operations). The private placement is divided equally, with Berkshire acquiring $5 b...

SpaceX Lands Blockbuster $30 Billion AI Compute Contract with Longtime Investor Google Just Days Before Historic Nasdaq IPO SpaceX has quietly secured a massive multi-year cloud infrastructure agreement with Alphabet's Google, locking in a staggering $920 million in monthly payments . According to a recent regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the contract will run from October through June 2029, representing an aggregate deal value of approximately $30 billion . The critical disclosure arrives just days before SpaceX is scheduled to make its historic debut on the Nasdaq exchange, where it seeks to shatter records with a $1.75 trillion valuation and a target raise of $75 billion. Under the mechanics of the agreement, Google Cloud will gain high-density access to an immense pool of compute architecture, leveraging approximately 110,000 Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) alongside paired CPUs and custom networking equipment housed within Sp...

Microsoft Unveils 'Project Solara': A Unified Chip-to-Cloud Platform Blueprinting the Next Generation of Agentic AI Hardware Microsoft has officially launched Project Solara , a foundational software platform designed specifically for a new wave of Internet of Things (IoT) hardware emerging in the Agentic AI era devices that extend far beyond traditional personal computers and smartphones. To demonstrate the platform's practical applications, Microsoft showcased several physical enterprise prototypes. These include a smart display powered by MediaTek silicon and an intelligent employee smart badge equipped with a camera and miniature display, driven by a Qualcomm processor. Microsoft explained that the rise of autonomous AI agents will inevitably lead to an explosion of specialized consumer and enterprise devices acting as ubiquitous personal assistants. However, the current hardware market suffers from severe fragmentation, lacking a unified software ecosystem capable o...

OpenAI Rolls Out 'Dreaming V3' Architecture: Overhauling ChatGPT Memory with Smarter Dynamic Synthesis and Lower Compute Cost OpenAI has announced a major architectural upgrade to ChatGPT's memory infrastructure, officially transitioning from manually tracked "saved memories" to an advanced background synthesis layer powered by its "Dreaming V3" architecture . The update fundamentally changes how the AI personalizes user interactions over long-term, multi-year conversational horizons without requiring users to issue explicit commands to persist personal facts. Under the hood, the new Dreaming system operates as an asynchronous background process that continuously analyzes a user's multi-session chat history. Instead of merely logging flat bullet points, the system dynamically consolidates, curates, and re-contextualizes information that surfaces naturally during casual conversation. A key highlight of this release is the introduction of a central Me...

Microsoft Build 2026: Next-Gen 'Majorana 2' Quantum Chip Achieves 1,000x Coherence Breakthrough, Accelerating Commercial Roadmap to 2029 At its annual Build 2026 developer conference, Microsoft officially unveiled its second-generation quantum processing chip, Majorana 2 , marking a monumental leap from the foundational Majorana 1 chip introduced in 2025. The core architecture of Microsoft’s quantum computing paradigm relies on topological qubits structured into sub-units called "tetrons." These tetrons are engineered using paired nanoscale superconducting wires (nanowires). At the physical tips of these wires, a complex quantum mechanical phenomenon known as Majorana Zero Modes (MZM) occurs, which is utilized as the primary localized infrastructure to store and protect fragile qubit states. The fundamental breakthrough of Majorana 2 over its first-generation predecessor lies in an unprecedented 1,000-fold increase in qubit stability and coherence time . This engin...

Internet Milestone: Bots Officially Overtake Human Traffic Driven by Exponential Rise in Agentic AI In a historic shift for the global digital landscape, Cloudflare has revealed that automated bots now generate the majority of worldwide internet traffic. According to real-time data released by Cloudflare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince, automated bots currently account for 57.5% of global HTTP requests to HTML content, while human-initiated requests have fallen to 42.5%. This marks the first time in the history of the World Wide Web that machine-driven activity has eclipsed human interaction online. Prince noted that while this crossover was inevitable, the transition occurred much faster than initial industry models predicted. Global technology analysts and Cloudflare’s internal teams originally projected that bots would not surpass human traffic until the end of 2027. However, the explosive proliferation of sophisticated, autonomous AI agents has drastically compressed that timeli...